A Thin Place for cello (2001)

A Thin Place - Rann Romh Urnuigh - for cello solo and the voice of the player (2001)

The text is in Gaelic.

Performed by the South African musician HA!Man. If you go to his website, you will hear lots of nice and good music.

The text comes from a collection of prayers which Alexander Carmichael in 1832 was given permission for by local people living in remote areas in Scotland, to write down.

"There is a Celtic saying that heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in the thin places that distance is even smaller. A thin place is where the veil that separates heaven and earth is lifted and one is able to receive a glimpse of something devine.

You can buy the recording from i-Tunes through my publisher DONEMUS.

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Watch the television interview. (You need to understand Frisian, though).

Calendar

January 26, 2019
Music, when soft voices die (Shelley) for voice and guitar. Izhar Elias & Channa Malkin. (guitar and soprano) MerkAz, Utrecht. Premiere

February 9, 2019
Time to fly for saxophone quartet. The Bron saxophone quartet. Concerten de Korenwinde, Rhenen. Premiere

April 11, 2019
Homenaje pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy (Manuel de Falla) - arranged for flute, viola & harp ONEIROS ensemble.
Grote Kerk, Epe.

April 14, 2019
Time to fly for saxophone quartet. The Bron saxophone quartet.
Tilburg

April 25, 2019
Time to fly for saxophone quartet.
Eindhoven, Muziekgebouw