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Nocturnal Caprices
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for Solo Guitar and String Orchestra Duration: 11'
This piece was composed in memory of Hans Werner Henze, teacher, mentor and friend of the composer until his death in 2012. Henze was one of the contemporary composers who wrote a great deal for the guitar and encouraged his students to do so. This piece is in three movements, the central one of which is a cadenza for solo guitar.
The Susato Dances
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for String Quartet Duration: 11'
This piece was commissioned and premiered by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, one of the world's foremost string quartets, who performed Shostakovich's music for the composer himself. The Susato Dances was premiered in the Golden Hall of the Peterhof Palace in St Petersburg in May 2004. The piece takes music from Tielman Susato's 1551 collection of dances called Danserye and reworks them for a 21st century audience.
From a LIVE performance of The Susato Dances by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet in St Petersburg in 2004
A Shakespeare Suite
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for Guitar Duration: 8'
This piece was written in 1988 and premiered by Norwegian guitarist Asbjorn Voster at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1989. Taking as inspiration the various works for solo guitar by his teacher and mentor Hans Werner Henze based on the work of William Shakespeare, this short suite sums up certain aspects of the characters from three of Shakespeare's play; Richard II, Hamlet and Prospero (from the Tempest).
From the WORLD PREMIERE performance of A Shakespeare Suite by Asbjorn Voster in London, 1989
Requiem
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for Choir Duration: 18'
The first version of this Requiem was commissioned in 1994 by Ramsey Silver, the director of Banks' Music Publications in the UK, and it was subsequently published by them. Around 10 years later, the piece was extensively revised and subsequently premiered by the Indianapolis Chorale conducted by Gonçalo Lourenço in the USA. This is not a version of the Requiem Mass, but intersperses three phrases from the Missa pro Defunctis with Russian folk song material.