Robert Saxton

For Piano and String Quartet. Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with funds provided by the London Arts Board.

Quoting Saxton: My Fantazia for String Quartet was complete in December 1993 in response to a commission from the London International String Quartet Competition for a test piece for the 1994 competit...

Score available separately: CH61008

Songs, Dances and Ellipses was commissioned by the Barbican Centre for the Chilingirian String Quartet on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. Quoting Saxton: 'The title Songs, Dances and Ellipses...

Praeludium On The Name George Frideric Handel was commissioned by the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain (of which Handel was a founder member in 1738) and first performed by the Navarra Stri...

For Wind Quintet: Score available CH55254

Invocation, Dance and Meditation by Robert Saxton, written in 1991 for viola and piano.

For solo Cello. Published 1999. Commissioned by Steven Isserlis with funds from the John S Cohen Foundation. First performance: Steven Isserlis, Aldeburgh Festival, 10th June 2000. Score.

Krystallen, for flute and piano, was written in 1973 for the flautist, Susan Milan, who gave the first performance on BBC Radio 3 with Clifford Benson in January 1975. The music is in three sections,...

For Clarinet and Piano. Published 2004. Commissioned by Ian Mitchell for inclusion in the Associated Board's forthcoming Spectrum Volume for Clarinet. Score and part.

For solo Oboe. First published in 2001. Commissioned by Melinda Maxwell. First performed at Dartington Summer School in August 2001.

Robert Saxton's Suite for violin and piano was written for Madeleine Mitchell, who gave the first performance with Clare Hammond (piano) at the 2019 Three Choir Festival at Gloucester on 28th July 201...

For Baritone Voice and Piano. Published 2007 For the 20th anniversary of NMC. Poem by Robert Saxton, 1998. Score.

Time And The Seasons: A Song Cycle was commissioned by Sholto Kynoch, with funding from the Britten Pears Foundation and Truffle Hunter, for Roderick Williams and Andrew West to perform at the 2013 Ox...

For Tenor, Counter-Tenor and Piano.

Robert Saxton's Shakespeare Scenes for Solo Trumpet and String Orchestra. Composed in 2013. Duration: 15 minutes

Commissioned by the Cheltenham International Festival of Music.

Work commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Work for Orchestra.

A Hymn to the Thames was commissioned by James Turnbull and the Music Director of the St Paul's Sinfonia, Andrew Morley. It was begun in 2019 and completed early in 2020. There are four movements play...

Vocal Score for the Opera in Two Acts. Caritas' is in two acts, the first consisting of 12 short scenes, the second being a continuous scena. The overall form of the opera retains the architecture of...

For SSA Choir and Organ. Text Psalm 24.