Ensemble

1.1.1.1 - 1.1.1.1 - Perc - 2Pf - 1.1.1.1.1

First performed April 1989, Oslo by Oslo Sinfonietta conducted by Christian Eggen. Part 2 of the Nine Rivers Cycle.

First performed June 1989, Almeida Festival, London by Music Projects/London conducted by Richard Bernas. Commissioned by the Holst Foundation and Greater London Arts. Part 4 of the Nine Rivers Cycle.

First performance January 1991, Glasgow, Paragon Ensemble conducted by David Davies. Commissioned by the City of Glasgow and Scottish Arts Council. Part 6 of the Nine Rivers Cycle.

Pierre Boulez zu seinem 65. Geburtstag.

First complete performance December 1993, Antwerp by Hilde Torgesen and Ensemble Champ d'Action. Commissioned by 'Antwerpen 1993' for the ensembles Accroche-Note and Champ d'Action 1. La pensée rêveri...

First performed January 1993, Rotterdam by Irvine Arditti and the Nieuw Ensemble conducted by Ed Spanjaard. Commissioned by the Nieuw Ensemble

First performance: October 1996, Musica '96, Strasbourg - A. Angster, M. Kanno and Y. Sugawara (Ensemble Accroche-Note). Commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture

First performed February 2000, ECLAT Stuttgart by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Arditti String Quartet. Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte.

While writing this quintet Berkeley had in mind the paintings of John Craxton and Mark Rothko, and the way in which paint can vibrate as colours collide. The piece opens with the oboe intoning three n...

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.

Der Solopart der drei Konzerte û ursprünglich für die Sextflöte geschrieben und hier transponiert û ist nicht nur auf der Blockflöte, sondern auch auf Querflöte bzw. Piccolo ausführbar.

Der Solopart der drei Konzerte û ursprünglich für die Sextflöte geschrieben und hier transponiert û ist nicht nur auf der Blockflöte, sondern auch auf Querflöte bzw. Piccolo ausführbar.

Der Komponist wirkte als Blockflöter und Maler in England. Von seinen Werken sind lediglich 12 Concerti für Bläser mit Streicherbegleitung überliefert. Die Concerti für Blfl., die stilistisch etwa in...

Eine kleine Kantate nach Gedichten von Wilhelm Busch. Abwechslungsreich, unterhaltsam, gemässigt moderne Tonsprache. Leicht bis mittelschwer.

For horn quartet and rhythm section (harpsichord, guitar, bass and drums).

Alec Wilder's Jazz Suite for horn quartet, harpsichord, guitar bass and drums with four movements: Horns O'Plenty, Conversation Piece, Serenade, and Horn Belt Boogie. This suite was composed in 1951 a...

Alec Wilder impresses with his Suite in four movements for Flute, Clarinet and Piano. High points are the offbeat jazzy, Scherzo-like second movement and the well-argued slow movement. This adventurou...