Jonathan Dove

Taken from Flight - Jonathan Dove and April de Angelis's superb original modern-day operatic comedy - Dawn, Still Darkness is an aria for countertenor telling of a refugee's longing to be reunited wit...

Text by Walt Whitman Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Proms 2010 First performance September 11th 2010, Royal Albert Hall on the Last Night of the Proms, by the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus...

Setting Jane Austen's classic novel as an opera, Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park was originally written for 10 singers and a piano played in duet. This version, orchestrated by the composer for an ense...

Text: adapted from Kamo No Chomei in the translation by Donald Keene

Instrumentation: 2(=picc).2.2.2 - 4431 - timp - perc(3): vib/glsp/crot/ t.bells/BD/tam-t - strings Handel called Britain ‘the ringing isle’ because when he came to live here, he heard bells ringing ev...

'There is something about Jonathan Dove's music that ticks all the right boxes. His organ accompaniment is the best part of this new psalm setting and it requires tenacity - there are pages of apeggia...

Text: Poems by Emily Dickinson Commissioned by The John Armitage Memorial and The Arts Patron's Trust in memory of Christopher Whelen, composer/conductor.

Text: Prospero's monologue ActIV, Scene 1 from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'

Text by Walt Whitman Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Proms 2010 First performance September 11th 2010, Royal Albert Hall on the Last Night of the Proms, by the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus...

scored for trumpet 1 in Bb, trumpet 2 in Bb, horn 1 in F, horn 2 in F, horn 3 in F, horn 4 in F, trombone 1, trombone 2, bass trombone, tuba parts for horns in Eb, trombones in Bb treble clef and Eb...

Kinderchor, Klarinette in B, Horn in F, Schlagzeug Partitur 15 Minuten Texter: Middleton, Alasdair Schwierigkeitsgrad: leicht

'Dove's compact Mass imagines Bach during his period as the Köthen court Kapellmeister, falling asleep during the drone of a church sermon and conjuring a dream Mass from fragments of his own instrume...