Spotted Dikkop and Black Cuckoo (2017)
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 3: No 1
Dedicated to Tsakane Maubane
Composed 10 May 2017, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1283 (Volume 3 Complete)
Duration: 1'10"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance: 21 August 2021; Le Genesteix Concerts, Azat-le-Riz, France;
Antony Gray piano
Further performance: 22 September 2022; Chisholm Recital Room, Cape Town; Antony Gray piano
(South African première); 21 June 2023; Goldsmiths College London; Antony Gray piano
(UK première)
Programme note
Spotted Dikkop and Black Cuckoo explores the call of the spotted dikkop with a bow harmony accompaniment, and introduces the black cuckoo’s song as a coda.
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 3: No 1
Dedicated to Tsakane Maubane
Composed 10 May 2017, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1283 (Volume 3 Complete)
Duration: 1'10"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance: 21 August 2021; Le Genesteix Concerts, Azat-le-Riz, France;
Antony Gray piano
Further performance: 22 September 2022; Chisholm Recital Room, Cape Town; Antony Gray piano
(South African première); 21 June 2023; Goldsmiths College London; Antony Gray piano
(UK première)
Programme note
Spotted Dikkop and Black Cuckoo explores the call of the spotted dikkop with a bow harmony accompaniment, and introduces the black cuckoo’s song as a coda.
