Cello

Cello Suite: Reflections, Dances and Fantasias [2015]

Featured on Intricate Web - Divine Art Recordings

9 mins, unaccompanied cello • An evocation of a Winter landscape, rudely interrupted by a goat and Hildegard of Bingen.

For Hester

from In the mirror 2023

2 min - Opening with quiet piano clusters and cello harmonics, this melancholic piece is dedicated to the memory of the composer's mother, Hester.

Jigbaredosh

from In the mirror 2023

4 min - The unusual title is an anagram of ‘Ashbridge Jo’ and is dedicated to the composer's sister, Jo, who lives on top of a windy hill not far from the sea.

Lacrimosa

from In the mirror 2023

3 min - Lacrimosa was originally a choral piece. The original version sets the words of mourning from the Lacrimosa, part of the traditional Requiem Mass for the Dead, from Liz’s award-winning large-scale work ‘When A Child Is A Witness - requiem for refugees’.

Watch Lacrimosa for cello and Piano here

On Malvern Hill

from In the mirror 2022-23

3.5 min - On Malvern Hill was originally composed to be sung by a choir, here setting lines from the 14th century poem Piers Plowman describing the Malvern Hills. There is also a string orchestra version of this score.

Violin

Harebell [2022]

7 mins, baroque violin - commissioned by Lucy Russell capturing the essence of this wild flower

Triptych 1 [2016]

10 mins, baroque violin • Graceful, lyrical lines combine with cuts and scars, inspired by the artwork of Dora Williams ‘Triptych – a scarred series’. This is Part One of three musical ‘panels’ exploring female body image after surgery.

Triptych – a scarred series by Dora Williams

Iridaceae [2002]

7 mins, violin and live electronics • The iris flower in full bloom with voluptuous beauty is contrasted with the tightly furled spear-like bud of the unopened flower.

Clarinet

Scintilla Act 1 [2018] 

26 mins, clarinets and live electronics

Aria [2019]

5 mins, clarinet solo • A gentle song for clarinet.

Film link coming soon

Saxophone

Inflorescence [2011]

20 mins, soprano saxophone and piano • A sequence of clifftop flowers – dogdaisy, stonecrop, selfheal, thistle, silverweed – and an evocation of a man’s lonely voice, inspired by David Hart’s poem Crag Inspector.

Piano

Leaf-Fall-Dance

3 mins, piano solo * An exploration of falling figures inspired by autumn leaves falling

A Little Lockdown Lyric [2020]

3 mins, piano solo * Composed during Lockdown this melancholic melody was composed for pianist Duncan Honeybourne

Anagrams: Jigbaredosh [2018]

4 mins, piano solo

Anagrams: Lelizziotty  [2018]

4 mins, piano solo

Anagrams: Arevedost  [2018]

3 mins, piano solo

Wild Man Dances [2015]

5 mins, piano duo • Wild Man, Green Man, dancing around in a cheeky fashion.

Harp

Diptera 

8 mins, Bray harp solo • Shouts, stamps and infectious rhythms for Celtic harp that eventually fly away free. 

Recorders

Araneis: Studies of British Spiders [1999]

9 mins, recorder solo • Explorations an underwater spider, a baby spider flying on a strand of silk and a beautiful diadem spider waiting at the centre of her web.