Julian Grant

for viola and piano – no. 3

Hilary Sturt and  John York

Three Island Tales 3

Opera in a prologue and 3 acts. 105′

Libretto by Hattie Naylor

first performed 10 October 2006, Alexandra Palace Theatre

Act 1 Scene 1: Nausicaa Tends Odysseus’ Wounds (lullaby)

Act 1 Scene 2: Odysseus demonstrates how to kill

Act 2 Scene 2: The Sirens

Act 3 Scene 1: Penelope and the Suitors

The story of a tormented teacher, George, responsible for an accident on a school trip, who receives help from within his own bookshelves. The story is played out to the background of a fancy dress ball.

Rumba-song: I’ve just had a dance with Kevin

The fab dinner ladies

A boy stumbles on a terrible secret, a suppressed underclass condemned to a ghostly life in London’s docklands.

The Uninvited: Deptford marketplace

chamber concerto for piano and ensemble

2nd section (extract)

Inspired by the magical Buddhist paintings in the Magao Caves, Dunhuang, on the Silk Route.

Read programme note HERE

Douglas Finch, piano
Continuum Ensemble
Philip Headlam, conductor

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Opera in one act

Jump Into My Sack: Prelude

Jump Into My Sack: The Fairy of Lake Creno

Jump Into My Sack: The Gambling Den

more extracts available HERE

for orchestra
3rd section (extract)

Great Game – 3rd Section audio clip

An orchestral piece evocative
of Central Asian terrain: the title
refers to the power struggle
between British forces in India
and Tsarist Russia.

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Salomon Orchestra
Paul Hoskins, conductor

more extracts available HERE

A blistering comedy, based on Ostrovsky’s comedy, a scathing financial satire on the Russian upwardly mobile merchant class, in Nick Dear’s highly successful, profane and colloquial version.

Act 1 Why should a man

Act 3 How’s the cut? Perfect!

Act 3 At the side of a field

more extracts available HERE

Solomon, a high-tech wizard summons  the mysterious Queen of Sheba, to discover if  all those snake or razor rumours are true.

The Legs Song