Sound Clips
I hope you enjoy the music. Thanks for listening, Liz.
Three excerpts from the song cycle
Words, Wide Night for tenor voice, piano and string quartet [2007]
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love [04:22] Words by Christopher Marlowe
Andrew Kennedy - tenor, Daniel Hill - piano and the Carducci Quartet
Piano Interlude [01:37] Daniel Hill
Interlude: Everyone Sang [00:54] The Carducci Quartet
Words, Wide Night was commissioned for a 40th wedding anniversary as a present from a husband to his wife. A recording was made at BBC Wales in April 2006 and the first performance took place at a surprise party at Coxley, Somerset in August 2006, when the commissioner's wife was presented with a CD and score. The first public performance was given at Cardiff University in April 2007.
Jaleo for string quartet
1. Cante Jondo [05:46]
2. Midnight Ballad [05:30]
3. El Habañero [02:23]
Influenced by trips to Spain, this live recording was made at the premiere by the Carducci Quartet on 2nd March 2010. More about the Spanish influences can be found in the programme notes.
"In Jaleo, Liz Lane shows her ability to think a familiar instrumental combination entirely afresh. There was nothing clichéd or obvious here -- rather a shifting kaleidoscope of colours and textures that managed to be evocative while never falling back on the merely picturesque."
Dr Charles Wilson, Lecturer in Music, Cardiff University
Somewhere Unknown (excerpt) [00:27] coming soon....
BBC National Orchestra of Wales workshop, Andre de Ridder, February 2005
Somewhere Unknown is the last movement of a large-scale symphonic work for orchestra, Time Travel, and the central focus of my PhD; although it is integrally linked to the preceding movements, it also stands alone in its own right. It was given first performance at the Wales Millenium Centre by the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, conductor Andrew Greenwood, October 2008.
In Flanders Fields [03:40]
Cor Cyfoes, April 2010
In Flanders Fields was written for the Colston Hall Festival of Remembrance in 2005; it is part of a set of Three Motets for Special Occasions which were premiered by the Welsh choir Cor Cyfoes in April 2010.
The Wayfarers [05:24]
Luke D Williams (baritone) and Richard Liebowitz (piano), April 2009.
The text for The Wayfarers was taken from a very old, rather musty and battered book of poems by Rupert Brooke given to me by my Grandfather when I was sixteen, which I found whilst clearing out the attic. The song is part of a set of four and was first performed by Luke and Richard in March 2009; this recording was produced at the Royal College of Music studio.
The Cat [01:57] from Why Cats Sit on Doorsteps in the Sun for wind dectet and piano
New Harmonie, November 2003
The Cat is a lighthearted movement from a South East Arts commissioned work for wind dectet, first performed with the children's dance company Malarkey. It has since been premiered in a new version with narrator in the USA by Chinook Winds in in 2007, and further performances took place in the UK by Westerly Winds in 2008 and Kammermusik Workshop in 2010. This was recorded live at the first performance.
"Here is a work that is an absolute delight and I can’t wait to hear it again.... Why Cats Sit on Doorsteps in the Sun is a little masterpiece - a classic of its genre.”
David Fanshawe, Composer and Explorer, 14/11/03
“…..great to hear new music performed with love - this is an outstanding new work for wind repertoire”
audience survey comment, 09/11/03 “The 'Cat' is a great piece of writing”
Frank C Hay, Professor of Immunology, St George’s Hospital Medical School, 09/11/03