Faber Music

The Team Series is suitable for use with both individuals or as a group tutor encouraging students to try ensemble playing from the very early stages. All of the books in the series are fully integrat...

This work was originally written in 1964 for two 12 year old twin brothers whom Britten met whilst working in Budapest. Each twin played the piano, and one the flute and the other the violin. A second...

Discover the enchanting synergy of lyrical vocal artistry and shimmering harp timbres: With "Eight Folk Song Arrangements (1976)", Faber Music presents an exquisite collection of masterful settings fo...

Instrumentation: fl(=picc+afl) - perc(1): tam-t/glsp/SD/4 tom-t/3 tgl/2congas/susp.cym - harp - vla

The incidental music to the BBC radio serialization of T.H. White's book was composed in May 1939, soon after Britten's arrival in Canada, and was broadcast in six episodes during June and Jul...

Cats is Andrew Lloyd Webber's brilliant musical adaptation of T.S. Eliot's much loved classic, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and has delighted audiences all over the world. Here are descant and...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1(=ca).1.1 – hn – pno – 2 vln.vla.vlc.db Tendril (1987) is scored for eleven instruments and was commissioned and first performed by the Nash Ensemble. The work is a vivid so...

based on the works of American poets Wendy S. Walters and Naomi Shihab Nye. Instrumentation: fl(=picc).ob(=ca).cl.bsn(=cbsn) - 1.1(=flhn).1.0 - perc(1): drumkit (5 tpbl/3 tom-t/SD/ride cym/hi-hat/BD/g...

Instrumentation: 1111 - 1000 - 4 vln.2 vla.2 vlc.db

This previously unpublished trio was written in late 1929, after Britten composed the Rhapsody For String Quartet (March 1929). The new publication will be edited by David Matthews , who spent 3 years...

Forever Ella includes nineteen Ella Fitzgerlad classics arranged for voice and piano with guitar chords. Includes such greats as Someone to Watch Over Me, Summertime, Misty, I've Got My Love To Keep M...

Olicantus is a small but perfectly formed miniature written in 2002 as a surprise 50 th birthday gift to Benjamin's friend and fellow composer-conductor Oliver Knussen. Scored for a mellow group of 15...

Guilty, the original Grammy-winning 1980 collaboration between Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb, is now regarded as a truly great album. To celebrate 25 years since its release, Streisand and Gibb have...

Formally, the Trio has a classical shape. The first movement is in sonata form, with an expanded recapitulation. The second movement combines a forceful Presto and an eerie, unworldly trio episode, bo...

Commissioned for MusicNOW, the new music chamber series of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, this work for soprano and ensemble of 15 players lasts 12 minutes and uses texts by Auden, Machado and Emily...

Instrumentation: picc.ob.Bb cl.bsn - hn.tpt.trbn - pno - drum kit: (BD/SD/4 tom-t/crash.cym/hi-hat/splash/ride/china/2 cowbells) - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

The album-matching songbook to Green Day's much-anticipated eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown. A truly brilliant concept album, in th style of a punk rock opera, the album runs through the n...

A gloriously offbeat scherzo made from “distressed” materials.' The Sunday Times (Paul Driver) 27 February 2005 Instrumentation: bcl(with amplification).ssax - perc(1): mar/trash metal/BD/...

Requires an instrumental ensemble of 12 players. The Comedy of Change was commissioned by the Rambert Dance Company and Het Concertgebouw, for Asko / Schönberg. The UK premier took place as a ballet c...

Martin Suckling's critically acclaimed Candlebird is a stunning song-cycle for baritone and ensemble, based on the poems of Don Paterson. The first performance was given by Leigh Melrose, baritone, an...

Scored for: fl.ob.cl - tpt - perc(1): vib/mar/glsp/crot/2 bongos - harp - vln.vla.vlc.db

Nature , Tansy Davies' gloriously offbeat concerto for piano and ten instruments from 2012, teems with invention. This 20-minute work was inspired by shamanic rituals and the supernatural, and Davies...

Acceleration, deceleration, and the inconsistent nature of time are at the heart Piano Trio 'The Chronophage' by Tom Coult. Throughout the 17-minute work, cello and piano lines constantly speed up or...

This exquisite 'fragment of a Japonisme' - premiered in 2017 and conceived as a kind of double concerto for soprano, flute and ensemble of 23 players - proved to be Oliver Knussen's final work. The 8-...