Alessandro Ponti’s In Fuga da Verona for solo harpsichord is thriller in music, set in medieval Italy. The underlying story of the piece is like a ‘spin-off’ of Shakespeare’s tragedy. One could imagin...
Commissioned by Okeanos with funds from the RVW Trust and the David James Music Trust.
A BBC commission for The Listening Project 'Live' First performance and broadcast: MediaCity, Salford and BBC Radio 4 - 14th December 2012 at 19.15, performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
Composed at Papay in Orkney and Wenhaston in Suffolk, Oct 2015 to March 2016.
Composer's Note: The subtitle comes from a poem 'Exequy'' by Peter Porter which memorialises the death of his first wife. The symphony was written in 2010 while my wife Elizabeth was coping with a ter...
Co-commissioned by The Scottish and Swedish Chamber Orchestras.
