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ORCHESTRAL Please click images to enlarge and to view excerpts |
WENDY HISCOCKS
COMPOSER
WENDY HISCOCKS PIANIST SHORT BIOGRAPHY CREATIVITY & MUSIC EVENTS PAGE SCORE CATALOGUE: Piano Piano Duet Song Chamber Choral Recordings |
| MOTHER AND CHILD (1999-2001)
Duration: 12 minutes
Poems by Rabindranath Tagore.
Four songs for soprano, clarinet and strings. Also available for
soprano, clarinet and piano, or soprano and piano.
Première at fundraising concert for Music for Autism, Wimbledon 6th October 2001. Rachel Nicholls (soprano), Sarah Thurlow (clarinet) and the Sinfonia Amici conducted by Roy Howat. see under SONGS |
Mother and Child |
| THE UNHEEDED PAGEANT (2002)
for string orchestra, with solos throughout each section.
Commissioned for and premièred at the Kallmunz festival, Germany 6th April 2002 by the Festival-Kallmünz-Orchester conducted by Graham Buckland. Duration: 7 minutes
Programme notesThe Unheeded
Pageant takes its inspiration from Rabindranath Tagore’s poem of the
same title, describing events in the life of a young child. The music
focuses on three elements from the poem. A dance-like theme near
the beginning corresponds to the more earth-borne links between mother
and child—‘She claps her hands and her bracelets jingle, and you dance
with your bamboo stick in your hand like a tiny little shepherd.’
A scherzando motif represents the wind who ‘carries away in glee the tinkling
of your anklet bells.’ A more ethereal legato theme reflects the
realm of heaven—‘The fairy mistress of dreams is coming towards you, flying
through the twilight sky.’ Later in the movement the wind provides
a bridge between the realms of heaven and earth, and the themes are intermingled.
The Unheeded Pageant was premiered on 6th April 2002 at the Festival Kallmünz in Bavaria, by the Festivalorchester Kallmünz conducted by Graham Buckland. |
The Unheeded Pageant |
| MIDSUMMER NIGHT (2007) for
string orchestra.
Duration: 10 minutes
Commissioned and premièred by
the Riverina Summer School for Strings, Australia, 13th January 2007.
Choreographed slide show of Australian landscape photography by Bridget
Elliot to accompany score. |
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| PICTURES FROM AN EXHIBITION
(2003)
Musorgsky’s original arranged for string quartet, double bass, harpsichord and accordion by Wendy Hiscocks as a commission by Philharmonie Essen for Banda Stagione |
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| SCHEHERAZADE (2004)
Rimsky-Korsakov’s original arranged for string quartet, double bass, harpsichord and accordion by Wendy Hiscocks as a commission by Philharmonie Essen for Banda Stagione |
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| NIGHT OF OFFENBACH (2004)
Selection of Offenbach’s music arranged for string quartet, double bass, harpsichord and accordion by Wendy Hiscocks as a commission by Philharmonie Essen for Banda Stagione |