Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Psappha Ensemble:
Benedict Holland & Zoë Beyers - violins
Alex Mitchell & Alistair Vennart violas
Jennifer Langridge & Petr Prause - cellos
Mark Heron - conductor
This performance was recorded live at Hallé St Peter's in Manchester (UK) on 31st March 2022. To view the 4K version we recommend you use Google Chrome or the Firefox browser.
Learn more about Psappha: psappha.com
Film Production
Cameras - Handel Productions
Audio & Mastering - Rob Kelledy
Film produced and edited by Tim Williams
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Ben Gaunt - All the Castles I Have Ever Loved (World premiere, Psappha commission)
The title came first. I just really love castles. I have always loved castles, although the way in which I love castles has changed as I grew up. As a child, I loved visiting them and pretending I was an invading soldier, pestering my parents to buy me wooden swords from the gift shop. As an adult, I love visiting them and pretending I am interested in the history when secretly all I want to do is buy myself a wooden sword from the gift shop. I look forward to being an old man, in a castle, with a wooden sword.
The piece is for six musicians, and therefore I decided to visit six castles. I wrote most of the music in these castles:
1. Skipton Castle
2. Harewood Castle
3. Roundhay Castle
4. Conisbrough Castle
5. Sandal Castle
6. Pontefract Castle
The piece is in six sections, each of which contains six events. There is, at the end of the piece, a secret seventh section that is dedicated to the conductor (reflecting his status as a pseudo-seventh member of the group).
I don't really write music that aims to be too descriptive of anything specific. The six sections do not correspond to the
six castles I visited in any tangible sense. I am just trying to give a sense of something castle-like, perhaps somewhat
English-sounding. Thank you, Tim, and everybody at Psappha, for letting me write a piece about castles.
– Ben Gaunt
Learn more about Ben Gaunt: bengaunt.com
Psappha Ensemble:
Benedict Holland & Zoë Beyers - violins
Alex Mitchell & Alistair Vennart violas
Jennifer Langridge & Petr Prause - cellos
Mark Heron - conductor
This performance was recorded live at Hallé St Peter's in Manchester (UK) on 31st March 2022. To view the 4K version we recommend you use Google Chrome or the Firefox browser.
Learn more about Psappha: psappha.com
Film Production
Cameras - Handel Productions
Audio & Mastering - Rob Kelledy
Film produced and edited by Tim Williams
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Ben Gaunt - All the Castles I Have Ever Loved (World premiere, Psappha commission)
The title came first. I just really love castles. I have always loved castles, although the way in which I love castles has changed as I grew up. As a child, I loved visiting them and pretending I was an invading soldier, pestering my parents to buy me wooden swords from the gift shop. As an adult, I love visiting them and pretending I am interested in the history when secretly all I want to do is buy myself a wooden sword from the gift shop. I look forward to being an old man, in a castle, with a wooden sword.
The piece is for six musicians, and therefore I decided to visit six castles. I wrote most of the music in these castles:
1. Skipton Castle
2. Harewood Castle
3. Roundhay Castle
4. Conisbrough Castle
5. Sandal Castle
6. Pontefract Castle
The piece is in six sections, each of which contains six events. There is, at the end of the piece, a secret seventh section that is dedicated to the conductor (reflecting his status as a pseudo-seventh member of the group).
I don't really write music that aims to be too descriptive of anything specific. The six sections do not correspond to the
six castles I visited in any tangible sense. I am just trying to give a sense of something castle-like, perhaps somewhat
English-sounding. Thank you, Tim, and everybody at Psappha, for letting me write a piece about castles.
– Ben Gaunt
Learn more about Ben Gaunt: bengaunt.com
