Jonathan Harvey

In these canticles written for the 1978 Southern Cathedrals Festival, Harvey follows in the tradition of Britten and Tippett in fusing ancient ritual with thoroughly modern means of expression. Choral...

Resurrection is based on simple vocal triads that perfectly suit a resonant building. It is ceremonial and repetitive in character, in short, sacred music rather than secular.

Commissioned by the University of Sussex to celebrate their Silver Jubilee in 1986, God is Our Refuge sets Psalm 46 and is one of Harvey's easier choral works offering all choirs an ideal introduction...

This celebratory anthem is a vivid setting of Psalm 148, full of rhythmic drive and exuberant choral writing. It well demonstrates Harvey's skill in using a contemporary idiom that nevertheless appeal...

Tombeau de Messiaen by Jonathan Harvey for solo piano and CD. Available to print instantly at home in digital sheet music format. Dedicated to Philip Mead, and to Jake (aged 10 hours), this 9 minute p...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1(=ca).1.1 – hn – pno – 2 vln.vla.vlc.db Tendril (1987) is scored for eleven instruments and was commissioned and first performed by the Nash Ensemble. The work is a vivid so...

Jonathan Harvey's Ricercare una melodia for oboe and tape delay system. Available to print instantly as a digital sheet music download.

Body Mandala was commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 2006. The work is influenced by purification rituals in Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries and is arranged for a large Orc...

Speakings for orchestra and electronics is undoubtably one of Jonathan Harvey's most important and ambitious works. Composed in 2008, it utilises a unique process of electronic transformation develope...

In Ricercare una melodia , an ingenious work for solo instrument and tape delay from the mid 1980s, Jonathan Harvey takes the literal meaning of Ricercare - 'to seek' - as the inspiration for its stru...

First performed by the Orion Trio in Southampton 1971. Arranged for Violin, Cello and Piano. Duration 15 minutes. Includes score and parts.

Fanfare, composed by Jonathan Harvey. Arranged in digital sheet music format for Bb clarinet and distant trumpet in Bb.

A short but compelling solo for cello. . . revealed a familiar intensity of spiritual ambition. Daily Telegraph, 21 June 1982 This work takes as its starting inspiration a model of human personality....

Ricercare Una Melodia, composed by Jonathan Harvey, for cello and electronics, arranged by Frances-Marie Uitti. Available to print instantly at home in digital sheet music format.

Curve With Plateaux, composed by Jonathan Harvey, for solo cello in digital sheet music format.

Pre-Echo for Jean-Guihen, composed by Jonathan Harvey. Arranged in handwritten digital sheet music format for solo cello.

These two brief and fragmented miniatures are based on similar and fugitive material, though they span the 10 years between 1967 and 1977. Dialogue is dedicated to Sharon McKinley and Song is dedicate...

. . . a little like Messiaen's birds gone wild. Margaret Legge-Wilkinson, The Canberra Times, 27 June 1987

Ricercare Una Melodia composed by Jonathan Harvey, for flute and tape delay system. Available to print instantly at home in digital sheet music format.

Composed in 1979, Jonathan Harvey’s Be(com)ing is an intense exploration of ecstatic expressionism. The demands made on both instruments are very considerable, and the clarinet especially is asked to...

Ricercare Una Melodia composed by Jonathan Harvey, for trombone and tape delay system, adapted from the original version for trumpet by Benny Sluchin. Available to print instantly at home in digital s...

In Jonathan Harvey’s 1997 work for tuba and electronics Still, the soloist improvises around a series of eight chords, gradually building up a sustained background of reverberations. Duration is flexi...

. . . A fascinating evocative soundscape: a long-drawn, hovering, gently undulating melodic line sustained high on the violin above an almost continuous, rhythmless susurration of piano sound produced...