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Recitative was written for Heider Nasralla in 2010.  Its melodic line pursues a continuous, but not exactly smooth, course up hill and down dale for seven minutes.  Troubled it may be, but not shapeless in its overall structure, whose broad cyclic rhythm pursues a natural swell, generated by a feeling of dialogue between the chant-line we hear at the opening and a succession of increasingly dramatic interruptions.  The dialogue builds to a climax, marked by 2-note multiphonics, which in their turn take on the role of agents for a final, affirmative peace.

Heider Nasralla gave the piece its first performance in May 2011 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester.

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Duration
7 minutes 4 seconds
Premiere

Heider Nasralla, Anthony Burgess Institute, Manchester, 14th May 2011

Scoring
1 Trombone
Composition date
2010

Performances

22 October 2014 Regent Hall, Salvation Army, 275 Oxford St, London W1C 2DJ Alan Tomlinson
14 May 2011

Anthony Burgess Institute, Manchester

Heider Nasralla (trombone)