ayre

(2022) 

for flute, viola and harp 

written for Trio Anima and the Fishguard and West Wales International Music Festival

  • Trio Anima on 20 November 2022 at Neuadd y Dderwen (Wales), as part of the 2022 Fishguard & West Wales International Music Festival

  • 'ayre' explores the often complex and contradicting history of the music form that takes this name. Ayres can be graceful, elegant, polished, and deal with matters of the heart. But can also be lively and animated, full of rhythmic subtleties, while others are deeply emotional works that gain much of their effect from bold, expressive harmonies and striking melodic lines such as Dowland's notable ‘Flow my teares'. This work weaves fragments of Dowland’s synonymous Lachrimae of the 16th-century with the often unceasing rhythmic flow of a more urban sensibility.

    This work was commissioned by Gillian Green and the Fishguard and West Wales International Music Festival for Trio Anima in 2022.

    -njd.

  • flute / viola / harp

  • 5’

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