Transfiguration (2022)
Two Pianos (or Piano 4-Hands)
Duration:
9′
First Performance:
TBC
Score
Programme note
Transfiguration takes a selection of ‘themes’ (some of which are as simple as a chord or a gesture, some of which are more apparent) from Gustav Holst’s 1927 masterpiece Egdon Heath and seeks to transfigure or transform them to a new medium and mode of being in keeping with much of my current work. Egdon Heath has long been a work I have been heavily influenced by and my piece is both a homage and an extension of some of the moods and colours of Holst’s original. I actually made a tentative start to this piece in 2006 and rediscovered the sketches some 16 years later, where the initial material felt very much in keeping with my current aesthetic.
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