Faber Music

Colin Matthews’ searching setting of Paul Auster received its first performance at Sadlers Wells in 1990 from bass-baritone David Mattinson and pianist Malcolm Martineau. This ruminative 4-minute song...

This setting of a poem by Thomas Traherne (1637-74) was composed between August 1978 and May 1979 as a sixty-ninth birthday present for Peter Pears, who, with Steuart Bedford, gave the first performan...

‘Tailitnama’ (‘Tai’ pronounced ‘tie’) is an Aboriginal totemic centre in Central Australia. The text for this work consists of four verses, in the Aranda Language, from a rock wallaby song associated...

Schubert's simple yet poignant setting of the first four stanzas of the Passiontide text is a gem. Brian Newbould's edition, prepared from the composer's original manuscript, will be welcomed by choir...

Instrumentation: perc(1): tam-t/susp.cym - strings

Instrumentation: 0.3(III=ca).0.1 - 0320 - timp - strings Stars was composed in 1970 for Paul Steinitz's London Bach Society. I used all the available forces at the concert in which it was first perfor...

Choral Symphony is a large-scale work for chorus, organ and orchestra by the Australian composer Carl Vine. It sets a creative myth of Akkadia (c.1250 BC) describing the creation of the world from pri...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 – 2200 – perc(1): 2 susp.cym/2 timp/2 rototoms/2 wdbl/2 tpl.bl/tgl/tam-t (with water trough) – strings (min 6.4.3.3.2)

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 – 2200 – perc(1): 2 susp.cym/2 timp/2 rototoms/2 wdbl/2 tpl.bl/tgl/tam-t (with water trough) – strings (min 6.4.3.3.2)

Instrumentation: picc.2.2.2.2 - 4231 - timp - perc(3): mar or xylo/glsp/vib or mar/tamb/wdbl/c.bell/drum kit (BD/SD/hi-hat/ splash, crash and ride cyms) - pno - strings

The Three Spirituals contained in this volume, 'Go down, Moses', 'Deep River' and 'Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel', were written and first performed in 1998. Each presents a different 'mini-drama'; a s...

Instrumentation: 3(II+III=picc).3(III=ca).3(III=bcl).3(III=cbsn) – 4331 – perc(2): 2 wdbl/tpl.bl/2 tgl/5 susp.cym/mark tree/t.bells/tam-t/guiro/4 c.bell/japanese temple bell/bongos/BD/gong – vib – gls...

Instrumentation: 2.2.Ebcl.1.bcl.2.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(3): 2 BD/4 tom-t/bongos/tam-t/susp.cym/siz.cym/tgl/tamb/lujon/log drum/2 c.bells/ratchet/sleigh bells/sandpaper block/guiro/vib/glsp - harp...

Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.2.2 - 4331 - timp - perc(2): cyms/BD/SD/tam-t/glsp/tamb/xyl/cast - harp - strings

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

Carl Vine’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997) is one of three large-scale works composed with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in mind – the others being his first two piano sonatas. Its composer d...

Dominic Muldowney Oboe Concerto My recent work in the concert hall has almost entirely been in the form of ‘song-cycle’ and ‘concerto’ –a theatrical form for me and a reflection, I’m sure, of my work...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).ca.2(II=bcl).asax.2 - 4231 - timp - perc(3): BD/SD/bongos/2 conga/2 mcas/3 susp.cym/ch.cym/tgl/tamb/flexatone/steel drum/gong/t.bells/crot/vib/mar - pno(=cel) - harp - stri...

Instrumentation: picc.2.0.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn – 4221 – perc(4): 4 claves/2 cabaca/6 tom-t/2 wdbl/4 susp.cym/2 tgl/glsp/2 BD/mar/2 splash cym/4 tpl.bl/mcas/SD/vib – harp – strings Dominic Muldowney Oboe Co...

Instrumentation: 2222 - 0200 - perc(3): 2 rainsticks/thunder sheet/tam-t/ch.cym/bongos/tom-t - strings