Iain Matheson - Catalogue
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Wondrous Machine (1997)
Programme Note available
Iain Matheson
First performance:
Kevin Bowyer, Manchester Cathedral, 07 Mar 1998
Score : unpublished / Location: ref library [buy]
Recording / Location: sound archive - C - MATH 2 a [enquire]
Recording / Location: sound archive - C - MATH 3 a [enquire]
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Programme Note availableIain Matheson
First performance:
Kevin Bowyer, Manchester Cathedral, 07 Mar 1998
Work Details
Category: keyboard
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation: Org
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation: Org
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Score : unpublished / Location: ref library [buy]
Recording / Location: sound archive - C - MATH 2 a [enquire]
Recording / Location: sound archive - C - MATH 3 a [enquire]Programme Note
The title comes from Nicholas Brady's poem extolling the organ, written as a text for Purcell's 1692 Ode for St Cecilia's Day.
The organ's wondrous capacity for sounds of infinite length, great volume, and colourful registration, is well-documented.
This piece prefers the organ as anti-hero, exploring the opposite characteristics in a wondrous machinery of short, quiet notes moving in monochrome restraint. Structurally the music could be thought of as a long and intricate grace-note in search of a downbeat which never arrives.
REVIEW
`Wondrous Machine exploits the organ's extreme register in a delicate mix of sound and silence sounding like tree frogs.' (Patric Standford, Yorkshire Post 25 Nov., 1999).
The title comes from Nicholas Brady's poem extolling the organ, written as a text for Purcell's 1692 Ode for St Cecilia's Day.
The organ's wondrous capacity for sounds of infinite length, great volume, and colourful registration, is well-documented.
This piece prefers the organ as anti-hero, exploring the opposite characteristics in a wondrous machinery of short, quiet notes moving in monochrome restraint. Structurally the music could be thought of as a long and intricate grace-note in search of a downbeat which never arrives.
REVIEW
`Wondrous Machine exploits the organ's extreme register in a delicate mix of sound and silence sounding like tree frogs.' (Patric Standford, Yorkshire Post 25 Nov., 1999).
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