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A slow movement which explores the beautiful sonorities of saxophones played softly.

In A Song of Blue, Chilcott explores the power of music through the metaphor of nature. This piece opens with a glittering ostinato from the piano. The upper voices begin by singing in unison, before...

The eleven movements of this piece were written in preparation for Barry's orchestral piece The Road (1997). The title refers to an image from childhood of sun with high wind on a remote road. The con...

A movement from In Windsor Forest, setting Shakespeare's text from Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Scene 3.

Composed during the year between Lance Armstrong's fifth and sixth victories in the Tour de France, Yellow Jersey is a short wind sprint for two clarinets. The form of the piece follows how the sprint...

A madrigal for unaccompanied SSATB voices, with German and English texts

For two clarinets. Composed during the year between Lance Armstrong's fifth and sixth victories in the Tour de France, Yellow Jersey is a short wind sprint for two clarinets. The form of the piece fol...

Field Notes is a compact, one-movement chamber work for oboe, violin, viola, and cello. The work is full of harmonic interest with chromatic and melodic passages shared equally between the parts.

30 unterhaltsame Duette in einer Vielzahl von Stilen, darunter Bearbeitungen von klassischer Musik und Volksmusik sowie Originalstücke von Kathy und David Blackwell Die Duette werden im Laufe des Buc...

Written at the request of the Lawson Trio, this gracefully structured work contrasts atmospheric lyrical writing with bursts of turbulent fast music, including a rather rough and wild scherzo. The thr...

The piece is a fairly athletic work in three movements. The first and third are very rhythmic, fast, and hauntingly jazz-like in a Miles Davis kind of way. The second movement is quite placid, free fl...

Setting a newly written text by Charles Bennett, Five days that changed the world takes singers on a journey through five historical events: the invention of printing, the abolition of slavery, the fi...

This anthem sets the Oculi omnium gradual to still, reflective music. Including sections of plainchant alongside richer textures and close harmonics, it is a beautiful piece that will appeal to a rang...

For clarinet in C/violin, cello and piano. Scotch Tape was written in memory of Jack Smith - phantasmagorical film-maker. It is typical of Finnissy in that it is very demanding for the performer. The...

For violin, cello, and piano. The composer writes of this piece being three pieces - 'The Rung, The Potent Rug, and Wigs of Flanders'. The work is a collection of folk inspired melodies, harmonised an...

For piano trio. Aldakiak means 'variants' in Basque and in this piece, which consists of nine short sections, the composer explores different ways of reacting around one musical event. The result is a...

For violin, cello, and piano. Aecha is the Hebrew title of the book of Lamentations, which is chanted to commemorate the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.

Adapted from the Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark, Hosanna to the Son of David is a jubilant anthem with a lively, independent piano part. Adams employs dynamics as a word-painting tool, with a jubil...

La gora di mulino was commissioned for Chamber Music 2000. The Chamber Music 2000 works were designed to be technically easy, but still retain the composers own individuality and musical style. La gor...

In the 1940s and 50s 'four on the floor' referred to a high performance car with a four-speed gearbox and a gear-change mounted on the floor. And that is the characteristic of this piece - fast, loud,...

Newly edited edition, off-printed from the Walton Edition vol. 19 'Chamber Music'Performing edition of Walton's Piano Quartet, first published in 1918 and one of his first compositions to have survive...

The Piano Quartet No. 1 was written in 1992 and is in one movement. The composer writes: While writing it I was reminded of painting where blocks of colour meet or where objects intersect, of the myst...

This work, as with several of Barry's pieces, exists in a number of versions; it was originally written in 1979 for two pianos. - 'O' for piano quartet is an exploration of ornamentation (the 'bending...