Michael Tippett

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 6)

Michael Tippett's description of what drew him to the longer of W. B. Yeats' two poems on Byzantium gives us a glimpse of what was going through his mind as the fascination of Byzantium as a mode of s...

These songs were written for the Old Vic production of Shakespeare's The Tempest in 1962. The original instrumentation was Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Timpani, Harp, Bells and Harpsichord. The ins...

These songs were written for the Old Vic production of Shakespeare's The Tempest in 1962. The original instrumentation was Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Timpani, Harp, Bells and Harpsichord. The ins...

Like few other theatre works-The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night's Dream-Tippett's first opera creates a wholly other place, one where human actions can be seen as in a tilted mirror. Since this is ind...

Chorpartitur

Diese Bearbeitung des schottischen 'Skye Boat Song' wurde ursprünglich 1956 für den Zyklus 'Four Songs from the British Isles' komponiert, jedoch noch vor dessen Drucklegung durch die Bearbeitung eine...

Composed for the Jubilee of the East Sussex and West Kent Choral Festival

6 Hörner in F, 4 Trompeten in C, 3 Posaunen, Tuba, Schlagzeug (kleine Trommel, Xylophon).

Tippett's short chamber work is finally available as part of the Edition Schott series. 'Prelude, Recitative and Aria' is an arrangement of Hermes' Aria 'O Divine Music' from the composer's 1962 opera...

These five spirituals for unaccompanied chorus, despite the occasional appearance of complexity are basically simple: the harmony, indeed, is of the simplest possible. The apparent complexity arises p...

The wildest and most open of his operas, New Year is an extraordinarily youthful conception for a composer in his mid-eighties, a work that spins his lyrical ecstasy and rhythmic vitality into a new w...

A very personal response to the suicide of his close friend Francesca Allinson just as the Second World War was ending. His grief and remorse found expression in recently published work of young poets...

A very personal response to the suicide of his close friend Francesca Allinson just as the Second World War was ending. His grief and remorse found expression in recently published work of young poets...

Chor einstimmig, Streicher und Klavier oder für Stimme und Klavier

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 6)