London Symphony Orchestra | Des Oliver: My Secret Garden // Eliza McCarthy @LondonSymphonyOrchestra | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
Eliza McCarthy performs Des Oliver's My Secret Garden at his LSO Jerwood Composer+ Showcase
UN / CONSCIOUS INFLUENCE in June 2023.
Programme note
My Secret Garden, revised in 2022, is an early work I composed under the tutelage of my first composition teacher, Robert Saxton. It is an ‘authentic’ work that contains the seeds of a vibrant sound world and energy that I revisit in later pieces. Although I'd composed several pieces prior, I consider this to be my first 'real' composition, and in many ways my most important work, as it shows the emergence and discovery of my musical language. It received its premiere at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama by pianist Mariko Brown, and was later performed at the Southbank Centre, having had several performances since in the UK and internationally: Finland, Spain, Estonia, Germany and Denmark. It has been specially revised for this concert.
Structurally, the music is in three parts, beginning with the repetition of a single cell, like the seed of a plant, which continues to grow into a flower. The central section contains a different treatment of the original material: punchy, energetic and rhythmic. The third section, inevitably, completes the ‘cycle’, dying away, and gradually returning to the original cell. Entirely through-composed, it is a sonic metamorphosis, evolving and de-evolving, beginning as splashes of rain, from puddles and streams to rivers and seas.
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Eliza McCarthy performs Des Oliver's My Secret Garden at his LSO Jerwood Composer+ Showcase
UN / CONSCIOUS INFLUENCE in June 2023.
Programme note
My Secret Garden, revised in 2022, is an early work I composed under the tutelage of my first composition teacher, Robert Saxton. It is an ‘authentic’ work that contains the seeds of a vibrant sound world and energy that I revisit in later pieces. Although I'd composed several pieces prior, I consider this to be my first 'real' composition, and in many ways my most important work, as it shows the emergence and discovery of my musical language. It received its premiere at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama by pianist Mariko Brown, and was later performed at the Southbank Centre, having had several performances since in the UK and internationally: Finland, Spain, Estonia, Germany and Denmark. It has been specially revised for this concert.
Structurally, the music is in three parts, beginning with the repetition of a single cell, like the seed of a plant, which continues to grow into a flower. The central section contains a different treatment of the original material: punchy, energetic and rhythmic. The third section, inevitably, completes the ‘cycle’, dying away, and gradually returning to the original cell. Entirely through-composed, it is a sonic metamorphosis, evolving and de-evolving, beginning as splashes of rain, from puddles and streams to rivers and seas.
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