INSTRUMENTAL

Sonatina

4'

Clarinet, Piano

Invention

5'

Violin, Piano

Three Pieces for Lute

5'

Lute solo

Fantasy Trio

12'

Clarinet, Violin & Cello

Piano Quartet: Emplay

11'

Violin Viola Cello Piano

String Quartet / 1

22'

vln 1, vln 2, vla, cello

String Quartet / 2

15'

vln 1, vln 2, vla, cello

String Quartet / 3

17'

vln 1, vln 2, vla, cello

du barocque...

6'

2 clar, 2 bsn, 2 tpt, trbne, timp, piano

Concerto Cubico

16'

Trombone, marimba, harp

Chamber Concerto

15'

fl, ob, clar, bsn
tpt, horn, tbn
drums
vln 1&2, vla, cello, cb
 

Piano Quartet "Emplay"
 

1983

Winner of the Humphrey Searle Memorial Competition

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by Lorna Osbon (violin) Stefanie Heichelheim (viola) Simon Fryer (cello) with Edward Lambert (piano)

 

Two performances by New Ensemble at the Purcell Room 26 April 1983
Lorna Osbon (violin) Stefanie Heichelheim (viola) Simon Fryer (cello) Claire van Kampen (piano)

Review

As a fitting memorial to Humphrey Searle, who pioneered 12-note technique in this country and helped to promote new music throughout his life, New Ensemble staged the Humphrey Searle Chamber Music Competition finals at the Purcell Room on Tuesday night in the context of Searle's own work. Four works were chosen for the final stage of the competition and these were performed in the first half of the concert before the jury, which deliberated quickly in the interval so that the winning work could be announced and repeated in the second half of the programme. This turned out to be Edward Lambert's piano quartet "Emplay" which certainly presented in its reworking of ideas from Brahm's Piano Quartet Op. 60 some of the most inventively-textured and syntactically original music of the evening.
Anthony Payne in the Daily Telegraph 28/4/83