An initial selection of works from Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson plus a range of new orchestral , chamber and vocal works as well as new editions of some older compositions.
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Mark Bowden
Emily Doolittle
Social Sounds from Whales at night (vocal version)
for voice, percussion and tape
An edition for voice, complimenting those already available for oboe d’amore, english horn and viola.
Bushra El-Turk
Brian Inglis
Cadenza
for Malcolm Arnold’s Clarinet Concerto No.2 for clarinet in Bb
Commissioned by Alex Bondonno for the Malcolm Arnold’s concerto for Benny Goodman.
Tonia Ko
The Fragile Season
for violin
Commissioned by ARCO Collaborative for “Alone Together” Written for Jennifer Koh, with text by the composer.
Catherine Kontz
Cahiers Trouvés
for electric guitar and effects
Graphic score inspired by the Cahiers du Cinema and French Nouvelle Vague films of the 1950s/1960s.
Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson
“I Can’t Breathe”
Eric Garner in Memoriam for boys or men’s chorus
In memory of Eric Garner, who died by the hands of the New York city Police on Staten Island in 2014. The only text in this work are the last words spoken by him: “I can’t breathe”. The last work in this work is the word, “Erica”. This is the name of Mr. Garner’s daughter who until her untimely death, fought for justice for her father. This is also a tribute to her.
Love Songs of Yosano Akiko
for three sopranos and ensemble
Settings of the late Nineteenth Century poet expressing intimate feelings and impressions from nature – essentially feelings of love, longing and desire. Conceived as a kind of ritual as in the Kabuki performance tradition.
String Quartet No.2
Bent Out of Shape/Speakings
Full of abrupt changes and different moods, this work also makes effective use of the performers voices.
The Light Shines
for vocal ensemble
The text of this work is a modified form of the first book of John Chapter 1 verse 5.
John Palmer
Aria a 3
for alto flute, vibraphone and piano
Commissioned by the 2021 Zwischen Zeiten Symposium in Dresden, Germany, for the Rumanian Trio Contraste. The music is based on the opening Aria of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Richard Pantcheff
The Annunciation to Mary
for narrator, solo violin and pianoforte
Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) in the English translation by Richard Pantcheff. Written for the English Music Festival at Horsham, West Sussex, December 2020.
Robert Peate
Morlich Meditation
for solo marimba
Inspired by the outstanding beauty of Loch Morlich. Composed for the Royal Academy of Music’s 200 PIECES project, and premiered by Ethan Skuodas.
Processional and Bacchanal
for orchestra
A single-movement piece which depicts an approaching, riotous Bacchanal.
Three Vintage Part Songs
for SATB choir
Settings of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Annette Wynne and Thomas Hardy and something of a tribute to traditional part song repertoire.
Susannah Self
Heroic Women
an opera for mezzo-soprano (or ensemble of singers), alto saxophone, guitar, piano and string orchestra (or string quintet)
Developed out of the composer’s work as a composer and singer in The Garden Venture, a program for new opera at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Linda Catlin Smith
With Their Shadows Long
for violin and piano
Composed at the request of the Sabat/Clarke in which the two instruments are conceived as equal but different elements of the same line, two entities traveling the same path, occasionally casting shadows.
Naresh Sohal
Lila
for orchestra with soprano
Lila, is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘the play of Nature’. According to Indian philosophy, this is a cyclical process, with energy moving alternately between potential and actual realisation. At the start of each of its 7 section, the double basses provide a pulse like a heartbeat, representing the process of meditation. And from here the first and ensuing stages of exploration, with their particular elemental characteristics, unfold.
The Divine Song
for narrator and orchestra
A setting of the first two chapters of the Bhagavada Gita, or Divine Song. written to mark the 70th birthday of maestro Zubin Mehta, to whom it is dedicated. Commissioned by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ian Stephens
Hummingbird (brass band version)
for brass band
The original version of Hummingbird was commissioned by Finchley Children’s Music Group in summer 2020. The extra volume and variety of sound offered by the brass instruments, and the translation of body percussion into a percussion section, gives this piece a wider dynamic and emotional range than the original, while preserving its mesmeric repetition and its sinuous themes that hint at the eastern Mediterranean.