Geoffrey Álvarez: chamber music

 

Tres mundos para dos jugadores

for bass clarinet and marimba

written for the Dúo Antwerp

duration 12′ 50″

 Available here

Piano

Toccata Wagogo
for solo piano

 

 

sample score • premiere by Matthew Schellhorn
• duration 13′ 17″

Download Licence £1.50

  Score UK postage £7

    Score international postage £7

The Cradle an the Mill –
a meditation on two Galician folk songs

for solo piano

 

 

score • digital realisation • duration 10′ 11″

Fun-key
for piano duet

sample score • digital realisation • duration 7′ 23″

 

Lute 

El primer olor

for baritone and lute
 peruse and purchase score • duration circa 2′

Also published in The Lute Society of America Quarterly

Volume XXXIII, 1998 Issue No. 4

 

A Plaine and Easy Introduction to New Lute Musicke –
Parte One, by Betsy Small

 

 

Teares and Lamentations – Six Sundry Sighs
for ten course lute

sample score • duration 13′ 17″

Edition Published by the Lute Society ISBN 0 905655 32 X

Alisimon’s Pursuit 
Lady Luckett’s Lachrimae: a dolorous Dumpe
Doctor Foster’s Fancy
Father Fazackerley’s Pestilence
St. Andrew’s Complainte
Mistress Gillie Johnson’s Goodnight

Sith that dear Voice... Is reft from Earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou now but a harbinger of woe? Thy pleasing notes by pleasing notes no more, But Orphan wailings to the fainting ear, Each stop a sigh, each sound draw forth a tear...
From To His Lute by William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649)
Illustration: Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588 - 1629)
Lute player 1624 National Gallery, London. No. 6347


Mixed Ensemble

Kerb Crawling

ballet for ten instruments

Instrumentation:

flute/Piccolo, Oboe/Cor Anglais, Clarinet in A, Horn in F,
Pianoforte, 2 Violins, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass.

score • duration 20′ 00″

perfomances:

Anemone, York Festival, 1989
Nottingham University (1989)
Oxford University Sinfonia, (1998)

Obsessions

for flute, viola and harp • details

susurritos

for flutes, clarinets, soprano                                                                            
and percussion • details

Songs My Parrot Taught Me:
a Carnival of Domestic Animals

soprano, alto, tenor, clarinet, violin,                                      
violoncello and pianoforte

details

 

 

The Cimmerian Sybil

Horn Trio

score • duration circa 20′

Painting of the Cimmerian Sybil by Guercino (1591 -1666)

Beyond the Black Sea 
In the frozen northern wastes                                                      
beyond the the Caucasus                                                           
Dwells the Cimmerian Sibyl.

Apollo descends to receive                                                           
the plentiful blessings                                                                    
from her cornucopia.

© Copyright Geoffrey Alvarez In homage to Fainlight’s poem
‘The Cimmerian Sibyl’ (Hutchinson, 1980)

Bran’s Singing Head:

for soprano, clarinet and harp • details

Orchestral material available for hire or
purchase from Geoffrey Alvarez

Strings 

 

sample score • digital realisation • duration 14′ 13″

Download licence for full score and parts £4.00

  Printed copies of full score and parts £20.00

The Camomile Pillow

for cello ensemble • details

 

Sonata

for violoncello and pianoforte

first performance 1985 by Susan Hargreaves – violoncello,

Dominic Saunders – piano, University of York.

sample score • digital realisation • duration 17′ 19″

 

Wind & Brass

 

 

King Solomon’s Monsters:

for two clarinets and bassoon
view and purchase • duration 17′ 19″

Spinning Night

for trombone and piano

peruse and purchase • duration 20′  

 

Alan Tomlinson, trombone; Geoffrey Álvarez, piano

  1. British Music Information Centre. March 25 1997

  2. University of Oxford                                                       
    Contemporary Music Society, 1998

  3. British Trombone Society 13th Annual Festival,                     
    November 15 1998

A virtuoso exploitation of the unique talents of trombonist Alan Tomlinson drawing on the symbolism of the longest night of the year: the trombonist exorcises the dark spirits of the dying year by literally spinning to ensure the world returns to the light.

 

Reed Bed                                                                                            
clarinet choir • details

The Travelling Musicians

wind quintet • details  

The Laughing Lotus                                                                         
wind quintet • details

Brass Etchings                                                                                          
 for brass quintet • details

 

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