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DUDLEY / ISSERLIS
Music for
family concerts
“Once upon a time there was a
beautiful little violin. She was covered
with deep red varnish and she
was known as Little Red Violin. She
had a lovely tone and played such
sweet music that everybody loved
her, especially her Grandmother,
Grandmother Stradivarius …”
These are the opening lines of our
new work for narrator, solo violin,
solo cello and string orchestra by
Anne Dudley and Steven Isserlis:
Little Red Violin (and the Big Bad
Cello) – also available in a version
with piano accompaniment. This
exquisite fairytale, perfect for family
concerts, is an original and witty
variation on the Little Red Riding
Hood story.
Anne Dudley and Steven Isserlis
Anne Dudley Steven Isserlis
hardly need any introduction. Dudley,
founding member of Art of
Noise and keyboard player for
Frankie Goes to Hollywood in the
1980s, is internationally renowned
as a composer of music for film
and television, writing for The Crying
Game, Jeeves and Wooster, and
more recently for the HBO drama
The Tenth Kingdom. Her soundtrack
for The Full Monty won her an
Oscar in 1998.
Isserlis is known on the world’s
concert stages as a first-class ‘cellist.
His recent recording of Schumann’s
Music for cello and piano (with
Dénes Várjon) was highly praised
by Gramophone Magazine and
BBC Music magazine.
Little Red Violin is now available for
performance worldwide. Listen to
an excerpt (of the piano trio) at
www.bit.ly/dudley1 The first ten
pages of the score are online at
www.bit.ly/dudley2 online.
Also visit www.annedudley.co.uk
and www.stevenisserlis.com
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