Blake Visions
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Instrumentation
Cello
1
Piano
1
Viola
1
Violin
1
Additional Information
Three movements for piano quartet based on the works of William Blake (1. Pity 2. Innocence and Experience 3. Ghost of a Flea)
First performed by the London Piano Quartet at the Conway Hall, London on 26 January 2025. They will give a further peformance at the Nicholas Yonge Society's concert in Lewes on 30 January 2026.
"Blake Visions seemed to sum up all the best qualities of John Hawkins' music, with its engaging narratives, colourful, clear textures, inventive, yet always idiomatic, instrumental 1 writing and capacity to evoke layers of meaning within a single phrase or gesture. " – Musical Opinion
