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Announcement for Organ
A Short Piece for Piano
Impromptu for Oboe and Piano
Theme for Horn and Piano
Fugato for Clarinet and Piano
Sonata No 1 for Piano
Announcement for Organ (reprise 1)
Anima Christi
A Short Carol
Anthem for St Frideswide
Study for Solo Violin
Announcement for Organ (reprise 2)
Saliva Variations
Original Finale for ‘Saliva Variations’
An Epitaph
Spring and Fall
Strained Sonnet
Who’s Who
Announcement for Organ (reprise 3)
The text of the insert for the CD of this performance is here
TUNES
Collected Musical Juvenilia
Henry Hardy
Available as a score (above) or as a CD of computerised renditions ...
Hear the contents on the Sibelius website
Hear the contents on the Nymet Music website
... or as a CD of a concert performance in Christ Church Cathedral in 2004:
All these can be ordered here.
HENRY HARDY is known, if known at all, as the editor of the work of Isaiah Berlin. Not many people know he has also been a musician of sorts. He had a burst of composing activity between the ages of 16 and 24, but the muse has now deserted him. His composition was his equivalent of writing teenage poetry, at least to start with. His school didn’t encourage him in his weird behaviour, which may help to explain why it fizzled out. Another reason is that he didn’t want to write pieces that weren’t performed, and at the time of writing some of his pieces still haven’t been. But here they are (except for a lost organ voluntary, op. 4), within one set of covers, for connoisseurs of peculiar publications.
A distinguished musicologist who heard the ‘Anthem for St Frideswide’ on the Sibelius website wrote to the composer: ‘Wow, the anthem is really something!!! It took a little getting used to how Sibelius sounds ... but I think the piece could really make an effect in performance – very word-sensitive (no surprise, given your later activities), and with a freshness to the harmonic progressions. Bravo!’
CONTENTS OF SCORE
(all musical items included on Tunes CD)
Publisher’s Note
Programme NotesA Short Piece for Piano
Sonata No 1 for Piano
Suite for Wind Instruments and Piano:
Impromptu for Oboe and Piano
Theme for Horn and Piano
Fugato for Clarinet and Piano
Saliva Variations
Original Finale for ‘Saliva Variations’
Anima Christi
An Epitaph
A Short Carol
Strained Sonnet
Study for Solo Violin
Spring and Fall
Anthem for St Frideswide
Announcement for OrganAppendices
Tolstoy’s Waltz
(played here by Imogen Cooper)
Who’s Who
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