KSS24 Arabesque

Piece details

  • Written for: Voice and Piano
  • Date composed: 1920
  • Dedicatee: Rex Brittain
  • Approximate duration (minutes): 1
  • Manuscript pages: 2
  • Manuscript location: Private collection
  • Comments: Text by Shamsu’d-Din Ibrahim Mirza.

Editions available from the Sorabji Archive

  • Critical edition (Marc-André Roberge), A4P. 10 pages.
    Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
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  • Manuscript, A3L. 2 pages.
    Price: £15 (paper), £10 (pdf)
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Recordings

  • Elizabeth Farnum (soprano), Margaret Kampmeier (piano),
    Centaur Records CRC2613 (2002)
    Track 20 (1:37)

Performances

  • 14/11/2002 Elizabeth Farnum (soprano), Margaret Kampmeier (piano)
    Merkin Hall, New York NY, USA
  • 12/04/2011 Amy Fuller (soprano), Kent Conrad (piano)
    Memorial Room, Smith Music Hall, University of Illinois , Urbana, IL, USA
    Doctoral recital
  • 05/01/2014 Patricia Rozario (soprano), Parvesh Java (piano)
    National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
  • 14/09/2014 Lindsey McClennan (soprano), Esther Archer Lakhani (piano)
    Littlefield Concert Hall, Oakland, CA, USA
    “India in the English musical imagination, 1897-1947”: concert to launch the book Resonances of the Raj (OUP) by Prof. Nalini Ghuman
  • 23/11/2014 Gina Fergione (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Scobie (piano)
    Sutton House, Stoke Newington, London, UK
    Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival
  • 18/06/2021 Zoë Spangler (soprano), Chappell Kingsland (piano)
    Salem United Church of Christ, Denver, CO, USA
    Impressionist Fantasies
  • 11/03/2023 Zoë Spangler (soprano), Chappell Kingsland (piano)
    Central Presbyterian Church, Denver CO, USA
    Into the Spotlight: Composers of Color