Ensemble

Bhakti was written in 1982, to a commission from IRCAM, Paris. It is in twelve short movements totalling about fifty minutes. There are 36 subsections; each one defined by a certain number of instrume...

Benjamin augurs well to become the most important British composer of his generation. An Antara' is a Peruvian panpipe. Benjamin's 1987 work synthesizes its sound via computer and adds trombones, flut...

Instrumentation: 1.1.1.bcl.1 - 1100 - perc(1): BD+foot ped/hi-hat/wdbl/(tam-t)/flexatone/vib/glsp/(mar) - pno(= elec keyboard ad lib) - harp - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

The core of The Music Factory is a flexible Teacher Resource Book, containing 120 practical activities for classroom music-making. A series of interrelated instrumental workbooks, each containing 25 u...

The title is the Russian for 'round dance'. The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Markus Stenz, in the Barbican Hall, London, on 6 December 1994, Instrumrentation: 1(...

The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Oliver Knussen in the Barbican Hall, London, on 11 February 1994, Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1(=ca+sopranino recorder).1(=Ebcl+bcl...

This piece takes its title from a painting by Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) in the Manchester City Art Gallery. Its subject is the mock Celtic Legend of a water nymph who falls for a mortal and struggles...

'Scena' is a quasi-operatic scene either for singer and ensemble or for a singer-like solo instrument and ensemble. In this case the solo violin proceeds through several dramatic events roughly signal...

Instrumentation: afl.ca(=ob).cl.bcl(=Ebcl ad lib).bsn(=cbsn) - 2 hn.tpt- perc(1): BD/4 tom-t/vibraslap/susp.cym/hi-hat/tam-t/vib/mar - pno - harp - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).0.2(II=bcl).1 - 2110 - perc(1): party siren/susp.cym/splash.cym/glsp/2 t.bells/ timp/BD/tgl/c.bell/tpl.bl/2 bongo/tom-t/crot/vib/talking drum/wdbl - pno - 2 vln.2 vlc

Full of oddities – whirring ratchets, raucous off-stage clarinets, wonky waltzes –that brilliantly capture the humour and nostalgia of the Tom Phillips drawings that inspired them. The Dai...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc+bfl).1(=sop.rec+ca).2(I=Ebl.II=bcl).ssax - hn - perc(3): vib/2 susp.cym/2 conga/bongo+djembe/BD/2 wdbl/2 tgl/tam-t/mar/cyms/mcas/tam-t/2 timp/glsp/crot/t.bells harp - pno - ce...

Instrumentation: picc.bcl.cbsn - tpt.trbn.tuba - perc(2): xyl/2 vib/crots/3 tom-t/SD/3 BD/mar - pno - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

fl(=picc).ob.cl(=Eb+bcl).bsn - hn.tpt.trbn - perc(1): susp.cym/hi-hat/SD/BD/4 tom-t/mcas/police whistle/slide whistle/mar/vib/xyl/glsp - pno - harp - 2 vln.vla.vc.db

Celestial Pied Piper is the final work in Oort Cycle; 'Following Oort' and 'Fanfare to the Standing Dead' are the other works in the trilogy. With the visible presence of Halle Bop, the comet, in 1991...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1.1(=bcl).1(=cbsn) - 1110 - perc(2): SD/whip/sleigh bells/cyms/2 anvil/2 c.bell/4 congas/3 gong/2 tam-t/tabla/vib/cast/ch.cym/almglocken/TD/BD/metal dustbin/2 rin/t.bells - p...

This piece was commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group as part of Julian Anderson's Composer-In-Association residency, with generous finan...

This work was commissioned by the Festival d'Automne a Paris, with contributions from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Opera National de Paris and Ensemble Modern, with contributions from the F...

Jonathan Harvey's The Riot was written for HET TRIO and commissioned by Bristol University Music Department, with funds provided in part by South West Arts, especially for the Colston Symposium 19...

It has a lucidity and balance, a subtle refinement of substance and texture. . . it is a work that will no doubt quickly establish, or certainly ought to establish, a regular place in what is a surpri...

The Bach Machine was commissioned by BBC Radio 3’s Educational Programme 'The Music Machine' in 1997. It uses the so-called 'Royal' theme by Frederick the Great which provided the starting point for B...

For violin, harp, and organ The violin has very fluid, long lines throughout the piece, while the harp presents wonderful themes under the violin. Yet the organ is the center of this piece. Unique har...

Classic hymns have been arranged for the flexible Sounds of series. For solos and ensembles, this collection brings together great hymns of the faith. Whether it's a soloist using a book (accompanied...