1st perf: Allegri String Quartet King’s Place, 19 Dec 2010 Many subsequent performances British Composer Award Winner Private recording Self-published Programme note: Thirty-two years after composing his First String Quartet (for the Chilingirian Quartet), Payne returned to the genre at the invitation of this evening's performers. In common with many of his … [Read more...]
String Quartet No. 1
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Of Knots and Skeins
1st perf: Fenella Barton, violin Simone Dinnerstein, piano Purcell Room, 2 November 2000 Further performance at St James’s Piccadilly Recorded on NMC D130 Composers Edition Programme note: Many of my chamber pieces, for whatever combination, are in the nature of tone poems or even symphonic poems, whereby the material, though never the structure, is coloured … [Read more...]
From a Mouthful of Air
1st perf: Endymion Ensemble Quentin Poole, conductor Kings Place, London, 4-6 June 2009 Composers Edition Programme note: Although touched to be asked to write a piece in celebration of Endymion's 30th Anniversary, I was about to refuse through genuine pressure of work (an orchestral piece and string quartet beckoned!), when I was virtually compelled to accede by … [Read more...]
Footfalls Echo in the Memory
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