Music and words for Channel Firing

12th November 2014

Today, editing was completed on the music and words which I have collected, commissioned, and found for my ‘Channel Firing’ Project inspired by Dover Museum

The material on the disc consists of:

Nigel Clarke-Epitaph for Edith Cavell  2014(World Premiere recording)

Enrique Granados/Fritz Kreisler-Danse Espagnole (1911)

Erik Satie-Choses vues….(1914)

Frederick Delius-Lullaby for a Modern Baby (1921)

Leos Janacek-Sonata (1914)

Peter Sheppard Skaerved-Acoustic Mirror (2014)

Edward Elgar-Sospiri (1914)

Texts by Charles Dickens, Conan Doyle, Mary Rigby, Katerine Hale, Virginia Woolf, Emily Hobhouse, Robert Lindsay, Charlotte Despard, D H Lawrence, Geoffrey of Monmouth, William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, Thomas Harday, Osbert Sitwell, Cale Rice Young, Rupert Brooke, Hermann Hesse, Charles Ives, Siegfried Sassoon…

Violin/speaker-Peter Sheppard Skaerved

Speaker-Malene Skaerved

Piano Roderick Chadwick