Compositions
2016-8
La Dame à la Licorne
flute/picc, harp, string quartet 38′
in memory of my father-in-law, Bernard Ginsborg (1925-2018)
La Dame à la Licorne was conceived as a ballet score based on the imagery of the celebrated set of early sixteenth century Flemish tapestries housed in the Musée de Cluny in Paris
melodrama for narrator and 7 instruments 20′
cl/bcl, bn, crt, tbn, perc, vln, db
Text: Christopher Logue
commissioned by Musicon with funds made available by Northern Arts
first performance: Gavin Muir, Northern Sinfonia cond. Alan Fearon, Durham University, 7 May 1983