Andrew Grainger

Composer and Pianist

MUSIC

Fantasie for Cello and Piano, Op. 3

Fantasie for Cello and Piano (2014) - Performed by: Annette Eicker - Cello & Andrew Grainger - Piano

This piece was composed in 2014 for my wife Annette. We made this recording in our house in 2014 and also gave the first public performances of it later that year.

Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 9

I       Adagio - Allegro

II      Andantino

III  Allegro Moderato

Sonata for Violin and Piano (2019) - Performed by Dorico software with VSL Solo Violin and Garritan CFX Concert Grand

String Quartet No.1, Op. 7

I        Adagio sostenuto espressivo - Allegro moderato   8' 10"  

II       Adagio sostenuto   5"

III      Allegro scherzando   5' 20"  

IV     Adagio sostenuto - Allegro moderato   5' 40"

String Quartet No.1 (2017 - revised 2020) - Performed by Dorico software with Solo Strings from the Vienna Symphonic Library

Two Art Songs

Katrina Saporsantos - Soprano
Benjie Dia - Piano

I Dream a World by ​​​​​​​Andrew Grainger​

I Dream a World

Words by Langston Hughes
Music by Andrew Grainger

Poem Text

I Dream a World - 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 by ​​​​​​​Andrew Grainger​

Invocation

Words by Ursula K. Le Guin
Music by Andrew Grainger

Poem Text

Invocation - 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.