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Guy Richardson

Guy Richardson

Music for chamber ensembles, youth and adult choirs, orchestras and theatre groups.

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Instrumental Compositions

Instrumental Works

  • Chamber Ensembles
  • Orchestra
  • Duos and Solo Instruments
  • Orchestrations and Piano Arrangements

Chamber Ensembles

For Four Instruments (for glockenspiel, clarinet, piano and cello) 1968 1st  perf. Borough Road College

Movement (for string quartet) 1971  1st perf. Guildhall Quartet, Sussex University

Composition on a Plainsong (for guitar, trombone and 2 pianos) 1st  perf. 1971 Sussex University

For Four Instruments (flute, oboe, guitar and piano) 1977

Awakening (2 clarinets, violin, cello, piano, vibraphone and marimba) 1st perf. May 23rd 1992 London New Music; revised version 1st perf. February 2nd 2002 Tacet Ensemble

portraits_creamPortraits (flute/piccolo, oboe/cor anglais, clarinet, horn, bassoon) 2002 commissioned by Brighton Museum and Art Gallery 1st perf. April 29th 2002

Meditation on Gibbons’ 20th Fantasia for string trio 2004 commissioned by Stephen Phillips 1st perf. June 6th 2005 Pelham House, Lewes

Meditation on Gibbons’ 20th Fantasia for string quartet (expansion of version for string trio) perf. July 2nd 2006 Shellira Quartet, Pelham House

Meditation on Gibbons’ 20th Fantasia for string quartet (second version for string quartet) perf. June 20th 2010 Quartet from Musicians of All Saints, Hamsey Church, nr Lewes;

Meditation on Gibbons’ 20th Fantasia (third and final revision for string quartet) perf. May 3rd 2011, The Regency Ensemble, Friends Meeting House, Brighton

Meditation on Gibbons’ 20th Fantasia for string orchestra  perf. September 22nd 2007 Musicians of All Saints, Lewes;

Chorale 4 (cor anglais, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, solo double bass, violin, 2 violas, cello ) 2005 commissioned by Stephen Phillips

Ariel for piano quartet 2006/2009 commissioned by Paul Carr; arranged for piano and wind quartet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon) 1st perf. April 21st 2007 Southern Winds; piano quartet 1st perf. May 15th 2009 Brighton Festival

Mokora (violin, piano) 2011/12 commissioned by Paul Carr

Waves (horn, 2 trumpets, trombone and tuba) 2013

Quest (flute, viola and piano) 2017, 1st Perf. June 17th 2018, Duruflè Ensemble

 

Voice and Chamber Ensemble

I  Must Go Walk the Wood (poem Thomas Wyatt) 1974 for tenor and cello; arranged for tenor, flute, oboe, piano and cello 1st perf. May 11th 1994 New Music Brighton concert in Brighton Festival ; revised ending 1st perf. May 15th 2004 Brighton Festival

Orchestra

Rondo and Scherzos 1999 for full orchestra  1st perf. September 8th 2001, Sussex Symphony Orchestra, Corn Exchange, Brighton

Ahava Rabbah arranged for chamber orchestra 2012/13
1st perf. November 9th 2013, Musicians of All Saints, Lewes.

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From Ahava Rabba for chamber orchestra score [Click to enlarge]

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View of Table Mountain – inspiration for Rondo and Scherzos
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From Rondo and Scherzos score [Click to enlarge]

 

Duos

Penguin Pieces (trumpet, piano)  1999, 1st perf. June 8th 2001 St. Mary de Haura Church, Shoreham

Cantilena  (2 guitars) 2003, 1st perf. October 28th 2005 Unitarian Church, Brighton

Linea (trumpet, piano) 2017, 1st perf. Sep 21st, 2017, Friends Meeting House, Brighton

Piano Solo

Sequence 1967

Skogsglänta (Forest Glade) 1998

Journey On 2010

Swing It  2010

Flow 2010/11

Perpetuum Mobile 2011

Transforming 2011

Piano Duet

Rondo Majorca 1990 1st perf. 1993 St Luke’s Church, Brighton

Procession 1991 1st perf. July 14th 1996 St Luke’s Church, Brighton

Serenade 1999 1st perf. May 19th 1999 New Music Brighton concert, Brighton Festival

Ahava Rabba 2009/10 commissioned for the 75th Anniversary of Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue  1st perf. April 24th 2010, Lewes

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Front cover of Penguin Pieces score

Orchestrations

Debussy Le Petit Berger 1967

Schoenberg Sechs Kleine Klavierstucke 1970

Berg Piano Sonata (for 15 solo instruments) 1970 1st  perf. Guildhall Orchestra

Canarios 1982 commissioned by Hanover Community Ensemble 1st perf. 1983 Hanover Community Centre

Piano Arrangements

Beethoven  Symphony No 7  movements 1 and 2 1969

D minor Interlude from Berg’s Wozzeck 1970

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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