String Quartet
SKU:
ST.Y248
Composed by
Morgan Hayes. String
music. Score and parts. 6
minutes. Score and parts.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#Y248. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.Y248).
ISBN
9790220222351.
Comm
issioned by Bromsgrove
Concerts with financial
assistance from Arts
Council England
1st
perf: Smith Quartet,
Artrix, Bromsgrove, 27
February 2009
Favoured by English
composers from Purcell to
Vaughan Williams and
Britten, the ground-bass
form receives a
contemporary makeover in
Morgan Hayes's Dances
on a Ground.
Artfully four-square, a
cello ostinato stays
stubbornly true to its
original thoughts.
Meanwhile, above it a
capricious ensemble of
two violins and viola
swaggers its way through
flights of melody and
jumpy pizzicati to an
ecstatic conclusion.
Commissioned by
Bromsgrove Concerts with
funding provided by Arts
Council England,
Dances on a
Ground was first
performed by the
innovative Smith Quartet
at the Artrix,
Bromsgrove, on 27
February 2009.
