{"id":334,"date":"2016-04-01T09:02:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardemsley.wordpress.com\/?page_id=334"},"modified":"2022-09-01T12:25:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:25:46","slug":"the-stills-cycle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.richardemsley.com\/index.php\/the-stills-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Still\/s cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In early 2002 Richard Emsley began work on a collaboration with the British painter Joan Key. This was designed in such a way that the artist\u2019s production of a group of six paintings and the composer’s production of a piece for solo cello would be processes which did not inhibit one another but yet which intersected at a deep-seated structural level. The collaboration was commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, and Key’s Six White Paintings for Composition <\/em>were hung there as part of the “Colour White” exhibition in July 2002 during which the cellist Anton Lukoszevieze premiered the musical component of the collaboration, Still\/s 1. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Still\/s complete hardback edition available from Composers Edition<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

In view of the substantial quantity of unused visual material generated by the project, and keen to explore its further musical possibilities, Emsley decided that the original piece for solo cello should be just one of a total of 24 pieces, the other 23 to be composed for all the possible solos, duos and trios afforded by a basic five-instrument reservoir, consisting of flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision to embark on the composition of a cycle containing such a large number of individual works was suggested by the deliberate ‘protocol’ adopted during the collaboration process: a relentless exploration of the possible combinations derivable from a small stock of visual materials, but subjected to an overall process of progressive ‘painting out’, propelling the material ineluctably towards “whiteness, absence, stillness and silence”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A synopsis of the entire cycle is given below. Pieces may be performed singly or together in any grouping. For more extended performances, each of the cycle’s four quarters provides a suitable programme for a short concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still\/s 1<\/span> (2002) 8’30”
solo cello
First performance: Anton Lukoszevieze, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 6 July 2002
Commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill for the Colour White<\/i> exhibition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still\/s 2<\/span> (2004) 8′
clarinet and cello
First performance: Apartment House, Church of St Anne & St Agnes, London, 2 July 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still\/s 3<\/span> (2004) 7′
violin and cello
First performance: Apartment House, Church of St Anne & St Agnes, London, 2 July 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still\/s 4<\/span> (2008) 12′
flute and clarinet
First performance: Apartment House, Church of St Anne & St Agnes, London, 2 July 2008
Commissioned by Music We’d Like To Hear with funds provided by The Britten-Pears Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still\/s 5<\/span> (2008) 8′
piccolo, clarinet in E flat and piano
First performance: Apartment House, Church of St Anne & St Agnes, London, 2 July 2008
Commissioned by Music We’d Like To Hear<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still\/s 6<\/span> (2008) 7′
flute, violin and piano
First performance: Apartment House, Church of St Anne & St Agnes, London, 2 July 2008
Commissioned by Music We’d Like To Hear<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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view programme note for performance of Still\/s 1-6 as part of London concert series ‘Music We’d Like To Hear’ in July 2008<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still\/s 7<\/span> (2011) 8′
solo clarinet
First performance: Andrew Sparling, Falmouth University, 17 November 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still\/s 8<\/span> (2018) 5\u2019
clarinet, violin and cello
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Still\/s 9<\/span> (2018) 6\u201930\u201d
flute, clarinet and cello
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Still\/s 10<\/span> (2004) 9′
flute and piano
First performance: Libra Ensemble, St. Giles’ Cripplegate, London, 28 March 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still\/s 11<\/span> (2018) 7\u2019
violin and piano
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Still\/s 12<\/span> (2018) 6\u2019
violin, cello and piano
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Still\/s 13<\/span> (2019) 7\u201930\u201d
flute and violin
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Still\/s 14<\/span> (2003) 8′
solo violin
First performance: Darragh Morgan, Bush Hall, London, 26 June 2003
Commissioned by Darragh Morgan with funds provided by the RVW Trust<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still\/s 15<\/span> (2019) 10\u2019
clarinet, violin and piano
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Still\/s 16<\/span> (2019) 9\u201930\u201d
flute and cello
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Still\/s 17<\/span> (2019) 3\u201930\u201d
clarinet, cello and piano
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Still\/s 18<\/span> (2019) 7\u2019
flute, cello and piano
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Still\/s 19<\/span> (2018) 5\u201930\u201d
flute solo
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Still\/s 20<\/span> (2019) 8\u2019
flute, clarinet and violin
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Still\/s 21<\/span> (2018) 4\u2019
flute, violin and cello
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Still\/s 22<\/span> (2002) 7′
clarinet and piano
First performance: Libra Ensemble, St. Cyprian’s Church, London, 14 February 2003
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Still\/s 23<\/span> (2019) 7\u2019
cello and piano
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Still\/s 24<\/span> (2010) 8′
clarinet and violin
First performance: Ian Mitchell and Angharad Davies, The Nunnery, London, 6 May 2010
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