Forty-something
Liz Dilnot Johnson

Browse Works

Des Branches du Jardin
De l'herbe qui s'eveille
Cygnus
in the white hours
Iridaceae
Clarinet Quinet, Sea-change
Intricate Web
Cello Suite - reflections, dances and fantasias
Towards the Sea
Cabbage Dreams
Sleep Close
Tide purl
Watching Medusa
Forty-something
'For Elliott' String Quartet No. 2
Elephant Woman
Pig
Sky-burial - String Quartet No. 4
'Images of Trees' String Quartet No. 1
I Stand At The Door - a cantata for our times
Real Sky
Aria
It's OK
In the tunnel
Choreography 3
Naming Song
Gentle Flame (SSAATTBB)
Simulakrum
Body of water
Jigbaredosh
April Meditation
Arevedost
When A Child Is A Witness
Araneis
O Vos
Wee Wifey
Scintilla

Instrumentation

Cello
1
Viola
1
Violin 1
1
Violin 2
1

Additional Information

Written as a birthday present for the Fitzwilliam quartet’s 40thAnniversary celebrations when Jonathan Sparey was the quartet’s second violinist. The Happy Birthday tune is fragmented into cells that spin around, along with interjections of a musical representation of each of the players’ names.  After every forty notes a name appears, firstly a series of ‘L-U-C-Y’s (a rising sixth and seventh), then ‘A-L-A-N’ (C-B-C-C#) and Jonathan ‘S-P-A-R-E-Y’ (a descending laughing gesture in triplets). Eventually the cellist ‘H-E-A-T-H-E-R’ the most recent, and shyest, member of the quartet appears (a gentle rising pizzicato figure).

Details

Fantasia
Year
Publisher
Composers Edition
Minutes
4

Recordings

Date published
2017
Date recorded
2016
Performers
Fitzwilliam String Quarte
Record company
Divine Art Records
Title
Intricate Web - Liz Johnson - double album
Venue
St Martins, East Woodhay
Media link
Forty-something