Christopher Ball Noten für Ensemble

The title is the Russian for 'round dance'. The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Markus Stenz, in the Barbican Hall, London, on 6 December 1994, Instrumrentation: 1(...

This piece takes its title from a painting by Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) in the Manchester City Art Gallery. Its subject is the mock Celtic Legend of a water nymph who falls for a mortal and struggles...

Full of oddities – whirring ratchets, raucous off-stage clarinets, wonky waltzes –that brilliantly capture the humour and nostalgia of the Tom Phillips drawings that inspired them. The Dai...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1.1(=bcl).1(=cbsn) - 1110 - perc(2): SD/whip/sleigh bells/cyms/2 anvil/2 c.bell/4 congas/3 gong/2 tam-t/tabla/vib/cast/ch.cym/almglocken/TD/BD/metal dustbin/2 rin/t.bells - p...

This piece was commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group as part of Julian Anderson's Composer-In-Association residency, with generous finan...

The Bach Machine was commissioned by BBC Radio 3’s Educational Programme 'The Music Machine' in 1997. It uses the so-called 'Royal' theme by Frederick the Great which provided the starting point for B...

Written for the Matrix Ensemble, this four minute work for voice and three clarinets uses text by Georg Trakl.

Für Tenor, Bass, 3 Viole da Gamba (Viola) und B. c. Concerto. Partitur mit Stimmen. Dieses Concerto für den Sonntag Trinitatis ist ein schönes Beispiel für die frühe Form der Kantate, wie sie zum Beis...

Für Sopran, Bass, Violine, Viola da Gamba (Viola) und B. c. Kantate. Partitur mit Stimmen.

Commissioned for MusicNOW, the new music chamber series of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, this work for soprano and ensemble of 15 players lasts 12 minutes and uses texts by Auden, Machado and Emily...

Requires an instrumental ensemble of 12 players. The Comedy of Change was commissioned by the Rambert Dance Company and Het Concertgebouw, for Asko / Schönberg. The UK premier took place as a ballet c...

This exquisite 'fragment of a Japonisme' - premiered in 2017 and conceived as a kind of double concerto for soprano, flute and ensemble of 23 players - proved to be Oliver Knussen's final work. The 8-...

This suite of exquisite portrait pieces for violin, clarinet, cello and piano was composed in 2005 and distils the essence of six numbers from Adès's astonishing opera The Tempest into purely instrume...

picc. trp, 2 trp, flugel hrn, 4 hrn, 3 trb, baritone, tuba, perc., harp The highlights of Saint-Saens oeuvre are the Organ Symphony (1866) and the opera 'Samson et Dalila' (1877). With its familiar st...

The highlights of Saint-Saëns oeuvre are the Organ Symphony (1866) and the opera Samson et Dalila (1877). With its familiar story and many stretches of vigorous and appealing music Samson et Dalila ha...

Instrumentation solo trumpet, picc. trp, trp, flugel hrn, 4 hrn, 3 trb, baritone, tuba 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia' (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas. Based on an excellent play by Beauma...

Thomas Adès' Piano Quintet (2000) is a vivid reimagining of sonata form (complete with exposition repeat). Whilst it's themes are recognisably tonal, these simple building-blocks are the starting-poin...

The score to Hums And Songs Of Winnie-The-Pooh Op.6, composed by Oliver Knussen after AA Milne, for high soprano and instrumentalists in digital sheet music format.

‘Fantastical lunar beauty’ The Times (Hilary Finch), 4 November 2002

... a sumptuous piece, clotted with color, dense with incident, yet also transparent in its deisgn: it lets you know where you are. Richard Dyer, Boston Globe, 7 August 1991, Instrumentation: fl(=afl)...

A tightly constructed work inspired by Shakespeare's description of Ophelia's madness, it blends wind, string and keyboard timbres superbly and moves easily between sprightliness and dreamy introspect...

Taking the word Hum literally, Knussen has subjected A.A.Milne to some lighthearted but intense expressionist treatment, even developing a series of aphorisms which present such incidents as Piglet me...