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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Royal Academy of Music
David Gorton: Capriccio and 2nd Cello Sonata
Performances of David Gorton’s Capriccio and 2nd Cello Sonata are presented as the product of a single research process. Capriccio was premiered by Neil Heyde at the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, Couvent des Cordelier, Paris, 28 October 2009. 2nd Cello Sonata was premiered by Neil Heyde and David Gorton (electronics) at the Connect Festival, Malmö, 15 November 2011, and recorded on 21st-Century Bow (R.A.M., 2008).
Videos of Capriccio: http://youtu.be/sFduymot5OY and http://youtu.be/fI67DlvHdz8
Recording of 2nd Cello Sonata: http://soundcloud.com/davidgortonmusic/2nd-cello-sonata and http://youtu.be/p4lcRrPCA10
Capriccio was conceived as a companion project to the 2nd Cello Sonata (from which all of the material is extracted) focusing on a shared research agenda concerning physicality in instrumental performance. In addition to the performance in Paris given with the CIM conference paper and the two YouTube films, performances have been given at the Royal Academy of Music as part of a research event, in Sweden as part of the Connect Festival, and in the David Roberts Art Foundation Gallery in London as part of an exhibition celebrating the physicality of musical performance.
Work on the piece was presented in the following conference paper: David Gorton, Neil Heyde and Simon Shaw-Miller: ‘Instrumental Choreography: Gesture and Performance in Gorton’s Capriccio for Solo Cello’, in Music and its Instruments, proceedings of the 2009 Paris CIM (Interdisciplinary Musicology Conference) http://cim09.lam.jussieu.fr/CIM09-fr/Actes_files/34A-Gorton%26al.pdf
