David’s concert music spans orchestral, choral and vocal pieces as well as several chamber works. Most of this music is published by Novello & Co, and some recordings are available as downloads from this website.
Listen to examples from the four STRING QUARTETS.
Until a couple of years ago, while busy with committee work for BASCA on behalf of composers and songwriters (including chairing the Classical and Jazz Executive Committee), David for a few years concentrated on theatre and production music, and projects with schools. He intends to return to concert writing in the near future; the latest commercial recording of his work is the fourth String Quartet. But David Stoll is also interested in crossing the lines between different genres, and CHRONOMETER tracks are often scored as contemporary classical pieces before being developed in an electronic sound world.
Available recordings include CHAMBER MUSIC, THE SHAKESPEARE SUITE, THE FAIR SINGER and all the QUARTETS (see the individual works below for recordings). Scores and parts are also available from the publisher.
STOLL : major concert works
PIANO QUARTET (1987)
first performance: Holland, January 1990
SONATA FOR TWO PIANOS
(1990)
first performance: Holland, February 1991
PIANO SONATA
(1991)
first performance: Holland, May 1992, New York, May 1993
STRING TRIO
(1992)
first performance: Art in Action festival, 1992
FANFARES AND REFLECTIONS – wind sextet (1992)
first performance: St John’s Smith Square, March 1993
WHO IS SYLVIA? – piano duet (1994
)
first performance: Concertgebouw, December 1994
STRING QUARTET
no 1 (1994
)
first performance: Toronto, June 1998
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE – upper-voice choir (1994)
first performance: Manchester, May 1995
MONUMENT – harmony band (1995)
first performance: Holland, May 1995
THE BOWL OF NOUS – cantata (1996)
first performance: London, May 1997, Toronto June 1998
WHO, IF NOT I? – cantata (1996)
first performance: Sydney, May 1998
THE SHAKESPEARE SUITE – chamber ensemble (1997)
written for CD release – some movements have been played in concert
MOTET IN MEMORIAM
(1998)
first performance: New York, September 2000
MIDWINTER SPRING – symphonic poem (1998)
first performance: St James’s, Piccadilly, February 1999
STRING QUARTET no 2 (1999)
written for CD release – some movements have been played in concert
CELLO CONCERTO
(2000)
first performance: London, May 2001
OCTAVE VARIATIONS – tuba quartet (2001)
first performance: Art in Action Festival, Waterperry, Oxford, July 2001
THE PATH TO THE RIVER – octet (2001)
London, August 2003
CELLO SONATA (2001)
St Martin in the Fields, London, April 2002
FOOLS BY HEAVENLY COMPULSION – String Quartet no 3 (2002)
St Giles Cripplegate,
April 2002
SONNET – string orchestra (2002)
Stratford-upon-Avon, April 2003
POT-POURRI – orchestra (2002)
first performance: London, January 2003
THEATRE DREAMS – brass quintet (2003)
A COLCHESTER SUITE – pipes consort (2003)
first performance: Colchester, August 2006
STRING QUARTET no 4 (Spaces in a Space) (2005)
London, July 2005
THE SONG OF DEBORAH – string quartet and mezzo-soprano (2007)
private memorial service in London, December 2007
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