The Virtual Jami Blog

Just completed the penultimate chunk of the 1st movement. Have reached 81 minutes with about 14 to go. This extract again includes a description of the music therein. I am particularly pleased with the...

This chunk of work has taken longer because it is longer and because I am working on typesetting Havergal Brian’s 3rd Symphony for the HB society for a planned future recording. I have now...

Whilst I’m working on the next chunk, I thought I would document my current working process. I have three versions of the score; a PDF of the handwritten manuscript; a “clean” typeset version and...

Still in lockdown which is allowing me to be musically productive. As well as continuing with the Jami I have been working on the typesetting of Havegal Brian’s 3rd Symphony. That would be considered...

 So here we all are in coronavirus lockdown. I’m lucky as I have a garden, the weather is good and I have Sorabji to while away the many hours. This has enabled me to...

I’ve now completed the 2nd chunk of the 1st movement which takes me to 30 minutes in and I can offer you two contrasting excerpts. The first half of this video opens onto a...

I’ve had a fair amount of spare time to spend on the ‘Jami’ recently and have completed the first large chunk of the 1st movement which takes us to around 16 minutes. This video...

So here is the wonderful opening of the 1st movement up to the first reprise of the main theme, just over 5 minutes. Interesting things compared to the third movement? Much less use of...

I had thought I would take a break from Jami after the 3rd Movement. I have lots of other smaller projects gathering dust on the shelves. But, relative to the small but concentrated Sorabjiverse,...

Here it is, the complete 3rd movement Although I completed the performance in November 2019, in an attempt to encourage greater engagement, I decided to make a commentary which runs for the whole 2+...

I have stitched together 5 moments from the opening 21 minutes one fading out and in to the next. The opening is loud and complex with every section setting out its stall. It foreshadows,...

Chronologically, this is the 2nd of 8 excerpts. The whole 3rd movement is likely to come in at over 2 hours and this excerpt is 0hr 21m to 0hr 31m. Its notable for several...

So I’ve completed another retrospective chunk of 16 minutes plus and can offer you a most generous 11 minute plus portion. My thinking at the moment is not to post everything and not to...

I have completed my first effort to retrofit the performance of the first 72 minutes of the 3rd movement made in 2013 onto the 2019 performance of the remainder of the movement. It’s been...

The climax of the third movement. I’ve said before and I’ll say again this must be one of the most climactic moments in all western orchestral music. It has been extremely challenging although my...

This extract opens with a characteristic Sorabjian mediterranean dance with castanets, tambourines and harps. The static accompaniment in the strings (quasi strummed guitar?) building from 6-part bassi and celli adding each section until we...

This excerpt features an extended choral passage where they divide from their usual 8 parts into 16 parts and then into 32 parts. A quiet mysterious opening reaches a first climax at 1’32” at...

This extract starts where the last one from 2013 ended. I hope the quality of the performance is better. It sounds better to me. One of the significant changes is to add a second...

In case there are any computer freaks listening in I thought I’d post the specs of my new PC. The components which make it possible to cope with the huge task of creating this...

I’m back on it. Following xmas 2018 I managed to get together enough finance to build me a monster PC. Once assembled I went straight into testing it on the remainder of the 3rd...