John Arkell

Alto sax featured. 'Plea' will stretch everyone. It is not extremely difficult. It is four sets of different harmonic, melodic and rhythmic materials with connecting bridges between them and a summary...

Alto saxophone feature. A written solo & soli based on remembrances of Chu Berry by the composer. Good full harmonization ala Dirk. Inst.5 sax's,5 flugelhorns, 3 tenor trombones, bass trombone & 4rhyt...

Premiered by Tamsin Little at the Leeds Music Festival, 1989.

Commissioned by the BBC for the 1984 Promenade Concerts.

Commissioned and first performed by Richard Rodney Bennett and Susan Bradshaw in 1977.

Libretto for Caritas, an Opera in Two Acts. Caritas' is in two acts, the first consisting of 12 short scenes, the second being a continuous scena. The overall form of the opera retains the architectur...

Scored for Soprano, Piano and tape. Composed in 1976. Duration 6 minutes.