David Alabaster's Music
If you never try you won't know you can do it
My Chamber Compositions
Title |
Description |
Date |
Score |
Parts |
Audio |
| Boltons Farm | Trio for 3 cellos done for weekend at Miranda's. | August '09 | mp3 | ||
| Dreaming of Summer | Trio for 3 cellos based on my original for classical guitar. Done ready for next cello nite at Liz's | March '09 | mp3 | ||
| The Potting Shed | Trio for 3 cellos in celebration of the unnatural amount of time M.C spends in that corner of the garden....... | June '07 | mp3 | ||
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In Neptune's World |
Trio for 3 cellos (or a small herd). Done for our next cello night in December and NO TRIPLETS! - well nearly none. |
Dec '07 | VcI VcII VcIII | mp3 | |
Avant Garde Nord  |
Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello. Just updated with new much longer version. |
May '08 | Cl Vc | mp3 | |
2006 |
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| For Mark & Jenny - Clarinet Quintet |
Variant of below for String Quartet plus Clarinet | Feb '06 | Cl ViI ViII Vl Vc | mp3 | |
| For Mark & Jenny |
Another for 2 cellos plus 2 french horns - ready for next cello nite - Another one not played yet! |
Feb '06 | mp3 | ||
2005 |
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| No Moss | First String Quartet effort with Overture V4. Two movements now and looking more hopefull (my quartet hopes I won't ask them to play it again!). Strong Dvorak influence inevitably! | Nov '05 | mp3 | ||
| Sunday Post |
For the unlikely combination of 2 Cellos & 2 French Horns. Done for Jenny & Mark - both would be cellists resigned to forever blowing for their supper! - yet to be played still | Oct '05 | mp3 | ||
2004 |
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| Cell-East |
Done for Benslow weekend. Good opportunity to give it a thump! Look out Penelope! | May '04 | mp3 | ||
| Xmas Waltz?? | Done just too late for Xmas | Jan '04 | mp3 | ||
2003 |
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| Cellists return | Simple Cello duet for next cello night. Now extended a bit | Oct '03 | mp3 | ||
| Variations on a bar by Brahms | Another Celli quartet for our next cello night. Chose a bar (154) at random from Brahms Tragische Overture. Don't ask how we got to 154 | Oct '03 | VcI VcII VcIII VcIV | mp3 | |
| Spring Gig | Another Cello trio for our next cello night adapted from an earlier piano piece | April '03 | mp3 | ||
| Feb Piano Cello Suite |
Duet for piano and cello. I may make this the last movement of 'In the woods' as I am actually quite pleased with it (but I havn't found a pianist to play it yet) | Feb '03 | Vc | mp3 | |
| 3 Blind Cellists - arrangement |
Arrangement of cello trio for conventional string trio | Feb '03 | mp3 | ||
| 3 Blind Cellists | Cello trio for our cello night. There should be more offerings coming starting with the 3 blind mice E D C | Feb '03 | mp3 | ||
2002 |
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| Stroll in the Park | Cello trio arrangement of earlier piano piece. Now without low Bs! | Oct '02 | mp3 | ||
| Romance | Cello duet arrangement of earlier piano piece. Needs a bit of je ne sais quoi | Sept '02 | mp3 | ||
| Flying |
Another Cello duet. Short and sweet | May '02 | mp3 | ||
| In the Woods |
Piano & Cello duet. Best yet. Modified quite a bit recently | May '02 | Vc | mp3 | |
| D A B | Cello duet. Following G D Bb | May '02 | mp3 | ||
| Experiment No 3 | Cello duet. Not all experiments work the way you might like | Apr '02 | mid | ||
| The Cheshire Cat | Cello duet inspired by Sarah and based on her G D Bb theme. (The theme slowly vanishes!) | Feb '02 | VcI VcII | mp3 | |
| Adams | Cello duet. Jackie thinks this sound like the Adams family - too unkind | Feb '02 | VcI VcII | mp3 | |
2001 |
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| Caprice | Arrangement for 3 Cellos from earlier piano piece | Apr '01 | mp3 | ||
| Sarah and the Swamp | Piano trio (Cello, Violin) with 3 movements (not many of them swampy!). Revised 10.11.01 | Oct '01 | Vc Vl | mid | |
Pre - 1999 |
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| Winter Dream |
Cello duet adapted from the piano piece. Live mp3 recording courtesy of Jonathan (next door) and his desk partner in the NYO | Feb '99 | mp3 | ||
| Peter's Hop | Re-arranged for 4 cellos | Jan '99 | mid | ||
| Vampire Goblins (I) | 2 piano trios written over the Easter weekend and then put together later as a suite | April '98 | mid | ||
| Easter Goblins (II) | April '98 | mid | |||
| Goblin Waltz (III) | This one added a bit later | May '98 | mid | ||
| March of the Elephant Ants | Marching across Andrew's floor! | May '98 | mid | ||
| Peter's Hop | Trio (Violin, Clarinet, Cello) | Oct '98 | mid | ||