Richard Ayres' Three Small Pieces for String Quartet each have distinct characters that illustrate the composer's vivid imagination and skill for combining energetic, touching and sometimes wild music...
Richard Ayres transports us to an extraordinary forest in The Cricket Recovers where all is not as it seems. The eponymous cricket wakes up one morning with a gloomy feeling in his head. His proceedin...
A quartet of paintings by the American Mark Tobey that displays expanses of white in various shades provides the inspiration for this solo piano work. The images from the paintings are translated into...
Petrushka (with diligent guidance from Dr. Peter Hanser-Strecker); climbs to the summit, dances (joyfully), reflects upon (musical) existence, dances (vigorously) again ... and descends (for another d...
No. 42 (In the Alps) could perhaps best be described as a melodrama. It combines many of the subjects that fascinate me: the relationship of text narrative and musical narrative, the history of opera,...
Keltische Harfe, Dudelsack und Violine 'Written for the opening of the new Dutch Parliament building and performed in the presence of Queen Beatrix, it is interesting to note that MacGowan was named a...
