Ensembles

Instrumentation: fl(=picc).ob(=ca).cl(=bcl).bsn - pno My initial ideas for this piece were more obviously connected with colours than is the finished work, which consists of an abstract series of vari...

Instrumentation: fl - perc(1): vib/mar/glsp - harp - vla

My Clarinet Quartet, which I wrote in the early months of 1984, is in two sharply contrasted movements. The first, a theme and variations, begins by alternating allegretto sections, which are dominate...

In October 1986, when I was in Czechoslovakia, I visited the town of Kromeriz to see again Titian’s great painting The Flaying of Marsyas, which I had seen in London exhibition in 1983. It is a horrif...

In October 1986, when I was in Czechoslovakia, I visited the town of Kromeriz to see again Titian’s great painting The Flaying of Marsyas, which I had seen in London exhibition in 1983. It is a horrif...

Instrumentation: fl - perc(2): guiro/sandblock/wood chimes/mcas/bongos/ch.cym/music sticks/timb/tam-t - vln.vlc

Instrumentation: cl - perc(1): bongos/2 conga/tam-t/BD/ch.cym - 2 gtr - vln.db

Instrumentation: 3 fl.3 ob.Ebcl.2 cl.bcl.(cbcl).2 bsn.cbsn - 4432 -perc(3): spring coil/4 brake drum/3 susp.cym/siz.cym/tgl/t.bells/2 glsp/4 anvil/4 gong/bell tree/vib/tam-t/lujon/handbells

Instrumentation: fl(=picc).afl(=picc).ob.2 cl.2 bcl.bsn - 1211 -perc(2): 2 anvil/spring coils/crot/4 tam-t/bell tree/2 vib/2 glsp/tgl/2 siz.cym/t.bells/hand bells - pno - harp - amplified vlc.db The t...

Commissioned by The Nash Ensemble with funds provided by IBM. In Buddhist writings the lotus, padma, signifies the world of form in all its individuality through which the light of reality shines. A l...

Instrumentation: tenor recorder - soprano glsp/soprano xyl/alto xyl/bass xyl/soprano metallophone/alto metallophone/ bass metallophone/timp/BD/susp.cym/2 drum (eg bongo)

As the title suggests, Didjeribluegrass incorporates some aspects of bluegrass music, in particular the fast “fiddling” style of string playing that includes many open strings. Bluegrass music is espe...