Kenneth Hesketh

Die hängende Figur ist Judas' (The hanging figure is Judas) was commissioned by Dr. Margitta Giera as a gift for the German sculptor Michael Langer. Hesketh's first ideas for the work came from a phot...

Point Forms è stato ispirato da cinque diagrammi tratti dal libro di Kandinsky Point and Line to Surface. Molte spiegazioni delle forme geometriche, compreso l'uso da parte di Kandinsky di parole come...

Aforismi, un breve lavoro di nove minuti che rappresenta un'aggiunta molto utile al repertorio per clarinetto solo.

Ispirato dal mio amore per gli automi, questo lavoro per oboe solo prende il nome dall'invenzione di Wolfgang von Kempelen, che alla fine del XVIII secolo aveva costruito un insolito uomo meccanico do...

Taking his starting point from 17th century philosopher-poet Cyrano de Bergerac's 'Grandes Plaines du Jour', Hesketh powerfully fuses a huge range of performing and compositional techniques into this...

Chorpartitur

Hesketh's work for 3-part children's choir and piano sets two texts about the start of spring by William Blake and an anonymous source. Written for conductor Simon Emery and the Liverpool Philharmonic...

Il termine "Danceries" si trova in una copia del Dancing Master di Playford, un'ampia raccolta di melodie popolari e folkloristiche del XVII secolo (e senza dubbio anche prima). Questa pubblicazione v...

Il termine "Danceries" si trova in una copia del Dancing Master di Playford, un'ampia raccolta di melodie popolari e folkloristiche del XVII secolo (e senza dubbio anche prima). Questa pubblicazione v...

Each of the 'Three Japanese Miniatures' is a new challenge to the pianist: In each piece, a different playing technique is developed in a subtle and concentrated way.

This short piano work is one of Hesketh's most successful, taken from his opera The Overcoat - it would be an ideal opener to any recital programme.

In his programme note, Hesketh describes a conceit as an extended metaphor which can govern part of or an entire poem thereby leading to a more sophisticated understanding of the subject. Within the 2...

The title of this work is a reference to the poem Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats. Important images from the poem are freely connected to suggest musical gestures and contours. Such phrases as peri...

A concert suite of three pieces for piano, clarinet and violin. The composer has created concise aural pictures: whimsical, witty and pointed, they make an appealing addition to the contemporary chamb...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc+bfl).1(=sop.rec+ca).2(I=Ebl.II=bcl).ssax - hn - perc(3): vib/2 susp.cym/2 conga/bongo+djembe/BD/2 wdbl/2 tgl/tam-t/mar/cyms/mcas/tam-t/2 timp/glsp/crot/t.bells harp - pno - ce...

In 'Danceries', by Kenneth Hesketh, the melodies themselves are a mixture of old and new. Where the old occurs it has been adapted in mood and composition and is often interspersed with completely new...

In 'Danceries', by Kenneth Hesketh, the melodies themselves are a mixture of old and new. Where the old occurs it has been adapted in mood and composition and is often interspersed with completely new...

'The Alchymist's Journal' gets its title from the book of the same name by American author Evan S. Connell. The book fictionalises a number of famous Alchemist's writings, each one developing another'...

'The Alchymist's Journal' gets its title from the book of the same name by American author Evan S. Connell. The book fictionalises a number of famous Alchemist's writings, each one developing another'...

Whirlegigg is the middle English word for a contraption that continuously spins. A great fascination with many inventors of the medieval period was to develop a perpetual motion machine constantly tur...