GWYN PRITCHARD

(VNM) = Published by Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin
(CE) = Available from Camerata Editions

ORCHESTRAL WORKS

THE FIRMAMENT OF TIME (VNM) Listen: extract 1    extract 2    extract 3    extract 4    extract 5    extract 6    extract 7
     3.3.3.3:4.3.3.1:tmp:4perc:hrp:strings (20') 2008
            Commissioned by the BBC
            1st perf: BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London; January 2009; BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Garry Walker

            …purposeful, even ceaseless transformation…the correlation of incidental detail detail within the overall picture 

            was finely controlled…expressive immediacy (classicalsource.com)

LA SETTIMA BOLGIA (VNM)     Listen: extract 1     extract 2     extract 3     extract 4 
     3.3.3.3:4.3.3.1:tmp:5perc:2hrps:strings (14') 1989
            1st perf: Southampton International New Music Week 1989; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, 
            conducted by Kees Bakels
            .. always in fluctuating, often turbulent motion...brilliantly scored. (The Guardian) 
           A firm sense of direction...vividly imagined and realised. (Independent)

MERCURIUS (VNM)     Listen: extract 1     extract 2
     1.1.1.1:1.0.0.0:hrp:strings (12') 1989 (adapted from chamber ensemble version of 1979) 
            1st perf: Southampton International New Music Week 1989; Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conducted by Kees Bakels
            A piece of many layers, shades, contrasts and transformations, as unpredictable as quicksilver, and just as
            captivating in its elusive manner (Contact)
            Austere, delicate patterns... (Sunday Times)

IN THE SILENCE OF TURNED EARTH (VNM)    
      solo soprano, solo violin & strings (11') 2010
            Commissioned for the Sofia Soloists, Bulgaria
           1st perf scheduled: Sofia, Bulgaria, September 2010

SPRING MUSIC (CE)    
      1.1.1.1:0.2.1.0:3perc:pno:hrp:strings (16') 1972
            Commissioned by The BBC

CONCERTO FOR VIOLA AND ORCHESTRA (CE)  
     viola solo:2.1.2.1:2.1.0.0:timp:celesta:strings (16') 1967, revised 1984
            1st perf: Royal Scottish Academy of Music 1968; soloist James Durrant
 

HARMONIEMUSIK (CE)  
     2.0.1.2sax:1.1.2.1:1perc:pf:e-gtr.b-gtr (11') 2009
            1st perf: Musis Sacrum, Arnhem, Netherlands; October 2010; Orkest 'de ereprijs'

THE FRUIT OF CHANCE AND NECESSITY (VNM)     Listen: extract 1     extract 2     extract 3    View pages
     solo 'cello:1.1.1.1:1.1.1.0:accrdn.:solo strings (16') 2004
            Commissioned by Barry Noble
            1st perf: City Theatre, Basel, Switzerland; November 2004 at the ISCM World Music Days; soloist Beat Schneider 
            with Ensemble Phoenix conducted by Jürg Henneberger

MERCURIUS (CE)  
     wind quintet, string quartet, harp (12') 1979
            1st perf: University of York 1979; conducted by Peter Wiegold
            Sparkling fragments of dialogue tossed about in explosive flashes...constantly changing mood (The Times)

STRATA (CE)  
     2 flutes, 2 clarinets, string trio (12') 1977
            Commissioned by Hotwells Music Workshop
            1st perf: SPNM's 'Alive and Composing', London 1980; conducted by Buxton Orr

ENSEMBLE MUSIC FOR SIX (CE)       Listen: extract 1     extract 2     extract 3
     flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, 'cello (6') 1976
            1st perf: Arnolfini, Bristol 1976; conducted by Peter Wiegold

            ...wonderfully idiomatic (musicalpointers.co.uk)

NEPHALAUXIS (CE)  
     string quartet, 2 percussionists (15') 1977
            1st perf: Warsaw Autumn Festival 1979; Royal Lazienki Quartet, Marta Ptaszynska, Hubert Rutkowski
            A striking piece (Contact)

WAYANG (CE)      Listen:extract 1     extract 2    extract 3
     flute/alto/piccolo, clarinet/bass, piano, percussion, 'cello (13') 1993
            Commissioned by The Basle Soloists
            1st perf: Quebec, Canada 1993; The Basle Soloists, conducted by Gwyn Pritchard

FEATURES AND FORMATIONS (VNM)     Listen     View pages
     solo violin, flute, clarinet, 'cello (10') 2003
            Commissioned by the 1st Reggello International Festival of Music, Italy
            1st perf: Reggello International Festival of Music, Italy 2003; Darragh Morgan solo violin with Uroboros Ensemble,
            conducted by Gwyn Pritchard

ARIEL DREAMING (CE)  
     recorders, cimbalom, percussion, accordion (9') 2010
            1st perf: scheduled for  Weimar Spring Contemporary Music Days, 2010, Ensemble Kozmosz

JANUS (VNM)    Listen: extract 1     extract 2    extract 3       View pages
     flute/piccolo/alto & clarinet/Eflat/bass (11') 1991
            Commissioned for Philippe Racine & Ernesto Molinari and performed by them at the Huddersfield Contemporary 
            Music Festival 1994
            1st perf: West of England tour 1991; Ingrid Culliford & Roger Heaton
             ..highly entertaining, brilliantly written, captivating virtuosity. (Dreh Punkt Kultur, Salzburg)

MICROPUS 5 (VNM) 
     solo piano (1') 2009
       1st perf: scheduled for Borealis Festival, Norway, 2010

CAPRICCIO INQUIETO (VNM)     Listen
     solo oboe (5') 2006
            1st perf: Kingston University 2007; Christopher Redgate

FORSE MI STAI CHIAMANDO (VNM)     Listen: extract 1    extract 2
     mezzo-soprano & cello (6') 1997
     Text: Pinuccia Amodei
            1st perf: Banff, Canada 2000

LUCHNOS (CE)    Listen: extract 1    extract 2
     6 solo voices (s.s.a.t.bar.b.) (3') 2007
      Text: Paulus Silentiarius
           1st perf: Festival Pramidale 6, Berlin 2007;  Vox Nostra
           Pritchard's short but powerful Luchnos (musicalcriticism.com)