Electric Confession

YouTube recording available Electric Confession Ken Murray Salisbury Records 310721 2021 score available from Wise Music program note This piece is dedicated to Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny, co-composers of The First Circle. Having analysed this piece for my Masters thesis some years before, I had long wanted to write a work which took The … Read more

Fairfield Days

Spotify digital album available The Thin Blue Line Ken Murray plays the solo guitar music of Stuart Greenbaum Lyrebird Productions, LB151217 ABC Classics, digital, 2018 score available from Wise Music program note This piece is dedicated to Arthur and Winsome Sunderland who kindly allowed me to stay in their house in Fairfield while they were … Read more

Five Tales of Human Endeavour

Spotify digital album available The Thin Blue Line Ken Murray plays the solo guitar music of Stuart Greenbaum Lyrebird Productions, LB151217 ABC Classics, digital, 2018 score available from Wise Music program note i. Yellow Canary ii. Eleven months at sea iii. Light, sweet crude iv. Into the Forest v. The Thin Blue Line Five Tales … Read more

Polar Wandering

Spotify digital album available The Thin Blue Line Ken Murray plays the solo guitar music of Stuart Greenbaum Lyrebird Productions, LB151217 ABC Classics, digital, 2018 score available from Red House Editions program note “So–called polar wandering (in which the earth’s axis actually remains fixed in its direction in space while the earth’s matter moves around … Read more

Rushall Express

Spotify digital album available The Thin Blue Line Ken Murray plays the solo guitar music of Stuart Greenbaum Lyrebird Productions, LB151217 ABC Classics, digital, 2018 score available from Wise Music program note Rushall train station is just across the road from where I was living in 1997. When I first started ‘dashing off a quick … Read more

Sonata for Guitar

Spotify recording available Return Journey Ensemble Three plays Sonatas by Stuart Greenbaum Lyrebird Productions, LB061116 ABC Classics, digital, 2018 score available from Wise Music program note Sonata for Guitar is dedicated to my very good friend Ken Murray. A prodigiously talented guitarist, Ken freely elected to undertake a PhD in musicology; and after a decade–long … Read more

Synthesis

Spotify digital album available The Thin Blue Line Ken Murray plays the solo guitar music of Stuart Greenbaum Lyrebird Productions, LB151217 ABC Classics, digital, 2018 score available from Wise Music program note There is a form of dance music in the classical tradition whose purpose does not require any dancing. And I often wonder what … Read more