John Casken

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Greek word 'amarantos' means 'everlasting' or 'unfading', and the title was suggested by the amaranthine flowers in E.E.Cummings' sonnet 'this is the garden', where the flowers stand 'enraptured'...

John Casken, who celebrates his 60th birthday in 2009, set Christina Rossetti's In the bleak mid-winter - a poem popularised by Gustav Holts' setting of the same name - for Alwinton and Holystone Chur...

John Casken, who celebrates his 60th birthday in 2009, set Christina Rossetti's In the bleak mid-winter - a poem popularised by Gustav Holts' setting of the same name - for Alwinton and Holystone Chur...

A string quartet written in the late twentieth century which acknowledges the classical four movement model may seem a quaintly old-fashioned approach, but I wanted to see if my own concerns for colou...

This edition includes two vocal works by John Casken for four male voices. Both Sharp Thorne (7 mins) and To the Lovers' Well (10 mins) interweave ancient and modern texts, ideal choices for vocal ens...

Madonna of Silence est, comme le titre le suggère, très éloignée d'une pièce religieuse. Elle reflète l'agitation dérobée de l'inhabituelle représentation de Michel-Ange, la Madonna del Silenzio. Elle...