Justin Connolly

A setting of five late poems by Friedrich Hölderlin written under his pseudonym Scardanelli. Described by the composer as Cantata for mezzo soprano and piano, the 20-minute piece explores the full ran...

For Mezzo-soprano and piano, 'Waka is a song cycle in five parts based on translations of Japanese Waka poetry. The brief, elliptical poems are mostly single sentences, about stylised subject matter a...

The title Collana, meaning 'necklace', describes the form of this 10-minute piece, which comprises 15 short movements. These alternate between free, quasi-recitative and contrasting rhythmic sections,...

Triad V was commissioned by the Extra-mural Department of Birmingham University, and performed for the first time on February 5, 1971, in the theatre of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, by Antony Pa...

GYMEL-B by Justin Connolly is a set of four pieces for clarinet and cello related by the idea of twinship. On the instrumentation, Connolly wrote, “…they are different in timbre, while overlapping in...

Tesserae A, for oboe and piano, is one of a set of short pieces which use a technique of composition related to the idea of a mosaic: small fragments of material, often only three or four notes long,...

The Garden Of Forking Paths by Justin Connolly is a piano duet based on Jorge Luis Borges' story exploring the idea of different temporal experiences.

Celebratio super Ter in lyris Leo is scored for three violas and accordion; the violas play thirteen short sections based on the anagram derived from the name of Lionel Tertis: “Ter in lyris leo”, whi...

Justin Connolly's Sonatina II - Ennead for solo Piano. For Nicolas Hodges.

Justin Connolly wrote Celebratio, per viola sola in 2005 as a 60th birthday gift for the eminent translator David McDuff. The work is concerned with the interplay of contrasting material both within a...

Celebratio super Ter in lyris Leo is scored for three violas and accordion; the violas play thirteen short sections based on the anagram derived from the name of Lionel Tertis: “Ter in lyris leo”, whi...

Scherzetti was written in March 2020, with pedagogical intent, for the young flautist Bethany Norman to whom the composer wrote: "The piece consists of three little scherzo-like pieces, linked by slow...

Fl; 2 Ob; 2 Cl; 2 Hn; 2 Bsn

Written by the modern composer Justin Connolly in 1991, Nocturnal is arranged here as a score with separate parts for chamber instruments.