Classical Instrumental Works for Orchestra

A BBC commission for The Listening Project 'Live' First performance and broadcast: MediaCity, Salford and BBC Radio 4 - 14th December 2012 at 19.15, performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Composer's Note: The subtitle comes from a poem 'Exequy'' by Peter Porter which memorialises the death of his first wife. The symphony was written in 2010 while my wife Elizabeth was coping with a ter...

Co-commissioned by The Scottish and Swedish Chamber Orchestras.

Shadows of a Changing Land takes inspiration from a book of photography by Peter Freeman depicting the Lake District National Park.

First performance given by the Esprit Orchestra conducted by Alex Pauk at the Koerner Hall, Toronto, Canada on 29 January 2015.

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki's career spans more than 40 years, dating from the post-Stalinist era of the mid 1950s and embracing a catalogue of more than 70 acknowledged works. It was not, however, until t...

This piece was first performed in April 1977. This is the Chester Music edition but the original publishers were Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne.

Asteroid 4179: Toutatis is a small work written for the project that Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra created around The Planets of Holst. It is based on Toutatis, the asteroid whose...

Asteroid 4179: Toutatis is a small work written for the project that Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra created around The Planets of Holst. It is based on Toutatis, the asteroid whose...

Study score. Commissioned by the New Edinburgh Orchestra in celebration of Buzzy Murray. First performed on 19 March 2022 by the New Edinburgh Orchestra, conducted by Tim Paxton. Duration: c. 16 minut...

Study score. Commissioned by the New Edinburgh Orchestra in celebration of Buzzy Murray. First performed on 19 March 2022 by the New Edinburgh Orchestra, conducted by Tim Paxton. Duration: c. 16 minut...

Study score for the orchestral work from 1998, composed by Saariaho for Esa-Pekka Salonen and Magnus Lindberg's 40th birthdays.

Study score for the orchestral work from 1998, composed by Saariaho for Esa-Pekka Salonen and Magnus Lindberg's 40th birthdays.

Kaija Saariaho’s Song for Betty is an arrangement of the last movement from her opera L’amour de loin and was an 80th birthday gift for Betty Freeman, who very generously supported the commission of t...

Kaija Saariaho’s Vista for orchestra was commissioned by Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. It was partially inspired...