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The Fire and the Rose are One 15:50
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The Dancers - Surrounded - by the Burning 20:28
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Now the Light Falls Across the Vast Waters of the Petrel and the Porpoise 17:59
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The Trees Grow High in Violate Petra 20:16
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Four extended pieces inspired by specific pieces of poetry. The first and third, both string quartets, grew out of readings of two of Eliot's Four Quartets (Little Gidding and East Coker respectively). The first orchestral piece (really a double saxophone concerto) started as a response to Anselm Hollo's stark poem Message from the Border. The last piece, a concerto for piano, josephine harmonie and strings, is strongly based on the old song The Trees They Do Grow High. The quartets are both quite tough (as befits a rejoinder to Eliot) – brutalist meets high romance, I guess. The saxophone concerto is bleak, high mountains and deep lochs in midwinter, enfolding a rather feverish hobbled ländler (at least, that's what it started out as). The piano concerto is a strongly layered piece - the piano is a commentary on the harmonie (oboes, clarinets, horns and bassoons) while the strings alternate between a further commentary and an atmospheric pad. For all the music's pain, writing it was a complete joy.

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released August 7, 2022

All production and design from the Freebardgate Collective.

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Allan F Moore - musicologist, pianist, composer, author, broadcaster, husband, father - whose music combines the vitality of rock and jazz with the harmonies and pacing of contemporary classical and the pianistic textures and voicings of the classical tradition (and the odd touch of irony). But it doesn't always do quite what it says on the tin... ... more

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