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Larry Goves: Just Stuff People Do

Oliver Coates (cello) & Sarah Nicolls (piano)

London Sinfonietta, Martyn Brabbins & André de Ridder

Larry Goves: Just Stuff People Do
[Things that are...] is an eventful and gripping work, consummately well realised by Sarah Nicolls...the present release bolsters Goves's standing on the new music scene - and in no small measure.

Larry Goves: Just Stuff People Do

Oliver Coates (cello) & Sarah Nicolls (piano)

London Sinfonietta, Martyn Brabbins & André de Ridder

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[Things that are...] is an eventful and gripping work, consummately well realised by Sarah Nicolls...the present release bolsters Goves's standing on the new music scene - and in no small measure.

About

Larry Goves is a composer based in the UK. He performs live electronics in a variety of contexts in particular with his experimental group the house of bedlam.

Larry Goves studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert and at Southampton University with Michael Finnissy. In 2011 he was shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Prize in composition and was a recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award. He currently teaches composition at the Royal Northern College of Music and for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Goves explains that Things that are blue, things that are white and things that are black is "my notion of a romantic piano concerto seen through the twisted lens of Paul Auster’s surreal gumshoe landscape ('The New York Trilogy')". Written for Sarah Nicolls it is scored for solo piano, electric piano (triggering pre-prepared samples), prepared piano, at least 16 violins, various wind instruments, electronic sounds and live processing. Terminus Wreck is a solo cello piece written for Goves's longtime collaborator Oliver Coates and Trends in personal relationships, performed by London Sinfonietta under Martyn Brabbins, is a response to modern life, relationships and internet dating.

Contents and tracklist

I. Threesome (Live)
Track length4:16
II. Benign Violations (Live)
Track length7:37
III. Falling in Love and the Internet (Live)
Track length1:25
IV. Trends in Personal Relationships (Live)
Track length2:30
V. Exhausted English Landscapes (Live)
Track length3:02
I. the cedar-limbs
Track length4:37
II. the vermilion border
Track length6:11
III. the terminus wreck
Track length4:29
I. Things that are blue… (Live)
Track length10:08
II. Things that are white… (Live)
Track length9:03
III. Things that are black… (Live)
Track length10:55

Awards and reviews

September 2014

[Things that are...] is an eventful and gripping work, consummately well realised by Sarah Nicolls...the present release bolsters Goves's standing on the new music scene - and in no small measure.
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