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Children at a funeral (1996) for prepared piano Duration: 8 minutes Written for Andrew Ball as a result of a Holst Foundation Award First performance: February 1997, Wigmore Hall, London Andrew Ball Wood's Children at a Funeral, prompted by the natural but knowing responses of children at the memorial service for the composer's father, requires a prepared piano specially hung with some Heath-Robinsonish contraptions involving lengths of rope and two assistants. At just 10 minutes, it admirably harnesses Wood's imagination... Some beautifully ethereal, sustained sounds alternate, in the piece's second half, with already established, more familiar, gamelan-like sonorities and rhythms. A little masterpiece...' Keith Potter, The Independent, 20.2.97

Autumn Voices (2001) for violin and electronics Duration: 15 minutes Commissioned by the BBC for Mieko Kanno First performance: 30 November 2001, Huddersfield Festival Mieko Kanno and the composer programme note audio excerpt available

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