Jonathan Harvey

The Church Music Society affirms the importance of music in worship and of the effective use of music appropriate to its proper liturgical use. It strives always to sustain the Church's wonderful musi...

In Jonathan Harvey’s Toccata for organ and tape an agile, brilliant organ part is set against a moto perpetuo stream of electronic sound. The 6-minute work was developed at IRCAM and was premiered in...

. . . a world of shimmering sounds and unusual moves. That world has a chaotic surface, yet there is an undeniable internal coherence and drama that engages the attention and the imagination. . . Mr H...

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...

. . . a world of shimmering sounds and unusual moves. That world has a chaotic surface, yet there is an undeniable internal coherence and drama that engages the attention and the imagination. . . Mr H...

This one-movement quartet was generated entirely by the innocent unison melody which occurs near the beginning. Having written this melody I analysed it, (the first stage of departure from innocence)...

This one-movement quartet was generated entirely by the innocent unison melody which occurs near the beginning. Having written this melody I analysed it, (the first stage of departure from innocence)...

Chant in English implies a liturgical or ritualistic incantation. This two-minute piece is based on a drone and has a ceremonial character. It was originally written for viola and was then rewritten f...

Chant in english implies a liturgical or ritualistic incantation. This two-minute piece is based on a drone and has a ceremonial character. It was originally written for viola and was then rewritten f...

The piece was prompted by the experience of exposure to close lightning, and running fast before it in wild exhilaration, aware that it could kill at any moment. The flute, with its vivid connection t...

Electronic Equipment: mixer/amplifier/2 speakers/2 reverberator/microphones

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 – 2200 – perc(1): 2 susp.cym/2 timp/2 rototoms/2 wdbl/2 tpl.bl/tgl/tam-t (with water trough) – strings (min 6.4.3.3.2)

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 – 2200 – perc(1): 2 susp.cym/2 timp/2 rototoms/2 wdbl/2 tpl.bl/tgl/tam-t (with water trough) – strings (min 6.4.3.3.2)

Instrumentation: 3(II+III=picc).3(III=ca).3(III=bcl).3(III=cbsn) – 4331 – perc(2): 2 wdbl/tpl.bl/2 tgl/5 susp.cym/mark tree/t.bells/tam-t/guiro/4 c.bell/japanese temple bell/bongos/BD/gong – vib – gls...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2.3(III=bcl).3(III=cbsn) – 4331 – perc(1): t.bells/glsp/2 oriental gong/3 wdbl/tpl.bl/tom-t/BD+foot ped – pno – harp – strings – reverberation unit + amplification (ad lib...

Instrumentation: Principals: Jesus(Bar)/ Mary Magdalene(S)/Second Mary(S)/Third Mary(M-S)/Pilate(T)/Caiaphas(B)/Judas(B-Bar)/Priest(Bar) Small Roles: 2 Angels (2 Trebles)/Peter(B)/John(T)/Good Thief(B...

. . . a stirring and beautiful adventure. . . He has written some of the most ardent love music since Messiaen's, and love music finds its place in the opera. . . There is also music of pain and despa...

Written for female voice and piano. The piano part is written on two octagonal sheets where the treble and bass parts are interchangable.