Recordings

Michael Moerane’s orchestral tone poem Fatše La Heso

Michael Moerane’s orchestral tone poem Fatše La Heso

This recording is an enhanced sibelius MIDI file representing the written out score of the work.

At the end of the written out score the performer is asked to carry on playing and possibly improvising over the gospel swing low. (see recording forbidden wedding II – “coda”)

This live recording is not a part of the written out score

In bar 682 the gospel swing low appears, written out as a ‘skeleton’ leadsheet. At the end of the score in bar 693 it says ‘gospel repeat ad lib’. This live recording could be a kind of suggestion to the performer for a realization of this ‘gospel repeat ad lib’, a possible ‘coda’ / improvisation part after the end of the written score.

After composing gaia – the living earth in the piano version Surendran Reddy started orchestrating the work. He never finished the orchestration of this last movement IX we are all connected.  That is why it is presented here in its piano version.

This recording of suite no1 in c major was done during a concert…

This recording comes from a house concert of close friends of Surendran in Noordhoek, Cape Town.

This recording was made at a tribute concert for Surendran Reddy organized by WITS University Johannesburg, 7 months after he died. There is no recording of Surendran Reddy performing this work. There are however recordings of him performing his work ‘suite freedom’ which has some parallels to ‘à la recherche de la paix et de la liberté’.

Surendran’s band Channel 18 is performing ‘Afrojol’ at a Lion’s Club function in Windhoek, Namibia, in 1991. The guitarist whose name we don’t know is not a regular member of the band but performed several original compositions by Surendran Reddy as well as Claude Bolling’s ‘picnic suite’ together with Channel 18 on that day.

This performance of the work ‘in the fast line’ is part of a SABC New Year’s Eve Show from 1991 (going into 1992). Surendran was musical director of the show and his band Channel was the resident band who accompanied many of the performers.

It could be that the title ‘resolutions’ of this work which later was exclusively called ‘in the fast lane’ might have to do with the special occasion of the performance and resolutions people make for the new year. This is however a pure assumption without any evidence.