Julian Anderson

Commissioned by Geoffrey Webber and the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Although I had already set separate Latin versions of both the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, this is the first time I've made a setting in English of both texts for use at Evensong. I have often atten...

The title of Julian Anderson's first piece for guitar refers to a painting by Joan Miró in which the dominant element is a vivid blue. Fragments of objects can be detected: guitar strings, the orange...

Das Werk kann als Zyklus, in einzelnen Sätzen oder in Kombinationen ausgeführt werden:She Hears ist eine Studie des Zuhörens. Toucher ist eine Feier musikalischer Textur und Farbe. Sight Lines ist ein...

Written in memory of American composer Steve Stucky and recorded by Grammy winning pianist Gloria Cheng as part of a collection of tributes. A light and optimistic piece filled with bursts of notes ri...

These four pieces were composed during 2018 and 2019. Each movement may be performed individually, as a sequence of two or three movements in any order, or as a set of all four movements in the order...

My 3rd String Quartet is in six contrasted movements. Certain musical figures recur across the work, but there are few themes as such. The main emphasis is on contrast of mood, texture, harmony, pacin...

With the instruction that the work should be played 'With unimaginable joy!', this early work for two violins by British composer Julian Anderson would be perfect for both conservatory students and st...

With the instruction that the work should be played "With unimaginable joy!', this early work (originally for two violins) by British composer Julian Anderson would be perfect for conservatory student...

The title is the Russian for 'round dance'. The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Markus Stenz, in the Barbican Hall, London, on 6 December 1994, Instrumrentation: 1(...

Full of oddities – whirring ratchets, raucous off-stage clarinets, wonky waltzes –that brilliantly capture the humour and nostalgia of the Tom Phillips drawings that inspired them. The Dai...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1.1(=bcl).1(=cbsn) - 1110 - perc(2): SD/whip/sleigh bells/cyms/2 anvil/2 c.bell/4 congas/3 gong/2 tam-t/tabla/vib/cast/ch.cym/almglocken/TD/BD/metal dustbin/2 rin/t.bells - p...

This piece was commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group as part of Julian Anderson's Composer-In-Association residency, with generous finan...

The Bach Machine was commissioned by BBC Radio 3’s Educational Programme 'The Music Machine' in 1997. It uses the so-called 'Royal' theme by Frederick the Great which provided the starting point for B...

The Faber Choral Signature Series introduces a wealth of new or recently written choral music to choirs in search of fresh repertoire. The series draws in a rich diversity of living composers and incl...

Commissioned by the Musicians Benevolent Fund in the name of Sir Thomas Armstrong this work was first performed at Westminster Cathedral on 24 November 1999 by the Choirs of Westminster & St Paul's Ca...

Magnificat is a tribute to the unaccompanied motets of favourite composers from several eras - in particular those of Dufay, the Eton Choirbook, Robert Carver, Lassus and Bach. The work is therefore f...

Magnificat is a tribute to the unaccompanied motets of favourite composers from several eras - in particular those of Dufay, the Eton Choirbook, Robert Carver, Lassus and Bach. The work is therefore f...

Commissioned by Geoffrey Webber and the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Although I had already set separate Latin versions of both the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, this is the first time I've made a setting in English of both texts for use at Evensong. I have often atten...

The Faber Choral Signature Series introduces a wealth of new or recently written choral music to choirs in search of fresh repertoire. The series draws in a rich diversity of contemporary composers an...

Anderson's Bell Mass , for double SATB choir, was written for performance at Westminster Abbey and commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey, as part of the 450th anniversary of the Ab...

The title of Julian Anderson's first piece for guitar refers to a painting by Joan Miró in which the dominant element is a vivid blue. Fragments of objects can be detected: guitar strings, the orange...