Alastair Stout - Aquarium (2002)
Aquarium
Recorder quartet: descant (bass), treble (bass),
tenor (treble) & bass (treble and contra bass)
8 minutes
Written for the Flautadors who gave the first performance
in the Purcell Room on the 9th April 2003.
“In Aquarium... ...Alastair Stout utilised the quartet as a pipe organ of
Ligetian sonorities and polyrhythmic conceits - exotic as much in sound
as in the specimens it might depict.”
The Classical Source, April 2003
Sound sample - end of the central section.
