The Goddess Returns
Scored for voice, string quartet and percussion (ghattam)
The Goddess Returns was the centerpiece of a large multi-media work I composed, of the same name, for an Elektra String Quartet performance project in 1999
Performed by: Antigone Foster, vocals
Elektra String Quartet - Mirka Rozmus and Romano Crivici, violins; Rudi Crivici, viola; Markus Hartstein, cello
Interview with Andrew Ford
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Romano Crivici
composer & performer
String Quartets - short or single movement works
Adagio for string sextet
Revision:-6th -15th March, 2013
Dur: ~ 9:00
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ISMN: 979-0-720090-38-2
Landscapes
Revision:-6th -15th March, 2013
Dur: ~ 9:00
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ISMN: 979-0-720090-38-2
Available on Luminous album
As with many of my early works for string quartet, Landscapes has a long and almost chaotic history, inextricably linked with the Elektra String Quartet. The original idea for the work appeared as a short sketch I wrote for my young sister Sonja, when she thought she wanted to play the cello in the early 1980’s.
It was then developed as the slow movement of a flute quartet I composed during that period of time. It has since undergone further development through two revisions.
Nightshift
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Elektra String Quartet:
Mirka Rozmus & Romano Crivici: violins
Rudi Crivici: viola, Emma Luxton: cello
Available on Flat Earth
Journey to the Mythical Place
Composed: 1/8/84
Revised: July, 2007
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ISMN: 979-0-720090-10-8
Available on the Luminous album
Originally composed as a work for young students (see below) I quickly found that Journey to the Mythical Place was a favorite, both with the members of the Elektra String Quartet as well as with the audiences we played to in our metropolitan and Outback touring programs.
Whilst performing it successfully was not without its challenges (the 'simpler' the writing, the more exposed; and hence the control required (ask any string player!)) this work is equally suited to adult players of a less than professional standard.
Reflections and historical
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I began composing this work on the morning of 1st August, 1984, while waiting for a lift to the Tamusca Music Camp, where I was to be conducting the Junior String Orchestra. Having just seen the proposed repertoire for the group, I realised none of it was technically (nor musically) appropriate for the kids age group. Given the time frame, (I was to conduct the first rehearsal the next morning!) the simplest solution was to compose a work specifically designed for beginner to semi-beginner strings.
Completed in the afternoon, I played through it with my colleagues from the New England String Quartet after dinner- I went to bed in a peaceful frame of mind, ready for rehearsal the next morning!
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Song Without Words
First Edition, 1995
Catalogue No: LE 003
Recorded by: Elektra String Quartet
Mirka Rozmus, Romano Crivici, -violins; Rudi Crivici, viola; Peter Morrison, cello.
Song Without Words
Available on the Luminous album
Composed many a year ago, during one of my regular teaching/conducting visits to Coffs Harbour (a coastal town in New South Wales). I needed an 'up-tempo' and 'funky' piece for a group of young enthusiastic violin and viola students, so, in between rehearsal sessions, I quickly sketched out a version for something like four violin parts and viola.
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A few years later, members of my string quartet (Elektra), always on the lookout for shorter,"up" numbers, were keen on an arrangement themselves; we were always on the lookout (as one would have thought most 'serious' quartets should) for light and catchy works with which to engage our country (and city) audiences; aperatifs, as it were, to some of the heavier "main-courses" that we programed.
There you go, and life has moved on!