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The work is characterized by glittering high octave writing, extensive use of the bass register and dense, richly coloured chordal progression.

The work is characterized by glittering high octave writing, extensive use of the bass register and dense, richly coloured chordal progression.

For solo piano. Vista is the first in a planned sequence of pieces, all to include piano. The sequence will form a musical reflection or interpretation of aspects of Italian renaissance and baroque ga...

Sensing was written partly as a 'prelude' to Scriabin's 9th Piano Sonata ('Black Mass'). In tribute to Scriabin the music explores a variety of keyboard 'touch' and 'coliur/taste', in terms of harmony...

This collection brings together all of Rawsthorne's popular piano works, re-engraved, lightly edited, and with an introduction by John McCabe. Rawsthorne had an intuitive understanding of the piano an...

This fascinating collection draws on a virtually unknown set of Brazilian dances for piano published at the end of the nineteenth century in Rio de Janeiro. These pieces blend the melodic charm and gr...

During the piece a rather formal, bravura character gradually dissolves into its more lyrical counterpart.

'The plain truth is that all musicians are capable of splendid improvisation. ' With this premise, the author, (organist at St Thomas Church, 5th Avenue, New York) leads the student step by step. His...

An opera with instrumental parts for strings, keyboard continuo, plus optional guitar for dancesThis edition, with English and German texts, is based on that by Edward Dent (first published in 1925),...

For flute or treble recorder, and piano

For mezzo-soprano soloist, with flute, clarinet, harp, 2 violins, viola, and cello. Buller's chosen sonnets revolve around themes of love, sleeplessness, and the destruciton of time. While the other i...

For flute, oboe, and piano

Phoenix is a series of interlinked, contrasting sections - by turns elegiac, radiant, and menacing - culminating in a luminous cantilena for the four melody instruments against densely clustered chord...

For SATB and percussion instruments (4 sand blocks (optional), 2 rainsticks, 2 claves, 1 shaker, and a low-pitched tomtom played with hard sticks) OR SATB and low-pitched tomtom played with hard stick...

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Set to text by John Drinkwater, Expectancy is similar in style to the 2003 work That Music Always Round Me in its ensemble, length, structure and homophonic texture. Typical of Skempton, it appears de...

Set to text by John Drinkwater, Expectancy is similar in style to the 2003 work That Music Always Round Me in its ensemble, length, structure and homophonic texture. Typical of Skempton, it appears de...

Joseph Addison's poem The Spacious Firmament, much-loved in its familiar guise as a hymn, is an extraordinary vision, both ecstatic and scientific, reasoned and sublime. I am particularly drawn to tex...

This work is a substantial addition to the repertoire, and is made up of three strongly contrasted movements.

For solo organ with pedals. Larsen's fantasia on the familiar hymn-tune boasts richly atmospheric organ writing and is well-suited to weddings or services focussing on fellowship or reconciliation.

For solo organ. Larsen's flowing meditation on the 'Veni creator' tune was written as the Pentecost entry for a multi-composer anthology based on the liturgical year. It was given one of the highest r...

Finzi's small and select output sadly includes no original solo organ music, and organists will find these arrangements by Robert Gower, Alan Ridout, and Philip Brunelle gratifyingly idiomatic and rew...

> New settings for organ of all the major hymn tunes for the season > Fresh, imaginative new pieces, written by a range of experienced organ composers based in the US and the UK, and displaying a grea...