INSTRUMENTS: String Quartet
DATE OF COMPLETION: 2001 / revised 2010
DURATION: 28 minutes
MOVEMENTS: 3
PAGES: 68 (A4)

ABOUT:
Paintings by Edvard Munch – Melancholy (1892), The Scream (1893), The Dance of Life (1900) – were used as a source of inspiration for the similarly titled movements of this composition. I was also partly inspired by the music of Giacinto Scelsi, to whom Preludes and Toccata is dedicated.

Preludes and Toccata was premiered on the 13th of September 2002 at the Newcastle Conservatorium Concert Hall by the Con Spirito string quartet (Kathryn Betts, Masaki Nakamura, Simon Forrester and Sarah Lowry).

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