The music flows jolly as it won't last forever (Perpetuum Mobile) (2020)
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 6: No 1
Dedicated to George King, with fond memories of AHVAM
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1286 (Volume 6 Complete)
Duration: 3 minutes
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
Programme note
This perpetuum mobile revives the popular 19th-century virtuoso form, here a textural exploration of harmony, with melodic fragments appearing here and there.
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 6: No 1
Dedicated to George King, with fond memories of AHVAM
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1286 (Volume 6 Complete)
Duration: 3 minutes
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
Programme note
This perpetuum mobile revives the popular 19th-century virtuoso form, here a textural exploration of harmony, with melodic fragments appearing here and there.
