Jonathan Harvey

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...

For bass-baritone and piano.

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2(II=bcl).2(II=cbsn) – 2200 – perc(1): large tam-t/4 gongs/4 bamboo clusters/10 small bowls and bells/4 Japanese rins/3 crot/2 susp.bells/wdbl – strings (min 7.6.4.3.3)

This was commissioned by Louis Halsey for his Christmas Concert in December 1965.

Written for the choir of Westminster Abbey, Harvey's Missa Brevis is an inspiring piece for any cathedral choir or ambitious mixed-voice ensemble.

Transcendental sequence Sobre un éxtasis de alta contemplación (Verses written after an ecstasy of high exultation), is a setting of the poem by St John of the Cross. Commissioned by Richard Marlow, f...

This anthem was written in 1976 for Martin Neary and the Winchester Cathedral Choir. A G major chord sounding through most of the anthem depicts the joyful love and irrepressible faith of a soul that...

ff is a dazzling 3-minute work of a piano solo from one of British music’s most innovative voices, where brilliant shards of sound spectra collide with highly accented and rhythmic material in the bas...