Piano Excerpts

Nyman's 2011 The Prologue to Dido and Aeneas is a prologue to Henry Purcell's opera on a libretto by Nahum Tate. The libretto is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Quee...

Stars, Night, Music and Light for chorus and orchestra was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed at the BBC Proms on 15th July 2011. The performance was given to open the First Night of the...

Britten's The World of the Spirit was written for BBC Radio in 1938, his second collaboration with R. Ellis Roberts. The wide-ranging texts from religious books, poetry, and newspaper articles about t...

The Big Picture was written to celebrate the completion of a major redevelopment and refurbishment to Aberdeen Art Gallery. Wishing to examine a subject important, in different ways, to both the visua...

This suite for chorus and string orchestra was commissioned by the Addison Singers, London, and dedicated to their conductor David Wordsworth. It is a setting of texts by three American poets - E E Cu...

In this work for a mixed choir of any voices and instruments Cheryl Frances-Hoad sets a text by Molly Naylor. Lasting ten minutes this pieces was premiered by Showstoppers: Choir of a Thousand, conduc...

Iain Bell’s Beowulf, for soloists, chorus and large orchestra, is a retelling of the famous Old English epic poem. It was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and prem...

Kaija Saariaho’s Oltra Mar for chorus and orchestra was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and had its world premiere in 1999 under the baton of Kurt Masur. It includes text by Amin Maalouf and...

For solo soprano, SATB choir and string orchestra. Written in 2024. Duration: c. 19 minutes. With What Sudden Joy was commissioned by Southwell Music Festival in celebration of its tenth anniversary i...

César Franck (1822-1890) is now regarded as one of the most important French composers and organists of his time. 'Les Béatitudes', his monumental oratorio setting the text from Jesus's Sermon on the...

The composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born in the same year as Mozart, and like Salzburg's famous son, he was highly gifted and died too young. But in recent years he has received more attention. And r...

Poem by Colette, English translations by Katharine Wolff.

[Soli,GCh,Orch] 120' Soli: STB - Chor: SATB/SATB - 2(Picc).2.2.2 Kfg - 3.3.3.0. - Pk.Schl - Bc - (Klengel, Paul) dt-engl-franz

Soli: SSSTBarBBB - Chor: SATB - 2.2.2.2. - 2.2.3.0. - Pk - Mand - Str / BM: 2Ob. 2Hn. Str. Text: da Ponte, L.

Text: Wagner, Richard. Soli: SSSTTTTBBBB - Chor: SSAATTBB - Picc.2.2.2.3 - 4.4.3.0.Oph - Pk.Schl(5) - Str / BM: 2Picc.0.0.5.4 - 4.6.3.0.Oph - Schl(4)

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Vollendet und instrumentiert von Nikolai Rimskij-Korsakow Text: Mussorgskij, Modest. Soli: SSMezTTTTTBarBarBBBBB - Chor: SSAATTBB - 3(Picc).2.2.2. - 4.2.3.1. - Pk.Schl(4) - Hfe. - Klav - Str / BM: 4Tr...