1. Andantino

2. Nocturne

3. Llandaff

The Serenade includes three pieces composed while an undergraduate student at the University of Hull. The song-like first movement was composed for piano in 1970; the Nocturne dated from 1971 and was also for piano. The last movement was for a mixed ensemble and it prompted an arrangement of all three movements for a mixed instrumental sextet. The sextet was reworked and its musical material expanded for orchestra in 2023The Nocturne is largely through-composed and makes much of the rhythm of its first bar. The finale consists of variations on a Welsh song ‘Llandaff’, which was collected by Kate Lee from Mr Edge, gardener, Wells, Norfolk, November 1897, and published in Journal of the Folk-Song Society, 1:1 (1899), 16. (ROUD#1718)

Instrumentation

3.3.3.2. – 4.2.3.1. – Timps + perc. (Glockenspiel, Tubular Bellas, Cymbals, Snare Drum, Bass Drum) – Harp – Str.
Duration 11 mins, 34 secs.