Works: Three Portraits (2007)
I composed these Three Portraits in the year of what would have been Elgar's 150th birthday, and I tip my hat to the great composer and his Enigma Variations, which similarly are portraits of friends, and many movements of which also use simple initials to title the movements. There, as far as I know, the similarities end!
- "S.F."
With humour, and unexpected flashes of temper. - "H.U."
Calm and very sustained. - "A.Y."
Quite agitated, impatient.
Tim Benjamin, 2008
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| Premiere: | Radius at Wigmore Hall, 8th January 2008 (Daniel Rowland, violin; Oliver Coates, cello; Jocelyn Lightfoot, horn; John Reid, piano) |
| Duration: | 5 minutes |
| Instrumentation: | horn, violin, cello, piano |
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