Partitions de Cadenza Music

Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Introit And Blessing for unaccompanied SATB choir. Dedicated to the memory of Ken Hutchinson (1920-2006) of Leigh-on-Sea Essex: a respected Headteacher he loved the English choral tradition.

Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Bouleumata for solo Clarinet. 'Shortly before writing this piece I reached the final of a competition to compose the music for the Cambridge Greek Play which happened to be Medea that year. Although I didn’t end up winning Euripides’ play stunned me with its depiction of Medea a woman who kills her two children to spite her husband Jason (who has just left her for a Corinthian princess). This piece was inspired by the wildly contrasting emotions that Medea experiences during a monologue immediately preceding the double-murder: that she can’tpossibly go through with it but thatshe must in order to punish her enemies. In one passage she says “I understand that what I am about to do is wrong but my thumos (emotion) has vanquished my bouleumata (ability to deliberate)'.' - Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Patrick Nunn's 3:5 for solo Piano.3:5 was written for GéNIA. It was first performed by GéNIA on the 9th June 2005 at the Museum of Garden History London SE1.Duration: c. 5 minutes

Joseph Phibbs' Trio Semplice for Piano Trio.Trio Semplice was written for and is dedicated to the Schubert Ensemble as part of their innovative Chamber Music 2000 series. My principal aim in writing this piece was to explore - on a modest scale - the whole concept of musical simplicity: short clearly presented ideas often involving repetition rhythmic regularity and a high degree of textural transparency scored for a small conventional chamber group. This type of simplicity is more technical than psychological however; although the work will hopefully still provide a number of challenges in performance for each of the three players. The work hasthree short movements: a slow opening movement featuring a gently rising dialogue between the violin and piano; a flowing central movement with a flexible tempo marking contrasting a persistent figure in the violin with rapid figuration in the piano finally giving way to a slower cello passage; and a rapid almost mechanical final movement with both cello and violin playing pizzicato. - Joseph Phibbs

Rachel Stott's Serendipity And Household for Piano Quintet.Serendipity And Household Objects grew out of various sound experiments I made together with violin and viola pupils I was teaching at the time. The idea was to find some extended timbral possibilities of the children’s instruments using only such objects as one might reasonably expect to find around the house a comb or ruler empty yoghurt pot cutlery pieces of paper chopsticks rather along the lines of the television programme ‘the great egg race’ which I used to enjoy as a child.The word ‘serendipty’ (‘the happy knack of making unexpected and delightful discoveries by accident’ Cassell Concise Dictionary) describes the way the finding of the sounds led to musical ideas.A curious point some of the sounds actually work better on basic level children’s instruments than professional quality ones. Don’t waste this piece on a strad…or vice versa. - Rachel StottCommissioned by Jean Horsfall