Noten von Faber Music

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...

Instrumentation: tenor recorder - soprano glsp/soprano xyl/alto xyl/bass xyl/soprano metallophone/alto metallophone/ bass metallophone/timp/BD/susp.cym/2 drum (eg bongo)

As the title suggests, Didjeribluegrass incorporates some aspects of bluegrass music, in particular the fast “fiddling” style of string playing that includes many open strings. Bluegrass music is espe...