Kenneth Hesketh

Whirlegigg is the middle English word for a contraption that continuously spins. A great fascination with many inventors of the medieval period was to develop a perpetual motion machine constantly tur...

A Festive Overture is bravura in nature. The outer sections are busy and colourful and frame a more expansive, but no less urgent, middle section which develops a large arching theme. The work ends as...

The formal shape of Hesketh's Elegy for brass band and percussion is built on mounting intensification of melodic lines as each section follows from another, with varying colours and intensity. It was...

The formal shape of Hesketh's Elegy for brass band and percussion is built on mounting intensification of melodic lines as each section follows from another, with varying colours and intensity. It was...

Tripartite in form, Infernal Ride is mercurial and virtuosic, yet with a more static middle section. The work reflects the mad-cap chase of Ichabod Crane's final ride on his horse, Gunpowder, in the s...

Tripartite in form, Infernal Ride is mercurial and virtuosic, yet with a more static middle section. The work reflects the mad-cap chase of Ichabod Crane's final ride on his horse, Gunpowder, in the s...

(For Christmas). German folk song arranged by Kenneth Hesketh. Scored for unison voices and piano. German text.

Kenneth Hasketh's arrangement of 'We Three Kings' is a song for Children's Voices, optional SATB Choir and Piano Accompaniment. The words and music were written by John Henry Hopkins, Jr. , while this...

Scored for SATB chorus and piano or organ accompaniment. Words and music by Kenneth Hesketh. Orchestral parts are available on hire from the publisher.

The Gilded Theatre was commissioned by the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary. They gave the first performance on 10th August 2008, at St. John'...

The outer movements - Jennie's Bawbee and Peascod's Galliarda - share driving percussion with a military air. Tom Tinker's Toye and Heart's Ease (movements two and three) are both settings of original...

The outer movements - Jennie's Bawbee and Peascod's Galliarda - share driving percussion with a military air. Tom Tinker's Toye and Heart's Ease (movements two and three) are both settings of original...

Scored for SATB chorus and piano or organ accompaniment.

A joyful and celebratory carol setting for SATB choir and Piano or Organ accompaniment.

For upper voices and orchestra, with optional SATB chorus.

The piccolo part to Kenneth Hesketh's Masque. Available to print instantly as digital sheet music.

Die hängende Figur ist Judas' (The hanging figure is Judas) was commissioned by Dr. Margitta Giera as a gift for the German sculptor Michael Langer. Hesketh's first ideas for the work came from a phot...

Influenced by a series of wood-engraved prints titled 'Opus' by Russian artist Naum Gabo, the three movements of this piece reflect the varying states that result from simple linear designs floating a...

Influenced by a series of wood-engraved prints titled 'Opus' by Russian artist Naum Gabo, the three movements of this piece reflect the varying states that result from simple linear designs floating a...

Flute part 1 to Kenneth Hesketh's Masque. Available to print instantly as digital sheet music.

Flute part 2 to Kenneth Hesketh's Masque. Available to print instantly as digital sheet music.

'Point forms' was suggested by a group of five diagrams found in Wassily Kandinsky's book Point and Line and Plane. Many explanations of the geometric shapes, including Kandinsky's use of the words 's...

Aphorisms, a short nine-minute work that is a very useful addition to the repertoire for solo clarinet.