Michael Berkeley

Berkeley's Clarion Call is a witty and humorous piece. Drawing on influences as wide as chamber music, rock'n'roll rhythms, and even some of Berkeley's own choral music, the piece subverts and twists...

For flute and harp. This is a small-scale work, which would make a useful repertoire piece, bearing in mind the need to provide compatible items for groups playing the Debussy flute/harp/viola sonata.

For chamber ensemble. Seven is founded on the further elaboration of a simple phrase used in Second Still Life. As the number 2 is significant in that piece, the number 7 is prevalent throughout Seven...

For tenor and harp. These songs are among Berkeley's earliest compositions, written in the mid-1970s at the suggestion and encouragement of Peter Pears. The poems, by Thomas Hardy, were chosen for var...

A sacred scena for tenor, piano, and string quartet telling the story, in Biblical text, of the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Klar, V I, V II, Va, Vc - Part.m.St.

For string octet (2 x violin I, 2 x violin II, 2 x viola, 2 x cello). Originally part of Walton's film score to Henry V composed in 1943, 'Touch her soft lips and part' has been taken from the origina...

A work in three contrasting sections, each reflecting a mood of Wilfred Owen's poem of the same name. The first depicts the 'strangeness' of the meeting ' . . . Down some profound tunnel', and the sec...

Worry Beads is an atmospheric and flowing piece for solo guitar. After a slow introductory passage it launches into virtuosic semiquavers which continue throughout much of the piece, with fluctuating...

A virtuosic single movement piece for cello and piano which moves through a series of moods from mysterious and atmospheric to turbulent and agitated, and takes full advantage of the range of timbral,...

Commissioned by King's College, Cambridge, for the 2016 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, This Endernight is a tender, peaceful setting of well-known fifteenth-century words. The recurring melody h...

A short, straightforward carol for SATB unaccompanied, or with organ or piano

This is a tender, meditative setting of the well-known text from the New Testament, 'If ye love me, keep my commandments' (John 14:15). Mack Wilberg has woven together melting legato vocal lines, supp...