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Bela Whispers

by julian Broadhurst

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Bela Whispers - Music For Strings Electronics and Percussion, MSEP 21 - my 95th album. The third part of the ‘Bela Triptych’ alongside Bela MSEP 15 and Elegy MSEP 16.

Bela Whispers - music after my albums Bela and Elegy, after me, after a fragment from Bartok. So what I said of Bela and Elegy, I can comfortably say of Bela Whispers - that an evanescent wind blows through musical space - incorporation, Symphonic, in all but name. High noontime in my music - my mid forties, life and music are sweet - I’m fresh from all the music that went before, I knew what I was doing with this but what a result. MSEP 15, Bela - is beautiful to my mind and to my ear. It is though a compositional exercise after a fragment from Bartok - perhaps a little more than an exercise. It is the first of a trio of related albums - after a fragment of Bartok - the ‘Bela Triptych’ - being, Bela, Elegy and the much later Bela Whispers - albums MSEP 15, 16 and 21. The Arc of the three albums is vast, in Context, in content and in time, at nearly 3 hours.

Bela certainly was a compositional exercise to begin with but it bloomed in such a surprising way that I welcomed it as a headline piece. I saw it as a standalone piece and I went on immediately after to work on another piece for my Em genre - Modular reflex - Rh 246. Bela, however, was ‘calling’ me back. I looked at it hard and I could see new music in it. This would unfold in two parts Rh 247 and 248 as the Album Elegy - now I had two related albums.

Years later I went back again to Bela - with fresh ears and yet again, new music emerged - Bela Whispers - Rh 365 with a dint of ostinato. I saw the pattern - a series of Albums from that first thread - a trio - a Triptych - to follow my Birthday Triptych and my Circulation Triptych.

A final reorganisation of my music’s overall structure would place them in separate Chronological Album Groups - Group 3 - the Golden Band and Group 4 - The Inner Blue Horizon - but in all other respects, a set.


The Bela Triptych

- The Bela Triptych in the Golden Band Group -

[] Album MSEP 15 Bela

Bela - Rh 245

[] Album MSEP 16 Elegy

Elegy - Rh 247
Ever far after - Rh 248

The Second Triptych ‘Panel’ unfolds in two parts - Rh 247 and 248 - I nominated this second Album as an Elegy and subtitled it ‘Farewell to the Dance,’ after the memory of my Dear Mother - Pamela M. Broadhurst.

- The Bela Triptych in the Outer Blue Group -

[] Album MSEP 21 Bela Whispers

Bela Whispers - Rh 365

A turbulent - ‘tumbulent’ end to the series with a background swing of Ostinato.


An early reorganization of my music research interests had defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Music for Strings Electronics and Percussion, MSEP a genre of Electroacoustic composition. By Convention MSEP.

Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, Metal Percussion music, or MPm. The third of five is the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, or MSEP. The last genre is Electronic music, Em, taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.

Album numbers 76 to 95 form my fourth ‘Group’ - a 4th time division across my Genres, my Inner Blue Group. This builds on both the foundational 'Blue Cherry Group' [where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest] and the big 'New Horizon Group' - [where I explored to see where these five genres were leading me]. There then seemed to be a ‘band of gold’ across my discography. My Golden Band Group that mark a particularly successful time for meThe albums that follow that, 76 to the end, are a ‘Blue Horizon’ – after the phrase’ blue sky research’ - the ‘Blue Horizon Group.’ For convenience, I divided this Huge area into the Inner and the Outer Blue Groups. So the Fourth Group is the Inner Blue Horizon – or Inner Blue Group.

There are three MSEP albums in the Inner Blue Group - MSEP 19 to 21.

[] Album MSEP 19 Assign is a four-disc box of music distantly after James Saunders.

[] Album MSEP 20 is ‘War Skies Over London’ an evocation of war, of the Air War over London.

[] Album MSEP 21 Bela Whispers is the concluding part of the Bela Triptych for the evanescence of ‘string group’.

Inner Blue Group MSEP []

DCM 076 - Em 29 - Auda

[] DCM 077 -MSEP 19 - Assign 1 - 4 []

DCM 078 - Phm 8 - Deep Pink
DCM 079 - Em 30 - Haus music
DCM 080 - Em 31 - Magic lily music
DCM 081 - MPm 10 - 1st and 2nd Da Su for Mp
DCM 082 - Phm 9 - Beriom 1 - 3 (6 Tromb.)

[] DCM 083 -MSEP 20 - War Skies Over London []

DCM 084 - Phm 10 - Beriom 4 - 7 (4 & 5 Fl)
DCM 085 - Em 32 - Beriom 8
DCM 086 - Em 33 - Beriom 9
DCM 087 - Em 34 - Beriom 10
DCM 088 - Em 35 - Untitled
DCM 089 - Em 36 - Rothko Triptych
DCM 090 - Phm 11- Sound Prints
DCM 091 - MPm 11 - Kontact Dance
DCM 092 - Dm 13 - 2nd & 3rd Inv for Dj.
DCM 093 - Em 37 - Ober
DCM 094 - Dm 14 - 4th Inv Dj - Dm Sn no. 8

[] DCM 095 -MSEP 21 - Bela Whispers []

The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part]
chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2020. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planned from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my individual works in order of Completion.

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released February 15, 2011

Julian Broadhurst - composition - recorded and Mastered at Isabel Studio

Cover Art by Tetlow and Broadhurst
Published by DCM

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