Concertos, Programme Notes, Soloist & String Orchestra, Strings Concerto
The Double Bass Concerto was commissioned by Leon Bosch who gave the first performance at the Minehead Festival in July 2018 with the Festival Orchestra conducted by Richard Dickins. 1. Allegro deciso After a short, bustling, rhythmically complex and unison orchestral...
Chamber Music, Programme Notes, String & Piano Duo
As the title suggests it is a calm lyrical Italian barcarolle with flowing melodies and gently rocking rhythms that float between the violin and piano. It starts with a graceful statement of the theme in cannon on the piano; it is then taken by the violin in its high...
Concertos, Piano Reduction, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Concerto
I. Allegro vivace; II. Tranquillo; III. Allegro molto The “Phoenix Concerto” is the latest in a string of concertos which has occupied Patterson in the last decade; it was commissioned by David Bowerman for Emily Pailthorpe, who premiered it with the...
Concertos, Piano Reduction, Programme Notes, Strings, Strings Concerto
Recitative; Aria; Intermezzo; Tarantella Paul Patterson has had a long relationship with the world of the string instrument. Works like the Sinfonia for Strings, Tides of Mananan and the often performed Violin and Cello concertos are central to his instrumental...
Keyboard, Programme Notes, Solo Organ
“Volcano” is a virtuoso work that has several contrasting episodes that explores robust and vigorous melodic fragments that become more intensive and ferocious has the work unfolds. The piece was inspired by the eruption of the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland in the...
Chamber Music, Harp, Harp Ensemble, Programme Notes
Mosquitoes for harp quartet was commissioned by 4Girls 4Harps and was premiered at the Ryedale Festival UK in 2015. It is a work that uses many extended avant-garde techniques including glissandos with finger nails and with the tuning key, tapping the instrument with...
