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- Rupert Bawden
Two Studies (1994)
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Commissioned by the St. Asaph - North Wales Music Festival
Programme Note
i. Prelude
ii. The Flour on the Floor
Two Studies was the beginning of what I had hoped might become a stage work based on the Tristan story. I started composing it as an ‘imaginary ballet’ when Geraint Lewis commissioned a piece for the 1994 St Asaph Festival. Events pursued a twisted course however, and I only produced a series of fragments, from which I composed my short piano concerto The Road of Mirrors and this piece. Lasting around eight minutes, Two Studies is a snapshot of a larger work that never was. It was first performed on 20 September 1994, at St Asaph’s Cathedral, Wales by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by the composer.
Rupert Bawden
ii. The Flour on the Floor
Two Studies was the beginning of what I had hoped might become a stage work based on the Tristan story. I started composing it as an ‘imaginary ballet’ when Geraint Lewis commissioned a piece for the 1994 St Asaph Festival. Events pursued a twisted course however, and I only produced a series of fragments, from which I composed my short piano concerto The Road of Mirrors and this piece. Lasting around eight minutes, Two Studies is a snapshot of a larger work that never was. It was first performed on 20 September 1994, at St Asaph’s Cathedral, Wales by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by the composer.
Rupert Bawden
Media
2 Studies: No. 1. Prelude
2 Studies: No. 2. The Flour on the Floor
Scores
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Discography
The Sailor's Tale
- LabelNMC
- Catalogue NumberNMCD093
- ConductorGary Cheung / Rupert Bawden
- EnsembleBBC National Orchestra of Wales / Nash Ensemble / Creakes Sinfonia
- SoloistAlexander Grove, Flora McIntosh, Andrew Heggie
