Michael Berkeley Sheet Music for Ensemble

A sacred scena for tenor, piano, and string quartet telling the story, in Biblical text, of the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Mini-Drama was commissioned for Chamber Music 2000. Chamber Music 2000 works were designed to be technically easy, but still retain the composer's own individuality and musical style.

Traditionally sung on Christmas Eve, 'O Virgo virginum' is often described as the eighth ‘O’ Antiphon and praises Mary, ‘O virgin of (amongst) virgins.’ McDowall's setting is vigorous and joyful, with...

Archer's beautiful setting of this well-known text provides a wonderful alternative to more familiar versions. This charming Advent carol is also available in a version for mixed voices.

It evokes a mysterious, icy landscape, with a simple quiet tune and slowly rocking chords. It is No. 2 of a suite of three songs, 'At the Turn of the Year', depicting scenes of winter.

This setting of three stanzas from 'For the Fallen' is poignant and atmospheric. A serene refrain for unison voices is interposed between evocatively turbulent passages for SATB choir. The accompanime...

Jackson employs his signature harmonies and descriptive working of the text within an expansive polyphony to create a large-scale expressive anthem to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

A familiar Christmas carol which is set to the tune of Greensleeves. The first two verses feature the sopranos with the lyrics, opening out to all voices for the final verse. Offprinted from the colle...

Chilcott sets this beautiful text by Charles Bennett in a lush style. The Pear Tree Carol is a contemplative celebration of new life and nature. It would be equally suited to a winter concert or Chris...

With a text by John Henry Newman, Lead, kindly Light is a short, moving piece perfectly suited for our current times. Step-like movement in the melody reflects the speaker seeking light in the darknes...

A cycle of six choral settings of Elizabethan poetry by Campion, Herrick, Middleton, Shakespeare, and others. Orchestral material is available on hire.

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.