Michael Torke

[ScotOp69]

There are so many pieces of his with Colours in the titles I forget which is which. He has a new Album of Orchestral Music called "Unseen" coming out in May which I'm looking forward to.

[Cockney Sparrow]

I came across his piece "Adjustable Wrench" at a local (non-professional) orchestra's concert and liked it enough to listen again at put it in a playlist (on Naxos Mus Library).

Thanks for the suggestions - more to explore (which I should have known.......).

[ScotOp69]

There's SO MUCH Music out there Sparrow. We'll never get through it all in 100 Lifetimes. Mores the pity...

[frankbridge]

I like Torke's music quite a lot, and have most of the stuff of his time with Argo, including 'Music on the Floor' and Kate Bott singing the 'Four Proverbs'. I love the 'Colour' music too and the chamber music to bits and pieces as well. OK, I suppose it will be considered post minimism second rate fare by some critics, but after a whole day trawling through the whole 'Ring' cycle of Richard Wagner, I can afford to relax late at night with this sort of thing

[ScotOp69]

Cheers Frank. Quite a bit of his music has, never been professionally released or recorded. I'd love to hear his "Brick Symphony".

[LMcD]

Cheers Frank. Quite a bit of his music has, never been professionally released or recorded. I'd love to hear his "Brick Symphony".

Sarah Walker has just played a recording (by a couple of orchestras previously unknown to me) of a recent composition by Michael Torke. I must say he's remarkably consistent - which is, I guess, a polite way of saying that it sounded just like every other of his works that I've heard. Perhaps I've missed the more inventive ones?

[Dave2002]

Sarah Walker has just played a recording (by a couple of orchestras previously unknown to me) of a recent composition by Michael Torke. I must say he's remarkably consistent - which is, I guess, a polite way of saying that it sounded just like every other of his works that I've heard. Perhaps I've missed the more inventive ones?

Thanks for this - looking at the schedule we see - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ygsr

and then noticing Chiara Margarita Cozzolani discover this - which sounds quite similar to another piece I have recordings of - but can't quite remember.

This is lovely -

https://youtu.be/XMrVJnGRfxw?si=8nODU34Cb3T4ibj5

[Dave2002]

Sounds similar to Monteverdi's Beatus Vir - which I think is probably one of the recordings I was imagining -

https://youtu.be/IPNZeT_7OR4?si=hXEqNEOJd4mbhA4h

[Dave2002]

And back on topic - this is what I guess what was played earlier this morning -

https://youtu.be/2pobo-_Owr0?si=XImzRyrlBcND9E69