Sweet 4 Chamber Orchestra, by David Warin Solomons

Sweet 4 Chamber Orchestra

by David Warin Solomons

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1.	Meinau Rag 02:25	info	buy track
2.	Amble round Mercury 04:28	info	buy track
3.	Pretty how town 03:02	info	buy track
4.	Landscape before sunrise 03:31	info	buy track
5.	Little Laser Lady 02:55	info	buy track

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Each movement in this Suite (Sweet) has its own story and reflects various places where the composer has lived or poems that have inspired him:

Meinau Rag, was written in honour of David's 8 month stay in La Meinau, a suburb of Strasbourg - it was one of several "ragtimes",
a style he experimented with on the guitar at that time. This is an orchestral jaunty and bouncy ragtime but with harmonies that are more neoclassical than 1920s

An Amble round Mercury refers to the pond and associated statue of Mercury in the centre of Tom Quad at David's college,
Christ Church Oxford. The piece represents a gentle walk round this quad to the accompaniment of a basso ostinato which meanders through the orchestral texture.

Pretty How Town, a perky and rhythmically complex piece, is based on the rhythms of the poem - "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by e.e.cummings: "anyone lived in a pretty how town, with up so floating many bells down"

Landscape before sunrise, more laid back, is based on a setting of many ways in which the world says "Goodnight" (buenas noches, kali nikhta, nos da, oyasummi nasai etc) and is inspired by the view from the composer's 18th floor flat in London overlooking the multicultural population spread around below.

Little Laser Lady, an upbeat end to the suite, is based on a poem by a friend of the composer, whose girlfriend (and wife to be) would always visit him in her Laser car (a make of car in Australia)
(She is the sun in the afternoon, she is the night's familiar, she comes on a beam of yellow gold light and is soft as the scent of camelia ......)

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released February 19, 2015

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David Warin Solomons Sale, UK

Composer from UK born in 1953, concentrating on lyrical and tonal works for chamber music combinations, solo voice and choral works.

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