Faber Music

A kind of commedia dell'arte play gradually crystallises, with the various characters portrayed by the same person (the soloist). It is classy and humorous at the same time Göteborgsposten (Magnu...

Instrumentation: 0.2.0.2.cbsn - 2231 - perc(3): tam-t/susp.cym/bongo/3 congas/BD/glsp/crot/3 tom-t - strings

Contemporary-music-without-tears has always been his aim, and this succinct little three-movement work showed him as skilful as ever in unpretentious directness of utterance, as it were in the vernacu...

. . . the happy surprise, of his Little Concert. . . beneath the graceful long lines and jig-like spurts of a solo part expressly written for Melinda Maxwell, Maw finds time and space enough to draw q...

Commissioned by the Canberra Symphony Orchestra in 1996, Carl Vine’s Concerto for Oboe is permeated with energetic rhythms and brilliant, snaking arabesques for the soloist. An ear-catching 16-m...

Instrumentation: 2(I=picc.II=afl).2.2(II=bcl).2(II=cbsn) - 2200 -perc(2): 12 thai gong/2 tam-t/BD/spring coil - harp - strings

Composer's note: ''There is something innately human about cherishing one's deepest desires while knowing that they are impossible. Part of the model in this work is also the folly that a flute - the...

Irkanda is an Australian native word meaning 'a remote and lonely place'.

Fanny Waterman is the most outstanding piano teacher of our time. Joint founder, with Marion Harewood, of the Leeds International Piano Competition, her ever growing list of prize-winning pupils has b...

Instrumentation: 0100 - 0200 – timp – perc(2): BD/chimes/tgl/ch.cym/tam-t/vib/tom-tom/susp.cym/glsp – harp – strings

... conveyed an impression of a harsh, blistering landscape, which seemed at times on the point of eruption. Scotsman (Conrad Wilson), 27 August 1984, Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.2.2 - 4231 - timp(=BD)...

Instrumentation: 2.2(II=ca).2(II=bcl).2 - 2(1)00 - timp(=rototom or tom-t+glsp) - strings (min 4.4.3.3.2)

Music for Japan begins with a great sobbing breath of sound, rather like the deep chesty vocalism of Japanese classical singer-actors. Slow planetary wanderings of timbre and accent give way to a midd...

Lush and pictorial, it consisted of sharply defined sections that courted the charge of mere exoticism - evocations of Oriental musics and sounds, full of throbbing strings, rapidly reiterated percuss...

"Matthews calls the processes in Landscape `the irrational logic of a dream'. It might otherwise be described as an instinctive but masterful reinterpretation of sonata principles, surprising...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).3.3.3 - 4331 - timp - perc(2/3): SD/TD/BD/cyms/tamb/susp.cym/whip/tgl/unspecified tuned perc - (pno) - strings Nicholas Maw Summer Dances Summer Dances was commissioned by...

... a powerfully evocative piece for orchestra of strings, brass and percussion, which translates into a variety of extraordinary orchestral timbres and motifs, the feeling of the sun as a vast, glari...

With its rich textures bubbling with activity, not unlike Janácek thrilling at nature's evergreen renewal, the piece seeks to put into music `the energy and beauty of spring'. It is an approachable ex...

... a 17-minute, three-movement work in which orchestra suits and colours are dealt with concision, wit, fluency and light-fingered skill... Gillian Widdicombe, Financial Times, November 1976 Instrume...

Instrumentation: 2.2.ca.2.2.cbsn - 4331 - strings

... has a genuine music-hall flavour, with lots of gusto, a winning waltz theme, an Offenbachian can-can and even twittering bird effects in the tuneful pot-pourri towards the end of the suite. Ivan M...