Orchid 3

Length: 10

Performances:
Salford University, 7th Feb 2012

Moods:
polyphonic, lyrical, fast

Publisher: University of York Music Press

Genre: Solo keyboard(s)

Commissioned by the Brighton Festival. Dedicated to Stephen Gutman. First performed by Stephen Gutman at the Brighton Festival on 21 May 1994.

One of a series of six works for solo piano, the exotic floral image of the series title suggesting common patterns which underly gradual changes in the music. Each is a variegated single movement form in which the sections fold into each other, like waves or petals, disturbing and interrupting the surface polyphony.