de sol y grana: for solo violin and 14 players

Martin Charles Suckling

de sol y grana: for solo violin and 14 players

Music

Research output: Non-textual form › Composition

Abstract

[programme note]

The title is a line from a poem by Antonio Machado, and roughly translates as “of sun(light) and scarlet”. In this poem he likens his songs to bubbles, and describes his delight at watching them set off, float in the air, glimmer (with sunlight and scarlet), and then burst. The nine short sections of this violin concerto are little bubbles of music in which the violin and ensemble come into a particular relationship and hover there for a few moments before disintegrating into something new. Each ‘bubble’ behaves quite differently: some hang in the air relatively serenely while others are considerably more volatile and unpredictable.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Faber Music Ltd.
Media of output	Score
Size	c. 15 minutes
Publication status	Published - 2011

Bibliographical note

Commissioned by London Music Masters

First performed by Agata Szymczewska and the London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Hugh Brunt at the Spitalfields Winter Festival on 12th December 2011 in Shoreditch Church.

Second performance by Agata Szmczewska and Southbank Sinfonia conducted by Jonathan Berman on 24 May 2012 in St. John's Waterloo.

Instrumentation

2 Flutes (1 = piccolo; 2 = bass flute and piccolo)
Oboe
Clarinet in A (= Bass Clarinet in Bb)

Horn
Trumpet in Bb (= Trumpet in D)
Trombone

Percussion (1 player: vibraphone, marimba, cabasa, suspended cymbal (bowed))

Piano (= cabasa)

Solo Violin

2 Violas
2 Cellos
Double bass

Access to Document

Composition workshop with Yr 3 at Jessop School, London
Martin Charles Suckling (Presenter)
24 Nov 2011
Activity: Other › Public engagement and outreach (schools)
Composition workshop with Year 3 at Ashmole School, London
Martin Charles Suckling (Presenter)
24 Nov 2011
Activity: Other › Public engagement and outreach (schools)

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de sol y grana: for solo violin and 14 players

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Access to Document

Activities

Composition workshop with Yr 3 at Jessop School, London

Composition workshop with Year 3 at Ashmole School, London

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