Lloyd Moore

Lloyd Moore - Lower Ground, for clarinet with piano accompaniment. Available from Faber Music Store. Taken from Unbeaten Tracks, 8 contemporary pieces for clarinet and piano.

Written in memory of the composer's father this is a two-minute setting of lines from a poem by Amy Levy (1861–89): 'All day I could not work for woe, / I could not work nor rest; / The trouble drove...

This work began life with its second movement, the Scherzino, which was written to a commission from BBC Radio 3 to mark the Mendelssohn bicentenary year in 2009. The first movement, Praeludium, sets...

This work was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn’s birth. It was first performed in May 2009 by Andrew Zolinsky at Birmingham Town Hall, UK (live broadcast on BBC Rad...

The composer states that "the first of these two short pieces was written at the request of Julian Anderson who asked several composer friends to write ‘one-page’ piano pieces (in the event, mine turn...

The composer states that "this piece began with its second movement which I originally wrote for a workshop at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, organised by the Society for the Promotion of New Music...

The composer states, "In 2000, the trumpet player John Wallace asked several composers to write pieces to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the International Trumpet Guild of New York. The brief was t...

Setting of a sonnet by John Keats (1861–89): 'When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain […] then on the shore / Of the wide world I stand alone, and think,...

The composer states, "I have long been intrigued by the challenges of writing for a solo instrument without accompaniment where all the musical interest has to rest within a single line. In these five...

The composer explains that, in psychology, an ‘idée fixe’ is an obsessively held belief or preoccupation that is often impervious to attempts to correct or modify it. But it is also a musical term, fi...

The composer states, "In 2000, the trumpet player John Wallace asked several composers to write pieces to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the International Trumpet Guild of New York. The brief was t...

The title of this piece, written in 2005 to a commission from the Hampstead & Highgate Festival, refers not only to the number of instrumental ‘parts’ involved (i.e. the violin and the two hands of t...