Three Hildegard Fantasies (2024)
18 minutes
for solo guitar
1. Ave Generosa
2. O Frondens Virga
3. O Quam Mirabilis
Fantasy No. 1 commissioned by the Adelaide Guitar Festival for the 2025 Adelaide International Classical Guitar Competition.
Fantasy No. 2 commissioned by Jane Lambert in memory of her father Hugh Lambert, a great lover of the classical guitar.
Fantasy No. 3 composed as a gift to dear friend, Alex Tsiboulski, because I've been meaning to write him a solo for many years (and three makes a good set.)
First full public performance by Aleksandr Tsiboulski at 'Consonance- Instrumental Conversations with Guitar' for the Adelaide Guitar Festival, September 14th 2025 at Elder Hall, University of Adelaide.
Recording coming soon
18 minutes
for solo guitar
1. Ave Generosa
2. O Frondens Virga
3. O Quam Mirabilis
Fantasy No. 1 commissioned by the Adelaide Guitar Festival for the 2025 Adelaide International Classical Guitar Competition.
Fantasy No. 2 commissioned by Jane Lambert in memory of her father Hugh Lambert, a great lover of the classical guitar.
Fantasy No. 3 composed as a gift to dear friend, Alex Tsiboulski, because I've been meaning to write him a solo for many years (and three makes a good set.)
First full public performance by Aleksandr Tsiboulski at 'Consonance- Instrumental Conversations with Guitar' for the Adelaide Guitar Festival, September 14th 2025 at Elder Hall, University of Adelaide.
Recording coming soon
These three fantasies for solo guitar are each based upon plainchant by 12th Century composer, philosopher, mystic, abbess and polymath Hildegard of Bingen.
Motives and melodic phrases from Hildegard’s plainchants have been used freely throughout, occasionally quoted in full, though often represented by motives and intervals which provide a starting point for my own melodic statements. The music seeks to explore an ethereal soundscape evoking a meeting place between earthly and spiritual realms.
Motives and melodic phrases from Hildegard’s plainchants have been used freely throughout, occasionally quoted in full, though often represented by motives and intervals which provide a starting point for my own melodic statements. The music seeks to explore an ethereal soundscape evoking a meeting place between earthly and spiritual realms.