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Dafydd Bullock was born in 1953 in Llanberis, Gwynedd, Cymru (Wales). A composer, conductor, arranger and teacher, he graduated in Music (University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music, 1971 - 1976, with Maestro George Hadjinikos) and took a Master’s Degree in International Relations (University of Sussex, 1981 - 1983). In 1993 and 1994 he won first prizes at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, and in 1995 he was honoured in Wales by admission to the highest Order of the Gorsedd of Bards. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005.
His compositions include eight symphonies, a cycle of six symphonic poems, two operas, a Requiem, two Mass settings, a Missa Brevis, an oratorio, eleven string quartets and other chamber music and many songs and pieces for piano. He has written scores for two films.
Works have been published in the British Isles by Cwmni Gwynn, Curiad and Bardic Edition, in Belgium by Alain Van Kerckhoven Editeur, in Luxembourg by Music Enterprise and Double You and by Lyon and Healy West in Utah and Crane Music in California, USA. He has made twenty-two CDs to date, with SAIN (Wales), AVK (Belgium) and LakeSound. His music has been performed and broadcast in many countries, including Japan, China, Brazil and Colombia as well as widely within Europe.
Dafydd Bullock has a particular relationship with Prague: his Second Symphony was given its world premiere by Musici de Praga during the 1996 Prague Spring Festival and the Third Symphony, again in Prague, on St. Valentine’s Day, 1997. The third and fourth String Quartets were also recorded in Prague (Becher Quartet) as were the complete works for Cello and Piano (Jindrich Ptacek) and five Trios. More recently, Virtuosi de Basso, the twelve solo celli of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra have recorded and performed music especially written for them.
12 cds now available on I-Tunes.
Visit the Website: www.bullockmusic.info
The scores are placed on this site in the following order: Instrumental, Piano, Choral, Vocal, Chamber, Orchestral, Band, Oratorio and Opera and finally multi-work volumes from the Complete Edition. The novels are at the very end! All the scores are colour coded by genre. For instrumental works, the part is included at the end of the score, and may be photocopied. For chamber, orchestral and other music, the most practical way to get hold of the parts is to contact me directly. It won't cost an arm or a leg!
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Print: $6.21 Download: $1.58 A three movement Sonata for solo Flute. In places, a challenge!
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Print: $8.07 Download: $3.32 Five Miniatures for Flute and Piano, short, easy attractive and lyrical pieces.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $5.07 A three movement sonata for flute and piano which begins quietly, continues lyrically and ends explosively! The first two movements are of moderate difficulty, the finale is ... difficult!
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Print: $7.45 Download: $2.78 Four easy pieces for flute and piano, friendly to play because they were written for my daughter!
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Print: $9.94 Download: $5.23 An attractive piece for Bb Clarinet and Piano. Difficulty: moderate to advanced
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Print: $9.94 Download: $4.99 A three movement sonata, lyrical and autumnal in character, for good to advanced players.
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Print: $11.18 Download: $7.76 A three movement sonata for Clarinet in Bb and piano. Clarinet part included. The second movement is the most beautiful and balanced of all the pieces I've written in a long career. Proud of it!
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Print: $8.94 Download: $6.21 Night Pieces: 8 Duets for Clarinet and Double Bass, written in the course of a day on 6th June, 2007. They are difficult. Each lasts between 1 and 2 minutes. They are dialogues, with the following titles: Shadows; Restless Vision; Remembered Serenade; Hallucinations; Distant Memory; Sudden Nightmare; Fragmented Serenade and Dawn Chorus. Hardly a good night's sleep!!
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Print: $6.83 Download: $2.14 Three movements, moderate difficulty, some interesting rhythmic work from time to time!
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Print: $6.21 Download: $1.60 For Trumpet in Bb and Piano. A short, bluesy Gershwin like piece, best played on January 1st with a hangover. Not difficult.
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Print: $7.45 Download: $2.82 Two fanfares, one for two trumpets, one for trumpet solo. The solo work is to celebrate the Welsh National Language Centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn, and draws from Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, the Welsh National Anthem.
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Print: $8.07 Download: $3.40 A blues-flavoured tuba solo. Moderate difficulty. Enjoy!
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Print: $11.18 Download: $6.15 An elegiac three movement Sonata for Violin and Piano. Performance level: advanced
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Print: $10.15 Download: $4.89 A four movement Sonata for Viola and Piano, moderate difficulty. The last movement is a musical viola joke! Viola part available separately.
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Print: $11.37 Download: $9.32 Written in Luxembourg in 1988, recorded by Jindrich Ptacek at the State Opera House, Prague in 2001 (CD LS 011, and also available as a download from I-Tunes). There are three movements, duration 10 minutes, moderate to difficult. The cello part is available separately (next item).
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Print: $8.01 Download: $3.89 Written in Luxembourg in 1988, recorded by Jindrich Ptacek at the State Opera House, Prague in 2001 (CD LS 011, and also available as a download from I-Tunes). There are three movements, duration 10 minutes, moderate to difficult.
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Print: $11.29 Download: $9.32 Written in Luxembourg in 1989, recorded by Jindrich Ptacek at the State Opera House, Prague in 2001 (CD LS 011, and also available as a download from I-Tunes). There are four movements, duration nine minutes, moderate to difficult. The cello part is available separately (next item).
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Print: $9.57 Download: $3.89 Written in Luxembourg in 1989, recorded by Jindrich Ptacek at the State Opera House, Prague in 2001 (CD LS 011, and also available as a download from I-Tunes). There are four movements, duration nine minutes, moderate to difficult.
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Print: $11.44 Download: $9.32 Written in Luxembourg in 1995, recorded by Jindrich Ptacek at the State Opera House, Prague in 2001 (CD LS 011, and also available as a download from I-Tunes). There are four movements, duration twelve minutes, moderate to difficult. The cello part is available separately (next item).
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Print: $9.57 Download: $3.89 Written in Luxembourg in 1995, recorded by Jindrich Ptacek at the State Opera House, Prague in 2001 (CD LS 011, and also available as a download from I-Tunes). There are four movements, duration twelve minutes, moderate to difficult.
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Print: $13.17 Download: $10.87 Written in Luxembourg in 1989, recorded by Jindrich Ptacek at the State Opera House, Prague in 2001 (CD LS 011, and also available as a download from I-Tunes). There are four movements, duration thirteen minutes, moderate to difficult. The cello parts are available separately (next item).
Copyright Year: © 2007
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Print: $8.97 Download: $3.89 Written in Luxembourg in 1989, recorded by Jindrich Ptacek at the State Opera House, Prague in 2001 (CD LS 011, and also available as a download from I-Tunes). There are four movements, duration thirteen minutes, moderate to difficult.
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Print: $11.44 Download: $9.32 Written in Luxembourg in 1995, recorded by Jindrich Ptacek at the State Opera House, Prague in 2001 (CD LS 011, and also available as a download from I-Tunes). There are seven movements, duration thirteen minutes, moderate to difficult. The cello part is available separately (next item).
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Print: $8.04 Download: $4.66 Written in Luxembourg in 1995, recorded by Jindrich Ptacek at the State Opera House, Prague in 2001 (CD LS 011, and also available as a download from I-Tunes). There are seven movements, duration thirteen minutes, moderate to difficult.
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Print: $7.45 Download: $2.78 Five movements, each based on a different Welsh folk-song, which only becomes apparent towards the end. For advanced players. Recorded by Jindrich Ptacek: visit www.bullockmusic.info for details.
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Print: $12.42 Download: $7.76 A four movement sonata for cello and piano, autumnal in character, for good to advanced players. Cello part included.
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Print: $11.22 Download: $7.76 Four movements: In Blue, Autumn Boulevard, Survivors Party Blues and Luxembourg Late Night. Written in 1984/5. Attractive music, and not too difficult. Appears here and in a collection of sonatas further down the storefront!
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Print: $12.42 Download: $7.35 Twenty Four Preludes for Piano, Opus 19. Performance level ranges from (mostly) moderate to (occasionally) difficult.
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Print: $9.92 Download: $5.25 A one movement, explosive piano sonata, written and (to be) played in one breath! Moderate difficulty.
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Print: $6.53 Download: $4.66 A suite of 7 short pieces for piano, not too difficult, which evoke places in and around Llanberis, the place where I was born: Yng Nghae Padarn (In Padarn Field); Carreg Wen (White Rock); Pennant (Pennant); Eglwys St. Padarn (St. Padarn's Church); Bwlch Llanberis (Llanberis Pass); Castell Dolbadarn (Dolbadarn Castle); Gorsaf Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon Station).
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Print: $9.93 Download: $7.76 Twelve Variations for solo Piano on the beautiful and evocative Welsh melody, Ffarwel i Aberystwyth. Recorded in Brussels by Leonardo Anglani (CD AVK 002)Difficulty level: moderate
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Print: $6.83 Download: $4.66 Composed at night, watching the moon rise over Padarn Lake in Gwynedd: an impressionistic piece, with a nod to Beethoven and a strong, hymn-like passage as its point of focus. Moderately difficult.
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Print: $12.42 Download: $7.31 A second book of Twenty Four Preludes for Piano, written in Fachwen, Wales. Lyrical and rhythmic explorations of major and minor tonalities. Difficulty: moderate
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Print: $7.39 Download: $4.66 A suite of five movements for piano solo, inspired by childhood visits to family on the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales. Not too difficult!
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Print: $11.18 Download: $6.49 A Welsh Bossa Nova, written in Luxembourg in less than an evening and performed in less than a week later, in Brazil, by Antonio Eduardo Santos. A poetic and dreamlike piece, with some nice surprises. Performance level: advanced
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Print: $12.42 Download: $7.61 Piano Sonata No 3, in three movements, written for Antonio Eduardo in Brazil: three latin movements: Tango, Bossa Chorale and Samba Finale. Moderate to Difficult.
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Print: $7.45 Download: $2.68 Four alternative settings of well known carols: Adam Lay Ybounden, Coventry Carol, Away in a Manger and In the Bleak Midwinter.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $5.17 Settings of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, within the reach of any choir, with an optional accompaniment for the Magnificat. Completely suitable for liturgical use.
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Print: $14.29 Download: $10.87 The Mass in D was written in 1989, and substantially revised and orchestrated in 2003. It now takes its place beside the Missa Cambrensis (Welsh Mass) the Missa Brevis and the Requiem.The idiom is essentially lyrical, with occasional blue and even sour notes to be heard. The Credo attempts to be a Credo of ‘all the Faiths’ in that the imitative dislocations undermine somewhat the tradition interpretation of this text. Otherwise this is a more or less traditional setting, albeit with a background of quiet menace reflecting the troubled circumstances of its composition. Please contact me directly regarding parts.
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Print: $12.41 Download: $9.32 The Mass in D was written in 1989, and substantially revised and orchestrated in 2003. It now takes its place beside the Missa Cambrensis (Welsh Mass) the Missa Brevis and the Requiem.The idiom is essentially lyrical, with occasional blue and even sour notes to be heard. The Credo attempts to be a Credo of ‘all the Faiths’ in that the imitative dislocations undermine somewhat the tradition interpretation of this text. Otherwise this is a more or less traditional setting, albeit with a background of quiet menace reflecting the troubled circumstances of its composition.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $6.21 A setting Article One of the United Nations Charter, written in 1990 after the inspiring events in Prague and elsewhere in 1989. This version for choir and organ, text in English.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $7.76 Missa Cambrensis is a setting of the Mass in Welsh, for satb, high soprano solo and organ. Written in the autumn of 1991, it evokes the song 'Dafydd y Garreg Wen' as a cantus firmus in the unison Credo, and the Welsh National Anthem 'Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau' in the Gloria. A pronunciation Mp3 is available.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $5.01 Psalm 150, a tri-lingual setting (Latin, German, Welsh, often at the same time!), unaccompanied, and needing a good choir!
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Print: $11.18 Download: $7.76 This Requiem, like every other, is deeply personal. It was begun in 1994 following the death of my father, put aside, and completed at my house in Wales in the weeks following the death of my mother, in 2000.
Written for mixed choir, soprano solo and string orchestra, the seven movements are more or less based upon the texts and the format of the funeral service given for my mother. As well, some of the traditional Latin is used. The work includes settings of Psalm 121 and the Nunc Dimittis which also provides the final Meditation. The third movement, ‘Death is nothing at all’, for Soprano Solo, is the very core of the work, and its
‘message’. A recording is available on CD and on I-Tunes. The vocal score is also available (preceding item). Please contact me directly for parts (string orchestra).
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Print: $11.17 Download: $7.76 This Requiem, like every other, is deeply personal. It was begun in 1994 following the death of my father, put aside, and completed at my house in Wales in the weeks following the death of my mother, in 2000.
Written for mixed choir, soprano solo and string orchestra, the seven movements are more or less based upon the texts and the format of the funeral service given for my mother. As well, some of the traditional Latin is used. The work includes settings of Psalm 121 and the Nunc Dimittis which also provides the final Meditation. The third movement, ‘Death is nothing at all’, for Soprano Solo, is the very core of the work, and its ‘message’. A recording is available on I-Tunes. The full score is also available (next item).
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Print: $12.41 Download: $9.32 This short, unaccompanied Missa Brevis (with optional Credo) was written for the Dutch choir Trajecti Voces, and premiered in Luxemburg in 2003. Accessible music, suitable for liturgical use.
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Print: $9.63 Download: $5.00 Ave Verum Corpus, for SATB and Organ. Written for VOX, the International Choir in Luxembourg. Moderate difficulty.
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Print: $10.31 Download: $7.76 This festive Te Deum was written to celebrate the first ten years of VOX. Composed in Wales in March 2005, its atmosphere of joyful exuberance reflects not only a celebration of the choir, but also the historic Welsh victory in the Six Nations Rugby Championship achieved (and celebrated!) the day before composition began. Duration: 18 minutes. Please contact me directly regarding parts (satb, organ, two trumpets and timpani). Recording available on I-Tunes.
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Print: $7.45 Download: $2.84 A short and deeply felt Motet, in Slovak. Contact me for more info and translation. Difficulty: moderate
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Print: $6.41 Download: $3.11 Three short settings of medieval religious contemplations, in German, for Soprano and Piano.
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Print: $6.46 Download: $3.11 Three Englynion, by definition short, and in Welsh, for bass and piano
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Print: $9.94 Download: $7.76 A setting of a wonderful evocative poem in Scots (Lallans) by fellow Luxembourg resident Jamie Reid Baxter, whose epic poetry also inspired my/our Church Opera in Scots: 'The Passioun O Sanct Andraa'. Winter music, from November, 1990, for Contralto (with an extended range) and piano.
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Print: $8.14 Download: $4.66 Three settings in Spanish for medium voice of three wonderful poems by Ruben Dario
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Print: $9.76 Download: $6.21 Six settings of poetry from the last days of Welsh Independence, for bass and piano.
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Print: $12.24 Download: $9.32 Three books (in one volume) of songs to poems by Theodor Storm, written in 1994 and 2003. There are 20 settings, here for high voice and piano. Book One, Opus 76, has been recorded in Brussels by Susan Bullock and Leonardo Anglani. Versions for medium voice will be published soon.
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Print: $7.47 Download: $4.97 Five settings for high voice and piano of songs by the French poet Joseph-Paul Schneider, which evoke the poignancy of lost landscapes in Celtic Brittany.
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Print: $7.45 Download: $4.66 Three settings for bass and piano, in Welsh, of poems which evoke and extoll our wonderful mountains!
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Print: $11.18 Download: $7.76 Six settings for medium voice and piano of ancient Chinese poetry from the River Wang area, by Wang Wei and P'ei Ti, written in Luxembourg after a long and fascinating trip to China in 2001.
The texts (sadly)are in English!
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Print: $12.30 Download: $9.32 A short three movement Trio, duration 8 minutes, difficulty: moderate, written in Luxembourg in 1988 and recorded at the State Opera House, Prague (CD LS 015 and available for download on I-Tunes worldwide). An affectionate look at Russian music, hence the title! Violin and cello parts available separately (next item).
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Print: $8.09 Download: $6.21 A short three movement Trio, duration 8 minutes, difficulty: moderate, written in Luxembourg in 1988 and recorded at the State Opera House, Prague (CD LS 015 and available for download on I-Tunes worldwide.) An affectionate look at Russian music, hence the title! Violin and Cello parts.
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Print: $13.32 Download: $9.32 A three movement Trio, duration 16 minutes, difficulty: moderate to difficult, written on Vlieland (NL) and in Luxembourg in 1998 and 1999 and recorded at the State Opera House, Prague (CD LS 015 and available for download on I-Tunes worldwide). The three movements evoke the 'end of season' feeling on the Dutch North Sea island of Vlieland (September Beach, Song of the Sands, Tides). The violin and cello parts are available separately (next item).
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Print: $8.26 Download: $6.21 A three movement Trio, duration 16 minutes, difficulty: moderate to difficult, written on Vlieland (NL) and in Luxembourg in 1998 and 1999 and recorded at the State Opera House, Prague (CD LS 015 and available for download on I-Tunes worldwide). The three movements evoke the 'end of season' feeling on the Dutch North Sea island of Vlieland (September Beach, Song of the Sands, Tides). Parts for Violin and Cello.
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Print: $13.02 Download: $10.87 A four movement Trio, duration 12 minutes, difficulty: moderate to difficult, written in Luxembourg in 2002 and recorded at the State Opera House, Prague (CD LS 015 and available for download on I-Tunes worldwide). The Bb clarinet and viola parts are available separately (next item).
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Print: $8.16 Download: $6.21 A four movement Trio, duration 12 minutes, difficulty: moderate to difficult, written in Luxembourg in 2002 and recorded at the State Opera House, Prague (CD LS 015 and available for download on I-Tunes worldwide). Parts for Bb clarinet and viola.
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Print: $13.09 Download: $9.32 A four movement Trio, duration 16 minutes, difficulty: moderate to difficult, written in Fachwen in 2002 and recorded at the State Opera House, Prague (CD LS 015 and available for download on I-Tunes worldwide). Parts for Bb clarinet and cello available separately (next item).
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Print: $8.19 Download: $6.21 A four movement Trio, duration 16 minutes, difficulty: moderate to difficult, written in Fachwen in 2002 and recorded at the State Opera House, Prague (CD LS 015 and available for download on I-Tunes worldwide). Parts for Bb clarinet and cello.
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Print: $12.99 Download: $9.32 A three movement Trio, duration 11 minutes, difficulty: moderate to difficult, written in Fachwen in 2002 and recorded at the State Opera House, Prague (CD LS 015 and available for download on I-Tunes worldwide). Parts for violin and cello (and an optional part to replace the violin with a viola) available separately (next item).
Copyright Year: © 2007
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Print: $9.81 Download: $3.11 A three movement Trio, duration 11 minutes, difficulty: moderate to difficult, written in Fachwen in 2002 and recorded at the State Opera House, Prague (CD LS 015 and available for download on I-Tunes worldwide). Parts for violin and cello (and an optional part to replace the violin with a viola).
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Print: $13.09 Download: $9.32 Written in Wales in May 2003. Four movements, thirteen minutes, moderate difficulty. First performance in Bechnye, Czech Republic, July 2003. Parts available separately (next item).
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Print: $8.24 Download: $3.11 Written in Wales in May 2003. Four movements, thirteen minutes, moderate difficulty. First performance in Bechnye, Czech Republic, July 2003. Parts for Flute and Viola.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $5.09 A five movement quartet, written in 1988, duration 16 minutes. Please contact me directly for parts.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $5.05 Spring! A four movement quartet, written in 1989, duration 12 minutes. Please contact me directly for parts.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $4.95 A four movement quartet, written in the summer of 1997 in Fachwen, Wales. Recorded and premiered by the Jan Becher Quartet of Prague. Duration 16 minutes. Please contact me directly for parts.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $5.01 A four movement quartet, written in 1997, duration 14 minutes. Evocations of aspects of Goethe's Faust! Recorded and premiered by the Jan Becher Quartet in Prague. Please contact me directly for parts.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $4.87 A four movement quartet, written in 1997 on my return from Prague (recordings of Quartets 3 and 4). Homages to Dvorak and, to some extent, Janacek. Duration 15 minutes. Please contact me directly for parts.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $4.97 A three movement quartet, written in 2003, duration 15 minutes. Please contact me directly for parts.
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Print: $9.94 Download: $4.95 A three movement quartet, written in 2003. Turbulent music from turbulent times! Duration 15 minutes. Please contact me directly for parts.
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Print: $10.30 Download: $4.97 A three movement quartet, written in 2003 in Monument Valley, USA, and in Europe. Contemplative and entertaining (1: Monument Valley 2: From the New World (!) 3: Diamond Belle Saloon). Duration 15 minutes. Please contact me directly for parts.
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Print: $10.26 Download: $5.11 A three movement quartet, written in 2005 following the tragic death of Denisa Krotilova. (1: Vortex 2: Dream and 3: Memory.) Duration 11 minutes. Please contact me directly for parts.
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Print: $11.86 Download: $9.32 Written in 2007, this Stabat Mater setting is for Soprano and String Quartet, duration 16 minutes. A full set of parts is included.
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Print: $12.42 Download: $7.63 A short and zany Tango, as Bartok might have written it! Composed for La Boca Jazz Quintet in Luxembourg: Violin,Accordeon,Electric Guitar, Piano and Double Bass. Please contact me directly for instrumental parts.
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Print: $13.04 Download: $10.87 Chica Latina, a brass quintet, was written in 2006 for the Ni Ensemble in Luxembourg. They premiered it at the Welsh College of Music and Drama on February 1st 2008, the day before Wales beat England at Twickenham. Tango meets Salsa and is attacked by kamikaze Mexican trumpets. Technically demanding. Parts available seperately (next item) including optional Eb Trumpet 1 part to bring the high notes down to earth!
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Print: $11.18 Download: $9.32 The instrumental parts for my brass quintet Chica Latina. Includes optional Eb first trumpet part. | |
