John Casken

Bien que j'aie composé beaucoup d'Âœuvres, avant ma nouvelle Suite il n'y en a eu que deux pour piano seul : The Haunting Bough et Pleasure Ground. J'ai décidé d'intégrer ces deux morceaux dans Six W...

The music for 'Soul Catcher' was originally composed as an electroacoustic work for dance commissioned by English Dance Theatre in 1988. Casken later returned to the work and made a new version for ma...

This work's title comes from DM Thomas's dramatic poem on an imagined episode in the life of Cleopatra. Cleopatra offers any three men from her royal court a night of unbridled passion, in return for...

This work's title comes from DM Thomas's dramatic poem on an imagined episode in the life of Cleopatra. Cleopatra offers any three men from her royal court a night of unbridled passion, in return for...

Sacrificium was commissioned by the St Albans International Organ Festival for what has become one of the most influential organ competitions in the world. It is a demanding 8 minute work that will ch...

Chansons de Verlaine were completed in 2006. The third song, Colloque sentimental, was written in 2003 for Alison Smart and Katharine Durran's New French Song project. It was as a result of having wri...

Chansons de Verlaine were completed in 2006. The third song, Colloque sentimental, was written in 2003 for Alison Smart and Katharine Durran's New French Song project. It was as a result of having wri...

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.

Ecrit pour le magnifique Ensemble Domus, la puissante addition de Casken au petit nombre de quatuors avec piano contemporains exploite les différenciations en terme de timbres, densité et mode d'attaq...

Ecrit pour le magnifique Ensemble Domus, la puissante addition de Casken au petit nombre de quatuors avec piano contemporains exploite les différenciations en terme de timbres, densité et mode d'attaq...

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...

Inevitable Rifts for string quintet, like Schubert's Quintet in C, D.956, adds an extra cello to the string quartet. This undoubtedly makes for a richer sound, but what I wanted to explore was the ten...

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...