Ensembles

This is a collection of dances arranged for string ensemble. The pieces explore various dance styles from around the world, and include a Russian dance and a German dance. The pieces are fun to play a...

A taste of the twenties, a sentimental ballad, a jazz waltz and some funk-rock are brought together in a suite which explores the lighter side of string playing. Drawing on a variety of poplular style...

'Bytes and Pieces' is a 'microchip menu', programmed to portray some of the many exciting aspects of the computer world and the important part which these powerful and sophisticated machines play in o...

"… moodily evocative … featuring solo viola and stunning effects from the rest of the strings." The Citizen, 19 July 1993

These stringsets arrange seven classic melodies from 'The King and I' and 'South Pacific' for intermediate string ensemble. The arrangements are relatively straightforward, great fun to play and will...

This is echt, original Woolrich. Eleven tiny movements, each a perfectly realised cameo, each revealed, stated, and gone, perfectly expressing the beautiful lines of Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely, by w...

Whitewater, as the name suggests, was inspired by the rushing water in creeks, rivers and streams around rocks and other obstacles. The work has been loosely structured around the progress of a river...

Stephen Warbeck's Oscar-winning music from the hit film 'Shakespeare in Love' has been skillfully arranged by Tony Osbourne into a four-movement suite for intermediate string ensemble. The suite perfe...

Taking its name from the Japanese word that translates as ‘foreigner’, Gaijin for koto-player, strings and CD was premiered in 1994 by the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra under Richard Mills, t...

In 'Danceries', by Kenneth Hesketh, the melodies themselves are a mixture of old and new. Where the old occurs it has been adapted in mood and composition and is often interspersed with completely new...

In 'Danceries', by Kenneth Hesketh, the melodies themselves are a mixture of old and new. Where the old occurs it has been adapted in mood and composition and is often interspersed with completely new...

'Lullaby' is beautiful euphonium duet with band accompaniment. The solo and contrapuntal writing, combined with a rich accompaniment from the band, offers peace and serenity. This work has recently be...

'The Foggy Dew' is one of those charming Irish melodies which seem to capture the beauty and serenity of that country, all of which is evoked in this delicate arrangement by Philip Doe. This work has...

'The Alchymist's Journal' gets its title from the book of the same name by American author Evan S. Connell. The book fictionalises a number of famous Alchemist's writings, each one developing another'...

'The Alchymist's Journal' gets its title from the book of the same name by American author Evan S. Connell. The book fictionalises a number of famous Alchemist's writings, each one developing another'...

'The Keystone Kops' was a series of silent comedies featuring an incompetent group of policemen. They first appeared in the 1912 film Hoffmeyer's Legacy but it was the 1913 feature The Bangville Polic...

'The Keystone Kops' was a series of silent comedies featuring an incompetent group of policemen. They first appeared in the 1912 film Hoffmeyer's Legacy but it was the 1913 feature The Bangville Polic...

Whirlegigg is the middle English word for a contraption that continuously spins. A great fascination with many inventors of the medieval period was to develop a perpetual motion machine constantly tur...

Whirlegigg is the middle English word for a contraption that continuously spins. A great fascination with many inventors of the medieval period was to develop a perpetual motion machine constantly tur...

A Festive Overture is bravura in nature. The outer sections are busy and colourful and frame a more expansive, but no less urgent, middle section which develops a large arching theme. The work ends as...

Pentacle has been selected as the test piece for the 2009 National Brass Band Championships, First Section. It is a five-movement work, played without a break. The Pentacle is an image of an up-right...

Pentacle has been selected as the test piece for the 2009 National Brass Band Championships, First Section. It is a five-movement work, played without a break. The Pentacle is an image of an up-right...

The formal shape of Hesketh's Elegy for brass band and percussion is built on mounting intensification of melodic lines as each section follows from another, with varying colours and intensity. It was...