Libby Larsen Noten für Ensemble

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...

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,...

For speaker, mezzo-soprano solo, SATB chorus, clarinet, cello, piano, and percussion (2 players). A dramatic cantata which is vibrant, varied, and in the end deeply moving. This is a striking programm...

A one movement work in three sections for clarinet, violin, and piano. The title refers to the use of both jazz and boogie slang and twentieth-century 'new music' slang throughout the composition.

This is a setting of two twelfth-century poems where the choral parts flow in a chant-like way, interrupted by ecstatic bursts, sometimes of purely instrumental colour. Both the singer and the audienc...

Barn Dances is a set of four abstract pieces drawing their titles from the name of a particular dance step used in cowboy dances. Taking the name of the step as a point of departure, Larsen's idea was...

Black Birds, Red Hills is inspired by six Georgia O'Keeffe paintings, each exploring the flow of time and colour on her beloved red hills of New Mexico. This reflective portrayal is set in four moveme...

A piece about how auctioneersâ styles, pitches, timing, and complex rhythms merge to become what is their own âbid callâ.

Larsen states that she chose the instruments for Firebrand for their colour, combination and for their agility. However, rather than a nonstop, wildly virtuosic affair that might be suggested from the...

Using as its basis two traditional nursery rhymes and an achingly nostalgic poem by Eugene Field, Larsen deftly captures the essence of childhood in her clever setting of the three texts whilst offeri...