Shipley Concerto was written to celebrate both the acquisition by violinist Andrew Bernardi and a consortium of friends of the violin now known as the Amici Bernardi Stradivarius and the 20th anniversary in 2020 of the Shipley Arts Festival in Sussex, of which Bernardi is founder and director. The concerto makes use of a four-note motif representing the date of the violin's manufacture - 1696. Taking D as the starting point to represent 1, the 2nd note (6) is the B a 6th above, the third note (9) the E a 9th above the first note, and the fourth note (6) is B again. The three movements of the concerto follow three locations in the violin's long life.
PACK includes a full score, a solo violin part plus strings 4/4/3/4/2.
- ISMN: 9790222320765 (M222320765)