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The medieval poem Corpus Christi is a mysterious and haunting lullaby on the death of Christ. The words connect with the legend of the Holy Grail, and also with the liturgical feasts of Good Friday an...

Four American Choruses was commissioned by Simon Halsey and the City Of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, who gave the premiere of I'm A Pilgim, the first of the four choruses, on 31st January 2004, in Symp...

Also available from Mike Brewer: Hamba Lulu (Unison/Upper Voices & Accompaniment) Banuwa Three African Songs (Mixed Voices & Accompaniment) Fine-Tune Your Choir

Ever since its premiere just over a century ago, The Mikado has consistently held the stages as one of the world's best-loved comic operas. The story tells how Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado, overcomes...

Christmas in Victorian London. Scrooge the miser sits alone in front of his feeble fire, blind to the comforts of Christmas and the needs of his fellow humans, such as his humble clerk Bob Cratchit an...

Mountains was commissioned by the Sydney International Piano Competition, 1981, with assistance from the Music board of Australia Council. It was first performed by Gabriella Pusner in Verbugghen Hall...

. . . succinct, effective character sketches whose coruscating arpeggios and great, crashing chordsdemand phenomenal technique and reward it with phenomenal music. Joseph McLellan, The Washington Post...

Germany - a land of rivers and mountains, folklore and fantasy. A land where magnificent castles stand guard over the Rhine, where the creatures of fairytales might still lurk in caverns and forests -...

Italy - a sun-soaked land of olives and cypresses, of art, culture and civilisation, where wine flows freely and passions run high. The land where everyone sings, and where opera was born. From the sp...

"....I had the sound of Schubert sonatas in mind while I was writing the piece; ......I was aiming at the clarity and relative spareness of Schubert's textures. There is a lot of two part wri...

This work is for piano and CD. The tape part retunes the piano, so that there are microtonal tensions between the live piano and the tape and a close contrapuntal relationship between the two.

The first performance of 'Traced Overhead' was given by Imogen Cooper at the Pittville Pump Room, as part of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music on 20 July 1996.

Peter Sculthorpe brings you 'Three Pieces for Piano', which consists of, Djilie, Calllaboma and Simori. This is prepared for the solo piano.

'A Little Book of Hours' draws together six pieces for the elementary pianist. Beautifully evocative and with powerful simplicity, the pieces reflect on a day in the life of Aboriginal people, journey...

"…a big 20-minute work, impeccably presented, crying out for a northern hemisphere protagonist – it is certainly an important piece." John York, Piano, May/June 1999

French Romantic Repertoire' introduces the pianist to a fascinating world of charm and sophistication; a music distinguished by its balance of logic and clarity with emotion. Here the piano works of t...

'Prayer Bell Sketch' was commissioned by Ms. Masako Okamura and Mr. Motoyuki Nakagawa in memory of Toru Takemitsu. Here is the 'prayer Bell Sketch' for the solo piano.

French Romantic Repertoire' introduces the pianist to a fascinating world of charm and sophistication; a music distinguished by its balance of logic and clarity with emotion. Here the piano works of t...

This is the first of two volumes of music from the big country. Following the success of 'French Romantic Repertoire' and 'Russian Romantic Repertoire', Stephen coombs has once again selected music fr...