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Originally published in Violin Jazz on a Winter's' Night, this version the popular 'Sans Day Carol' is arranged by celebrated jazz musician and composer Nikki Iles. Written in a gentle South African t...

Originally published in Violin Jazz on a Winter's' Night, this celebrated version of 'Silent Night' is arranged by celebrated jazz musician and composer Nikki Iles. Scored for (intermediate) violin an...

This serene romance is one of Vaughan Williams's most enduring popular works. Taking its title from a poem by George Meredith, the music perfectly evokes the lark's 'chirrup, whistle, slur, and shake'...

This reflective and affirmatory communion motet features fluid shifts between 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures and expressive melodic lines that are often underpinned by a drone.

For violin and piano. The composer writes: 'Persistent Memory is a little six minute drama . . . although the piano begins as the more aggressive partner and triggers the violin into animation, it is...

The work is in three movements - the first is fast and aggressive and is based on a sequence that repeats throughout the rest of the piece. The second movement is, by contrast, slow and would seem to...

In this angry, passionate piece, there is much contrast between aggressive, violent sounds and soft, wounded ones. It is a memorial to someone who died an atrocious death quite needlessly.

For violin and piano. This is a reworking of material from Berkeley's 1979 Violin Sonata, and is an evocative and atmospheric single movement. Veilleuse means 'Night Watch' or 'Night Lantern', and the...

For violin and piano. A short lyrical work based on music form the opera A Better Place, and in particular on the melancholy descending scales and rising fifths associated with the character of Suzann...

For violin and piano. From the first sporadic drops to showers, monsoons and drenching sheets, the instruments in this piece (the piano prepared with blu-tack) work closely together to effectively cap...

For violin and piano. The composer writes: The structure is a short set of double variations, the two themes following a short introduction. One is flamboyant and rhetorical, the other gentle and lyri...

For unaccompanied violinThe work is in one movement and is a meditation on stone and light that begins and ends in stillness. The inner sections contain references to the final Kyrie of an 11th-centur...

In this exuberant solo work, the principal idea is an arching melody that explores the full range of the instrument.

For solo tenor saxophone. In this exuberant solo work, the principal idea is an arching melody that explores the full range of the instrument.

With a text by the composer, this work was inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'.

This is a gentle and graceful anthem setting the well-loved words usually ascribed to St Francis of Assisi. It has been arranged for high voice from the composer's Lux Perpetua, a choral work on the t...

This secular work for solo low voice and piano sensitively sets Langston Hughes's poem of the same name. A lilting melodic line and an effective piano part combine to create a piece that will appeal t...

The style of this cantata suggests an early date with the use of a dance-form ariette typical in operas from Hamburg, including Handel's.

Settings of nine poems by Irene Noel-Baker which take and transform elements of Greek myths. The piece shifts from the mythological past to the present, just as the medium of voice and guitar suggest...

To a text from Seeing the World, a book of poety by Dick Davies.

Comprising 4 separate 'Lamentations', this work for bass voice and theorbo takes its text from John Donne's The Lamentations of Jeremy, and is set in Howard Skempton's characteristic pared-down style.

An easy anthem for low voice and piano or organ, this piece has a haunting simplicity with a flowing tune over a gently rocking accompaniment. Also available in a version for solo high voice.

Arranged here for solo low voice and piano or organ, this lyrical setting of a text by Colin Coppen has an elegant melody and flowing piano accompaniment. It would make a charming addition to any conc...