John Woolrich

A Sad Song, composed by John Woolrich for flute with piano accompaniment. Taken from the Unbeaten Tracks series edited by Philippa Davies, 8 intermediate contemporary pieces for flute and piano.

Prelude And Canzonetta, composed by John Woolrich for trumpet with piano accompaniment. Taken from the Unbeaten Tracks series edited by John Miller, 7 intermediate contemporary pieces for trumpet and...

Midnight Song, composed by John Woolrich for violin with piano accompaniment. Taken from the Unbeaten Tracks series edited by Edward Huws Jones, 8 intermediate contemporary pieces for violin and piano...

Midnight Song, composed by John Woolrich and arranged for violin with piano accompaniment and selected by Jessica O'Leary in digital sheet music format.

... a skirling, reedy accompaniment to a patter-song collected in Turkey by Bartok, beautifully proportioned and realised. Andrew Clements, Financial Times, 21 November 1989

John Woolrich's The Unlit Suburbs for tenor voice with piano accompaniment.

John Woolrich’s Locus Solus is a 12-minute scherzando, mostly fast music placed around a still centre. Its title comes from Raymond Roussel’s 1914 novel of the same name, in which an inventor has invi...

Instrumentation: afl.bcl - perc(1): mar/log drums/BD - pno -vln.vla.vlc

My oboe quintet is about 20 minutes long. Structurally it's a bit like a book of short poems (27 in all), which form a network of laments, chorales, nocturnes, fragments and echos. It is music of tick...

Instrumentation: picc(=hand bell).1.Ebcl(=ssax+cl).bcl.cbsn -1(=whistle).1(=whistle).1.1 - perc(2): BD/crot/10 or so tin cans/2 tpl.bl/whistle/gongs/tam-t/susp.cym/ped BD/guero/log drum/claves/whip/ha...

Instrumentation: afl.ssax - hn.tpt - perc(2): boobams/BD - pno - vln.vla.vlc

Instrumentation: 1.1.1.1(=cbsn) - 1110 - perc(2): 2 tam-t/12 tpl.bl/12 c.bells/2 hi-hat/2 log drum/2 BD+foot ped - harp - pno - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

Instrumentation: fl(=picc).ob.cl(=bcl).bsn - hn.tpt.trbn - db

Instrumentation: fl(=picc+afl).cl(=Ebcl+bcl).ssax - hn.tpt - pno -perc(1): 12 or more tin cans/4 car wheels/2 brakedrums/anvil/hi-hat/8 scaffold bars/3 scaffold feet - vln.vla.vlc.db

A Leap in the Dark is a mosaic of short pieces, most of which are long unison lines, or short chorales. A Leap in the Dark was commissioned by the Guildhall String Ensemble with funds provided by the...

I wrote this piece for the BBC’s celebration of Henry Purcell, ‘Music for a While’. Purcell wrote A Staircase Overture so I decided to write Another Staircase Overture, starting, like Purcell’s, with...

'Quicksteps' is a short, rhythmic presto for pairs of oboes, clarinets (one the small, edgy Eb), bassoons and horns. The Swiss painter Paul Klee started with 'an active line on a walk, moving freely,...

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

I originally planned this piece as a companion to Quick Steps, a wind octet I wrote in 1990, but as I composed it the music turned in a different, more sombre direction. There are twelve short panels:...

Instrumentation: picc.1.2(II=ca).2(II=bcl).2 - 2200 - timp - strings One of the glories of London musical life is the number, range and quality of its chamber orchestras including period bands, contem...

Instrumentation: 2(=picc).2.2.2 - 2000 - timp - (BD) - strings 1. A Curtain Tune - 2. Cantilena - 3. Speed the Going