Martin Dalby

El remanso del pitido has been commissioned by the London Sinfonietta for the London Sinfonietta Chorus who give the first performance this evening. It is a work of nostalgia, a lament for the decline...

The whole shape of A Plain Man's Hammer owes something to classical sonata form. It is a two part form of which the first is an exposition containing two tonally contrasted subjects and the second con...

A Spell for four voices with amplification. Coll is the ancient Gaelic letter C. This letter C (as with all the letters in the Gaelic alphabet) has its own association - the Hazel Tree. Coll for the H...

Commissioned by the St Magnus Festival with funds from the Scottish Arts Council. First performed by The Fires of London in June 1978 in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. The work takes as its starting-p...