Jonathan Harvey

These two brief and fragmented miniatures are based on similar and fugitive material, though they span the 10 years between 1967 and 1977. Dialogue is dedicated to Sharon McKinley and Song is dedicate...

. . . a little like Messiaen's birds gone wild. Margaret Legge-Wilkinson, The Canberra Times, 27 June 1987

Ricercare Una Melodia composed by Jonathan Harvey, for flute and tape delay system. Available to print instantly at home in digital sheet music format.

Composed in 1979, Jonathan Harvey’s Be(com)ing is an intense exploration of ecstatic expressionism. The demands made on both instruments are very considerable, and the clarinet especially is asked to...

Ricercare Una Melodia composed by Jonathan Harvey, for trombone and tape delay system, adapted from the original version for trumpet by Benny Sluchin. Available to print instantly at home in digital s...

The ensuing web of melody at first intertwined with the trumpet in close canon, and then - by the device of running some of the tape tracks at half-speed - plunged far below the trumpet's plangent inc...

In Jonathan Harvey’s 1997 work for tuba and electronics Still, the soloist improvises around a series of eight chords, gradually building up a sustained background of reverberations. Duration is flexi...

. . . A fascinating evocative soundscape: a long-drawn, hovering, gently undulating melodic line sustained high on the violin above an almost continuous, rhythmless susurration of piano sound produced...

For bass-baritone and piano.

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2(II=bcl).2(II=cbsn) – 2200 – perc(1): large tam-t/4 gongs/4 bamboo clusters/10 small bowls and bells/4 Japanese rins/3 crot/2 susp.bells/wdbl – strings (min 7.6.4.3.3)

This was commissioned by Louis Halsey for his Christmas Concert in December 1965.

Written for the choir of Westminster Abbey, Harvey's Missa Brevis is an inspiring piece for any cathedral choir or ambitious mixed-voice ensemble.

Transcendental sequence Sobre un éxtasis de alta contemplación (Verses written after an ecstasy of high exultation), is a setting of the poem by St John of the Cross. Commissioned by Richard Marlow, f...

This anthem was written in 1976 for Martin Neary and the Winchester Cathedral Choir. A G major chord sounding through most of the anthem depicts the joyful love and irrepressible faith of a soul that...