John Casken

Chorpartitur

Un cycle de chansons tiré des œuvres de W.B. Yeats (The Lake Isle of Innisfree et The Song of Wandering Aengus), Thomas Hardy (The Discovery) et Robert Browning (Night and Morning et The Italian in En...

This Easter anthem by British composer John Casken is an expert example of contemporary choral writing and would be ideal for amateur choirs looking for exciting new repertoire.

Le paysage imaginé de Misted Land de John Casken est empreint d'un sentiment de malaise, les formes familières prenant une apparence nouvelle, parfois grotesque et effrayante. Des fragments de mélodie...

Un manteau peut avoir de nombreuses significations et, outre celle d'un vêtement protecteur, il peut également être associé à l'encouragement de l'énergie et de la créativité féminines, à la guérison...

Sitting in a room, we hear the ticking of the clock, but it doesn't seem right. The speed is wrong (for a clock) and it is quite irregular. From a far corner someone starts to sing a quiet song while...

Nearly distant est un morceau de bravoure virtuose pour quatuor de saxophones de l'un des chefs de file parmi les compositeurs anglais.

Ce court quatuor à cordes est le troisième que Casken a composé pour le renommé Lindsay String Quartet. Ecrit dans un style très accessible, il peut être une introduction idéale au quatuor à cordes co...

Stolen Airs takes as its starting point an episode from Sylvie and the Songman, an opera I am writing in collaboration with the novelist Tim Binding. The Songman has developed the technique of stealin...

Le poème de Norman MacCaig 'Celtic Cross' m'a inspiré Serpents of Wisdom. Le poème décrit les symboles d'une époque révolue, sculptés dans la pierre, enchevêtrés et entrelacés. L'idée d'un serpent et...

Amethyst Deceiver est une courte pièce inspirée par la représentation d'un paysage boisé mystérieux dans lequel d'étranges choses naissent à la vie. Les Amethyst deceivers sont de petits champignons p...

Après un silence was originally written as a work for violin and piano. The piano part was subsequently orchestrated in such a way that the work may be performed with a chamber orchestra or with an en...

These six short pieces might more readily be described as fantasies, each with its own sound-world but linked by shared material. The mood of each of these short movements is guided by an imaginary la...

The text (by the composer) concerns the life and work of the French painter, Paul Gauguin: his early period when he was full of doubts and uncertainty, his discovery of exotic climes, and his eventual...

Composed for Northern Sinfonia Chorus and Gavin Osborn.

John Casken's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis was commissioned to mark the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the North East of England, where Casken lives. The book, dating from the 7th century, is on...

Commissioned by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, this a cappella choral showpiece sets poems about the sea by Katrina Porteous.Voices gently rock and then tumble violently, mimicking the re...

This short solo piano piece is a variation on a theme by Rameau. Casken has created in this work a broad Gaelic sound world along with sultry Debussian colours.The piece was written for the British pi...