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Music For My Love: Celebrating the Life of a Special Woman

100+ New Works for String Orchestra

When in late 2014 Yodit Tekle was diagnosed with stomach cancer, her partner, Martin Anderson, who runs Toccata Classics, asked a couple of composer friends to write some music to bring her comfort in her illness. As her life slipped away, he had the idea that she could be remembered in music and so he began to commission other pieces for string orchestra in her memory. To his surprise, almost everyone he asked generously accepted, and so the project snowballed: there are now over 100 composers who have written or agreed to write for it – an undertaking unique in the history of music. This first volume presents the first eleven pieces in an initiative which, in effect, transforms love into something you can hear.

Music For My Love, Vol. 3

Programme

  • Lloyd MOORE Leavings
  • Adam GORB Desta
  • David Hackbridge JOHNSON When Words Fail
  • Rodney NEWTON Beyond Compère
  • Robert MATTHEW-WALKER The Rivers of Time
  • Martin GERGIEV Lifepath
  • David BRAID Out of the Darkness
  • Dana Paul PERNA Memory Brings You
  • Ian HOBSON Coventry Ca(sse)rol(e)
  • Raymond HEAD Ave atque vale
  • Michael CSÁNYI-WILLS Nocturne for Yodit

Artists

Ukrainian Orchestra
Paul Mann, conductor

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Music For My Love, Vol. 2

Programme

  • Nicolas BACRI Prélude aux chants d’amour
  • John KINSELLA Amhrán do Yodit
  • Richard WHILDS 176 Reasons…
  • David MATTHEWS A June Song
  • Wim HAUTEKEIT Alex’s Waltz
  • Gregory ROSE Eritrean Sunset and Tigrinya Dance
  • Sean HICKEY Single Malt
  • Ronald CORP The Wings of Memory
  • Phillip RAMEY Symphonic Song
  • Gerard SCHURMANN Nefertiti
  • Robin WALKER She Moved through the Fair
  • José SEREBRIER Last Tango before Sunrise

Artists

Ukranian Festival Orchestra
Paul Mann, conductor

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Music For My Love, Vol. One

Programme

  1. Johannes Brahms arr. Ragnar Söderlind: ‘Von ewiger Liebe’, Op. 43, No. 1
  2. Robin Holloway: Music for Yodit
  3. Poul Ruders: Lullaby for Yodit
  4. Mihkel Kerem: A Farewell for Yodit
  5. Andrew Ford: Sleep
  6. Steve Elcock: Song for Yodit, Op. 23
  7. Brett Dean: Angels’ Wings (Music for Yodit)
  8. Jon Lord arr. Paul Mann: Zarabanda Solitaria
  9. John Pickard: …forbidding mourning…
  10. (Tracks 10-27) Ragnar Söderlind: ‘Å, den svalande vind…’: 15 Variations on a Norwegian Folktune, Op. 120
  11. (Track 28) Maddalena Casulana arr. Colin Matthews: Il vostro dipartir

Artists

Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra
Paul Mann, conductor

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