Pocket Universe revisited

Pocket Universe was first performed on 22nd March 2019 by EXAUDI conducted by James Weeks. This was a pre-pandemic performance, and none of us knew what horrors awaited us around the corner. The singers did splendidly, and their performance was the best I had heard my music performed in many a year. So far I’ve had interest in the piece from Chamber Choir Ireland and the Festino Choir of St Petersburg, but unfortunately the pandemic seems to have militated against further performances. So I decided to see what a four-piano version of the piece would sound like in the interim (listen below). The fleeting dissonances are more acutely felt in the piano version than in the original. Piano is ‘digital’, voices are ‘analogue’! I’ve done nothing at all to improve the piano sounds.