Fl/cl. Fl/ob/cl.
Cl/Hn/ca. Bcl/Bsn -
Intermediate
SKU:
FT.FM475
Composed by
Russell Hepplewhite.
Flexible Wind Quartet.
Score and parts. Forton
Music #FM475. Published
by Forton Music
(FT.FM475).
ISBN
9790570483747.
The
first movement Chocolate
Hills explores an
unearthly but colourful
image of enormous hills
turned brown from the dry
season and located in the
Phillipines. The
second movement Socotra
focuses on an area of
Yemen so remote and with
a climate so unforgiving
it is amazing any species
can survive there at all,
and yet the image I based
my music upon is bursting
with life including
dragon's blood trees,
Socotra sunbirds and
legless lizards. The
third movement Moeraki
Boulders takes us to a
beach in New Zealand to
ponder the ghostly
appearance of clusters of
spherical rocks formed
several million years
ago; while the final
movement Stone Forest
ends our musical journey
imagining an area in
China in which vast
stalagmite-like
formations rise from the
ground and create the
appearance of petrified
trees.  .