On The Sheltering Bars
Colin Riley

Browse Works

Body of Edges
Roads Shining Like River Up Hill After Rain
Three Movements
Impossible Worlds
Songs of Coiled Light
Fallen Angel
While Stars Light Your Way Across The Night
As the Tender Twilight Covers
Something In Our Minds Will Always Stay
Ruminations
Warp and Weft
Close the Door Put Out the Light
Right To The End of Our River
Hanging In The Balance
…round the still earth…
Science Fictions
Shenanigans
Landscapes With Birds
Close
Taking Leaves
Frieze Frame
Airs And Graces
The Sleep Of Reason
The Inside Springs
A Stranger Called This Morning
On The Sheltering Bars
Passing Places

Instrumentation

Bass guitar
1
Cello
1
Electric guitar
1
Electronics
1
Soprano
1
Violin
1

Additional Information

Upon the Sharp Edges of the Night (text Amy Lowell)

Fire Roses (text Cynthia Fuller)

 I Suspect (text Lynn Peters)

At 3 a.m. (text Wendy Cope)

My Bed (text Ann Gray)

A Big event (text Sophie Hannah)

The Longing of the Meat Trade (text Selima Hill)

The Morning After (Fiona Pitt-Kethley

After Love (text Maxime Kumin)



Commissioned the Smith Quartet with funds provided by the PRS Foundation

First performance (original scoring) March 2003, The Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University, Bath - Alison Wells and the Smith Quartet

CD recording: Close CRCD02

Details

Year
Publisher
Composers Edition
Minutes
32