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'Peterloo' is the derisive name given to an incident on 16th August 1819, in St. Peter's Fields, Manchester, when an orderly crowd of some 8,000 people met to hear a speech on political reform. On the...

Malcolm Arnold's score to David Lean's 1954 film, Hobson's Choice, was one of three collaborations between the composer and director. It's a story of Henry Hobson, played by Charles Laughton, who runs...

For almost two centuries, the enduring legend of the maniacal barber of Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd, and his savoury human pies has inspired terror in the hearts and minds of the public, whether throug...

As part of the Stringsets series, available here is the suite from Bizet's famous opera Carmen, as arranged by Tony Osborne.

Ten years after the release of Songbird, an album that has since gone platinum, this new Eva Cassidy collection brings together yet more magical moments from one of America's most lauded singersongwri...

Out of the silent movie era and the heady heights of 1920s Hollywood, Mack and Mabel tells the heart-wrenching love story of two of its greatest legends, Mack Sennett, The King of Comedy, and his come...

... fresh, beautifully constructed, harmonically bewitching, and sensitively written for the instrument. The New Yorker (Andrew Porter), 12 May 1986

... were not just impressive: they seemed to enter the repertoire before one's very ears. The Sunday Times (Paul Driver), 9 February 1986

Shadowlines is a set of six canonic preludes for piano by George Benjamin. The work was conceived as a continuos cumulative structure and is approximately 15 minutes in duration.

. . . luminously scored and graced by a good deal of glorious vocal writing... Paul Griffiths, The Musical Times, January 1981, Instrumentation: 0000 – 1110 – perc(1): claves/2 susp.cym/vib/2 wdbl/2 s...

The vocal writing. . . is economical and pithy, and it is complemented by brilliantly imagined instrumental colours. This is music of great energy and sensuality. . .Arnold Whittall, Gramophone, Octob...

Bhakti was written in 1982, to a commission from IRCAM, Paris. It is in twelve short movements totalling about fifty minutes. There are 36 subsections; each one defined by a certain number of instrume...

Instrumentation: fl(=picc).ob(=ca).ssax – tpt – perc(1): 2 susp.cym/mar/vib/2 congas/tom-t/gong/2 wdbl/bongos/glsp/whip – 2 Yamaha DX7 II synthesizers (1 player) – pno – 2 harp – 2 vln.vla.vlc

'Scena' is a quasi-operatic scene either for singer and ensemble or for a singer-like solo instrument and ensemble. In this case the solo violin proceeds through several dramatic events roughly signal...

The Riot is a work in which virtuoso exhilaration is predominant. The game is to throw around themes which retain their identity sufficiently to bounce off each other sharply, even when combined polyp...

Jonathan Harvey's The Riot was written for HET TRIO and commissioned by Bristol University Music Department, with funds provided in part by South West Arts, especially for the Colston Symposium 19...

Dido was the most successful female artist of the early noughties and No Angels and Life For Rent (the fastest-selling album by a female at the time) were massive hits. In 2008 she returns with a deep...

'The Circus' continues the phenomenal come-back success of everyone's favourite 'man band'. It went straight to No 1 upon release, making it one of the fastest selling albums of 2008; as did the first...

Single Sheet Music for piano, voice and guitar.