John Hardy - Blue Letters from Tanganyika: Twilight On The Lake

A clip from 'Twilight on the Lake' in the orchestra suite "Blue Letters From Tanganyika" by John Hardy. The music is inspired by blue airmail letters sent home from Africa by John's mother as she worked there as a young teacher. She described a night camped by the great lake, "looking up at the moon through a mosquito-net, with all the little noises of the lake, and all the thousands of little creatures going about their various affairs."

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"Powerfully cinematic" (South Wales Echo)
"Rhythmically charged, open and immediately engaging... bright and colourful while still managing to evoke the African landscape" (Gramophone Magazine)
"Colourful, finely crafted movements... 4 stars" (Classical Music Magazine)
"masterpiece of creation... an extraordinary piece of history" (Roy Noble, BBC Radio Wales)
"Colourful, filmic, and open to pleasurable listening at a single sitting" (Howard Smith, Music & Vision)

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