Ensembles

Includes historical and performance notes by Bryan Hesford.

The opportunity to write a string quartet for the Chilingirians was on the table for a long time. After several false starts, the present piece was begun in Crete in the summer of 2000. An earlier wor...

Like so many of his compatriots, the Czech-born Vaclav Pichl spent much of his working life in Vienna (where the Empress Maria Theresa, preferred him to Mozart), but with a period working for Dittersd...

This second volume in the series of his Op. 13 quartets exploits each instrument equally - even the viola is allocated elaborate solo passages - and offers an attractive alternative (as Haydn realised...

The present work features a kind of pentatonic music that is often associated with a far eastern landscape. However, it has no genuine compositional connection with Asian music. In this piece pentaton...

The main movements, introitus and gradual, have distinctive central ideas – the manic string-crossing chaos of the first and the rather more introspective and mellifluous material of the second....

The inspiration for Tread Softly came from two contrasting sources: the religious music of early medieval Spain, and Debbie Locke's work of art 'Retracing Your Steps - Bristol I'. Although over a thou...

Sergueï Ivanovitch is the Russian Everyman. A whole world is conjured up during this 9-minute accelerando: the village, the city, the factory, the Revolution, the future and the past.