Gerald Albright

Berceuse was commissioned by the Birmingham Chamber Music Society for their Diamond Jubilee Season, 2011/12 - the first performance was given by John McCabe on 18th February 2012 at the Adrian Boult H...

John McCabe 'Scrunch' arranged for Solo Piano. Duration 6 minutes.

Commissioned by the British Music Society as a Test Piece for its Piano Awards Competition held at Trinity College of Music, London on 31st October 2004. The piece was inspired by the peal at Tunstal...

Commissioned by the BBC for Ashley Wass, one of Radio 3's New Generation Artists, and first performed at a Proms Chamber Music Concert on 31st August 2009. 'The series of concert pieces (ranging from...

Le Poisson Magique is a work by John McCabe for Organ. A full performance of the piece lasts around 6 minutes.

These Carol-Preludes were written in 2008, but the idea was in the composer's mind for many years before this. Essentially, they revive the old style of the Chorale- Prelude, but using carol tunes ins...

Composed in 1961

The Johannis Partita by John McCabe, for Organ.

1965 work by John McCabe, commissioned by Bryan Hesford.

Commissioned for the 26th International Organ Festival at St Albans 2011 and funded by the RVW Trust. Duration: 7. 45 Performance notes Registration: the performer is free to determine the entire reg...

This little tribute to William Ferris and the William Ferris Chorale consists of two sections, the first slow and the second quick. The text is simply the two words of the title, the Amen being the fi...

The 1964 setting for mixed chorus by John McCabe.

Arranged for SSSAAATTTBBB, the lyrics are from an anonymous writer of the fourteenth century and have been adapted by the composer. The composer says: Woefully arrayed is a supreme choral setting by...

Written for SATB chorus, this is John McCabe's setting of a text by Thomas Hardy, celebrating the songbirds of England and the birth/rebirth of life itself. A Piano accompaniment is provided for rehea...

Commissioned by St John's College, Cambridge, the first performance of John McCabe's The last and greatest Herald took place at St. John's College, Cambridge, on 29th November 2008 by the combined Cho...

Chausson wrote some interludes for flute and harp for a production of Aristophanes' The Birds, performed at Le Petit ThéÔtre de la Galerie Vivienne, Paris, in 1889. At the request of Emily Beynon, wor...

The composer writes: Pilgrim was inspired, it will be no surprise to learn, by reading Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Vaughan Williams's great opera on the subject had fascinated me from its first perf...