Thirds (2018)
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 3: No 7
Dedicated to John Tilbury
Composed 15-19 August 2018, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1283 (Volume 3 Complete)
Duration: 1'25"
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)
Programme note
Thirds explores the interval of the third both horizontally in repeated quaver figuration, and vertically in widely-spaced sustained chords. Its inversion, the sixth, as well as the second also appear, and once again syncopation features in this piece.
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 3: No 7
Dedicated to John Tilbury
Composed 15-19 August 2018, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1283 (Volume 3 Complete)
Duration: 1'25"
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)
Programme note
Thirds explores the interval of the third both horizontally in repeated quaver figuration, and vertically in widely-spaced sustained chords. Its inversion, the sixth, as well as the second also appear, and once again syncopation features in this piece.
