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Out of this begins to emerge the main thematic material: rising figures that burst out of the texture I wish to acknowledge the invaluable input, support and advice offered by Ruth Morley and the Scottish

Janice’s text contrasts the life of Robert Schumann’s wife, Clara, with the fictional woman described Robert’s mental illness, his extreme mood changes, and his childlike reliance on his wife, made her life Chamber Orchestra, and first performed by them with soprano Lisa Larsson and conductor Andrew Manze, in May

Granados arr. Beamish for String Sextet Composition Date: 1987 Duration: 5' Instrumentation: 2Vln, 2Vla, 2Vc Information: First performed by the Raphael Ensemble Programme Note: Buy/Hire from Edition Peters Available Recordings: #Arrangement #Granados #Sextet #baroquestrings #StringSextet

I have often wished to return to this material, and have now done so in this new viola sonata, which The final movement brings back the main ‘Clara’ them, calming it into a reflective, almost static music

Schumann arranged the first performance of these quartets for his wife Clara’s 23rd birthday, and having movements – each tilting a broken mirror towards a particular passage in Schumann’s work, and reflecting widely

Note: Voices in Silence reflects on a post-war world after the last gun has fallen silent, the sun rising image; dawn on a devastated battle-field, frogs calling in a bomb crater, a bird whistling on a barbed wire

The fourth song is characterised by wide, searching intervals and pulsing chords. The work finishes with a song accompanied by birdcalls overlapping in a circular canon, with raw rising The Miracle Tree The true Rood is in the tree – white as rising sap, the Christ-white blood The true sky… The tree is a changing sky starred with light Dizzy with apple picking I place my ladder so it rises this bright constellation – built in air as constellations are – Among the sway and surge of leaves I rise

Stone, Salt and Sky was commissioned by Chamber Music Scotland for Gaia, and first performed on 20th May The second movement is inspired by Orkney’s wide horizons, and also by Norwegian Hardanger fiddle playing Stone, Salt and Sky was commissioned by Chamber Music Scotland for Gaia, and first performed on 20th May

Commissioned by Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), and first performed by him on 22nd May 2013 at the Schwetzinger Ariel was commissioned by Nils Mönkemeyer, and first performed by him on 22nd May 2013 at the Schwetzinger Sally Beamish Available soon via Norsk Musikforlag - email sallybeamishmusic@gmail.com if you wish to

Verses 24-32, `O Lord, how manifold are thy works' (chorale), `..the sea, great and wide...ships and down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may thy works. 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. 25 So is this great and wide sea,

First performed by Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton on 12 May 2018 at St Mary’s Church, Painswick, April Rise IV. Long Summer V. April Rise is coloured with bright upward flashes of piano, and Long Summer is set against a haze of commissioned by Painswick Music Society, and first performed by Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton on 12th May APRIL RISE If ever I saw blessing in the air I see it now in this still early day Where lemon-green

I started with four poems, drawing on the dialect of Evelyn’s North East Scotland, which may be spoken The main protagonist of the concerto is the marimba, which is coloured by a pair of contrasted instruments soliloquy, echoed by piccolo, descends gradually to ‘Mirk’ – an evocation of darkness, which forms the main Evelyn Glennie’s voice recording of the poems was made by Ben Fenner. * The composer wishes thank the The poems may also be performed live by an actor, or by the soloist, either during or before the performance