Quartet No 5 (180902)
S, A, T, B
Again a set of five pieces about things that crossed my path in a two or three week period. Prelude    A rhythmically complicated little Read more ...
1 - Prelude     A multi-Track Recording by Stephen Watkins

Quartet No 5

1 - Prelude

This is a multi-track recording by Stephen Watson.
What could be better?
Buy the music and get a few
friends together to play it !!!


2 - Homage … Monsieur Legrande     A multi-Track Recording by Stephen Watkins

Quartet No 5

2 - Homage … Monsieur Legrande

This is a multi-track recording by Stephen Watson.
What could be better?
Buy the music and get a few
friends together to play it !!!


3 - C2H2OH     A multi-Track Recording by Stephen Watkins

Quartet No 5

3 - C2H2OH

This is a multi-track recording by Stephen Watson.
What could be better?
Buy the music and get a few
friends together to play it !!!


4 - Sarabande     A multi-Track Recording by Stephen Watkins

Quartet No 5

4 - Sarabande

This is a multi-track recording by Stephen Watson.
What could be better?
Buy the music and get a few
friends together to play it !!!


5 - March of the Conspiritors     A multi-Track Recording by Stephen Watkins

Quartet No 5

5 - March of the Conspiritors

This is a multi-track recording by Stephen Watson.
What could be better?
Buy the music and get a few
friends together to play it !!!


Again a set of five pieces about things that crossed my path in a two or three week period.

  1. Prelude    A rhythmically complicated little piece that manages to make reference to a melody that all of us over 60 may remember from 'wireless days'
  2. Homage à Monsieur LeGrande Michel Legrande is a truly great songwriter and composer. it is too easy to overlook real elegance and genius but the simplicity and charm of his style have always been favourites of mine
  3. C2H5OH This is meant to be a portrait of someone getting rather amiably drunk. it starts of rather tricky and gets in one or two places very very difficult. this is INTENTIONAL and is meant to sound, frankly, drunk. Do try your best to play what is written but if it comes out a little erratically, well that is the idea!
  4. Sarabande This sarabande acknowledges the baroque heritageof the recorder in its rhythms and form. Everyone gets a turn with the melody 
  5. March of the Conspirators     Although being a member of a political party I do not often reflect this in my music, other than I hope in its humanity. This little march was a musical sketch of a fairly recent political coup that did not work and was to my mind so inept that it was funny. For those who prefer to keep recent politics out of music think instead of the last man to enter the houses of parliament with honest intent. Guy Fawkes
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