Jonathan Harvey

Jonathan Harvey’s Vers was written in 2000 for the 75th birthday of Pierre Boulez. Following the double meaning of the word 'vers', this 4-minute work is a verse which leads 'towards' both a brief quo...

Haiku, composed by Jonathan Harvey. Arranged for piano solo in digital sheet music format.

The playing score for Climbing Frame, composed by Jonathan Harvey for c. 12-15 instruments in digital sheet music format. This score includes a licence to produce a maximum of 15 copies for the indivi...

The vocal writing. . . is economical and pithy, and it is complemented by brilliantly imagined instrumental colours. This is music of great energy and sensuality. . .Arnold Whittall, Gramophone, Octob...

Written for soprano, 3 clarinets and piano.

Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was a British composer who studied at St Johns College, Cambridge and Princeton University, and who later taught at various universities and conservatoires across Europe an...

The Riot is a work in which virtuoso exhilaration is predominant. The game is to throw around themes which retain their identity sufficiently to bounce off each other sharply, even when combined polyp...

Commissioned by David Hellewell for the Apollo Emsemble with funds provided by the Southern Arts Association. Written for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and tam-tam.

Instrumentation: fl(=picc).ob(=ca).ssax – tpt – perc(1): 2 susp.cym/mar/vib/2 congas/tom-t/gong/2 wdbl/bongos/glsp/whip – 2 Yamaha DX7 II synthesizers (1 player) – pno – 2 harp – 2 vln.vla.vlc

. . . lush chords and sonorities, ecstatic rhythmic energy within constantly changing metres, intricate birdsong-like arabesques and a primary-coloured approach to the orchestra. Stephen Banfield, The...

In Quartet no. 3 there is a dialectic between a surface texture which is fleeting and fragmented and an underlying structure which is very strictly repetitive. A number of ‘themes’ (ten, or twenty whe...