nocturne (no. 3 of four piano pieces)
March 14, 2020...incomplete photocopy of this autograph minus page 1 (2), which combines pages 2 and 3 of autograph 1. This is how the work is presented here, using autograph (1) with...
masakane – let us build together (vocal score)
September 5, 2021...(SAMRO) for performance at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. The other commissions were from Peter Klatzow, Sipho (‘Hotstix’) Mabuse, Hans Roosenschoon, Denzil Weale, Carl van Wyk and Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph....berceuse for filip and phlore
March 14, 2020...themes, including ‘When I Fall in Love’ by Victor Young, the Xhosa folksong ‘Qongqothwane’ (The Click Song), Chopin’s Berceuse op. 57, ‘Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon’ by...I Got A Home In-a Dat Rock
October 25, 2020I Got A Home In-a Dat Rock is one of eight ‘Negro Spirituals’ (as Moerane called them) that he harmonised, and like so many others, it originated as slave song....fantasia for felix
September 1, 2022In 2000, Reddy composed a solo keyboard suite in which each of the six pieces is dedicated to one of his friends, called friends’ suite: a touch of clazz I....
valse for marion and maurice
September 1, 2022The second piece in friends suite: a touch of clazz II (2001) is, as the title suggests, a waltz. It sounds Satie-esque at first, but then it begins to sound...african journey (for mathias)
September 1, 2022The african journey (for mathias) is the third of six pieces in friends suite: a touch of clazz II (2001). It is dedicated to Reddy’s friend Mathias Horat, who was...berceuse (for marion) (from friends suite: a touch of clazz II)
September 1, 2022...already in friends suite I and II. There is no score, only a recording made in 2000 which is freely downloadable. The image is one of Reddy’s computer graphic designs....african lullaby (for leanne)
September 1, 2022...friend Leanne Nyiri. There is no score, but a recording Reddy made in 2001 is given below and is freely downloadable. The image is one of Reddy’s computer graphic designs....Sekolo Se Koetsoe
April 26, 2020...holidays. Gradually, however, it hints at leaving school forever and going out into the world, as the imagery moves from the local to the global and from close to home,...phil-harmonie (for philipp)
September 2, 2022The score of phil-harmonie (for philipp) has survived as nine Sibelius files of a piano solo, a pdf of the last saved file, a recording (shown below and downloadable free),...
homage to bach (audio track from CD)
August 10, 2023In 1994 Reddy recorded his first solo piano album, reddy, steady, go! subtitled ‘the ill-tempered keyboard’ with Jannie du Toit’s JNS Musiek, in Johannesburg. It is CD 17 in JNS...Barali Ba Jerusalema
March 28, 2020...was first prescribed as a competition piece for schools. In South Africa, the score was ‘discovered’ in the Library of the royalty agency, the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO)...Alina
October 23, 2020...that express both a sense of the seductive forces of youthful love and of the family’s concern. ‘Khale, O! khale, Re lla re ntse re memetsa!’ – We’ve been calling...Lebili
October 23, 2020In Lebili Moerane draws on a a poem by Lesotho writer Bennett Khaketla (1913-2000), which might have come from one of his Sesotho storybooks. There is no information available, however,...Leseli La Hao
October 23, 2020The main image of this chorale-like supplication to God is light, another is the mountain, a high, solid, place. Moerane chose the text of Leseli La Hao from verses 3-5...Naleli Ka ’Ngoe
October 24, 2020...They lay bare, somehow, the rather unfathomable message of the text, without interpreting it. The last two lines, Naleli ka n-ngoe e rata ho feta tse ling ka botle, boholo,...Ngokuba Sizalelwe Umtwana
October 24, 2020...is Born’ from Messiah (‘ngokuba’ means ‘because’ in isiXhosa), but musically, it is entirely different. Moerane composes it like a church anthem and the work begins with a remarkable reference...Ntate Ea Mohau
October 24, 2020Ntate Ea Mohau is an attractive congregational hymn. The text of its three verses is based on Hymn no. 152 in the Lesotho hymnal, Lifela tsa Zione (Songs of Zion)....
Morena Tlake
October 24, 2020...flourishes, long sustained notes, rapid repeated motifs, vocal hocketing, and a text in which the words ‘morena tlake’ are uttered countless times. Unusually for Moerane but in the spirit of...
three minutes to midnight (ballet)
August 26, 2022...sequence (1-7), are as follows: 1. prelude, 2. the incredible jazz machine, 3. to a small boy, 4. african lament, 5. the unexploded bomb, 6. your attention please, 7. elegy...Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition, Volume Va revised 2016
August 27, 2023...staff notation and one in dual staff-tonic solfa notation. Volume Va contains 47 works, comprising 8 church anthems and 39 psalm settings for unaccompanied choir, in dual staff-tonic solfa notation....Molepe
September 2, 2018...(African Songs and Extemporary Harmonizations by J.P. Mohapeloa: Book II). The Widow Bird is common in highland countryside and farms, and Mohapeloa expresses a certain ambivalence towards this exotic looking...Moshoeshoe, Tsoha
September 2, 2018...programme. At its first performance, writes an anonymous author in the Maseru (Lesotho) newspaper The Echo on 5 October 1973, Moshoeshoe, Tsoha “was sung by a choir about 300 strong...Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition, Volume V revised 2016
August 27, 2023...one in staff notation and one in dual staff-tonic solfa notation. Volume V contains 47 works, comprising 8 church anthems and 39 psalm settings for unaccompanied choir, in staff notation....
