I’ve completed a significant new work. Entitled ‘A Still, Sad Music’, it is a setting for choir, orchestra and (optional) organ of lines 90-113 of ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey’ by William Wordsworth. I had to consider … Continue reading
Category Archives: Composing
Here is this new work, mentioned in the last post, in a realisation made by Dorico and Note performer. The instrumentation is: 1 Flute (doubling Piccolo)1 Oboe1 Clarinet in Bb1 Bassoon1 Horn in F1 Trumpet in Bb1 Trombone2 percussionistsStrings … Continue reading
London Composers Forum at the Harrow Summer Music Festival Thursday 11 July 2019 at 12:30pm, Church of St John Greenhill, Station Road, Harrow HA1 2JE. I will be playing A New Wedding March, a work I wrote for my brother’s … Continue reading
I will be playing, with other performers, my own compositions and other contemporary works for one and two pianos, in a concert on Friday 30 November at 7:30pm, at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Munster Square, London NW1 3PH. … Continue reading
I’ve been collecting some of the recordings of my choral music, and making videos of them where they are combined with the text, which can be read while listening. These can now be found here. I’ll be adding to this … Continue reading
I wrote this piece this year in the style (both musical and graphical) of the ‘classic’ ragtime of the early 1900s (though I think it still bears a few of my personal stylistic trademarks). It exists in both a solo … Continue reading
Demonstrating the new Clavinova CLP-585, here is an old favourite, my Song Without Words Op.19 No.1 in D flat Song Without Words No. 1 from David Arditti on Vimeo. … Continue reading
This is a new rendition of Ceremonial March No. 1 (Op. 45a) using Note Performer virtual instruments with Sibelius 7.5, @ David Arditti. This is as yet unperformed. Any orchestras or conductors interested, contact me. For instrument line-up see here. … Continue reading
Here’s a new experiment: putting a video of a score of a newly-written work online. This is possible through a demo version of Sibelius 7 First software, which has this useful feature buried in this cut-down version of Sibelius 7, … Continue reading
I’ve now completed revision of the full band version of Time and Tide as well as produced the small ensemble version. There’s a brass sextet version to be made as well (just a slight adaptation of the ensemble version). The … Continue reading