Instrumentation

fl(=picc).bcl.pno

Availability

A4 facsimile score 0571555624 (fp) and parts 0571555632 (fp) on sale

Programme Notes

The Riot is a work in which virtuoso exhilaration is predominant. The game is to throw around themes which retain their identity sufficiently to bounce off each other sharply, even when combined polyphonically or mixed up together in new configurations. Each theme belongs to a distinctive harmonic field characterised by about two intervals, for example the first is based on fourths and whole tones creating also minor sevenths and, as a further development, linear unfoldings in circles of fourths (or fifths). From time to time energy runs out and a mechanical repetition of an element takes over, dying away like an electronic ‘delay’. Such a process in extended form provides the ending. The work was written for HET TRIO and commissioned by Bristol University Music Department, with funds provided in part by South West Arts, especially for the Colston Symposium 1994. Jonathan Harvey

The Riot

Wigmore Hall (London, United Kingdom)

The Riot Ensemble

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The Riot

RECORDED Klassikaradio in Tallinn, Estonia

Virtual Online Performance

Trio HETK

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The Riot

Wigmore Hall (London, United Kingdom)

students of the Royal Northern College of Music

The Riot

The Forge, Camden (London, United Kingdom)

Rarescale (Carla Rees/Heather Roche/Xenia Pestova/Michael Oliva

The Riot

MeWe360 (London, United Kingdom)

Kate Walter/Max Welford/Adam Swayne/Claudia Maria