The first movement of this three-movement work is embedded and will play automatically in the background. All movements may be accessed at the following links:
Download Church Sonata, Allegro (mp3, 2.4 MB)
Download Church Sonata, Andante (mp3, 1.8 MB)
Download Church Sonata, Moderato (mp3, 2.3 MB)
What can I say about a work that was conceived one night after saying the Holy Office with Gabrieli in the background? All three movements were sketched that night and over the next two days I worked it all out and prepared the score.
The calligraphic ornament above is based on a fourteenth-century design detail appearing in Plate No. 11 of W. R. Tymms, The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times ... (London: Day and Son, 1860.) The roundel frames above were derived from a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript depicting the "Vision of Isaiah" attributed to Girolamo Da Cremona, now housed in the Libreria Piccolomini, Duomo, Siena.
