Anthony Gilbert
ANTHONY GILBERT, born in London in 1934, studied Composition with Mátyás Seiber, Anthony Milner and Alexander Goehr, and later with Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood. He first attracted public attention in the 1960s with a series of virtuoso works for small ensembles, performed in the international festivals. Leaving London for the North of England in 1970, first as Granada Arts Fellow at Lancaster University and then to teach Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, he devoted the next ten years to symphonies and operas. During the 1980s, largely as a result of periods in Australia, he focused once again on compositions featuring solo performers – many, including the extraordinary concerto Igorochki, being for the virtuoso recorder player John Turner. From this period also date Dream Carousels for wind, and the orchestral song-cycle Certain Lights Reflecting, both inspired by the work of the Australian poet Sarah Day. In the 1990s Gilbert again concentrated on virtuoso pieces, this time featuring percussion. The major work from the 1990s is his acclaimed Violin Concerto On Beholding a Rainbow, commissioned by the BBC and premiered in January 1999 by Anthony Marwood and the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Rumon Gamba. Another recent orchestral work, the Dance Concerto, is dedicated in gratitude to Stephen Plaistow, former Head of BBC Contemporary Music. Two more string quartets, several song-cycles setting Spanish, French and Australian poetry, Triptych for the Northern Chamber Orchestra and, most recently a string quintet reflecting on the wonders of Chartres Cathedral, are products of the past decade.
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A Breath for Life
for soprano voice and tenor recorder
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A Melding
concerto for Bb clarinet and chamber ensemble
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Duologue
for viola and piano
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Encantos
for soprano or mezzo-soprano, clarinet, vibraphone and guitar
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Handles to the Invisible
for unaccompanied chamber choir
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Haunted
for solo bass guitar
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HumDance
for violin, viola and cello
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La Douceur
for alto flute, oboe, bass clarinet and string quartet
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Lay the Lances (baritone version)
for lyrical baritone and medium string ensemble
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Lay the Lances (mezzo-soprano version)
for mezzo-soprano and medium string ensemble
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Liaison
for medium-size symphony orchestra
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Lifelines
for orchestra
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Our Lives to Guide
for soprano or mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble
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Peace Notes
for soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano
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Peal for Margaret and John
(Peal IV) for organ
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Piano Sonata No.4
for solo piano
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Pilbara Park
for guitar
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Return of the St Louis
for oboe, clarinet in A and bassoon
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String Quartet No.5
Knole
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The Flame Has Ceased
for clarinet in A, viola and piano
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