Music Extracts

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Videos on Vemeo

Music to silent film "Ashenputtel" by Lotte Reiniger (1922)

https://vimeo.com/948865341

Lotte Reiniger's silent, annimated short film (1922) with original music by Andrew Orgee (2024). Reiniger's shadow play is based on the Brothers Grimm telling of the story with a magic tree and dove instead of a fairy godmother. Reiniger introduces some comic, and sometimes bizarre, twists to this traditional story loved by all.

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Videos on Vemeo

Music to short film "My Dream of Being" by Ren Gillman (2025)

https://vimeo.com/1148265629

The film is an adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel Metamorphosis, but in this adaptation the storyteller transforms into a bird, soars, and leaves the earthly world behind.

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Videos on Vemeo

Songs Without Words for Cello and Piano - Madrigal (2016)

https://vimeo.com/1191134041

The first of a set of instrumental pieces for Cello & Piano inspired by various European song forms throughout the ages. This first piece is inspired by a madrigal by Orlando Gibbons and is written in Lydian mode.

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Music on Soundcloud

"I Shape These Words" from song cycle "Blind Love" (2009)

https://soundcloud.com/andrew-orgee/i-shpe-these-words-from-song-cycle-blind-love-by-andrew-orgee-2009

The second song from the song cycle Blind Love (words by Philip Sharpe 1982) performed live at the Sofia Modern Art Gallery, Bulgaria, November 2009 with the Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra "Orpheus" conducted by Raitcho Christov with Teodora Konach (Soprano) and Lilliana Stoeva (Harp).

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Music on Souncloud

Dance music "La Modella" for String Orchestra (2006)

https://soundcloud.com/andrew-orgee/la-modella-for-string-orchestra-2006-by-andrew-orgee

Performed by the Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra "Orpheus" at the Pernik Theatre, Bulgaria November 2006, conducted by Raitcho Christov.

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Music on Soundcloud

Samba from the play Quartermaine's Terms (20216)

https://soundcloud.com/andrew-orgee/samba-from-music-for-quartermaines-terms-by-andrew-orgee-2021

The music for Act II of a production of Simon Gray's play Quartermaine's Terms arranged for Brazilian jazz sextet. Gray's award winning play explores themes of loneliness and the human condition set in a Cambridge language school in the 1960s.

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Music on Sheet Music Direct

Rhapsody in G Major for Piano (1984)

https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/1194893/Product.aspx

A concert piece for piano that evokes the style and mood of John Ireland's much-loved piano pieces which were inspired by the Channel Islands and composed in the early 20th century.

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Music on Sheet Music Direct

Bossa Nova (Danca Da Chuva) for Light Orchestra (2021)

https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/1308074/Product.aspx

This Bossa Nova for light orchestra is inspired by the jazz-Brazilian fusion music of the 1960s made popular by composers such as Edu Lobo and Sérgio Mendes. The piece has a lively character, and its many themes and rhythms which change throughout pay a colourful tribute to the Bossa Nova. The piece is a type of invocation to a Brazilian rain god hence the title Danca Da Chuva (Rain Dance), alluding to the current climate situation. 

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Music on Sheet Music Direct

Christmas Carol "I Syng of a Mayden" for SATB Choir and Organ (2019)

https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/1159368/Product.aspx

This is a setting of one of the earliest known Christmas Carol texts in the English language - I Syng of a Mayden - believed to be sung to music around the 15th century. It is scored for Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass choir with church organ and is written for semi-professional choirs. 

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Music on eSchorlarship

Songs Without Words for Cello and Strings (2017)

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/977729fz

Songs Without Words is an interpretation of six different song forms over the ages, each rendered
in one of six different church modes. These modes provide a consistent harmonic palate for each piece
but also a limited note set in which to explore melodic invention. Each piece is inspired by a
specific song which lies hidden below the surface.

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Music on eScholarship

"Padma Tamarasa" for Solo Soprano Saxophone (1992)

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1883b7hx

The words 'Padma Tāmarasa' are Sanskrit and refer to the red lotus flower that opens at first light. The piece evokes the mood of a prayer being sung at early morning from a high tower, slowly emerging and returning to a place of quiet and reverence. 

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Music on eScholarship

"Daphne's Wedding" for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra (2019)

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qz1k3td

This song was originally written for the wedding of a close friend of mine in 1997. This revised version is scored for chamber orchestra with harpsichord and
vibes, and is inspired by the light and humorous touch of Jacques Ibert's Divertissement (1930). A driving Tudor dance is always present amidst all the
tomfoolery. The piece is based on a text by Thomas Morley from his ‘Canzonets to three Voices’ (1593).

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