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Download 1st movement - Skallywag's kickwalk
Stream 1st movement - Skallywag's kickwalkDownload 2nd movement - Fond MemoriesStream 2nd movement - Fond MemoriesDownload 3rd movement - Turning the cornerStream 3rd movement - Turning the cornerDownload 4th movement - Sad SongStream 4th movement - Sad songDownload 5th movement - Skallywag returnsStream 5th movement - Skallywag returns[Note: this piece is also available for flute and piano]
Story behind the piece:
The various movements of this piece come fom various stages in my life.
Skallywag's kickwalk is fairly recent and is a sort of reminiscence of Debussy's "Golliwog's cakewalk" idea, but not using the same themes, just the feel.
The Sad song is based on a Yiddish folksong "ale vasserlech", which you can hear me sing here.
The modal 3rd movement was written for the Manchester recorder player John Turner (hence the punning title in which I "turn" the corner towards the octatonic mode).
The "Fond memories" of the second movement are the earliest tunes and go back as far as the mid 1970s, when Shostakovitch died. It was initially intended as a homage to that great composer and has a few hints of his style hidden within.
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