Lawrence Grant

I wrote My box of Phantoms for Melinda Maxwell to play with the Composers Ensemble. There are four short movements marked 1. My box of Phantoms 2. My Blue Peninsula 3. Promise and unfoldment 4. An ima...

Instrumentation: ssax.2 chitaroni.bass viol.regal.cel(=chamberorg).perc(1): 11 tuned gongs/2 tam-t/BD/waterphone

Instrumentation: picc(=afl).Ebcl(=bcl).ssax - hn.tpt.trbn - perc(1): mar/BD/tam-t/2 peking opera gong - pno -vln.vla.vlc.db 'Caprichos' is the last installment of a set of three pieces: 'Dartington Do...

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...

When the writer Fernando Pessoa died in in Lisbon in 1935, he left behind a large trunk full of poetry, horoscopes, unfinished stories, essays, plays, translations, letters and journals, typed, handw...

There is no hidden programme for this little trio, but the title, used by John Dowland for consort and viol music has its own resonance. It is a quiet and oblique work with a simple and clear shape. A...

There are 23 short character pieces, so far, in my pianobook. They are all intimate, small scale inventions woven round codes and ciphers.

There are 23 short character pieces, so far, in my pianobook. They are all intimate, small scale inventions woven round codes and ciphers.

Julio Sagreras nacque a Buenos Aires nel 1879 da una famiglia di origini spagnole. Entrambi i genitori, Gaspar Sagreras e Dolores Ramirez, erano chitarristi. Fin da giovanissimo Julio manifestò straor...

Angklung was completed in Sussex and first performed at the 1974 Edinburgh Festival. It was written for and dedicated to Roger Woodward and described by the composer as follows: 'Angklung is essential...

Book of the Bells was written in Roger Woodward’s home in Brixton, London in late 1980 and early 1981, just before the first riots there. Woodward, as is well known, is a pianist of prodigious technic...

25 Chorstimmen

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1.1.0 – 1110 – vln.vla

Born 20 January 1894 in Rockland, Maine, Walter Piston was recognized in his lifetime as the ultimate musical craftsman, producing a body of orchestral and chamber work distinguished by its quintessen...

Work for Orchestra commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.