Hayes, Morgan: Port Rhombus. Rental
Duration: 4 minutes
For piccolo, cor anglais, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion (one player: hi-hat cymbals, crotale and vibraphone), piano/celeste, two violins, viola, cello and double bass
Commissioned by the South Bank Centre for the Ether Festival
1st perf: London Sinfonietta, Stefan Asbury (cond), Royal Festival Hall, London, 8 March 2003
Full score and instrumental material
Morgan Hayes captured an elegiac melancholy in his transformation of Squarepusher’s Port Rhombus.
Tom Service, The Guardian, 10 March 2003
I very much enjoyed Morgan Hayes’s iridescent transcription of Squarepusher’s Port Rhombus
Paul Driver, The Sunday Times, 16 March 2003