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Preludes Inegales, is named after an improvisatory group of which Butler is a member. It explores ways in which improvised material can be worked on in more formal compositional ways. Butler then impr...

For solo piano. Funerailles is probably best thought of as an extended study in piano sonorities, at times deep, dark, and resonant, at others vivid and bright.

A work in one movement, described by the composer as 'fanciful', which exploits the full range of keyboard colours.

This volume is an eclectic mix of short works composed over a number of years. Butler's idiomatic writing for the piano is instantly appealing and captures a wide variety of moods. His musical languag...

Piano Time Sports is an imaginative collection of exercises to limber up young hands and develop the technical skills required for the early grades. Each section of the book introduces the beginner pi...

Piano Time Sports 2 is an imaginative collection of exercises which introduces a new range of fundamental techniques and develops further some of those found in book 1. Each section of the book introd...

While writing this quintet Berkeley had in mind the paintings of John Craxton and Mark Rothko, and the way in which paint can vibrate as colours collide. The piece opens with the oboe intoning three n...

Berkeley's Clarion Call is a witty and humorous piece. Drawing on influences as wide as chamber music, rock'n'roll rhythms, and even some of Berkeley's own choral music, the piece subverts and twists...

For flute and harp. This is a small-scale work, which would make a useful repertoire piece, bearing in mind the need to provide compatible items for groups playing the Debussy flute/harp/viola sonata.

For chamber ensemble. Seven is founded on the further elaboration of a simple phrase used in Second Still Life. As the number 2 is significant in that piece, the number 7 is prevalent throughout Seven...

For tenor and harp. These songs are among Berkeley's earliest compositions, written in the mid-1970s at the suggestion and encouragement of Peter Pears. The poems, by Thomas Hardy, were chosen for var...

A sacred scena for tenor, piano, and string quartet telling the story, in Biblical text, of the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Klar, V I, V II, Va, Vc - Part.m.St.

Inspired by four poems by poets from the Chinese Tang dynasty, this piece directly combines Chinese and Western musical traditions. An undercurrent of tranquil meditation runs through the expressive w...

For flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and violoncello The concept of the Five Elements was a central aspect of traditional Chinese thought. Here each of the Five Elements is characterised in...

For dizi, clarinet, percussion, pipa, erhu, and violoncello The concept of the Five Elements was a central aspect of traditional Chinese thought. Here each of the Five Elements is characterised in an...

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano

For B flat clarinet, percussion (vibraphone & marimba), double bass. The meaning of 'Ding' is the perfect concentration of thought into the one object of meditation. Zhou translates this Buddist conce...

For flute and harp. The Chinese character 'su' has the meaning of tracing back to the source or recalling ancient times. SU was inspired by the distinctive qualities of the ancient Chinese q'in, a sev...

For clarinet, violin, cello, and percussion

The William Walton Edition is a collected edition of the works of one of England's finest and best-loved composers. Each work is newly edited and engraved, and checked against the composer's manuscrip...

Processional bustles with cheerful positivity throughout, its rondo-like structure clarified by the memorability of its abundant melodies. The harmony is modal to begin with, but moves from this delib...

This three movememt work is characterized by majestic moods. A pixified romp marks the first movement, followed by a solemn second, before concluding with a hungry, snarling restless end movement.