Noten von Faber Music

Commissioned by The Nash Ensemble with funds provided by IBM. In Buddhist writings the lotus, padma, signifies the world of form in all its individuality through which the light of reality shines. A l...

Birdsong (from 'Spring') - Summer Storms (from 'Summer') - Harvest Home (from 'Automn') - Fireside (from 'Winter') - Spring Dabce (from 'Spring') aus der Reihe 'stringsets (Music for String Ensemble)...

Carol Stringfest presents popular carols in flexible arrangements for string quartet, beginner strings and duet. The books in the series can be used independently or in conjunction with one another. T...

I. Aria cappricciosa II. Intermezzo III. Aria conclusa My Divertimento for double string quartet was written at the request of Sir Peter Pears for the 1982 Aldeburgh Festival, and is dedicated to him....

This piece is in the Baroque 'Concerto Großo' style. The idea of 'The Violinists of the Pieta' sprang from the tradition of the Venetian Ospedale della Pieta, the orphanage that housed some of the fin...

These four pieces are found in the series of instrumental dances published by Pierre Attaingnant in Paris 1530 and 1557.The arrangements treat the music quite freely - while keeping much of the style...

My Second Oboe Quartet was promised to the Berlin Oboe Quartet after a performance which they gave of my first quartet in January 1988. Composed in the autumn of 1989, the work is, like the earlier qu...

This four-minute cantata was written for Mary Wiegold and the Composers Ensemble who, under the direction of John Woolrich, gave the first performance in May 1989 at the Brighton Festival. br>I Intro...

Instrumentation: fl(=picc+afl).cl(=bcl) - hn - perc(1): 5 tom-t/4 rototom/2 tam-t/boobams/7 crot/vibraslap/susp.cym/siz.cym/cabaca/waterphone - pno - vla.vlc.db The Spanish Conquest of Central and Sou...

Instrumentation: afl(=picc).bcl(=cl) - hn - pno - harp - vla.vlc

23 Frames was composed in 1994 as a gift for Amelia Freedman and the Nash Ensemble. 23 is a favourite prime number of mine, and the ‘frames’ all incorporate a reference – sometimes recognisable but mo...

Instrumentation: 1.1.0.bcl.1 - 1000 - pno - vln.vla.vlc.db Written for Speculum Musicae at the request of Oliver Knussen. L, bent… is a short, fast piece written to celebrate my brother David’s 50th b...

Instrumentation: 1(=afl+picc).1(=ca).1(=bcl).1(=cbsn) - 1110 - perc(1): BD(with foot ped)/hi-hat/4 tom-t/3 tam-t - pno - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db Contraflow might be compared to a journey in which the return...

Instrumentation: fl(=picc).ob(=ca).cl(=bcl).bsn - pno My initial ideas for this piece were more obviously connected with colours than is the finished work, which consists of an abstract series of vari...

Instrumentation: fl - perc(1): vib/mar/glsp - harp - vla

Instrumentation: 3 fl.3 ob.Ebcl.2 cl.bcl.(cbcl).2 bsn.cbsn - 4432 -perc(3): spring coil/4 brake drum/3 susp.cym/siz.cym/tgl/t.bells/2 glsp/4 anvil/4 gong/bell tree/vib/tam-t/lujon/handbells

Instrumentation: fl(=picc).afl(=picc).ob.2 cl.2 bcl.bsn - 1211 -perc(2): 2 anvil/spring coils/crot/4 tam-t/bell tree/2 vib/2 glsp/tgl/2 siz.cym/t.bells/hand bells - pno - harp - amplified vlc.db The t...

. . . a marvellous essay in the poetics of atonality - tender, subtly interweaving strains of thought. . . Peter Stadlen, Daily Telegraph. This quartet was commissioned by The Nash Ensemble and was gi...

Angklung was completed in Sussex and first performed at the 1974 Edinburgh Festival. It was written for and dedicated to Roger Woodward and described by the composer as follows: 'Angklung is essential...

Book of the Bells was written in Roger Woodward’s home in Brixton, London in late 1980 and early 1981, just before the first riots there. Woodward, as is well known, is a pianist of prodigious technic...