Piano
SKU: ST.H407
Composed by Morgan Hayes.
1 Chipped Marble (4'). 2
Flaking Yellow Stucco
(2'). 3 Corrugated (2').
4 Weaving (5'). 5 Only
Jesting (2 1/2 '). Score.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#H407. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.H407).
ISBN
9790220219153.
1st
perf (1, 3 and 4): Ian
Pace, Cheltenham Town
Hall, 16 November 1998
(Cheltenham Contemporary
Concerts Series).
1st
perf (2): Michael
Finnissy, Small Hall,
Union of Composers,
Moscow, 28 November
1997.
1st perf (5):
Joanna MacGregor, Young
Composers' Award
Workshop, Huddersfield
Contemporary Music
Festival, 27 November
1991
1st broadcast
perf (5): Michael
Finnissy, Sofia New Music
Festival, October 1996
(Radio Bulgaria)
The presence of a major
new composer on the
musical scene was
signalled by the premiere
of Morgan Hayes'
Viscid at the
1997 Park Lane Group
Young Artists Concert
Series. Critics responded
warmly to its colour,
vitality, and strong
individuality. The same
qualities are found in
Five Distressed
Surfaces, a
collection of fascinating
character studies that
also reflect the
composer's skills as a
pianist and improvisor.
Though not intended to be
played as a suite, the
individual pieces are
linked by a concern with
visual, plastic and even
tactile sources of
inspiration, and by a
quietly disruptive
humour.
...
Morgan Hayes' piano
works, Flaking Yellow
Stucco and Le Lardon,
were elegantly explosive
in [Stephen] Gutman's
performances.
Greg Link
