Ludvig Schytte

'Earth cry' is a straightforward and melodious work. Its four parts are made up of a quick ritualistic music, framed by a slower music of a supplicatory nature, and an extended coda. It owes a debt to...

Instrumentation: 0100 - 0200 – timp – perc(2): BD/chimes/tgl/ch.cym/tam-t/vib/tom-tom/susp.cym/glsp – harp – strings

... conveyed an impression of a harsh, blistering landscape, which seemed at times on the point of eruption. Scotsman (Conrad Wilson), 27 August 1984, Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.2.2 - 4231 - timp(=BD)...

Music for Japan begins with a great sobbing breath of sound, rather like the deep chesty vocalism of Japanese classical singer-actors. Slow planetary wanderings of timbre and accent give way to a midd...

Lush and pictorial, it consisted of sharply defined sections that courted the charge of mere exoticism - evocations of Oriental musics and sounds, full of throbbing strings, rapidly reiterated percuss...

... a powerfully evocative piece for orchestra of strings, brass and percussion, which translates into a variety of extraordinary orchestral timbres and motifs, the feeling of the sun as a vast, glari...

The work was inspired by a visit to Easter Island, famous for its great stone heads, monuments that can be seen as both an example of the indomitable nature of the human spirit and as part of its grea...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): tam-t/susp.ch.cym/susp.cym/BD/SD/bongo/3 tom-t/thunder sheet/chime - strings

Instrumentation: 2222 - 4230 - timp - perc(1) - strings

This Orchestral Work is based on original music written by the composer for films dealing with the subject of the Second World War.

Five Songs for Baritone and Piano

First performed in 1950 at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia, The Consul was a phenomenally successful opera dealing with 20th century bureaucracy and socio-political issues. It is set in a totalit...

Martin Shaw's Heffle Cuckoo Fair, composed for Voice with Piano Accompaniment, with words by Rudyard Kipling.