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The CD of your recent works gave me great pleasure. I’ve listened to them repeatedly and find them extremely seductive. I loved their real freshness, lightness, and innovative élan. - Henri Dutilleux
Listen here:
Exultation is the going – a visionary poem by Emily Dickinson.
Search Engines – exploration, technology and imagination: a piece for full orchestra poised at the interface of mind and machine.
The Will of the Tones – imagine notes reproducing like cells, one by one at first, til they gain a critical mass and become a seething swarm, an organism, driven by the collective ‘will’ of its own cells. A piano piece for virtuosos only. more
Fantazia - a short, cheeky homage to Henry Purcell
Wheels within wheels - cello and piano each follow complexly cycling paths (I was thinking about the planets: see more on this piece and on Ptolemy’s epicycles).
Let there be light! NEW Dance-video Ten minutes of non-stop dance: CCD celebrate Newton’s exploration of colour in Properties of Light
A Sense of Touch - four pianos, dreaming at different speeds…
Quiverful (video) – a short solo dance piece, written for Anuradha Chaturvedi, a dancer who creates contemporary work developed out of the Khattak tradition that she trained in, and which she still performs. For another performance, where some of the dancing is quite different, see the link in this post.
Hear a movement from my String Quartet – or find the whole piece here.
a short film Ladder of the Escaping Eye. More about this here. (And here’s an earlier post about the original piece, and Miró’s ladders.)
- and moving from ‘arthouse’ experimental to something more homely, here’s a Christmas carol I wrote a couple of years ago – As Joseph was a-walking
do explore programme notes and listen too.
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- including: light/dance/video | simeon’s song | pipe carol | escaping eye | CarmenElektra in the warehouse | Dutilleux@95 | Vanessa & Virginia | Man-Cockerel in Manhattan | Light Matter | Hong Kong: Live it, Love it! | dancing uphill | celebrating Purcell | Keats’ nightmare | Fitzwilliams in America | Messiaen’s Bird Dramas | Butterworth Award | BBC Singers go to sea | Alistair Appleton video-opera | BBC Phil/James Macmillan | Matthew Schellhorn | Dutilleux book now out
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… Jeremy Thurlow demonstrated real mettle in his 2004 piece The Will of the Tones. Single notes and quiet resonances gradually built into a surging, shivering mass, spiced with delicious harmonic jolts. All very satisfying, and meat and drink for [Rolf] Hind’s fingers. …
Geoff Brown, The Times.
… [J.T.'s] piece brought in a welcome breath of wit, life and fresh air. It had a musing text [by Alistair Appleton] about all sorts of things – memory, nostalgia, how a baby learns, the private world of the deaf community. Jeremy Thurlow’s music – sung with lovely purity of tone – was as quirky and tenderly affecting as the texts.
Ivan Hewett, Daily Telegraph.
Winner of the George Butterworth Award for Composition, 2007.
Image: CCD in Properties of Light – photo by Claude Schneider.
