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Boosey & Hawkes

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This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

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World Premiere
19/09/1990
Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow
Members of the Paragon Ensemble
Composer's Notes

In 1984 I set William Soutar’s love poem The Tryst to music in the style of an old Scottish ballad. This I sang in folk clubs and bars around Scotland with my old folk group Broadstone. The composition and performances of this song made a lasting impression on me as it felt as if I had tapped into a deep reservoir of shared tradition as my setting was quite faithful to the old ballad style.





Four years later I started developing this music into something else. In After The Tryst I elongated and ornamented the original melody into a virtuosic and highly expressive miniature for violin with piano accompaniment. The original harmonic outline is still adhered to and emphasized by the most simple series of arpeggiated chords on the piano. This work was the initial sketch for Búsqueda and Tryst.


James MacMillan


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Scottish Chamber Orchestra / James MacMillan
(p) and (c) 1993 BMG Music
RCA G010001846447Z

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