Noten von Faber Music

Instrumentation: Perc(1): sistrum/siz.cym/hi-hat/BD/crot/large springcoil/cuica(or lion's roar)

Instrumentation: sop(=claves/tam-t/bamboo chimes/ant.cym) - cl(=bcl) -pno(=2 wdbl/whistle) - vln.vlc Harlequinade was commissioned by Washington Arts Centre with funds provided by Northern Arts. It wa...

Instrumentation: cl - pno - tam-t - vln.vla.vlc.db

Instrumentation: 2 vln.tenor vln.bass vln.violone or: 2 vln.vla.vlc.db (either solo strings or string section)

Instrumentation: ob.ssax.perc(1): Thai gong/bell plate/steel pan/2 tam-t/2 spring coil

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...

Vers was commissioned by the Royal Festival Hall, for Pierre Boulez on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Following the double meaning of the word 'vers', this is a verse which leads 'towards' a brief...

Instrumentation: fl(=picc) - tpt - gtr(s) - perc(1):TD/BD/tpl.bl/glsp/tamb/tam-t - db

This work was written especially for the 1994 Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Marked Con pietà, it consists of an introduction played by the first cello, followed by two statements of the chorale. While t...

The Waterman/Harewood Piano Series has been devised jointly by the world famous piano teacher Fanny Watermann and the co-founder of the Leeds International Piano Competition, Marion Harewood, and is e...

A Congress of Passions, op. 62 Cantata on poetry by Sappho My title comes form Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime, the only source for one of the few almost complete poems by Sappho – the central poem...

A Congress of Passions, op. 62 Cantata on poetry by Sappho My title comes form Longinus’ treatise On the Sublime, the only source for one of the few almost complete poems by Sappho – the central poem...