KSS99 Il tessuto d’arabeschi for flute and string quartet

Piece details

  • Written for: Chamber Ensemble
  • Instruments: Flute/string quartet
  • Date composed: 1979
  • Dedicatee: Frederick Delius
  • Approximate duration (minutes): 16
  • Manuscript pages: 32
  • Manuscript location: Private collection

Editions available from the Sorabji Archive

  • Manuscript, A3L. 32 pages.
    Price: £10

  • Critical edition (full score) (Marc-André Roberge), A3L. 60 pages.
    Price: £17

  • Critical edition (parts) (Marc-André Roberge), A3L. 68 pages.
    Price: £30

Not yet recorded

Performances

  • 03/05/1982 Deborah Carter (flute), Jonathan Beiler (violin), Davyd Booth (violin), Sidney Curtiss (viola), Gloria Johns (cello), William Smith (conductor)
    Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia PA, USA
    Delius Society

Broadcasts etc.

  • 25/08/1982 Deborah Carter (flute), Jonathan Beiler (violin), Davyd Booth (violin), Sidney Curtiss (viola), Gloria Johns (cello), William Smith (conductor)
    WUHY (later WHYY) (radio), Philadelphia PA, USA [+B]
    90th birthday tribute
  • 26/07/1988 Deborah Carter (flute), Jonathan Beiler (violin), Davyd Booth (violin), Sidney Curtiss (viola), Gloria Johns (cello), William Smith (conductor) [x]
    Cleveland Lodge (home of Lady Susi Jeans), Dorking, UK [+]
    Organists’ Summer School: Illustrated Lecture
  • 24/02/1989 Deborah Carter (flute), Jonathan Beiler (violin), Davyd Booth (violin), Sidney Curtiss (viola), Gloria Johns (cello), William Smith (conductor)
    NOS (Nederlandse Omroeprogramma Stichting), Hilversum, Netherlands [B]
  • 27/02/1991 Deborah Carter (flute), Jonathan Beiler (violin), Davyd Booth (violin), Sidney Curtiss (viola), Gloria Johns (cello), William Smith (conductor) [x]
    Lecture Room A, Music Faculty, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK [+]
    Oxford University Contemporary Music Group, Illustrated Lecture (Alistair Hinton)
  • 23/03/1996 Deborah Carter (flute), Jonathan Beiler (violin), Davyd Booth (violin), Sidney Curtiss (viola), Gloria Johns (cello), William Smith (conductor)
    Concert Hall, University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales [+]
    “Towards the Millennium” Conference: Lecture by Brian Inglis