Ensemble

The composition, Celtic Scents for Octet by Kazimierz Machala is a fine addition to mixed wind and string chamber music repertoire. Joining his previous editions of Celtic Scents written and arranged...

Commissioned by Gabrielle Israelievitch for her violinist husband JacquesÔÇÖ 50th birthday, Hammer and Bow is Michael ColgrassÔÇÖ musical tribute to Jacques and their son, marimbist Michael Israelievi...

The textures of this piece go from solo flute with string accompaniment to highly concentrated contrapuntal passages with all 5 instruments sharing equally in the music proceedings. The 1st mvt. is bu...

When the WMFA board requested me to write a musical tribute to Patricia (Pat) Schaefer, I asked her husband, Jack, about her ancestry. Scottish and Czech, he replied. Ye Banks and Braes O'Bonnie Doon...

Work for Flute, Viola and Harp.

Work dating from 1929.

This consists of five short movements. They were written for the Sunday lunchtime magazine programme, 'Not Now, I'm Listening' and were first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 6 November 1977. The work was...

A work for speaker and chamber ensemble commissioned by the Globe Playhouse Trust Ltd. , and was first performed at the Globe Playhouse in April 1972 by Ron Moody and the London Sinfonietta conducted...

Work for Chamber Ensemble commissioned by the London Sinfonietta.

Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Cello, Glockenspiel, Guitar, Harpsichord, Marimba, Mezzo-Soprano, Viola, Violin, Celeste Davies discovers aspects of himself in examining one of his most troubled predecesso...

This quintet was written in September and October of 1981 and was commissioned using funds from the Harvard Musical Association.

Verse 1' marks the beginning of a more ambitious and intense style of composition. The ideas are relatively simple and develop gradually in a cyclic fashion within a one movement, sectional design. Pr...

Geranos was commissioned by the Fires of London with funds made available by the Arts Council of Great Britain. It was completed in September 1985 and lasts approximately 18 minutes. It is dedicated t...

Work for Clarinet, Horn and String Quartet. Commissioned by the BBC for the 1955 Cheltenham Festival. Score available: CH00274

Work for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello. Score available: CH00455

Work for Solo Soprano and Tenor, Timpani, Gongs, Handbells and Strings. Commissioned by the St. David's Cathedral Bach Festival. These settings of sixteen Haiku by the Greek poet, George Seferis (1900...

Beyond Dark consists of one movement which is in three sections fast-slow-fast. Influences from the modern jazz harmony of Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea and also traditional Japanese instruments such...

The Last Sleep of the Virgin was written for string quartet and handbells in 1991. It enacts the story of the falling asleep and burial, by the Apostles, of the Mother of Jesus. This work was commissi...

Hymns Of Paradise, for bass solo, SA chorus and six violins. This work was commissioned by Ross Pople for performance by the London Festival Orchestsra. It was first performed on 27th May 1993 at St P...

Two dances for flute and harp from Peter Maxwell Davies' ballet Caroline Mathilde. A new instrumentation restores this linked pair of dances from Davies's second full-length ballet, Caroline Mathilde...