Magnificat is a tribute to the unaccompanied motets of favourite composers from several eras - in particular those of Dufay, the Eton Choirbook, Robert Carver, Lassus and Bach. The work is therefore f...
Commissioned by Geoffrey Webber and the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Although I had already set separate Latin versions of both the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, this is the first time I've made a setting in English of both texts for use at Evensong. I have often atten...
Le titre de la première œuvre pour guitare de Julian Anderson se rapporte à un tableau de Joan Miró dans lequel la couleur dominante est un bleu rayonnant. Des fragments d'objet sont visibles : des co...
Das Werk kann als Zyklus, in einzelnen Sätzen oder in Kombinationen ausgeführt werden:She Hears ist eine Studie des Zuhörens. Toucher ist eine Feier musikalischer Textur und Farbe. Sight Lines ist ein...
Written in memory of American composer Steve Stucky and recorded by Grammy winning pianist Gloria Cheng as part of a collection of tributes. A light and optimistic piece filled with bursts of notes ri...
With the instruction that the work should be played 'With unimaginable joy!', this early work for two violins by British composer Julian Anderson would be perfect for both conservatory students and st...
Avec la consigne de jouer l'oeuvre avec « une joie inimaginable ! », cette pièce (composée à l'origine pour deux violons) est tout à fait adaptée à des élèves de Conservatoire qui comptent sur un prog...
The title is the Russian for 'round dance'. The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Markus Stenz, in the Barbican Hall, London, on 6 December 1994, Instrumrentation: 1(...
Full of oddities – whirring ratchets, raucous off-stage clarinets, wonky waltzes –that brilliantly capture the humour and nostalgia of the Tom Phillips drawings that inspired them. The Dai...
Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1.1(=bcl).1(=cbsn) - 1110 - perc(2): SD/whip/sleigh bells/cyms/2 anvil/2 c.bell/4 congas/3 gong/2 tam-t/tabla/vib/cast/ch.cym/almglocken/TD/BD/metal dustbin/2 rin/t.bells - p...
This piece was commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group as part of Julian Anderson's Composer-In-Association residency, with generous finan...
The Bach Machine was commissioned by BBC Radio 3’s Educational Programme 'The Music Machine' in 1997. It uses the so-called 'Royal' theme by Frederick the Great which provided the starting point for B...
The Faber Choral Signature Series introduces a wealth of new or recently written choral music to choirs in search of fresh repertoire. The series draws in a rich diversity of contemporary composers an...
The Faber Choral Signature Series introduces a wealth of new or recently written choral music to choirs in search of fresh repertoire. The series draws in a rich diversity of living composers and incl...
Four American Choruses was commissioned by Simon Halsey and the City Of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, who gave the premiere of I'm A Pilgim, the first of the four choruses, on 31st January 2004, in Symp...
Anderson's Bell Mass , for double SATB choir, was written for performance at Westminster Abbey and commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey, as part of the 450th anniversary of the Ab...
Commissioned by the Musicians Benevolent Fund in the name of Sir Thomas Armstrong this work was first performed at Westminster Cathedral on 24 November 1999 by the Choirs of Westminster & St Paul's Ca...
Prayer is dedicated to Ginny Macbeth, in gratitude and recognition of her tireless work on behalf of classical music generally and contemporary composers in particular.
Requires an instrumental ensemble of 12 players. The Comedy of Change was commissioned by the Rambert Dance Company and Het Concertgebouw, for Asko / Schönberg. The UK premier took place as a ballet c...
The first performance of 'The Bearded Lady' was given by Nicholas Daniel (oboe) and Julius Drake (piano) in the Wigmore Hall, London, on 20 October 1994.
One of Anderson's scintillating scores, rhythmically intricate, rich in unexpected and often eerie sounds, and with a vein of lyricism... Instrumentation: 4 (III & IV = picc, IV = picc detuned ¼ tone)...
'Etudes Nos. 1 and 2' were first performed by Ian Pace at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh as part of the 49th Aldeburgh Festival on 22 June 1996. 'Etude No. 3' was first performed by Stephen Gutman at the...
This clarinet version of 'The Bearded Lady' was first performed by Stuart Stratford (clarinet) and Richard Ormrod (piano)at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, on 23 November 1994.
Commissioned by the BBC and first performed at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Promenade Concerts, July 1998. Instrumentation: 3(II+III=picc).3(III=ca).3(III=bcl).3(III=cbsn) - 4331 - timp(=w...
The starting point was the collected letters of Vincent van Gogh. In spite of the tragedies for which van Gogh is best known, his letters are filled with joyous exuberance for the practical considerat...
. . . arguably the most spectacular orchestral writing heard in any opera of the past half a century. For mastery of texture, color and invention, Mr. Anderson sets standards. . . a triumph of sustain...
Julian Anderson's new Violin Concerto - his first ever concerto - extends the conventional exploration of relationships to the spacial. Beginning off stage, the soloist's physical location changes thr...
Diptych is dedicated to Per Nørgård. Instrumentation: 3(II=picc.III=picc+afl).3(III=ca).3.3(III=cbsn) - 4331 - timp - perc(4): crot/t.bells/3 susp.cym/tam-t/vib/5 tpl.bl/SD/siz.cym/guiro/...