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Theatre of attractions
No full textFor chamber ensemble, duration 22 minutes. Commissioned by the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal and premiered on 11 March 2008. An extract from a performance by the Psappha Ensemble conducted by Nicholas Kok is available on YouTube (see the video tab below). A recording is also available on SoundCloud (see the 'Play on SoundCloud' link on the audio tab below)
Vecherinka for 6 pianos (in 5 hands)
No full textFor six pianos, duration 7 minutes. This is an arrangement of 'Vecherinka for two pianos (in five hands)' (see #1502 on this repository) commissioned by Piano Circus and completed in 2009.
It is based on the party scene from the first act of the composer's opera, The Overcoat (after Gogol). Vecherinka is the Russian word for party or festive gathering, and the five hands of the title refers to games or ‘hands’ of cards which take place during the party
Prelude
Get PDFThis piece for harpsichord took its inspiration from two well-known harpsichord pieces, one in C, the other in B flat and explores on the tonal ambiguity of adjacent major and minor triads. The first performance was given on 23 February 2020 by the composer at Wardown House, Luton and this revised version was made for the BBC broadcast on 10 August 2020
Danceries (set II) [version for brass band]
No full textFor brass band, duration 15 minutes.
This work was first performed on 29 January 2012 by the Fairey (Geneva) Band conducted by Frank Renton at the RNCM Festival of Brass, RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester.
A recording of this piece was made by the Leyland Band in 2001 for Faber Music (0-571-52109-6 ) see https://leylandband.co.uk/index.php/2020/03/22/east-coast-pictures/.
A version of this work is also available for symphonic wind band, see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1536/
Gallery carol
No full textFor chorus and orchestra, or chorus and piano/organ, duration 3 minutes.
For the orchestral version see: https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/19154/Gallery-Carol--Kenneth-Hesketh/, for the piano/organ version see: https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/14298/Gallery-Carol--Kenneth-Hesketh/
The holly and the ivy
No full textFor SATB choir a cappella (or SSA plus piano), or with orchestral accompaniment, duration 3 minutes
This the day, this the blessed morn
No full textFor upper voice choir (SSA) and orchestra, or upper voice choir and piano, duration 3 minutes
SPINE
No full textFor string quartet. Premiered by Quatuor Bozzini at the Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
