Llewellyn Two: Electric Blue

Kinds of Blue bathes in a palette of blue sonorities and bluesy, suspended textures, drawing inspiration from works by Mark Rothko and also from the blue renderings in Derek Jarman’s ‘Chroma’.

Beyond the ridge, the ranges far is a tone poem composed by Harry Sdraulig for cello and orchestra and inspired by mountain landscapes. It was commissioned by Gisela Püllen and Karl Gordon, and is dedicated to Gisela.

Rimsky-Korsakov had taken the idea of Scheherazade and the Arabian Nights as his starting point…the end result, he said, was a ‘kaleidoscope of fairytale images and designs of Eastern character’, more concerned with the connotations of the East it brings to mind than with literal storytelling.

Scriabin’s Piano Concerto, which he composed in 1896, follows in the footsteps of Chopin rather than Tchaikovsky.