Libby Larsen

In the 1940s and 50s 'four on the floor' referred to a high performance car with a four-speed gearbox and a gear-change mounted on the floor. And that is the characteristic of this piece - fast, loud,...

For violin, cello, contrabass, and pianoIn the 1940s and 50s 'four on the floor' referred to a high performance car with a four-speed gearbox and a gear-change mounted on the floor. And that is the ch...

Holy Roller is a revival sermon captured in the sounds of the alto saxophone and piano. It is inspired by classical revival preaching and the music seeks to represent the language: cajoling and incant...

Holy Roller is a revival sermon captured in the sounds of the alto saxophone and piano.

Larsen's beautiful piece is absolute music in a standard classical layout with an emphasis on long lyrical lines. A good piece for conservatory and university students.

Larsen's beautiful piece is absolute music in a standard classical layout with an emphasis on long lyrical lines. A good piece for conservatory and university students.

Dancing Solo gives clarinettists an excellent chance to display their technical prowess in a widely varied, dramatic, and colourful context.

The music is composed to create layers of tonality which overlap in space, especially in a vast space with a long acoustic decay.

This excellent addition to the tuba repertoire allows this oft-neglected instrument to demonstrate its more versatile side. Concert Piece explores a 3-octave range, allowing the tuba to combine fast-p...

For mezzo-soprano and piano. This song cycle uses texts by women poets and focuses on women's experience with great humour and irony. The cycle will appeal to singers with real interpretative flair an...

The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, from 1880-1902. The five songs present a stirring picture of an independent woman's struggle to earn a living to support...

Based on poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese explores the finding of a mature love by a woman who wonders what part of her must she sacrifice to the lover and to the world...