Gêmdis (2020)
for E-flat clarinet and ensemble
The title Gêmdis combines the Welsh words for “game” and “dice”, and — like a desperate gambler — Bethan Morgan-Williams’s piece for E-flat clarinet and ensemble keeps returning for another roll. Each new start takes the music through a different set of emotional states, from playful to down and dirty, from the still voice of conscience to the horns of a dilemma. Or does it keep returning to the same place?
Are things out of control, then — or not?
Gêmdis was written as part of the Composer Collider Europe programme for Carl Rosman and Ensemble Musikfabrik.
– Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Performance / Recording
- Recorded by Martin Pilger at the Studio of Ensemble Musikfabrik (Köln), 3-4 November 2020.
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Conductor: Christian Eggen
- Flute=Piccolo: Helen Bledsoe
- Oboe=Cor Anglais=Slide Whistle: Peter Veale
- Solo E-flat Clarinet: Carl Rosman
- Horn=Slide Whistle: Christine Chapman
- Trombone=Slide Whistle: Bruce Collings
- Tuba=Slide Whistle: Melvyn Poore
- Piano=Slide Whistle: Benjamin Kobler