Compositions

Selected compositions including recordings, score samples, and scholarship by Huw Belling

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• 2012, Diffusions for solo piano (10 mins) commissioned by Jack Symonds, Score Sample
• 2011, Subject & Object for Organ (10 mins) commissioned by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Ars Musica Australis
• 2010, Gilded Palimpsest  for piano and violin (5 mins)  after Bach’s Goldberg Variations  Score Sample
• 2010, Paroxys for solo viola (7 mins) premièred at the National Portrait Gallery in London by Jorien Veenhoven, later workshopped and recorded by James Wannan.
• 2010, Thinking Irrational critical analysis of rhythm in the music of Thomas Adès.

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• 2010, The Meeting (10 mins) from CAROUSEL OF BLOOD, a chamber opera for five singers and Small ensemble (65 mins)

Video of concert performance conducted by Huw at the Royal College of Music .

CAROUSEL OF BLOOD – SYNOPIS

A gangster and accountant both trapped in life itself, accidently swap suitcases at the Heathrow baggage carousel. Chasing one another, while accidentally finding love, each man finds endangered his very life or living. A violent catharsis leads the men to speak, and meeting at the carousel, they come to fully understand its fatefulpower.

The Meeting –

13 Jubilee Close and Suite 69 share the stage. Passing Inga Inglefinger, a Fräulien lurking in the corridor, Martin finds Désirée in the Suite – a complaining high-class call girl. Charles, furiously seeking Martin in Pinner, instead encounters suburban Wendy, who thinks she is meeting her neighbour for the first time. The transformation is instant; the two couples are in love, though each man has pretended he’s the other. Outside Inga, though suspicious that Martin is an imposter, waits impatiently to kill him.

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• 2009, Assemble for Small ensemble  Score Excerpt 
  Recording of Workshop by the Composer’s Ensemble in 2009, conducted by Richard Baker and under the supervision of Colin Matthews.

Assemble for small ensemble is a piece which acts, in a limited sense, as the title suggests. Over its entire length the musical material in the piece is gradually ‘assembled’ as ever crisper iterations of melodic material emerge from a kind of primordial soup.

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• 2009, Virtual Pets for Small ensemble 
  Live recording by the Ossian Ensemble in 2009…Read More

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• 2009, Shred for Small ensemble Score Excerpt 
  Recording of Workshop by the Contemporary Consort in 2009.

Although the underlying pulse remains steady throughout Shred, a temporal instability tows at its jittery lyricism. The fragile ensemble is ever at risk of being torn asunder, at first by sudden acceleration and then by slowing. Each explosive time warp adds pitch residue to the initially singular line until a crooked melody emerges in furious unison. It is a unison which was forever tormented, and at the last, beaten, it gallops into oblivion.

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• 2009, Auditur Deus  for a cappella Choir (2 mins) premièred by the choir of Pembroke College, Oxford in Westminster Abbey
  2009, Porta Coeli for a cappella Choir (5 mins) premièred by the Helenic Singers in Westminster Abbey
• 2009, Destruction’s Our Delight A tribute to Purcell for chamber ensemble (3 mins) premiered by the Ossian Ensemble at the Royal College of Music
• 2009, Fractus  for Chamber Orchestra (9 mins)

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• 2008, Three Quarters for String Quartet (8 mins)  Score Sample 
  Recording of Premiere by the Grainger String Quartet at the Canberra International Music Festival. Commissioned by the Festival’s National ‘Young Composer’ Award.

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• 2008, The Mountain and the Sea (Courtesy TVNZ) for Tenor and acapella choir (5 mins)

Commissioned by Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey 2008. This broadcast of New Zealand Premiere at New Zealand’s National War Memorial at 10:30 am, April 25th 2009 by the Wellington Cathedral Choir conducted by Michael Fulcher.

The specially written text of the Anthem is by New Zealander Dr. Richard Major. The ninety minute ceremony at the War Memorial was attended by the New Zealand Prime Minister, the Hon. John Key and other dignitaries and will be broadcast live on New Zealand television station TVNZ.

See Score Sample of Piano & Tenor paraphrase after the original piece.

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• 2008, Blumenduft for solo oboe (3 mins), premièred at the National Portrait Gallery London by  Helen Fraser
• 2007, Seven Seals  Ballet for Orchestra and Baritone  (25 mins)
• 2007, Impetus for small ensemble (10 mins) National winner of the Inaugural Sibelius young composers’ award, premiered by Ensemble Offspring

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• 2006, Videntes Stellam for acapella choir Score Sample 
  Recording by the Choir of Christ Church St. Laurence under the direction of Dr. Neil McEwan with soloist Helen Sherman. Premiered in the UK at Westminster Abbey, and toured to Sydney by the Choir of Westminster Abbey

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