SPACE/TIME PHANTASIA

for Clarinet, Violin, Cello & Piano 1979

David Hellewell

This is a virtuoso work of 30 minutes duration. It was written in 1979 for performance by musicians of the calibre of Hellewell's London-based avant garde ensemble Apollo Contemporary Music, but did not receive its first performance until 1989 by the Trio of London, with clarinettist Anthony Lamb, in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. This was Hellewell's first major 'Multi-Dimensional' work.

The work's idioms range through both space and time (hence the title), and there is a detailed extra-musical programme/scenario descriptive of the many and varied sections of music, as for example: Space Quest; Symphonic Interlude; Bacchanalia; Zero Gravity Blues; Passacaglia; Medieval Trek; Psycho-Rock Phantasies; Pitched (and unpitched!) Battle; and many others.

There are three main, but interconnected, sections: Space Quest; Times Past and Present; and The Return.

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