Oliver Knussen Noten für Ensemble

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

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...

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-...

‘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...

Composer's note: 'The 12th-century organa of the Notre Dame school (most notably those of Pérotin) employ plainchant as the slow foundation for rapid, ecstatic, dance-like melismata. In June 1994 I us...

Instrumentation: 1111 - 1000 - 2 vln.vla.vlc

... the title aptly reflects both the songful character of the musical invention and the relationship of wind solo to string trio... [a] composition of great charm and precise character; its other vir...