Sainsbury’s Soliloquy for solo violin is a terrific discovery, a real virtuoso showpiece that also has a great deal to say.

Piers Burton-Page, International Record Review

Chamber

  • Duration: c.25 minutes
    Instrumentation: string quartet

    One of the composer’s most recent compositions, a four-movement work, c.25 minutes duration, completed in 2018.

     

  • Duration: c.15 minutes
    Instrumentation: cello solo

    One of the composer’s most recent compositions, a three-movement work, c.15 minutes duration, composed during Covid lockdown in 2020.

     

  • Duration: c.18 minutes
    Instrumentation: violin and cello

    One of the composer’s most recent compositions, a three-movement work, c.18 minutes duration, written in 2022.

     

  • Duration: c.7 minutes
    Instrumentation: violin solo

    Duration c.7 minutes, written in 1993. Recorded by British violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck on EM Records, and by Czech violinist Vít Mužík on Navona Records.

    Recordings: 2   Reviews: 7

  • Duration: c.7 minutes
    Instrumentation: violin and piano

    Duration: c.7 minutes, written in 2000. Premiered by Rupert Marshall-Luck and Matthew Rickard at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

     

  • Duration: c.9 minutes
    Instrumentation: clarinet and piano

    Duration c.9 minutes; an early work, from 1984; it has been performed by Anna Hashimoto and Andrew Saunders.

     

  • Duration: c.13 minutes
    Instrumentation: guitar solo

    Duration c.15 minutes, written to a commission from the guitarist Craig Ogden, who gave the first performance at the 2007 Gloucester Three Choirs Festival.

     

  • Duration: c.13 minutes
    Instrumentation: violin and piano

    Duration c.13 minutes; written while Sainsbury was a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

     

  • Duration: c.4 minutes
    Instrumentation: flute solo

    Duration c.4 minutes; written while the composer was a student at the Guildhall School of Music in London.

     

  • Duration: c.3 minutes
    Instrumentation: violin and piano

    Duration c.3 minutes; the composer’s 1992 arrangement of the second of his Two Cuban Dances for piano. Recorded on EMI by Tasmin Little.

    Recordings: 1  

  • Duration: c.5 minutes
    Instrumentation: wind quintet

    Duration c.5 minutes; originally for solo piano; an arrangement made in 2012 at the request of flautist Christopher Britton.

     

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