Noten von Faber Music

Instrumentation: 2(I=picc.II=afl).2.2(II=bcl).2(II=cbsn) - 2200 -perc(2): 12 thai gong/2 tam-t/BD/spring coil - harp - strings

The full score for this large work for orchestra, written in 2005 for violinist Anthony Marwood. The complete score and parts are available for rental only. Please contact [email protected]...

Composer's note: ''There is something innately human about cherishing one's deepest desires while knowing that they are impossible. Part of the model in this work is also the folly that a flute - the...

Irkanda is an Australian native word meaning 'a remote and lonely place'.

... perhaps the most impressive, motivated handling of orchestral forces in an output which has always demonstrated an extraordinary control of large forms. And the most telling of its time-tricks is...

'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: 4(I-IV=picc, IV=afl).0.4(IV=cl in A, III+IV=bcl).0.cbsn - 3.4(I=ptpt).btpt.1.btrbn.1 - perc(3): 2 xyl/5 SD/2 whip/2 vib/2 vibraslap/2 BD/tgl/3 tpl.bl/2 congas/5 bongos/4 c.bells- pno(...

Instrumentation: 2 fl(II=picc2).picc(=fl3).2.Ebcl.2 cl(I=Eb, II=Bb, A &bcl).bcl.2.cbsn - 4.2.3.1 - timp - perc(4): 15 tpl.bl(large-very small)/2 guiros(large & small)/tam-t/2 ratchet/BD/2SD(medium & v...

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)...

Instrumentation: 2.2(II=ca).2(II=bcl).2 - 2(1)00 - timp(=rototom or tom-t+glsp) - strings (min 4.4.3.3.2)

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...

"Matthews calls the processes in Landscape `the irrational logic of a dream'. It might otherwise be described as an instinctive but masterful reinterpretation of sonata principles, surprising...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).3.3.3 - 4331 - timp - perc(2/3): SD/TD/BD/cyms/tamb/susp.cym/whip/tgl/unspecified tuned perc - (pno) - strings Nicholas Maw Summer Dances Summer Dances was commissioned by...

... 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...

With its rich textures bubbling with activity, not unlike Janácek thrilling at nature's evergreen renewal, the piece seeks to put into music `the energy and beauty of spring'. It is an approachable ex...

... a 17-minute, three-movement work in which orchestra suits and colours are dealt with concision, wit, fluency and light-fingered skill... Gillian Widdicombe, Financial Times, November 1976 Instrume...

Instrumentation: 2.2.ca.2.2.cbsn - 4331 - strings

... has a genuine music-hall flavour, with lots of gusto, a winning waltz theme, an Offenbachian can-can and even twittering bird effects in the tuneful pot-pourri towards the end of the suite. Ivan M...