University of York Music Press

George Nicholson's Darkness Visible and Thomas Simaku's Soliloquy IV appear on a new CD by bass clarinet and piano duo SCAW, which will be launched in a lunchtime concert at the University of Salford on Friday 22nd March 2013. 'Timeless shades' is a double CD of British-based works, released by Cuillin Sound label. SCAW, Sarah Watts (bass clarinet) and Anthony Clare (piano), will perform the pieces by Nicholson and Simaku at the CD launch, alongside others by Iain Matheson, Patrick Nunn, Mike Vaughan, and Marc Yeats. More information on the CD launch can be found here: http://www.salford.ac.uk/news/scaw Nicholson's Darkness Visible for bass clarinet and piano was premiered by SCAW last November at the University of Nottingham. This CD joins the six currently available featuring Nicholson's music. Simaku's BASCA nominated work, Soliloquy IV for Bass Clarinet, is currently one of five in 'a series of solo works which have the same sound-nucleus as a starting point,' and which, the composer writes, 'create different characters within the same protagonist who narrates in different languages... In this particular piece, the textural dynamism and the linear contours based on ancient modal idioms, but constantly 'surrounded' by chromatic and micro-tonal inflections are at the heart of the musical discourse.' The CD also features new works by Antony Clare, Stephen Davismoon, Graham Fitkin, Piers Hellawell, and Elizabeth Winters. For more information on Cuillin Sound, please visit: http://www.cuillinsoundmusic.co.uk.