Andrew Grainger
Composer and Pianist
Music
Two Art Songs
Katrina Saporsantos - Soprano
Benjie Dia - Piano
I Dream a World
Words by Lanston Hughes
Music by Andrew Grainger
Langston Hughes
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom’s way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!
Invocation
Words by Ursula K. Le Guin
Music by Andrew Grainger
Ursula K. Le Guin
O silence, my love silence,
I have feared you: my tongue
has rattled on my teeth
dreading to be dumb so long
when I am done with breath.
And I have needed prattle,
kind blather, and the come and go
of voices, human voices,
the sky whose moon you are,
the ground whose flower.
But I beseech you come
now, my love silence, O
reward and freedom, balance
beyond choices, in whom alone is heard
the meditation of the twilight bird
and the never to be spoken word.
Audio Recordings
When Worlds Collide - Tone Poem for Orchestra (2018) - Performed by Dorico software and the Vienna Symphonic Library
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Sonata for Violin and Piano (2019) - Performed by Dorico software with VSL Solo Violin and Garritan CFX Concert Grand
II Andantino
III Allegro Moderato
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Six Italian Impressions for Piano (2017) - A Journey through Viterbo Province, Italy - Performed by Andrew Grainger
2 - Magnificent Montefiascone
3 - Children at Lake Bolsena
4 - Soriano nel Cimino
5 - Civita da Bagnoregio
6 - Orvieto
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String Quartet No.1 (2017 - revised 2020) - Performed by Dorico software with Solo Strings from the Vienna Symphonic Library
II Adagio sostenuto 5"
III Allegro scherzando 5' 20"
IV Adagio sostenuto - Allegro moderato 5' 40"
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Fantasie for Cello and Piano (2014) - Performed by: Annette Eicker - Cello & Andrew Grainger - Piano
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Lyrical Expressions and Sensory Perceptions - Exhibition Medley (2015)
This is a medley of compositions from an exhibition and collaboration with visual artist Christopher Hynes For more see: Lyrical-Expressions
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Six Images Op.1 (1998) - Quintet for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Marimba - Performed by The Kingston Ensemble
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