Martin Dalby

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Martin Dalby - Catalogue

Catalogue


Cod Opera (1991)
 Programme Note available
Martin Dalby

Work Details

Category: orchestral
Duration: 3'
Instrumentation: Orch

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Programme Note

Dreaming (1989) (Cod Opera)

by William McIlvanney

Director: Mike Alexander

Producer: Andy Park

Starring: Ewen Bremner, Mary McCusker and Michael Carter

Also featuring Billy Connolly and Deacon Blue.

Martin Dalby's contribution was the setting of Cod Opera, a fantasy sequence, which lasts about three minutes Ñ words, of course by William McIlvanney. Scored for three opera singers (soprano, tenor and baritone), flute, 2 horns, 2 violins, viola, cello and doublebass. The music has the stylised character of bad Mozart or bad music of that period. It was recorded first (in London) and the scene filmed to playback.

Transmission: Sunday 24 March 1991.

Programme Number: 1/NGW D055D