Michael Berkeley

Abstract Mirror is a single movement work for string quintetThe composer writes: 'After listening to the Schubert Quintet, it occurred to me that one of the many virtues of that score is the way the s...

Blechbläser und Schlagzeug - Partitur mit Stimmen

For solo viola. The piece is a sympathetic glance at the Greek character and the variations take on an quasi-improvisatory feel.

An accompaniment to Crawford's arrangement for the Emerging Voices series, Schubert's original piano part, with slight adaptation by the arranger, is presented here for pianists that wish to embrace t...

A suite in six movements for unaccompanied cello, inspired by the composer's travels in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. It incorporates fragments of traditional melodies and the composer chose the cello...

The text, by Steven Heighton, is a secular rewriting of Psalm 23 'The Lord is my shepherd'. Quartel pairs the contemplative message with powerful textures and driving triplet rhythms. The wind is my s...

For solo flute. This small-scale work would make a useful repertoire piece, bearing in mind the need to provide compatible items for groups playing the Debussy flute/harp/viola sonata.

For this joyful arrangement of Henry T. Smart's hymn tune Regent Square, Mack Wilberg has adapted Thomas Kelly's celebratory Easter hymn 'He is Risen Today' and provided an alternative text for use du...

For oboe and harp. In Second Still Life the play on the word second is very apt. Not only is it scored for just two instruments (although there is also an optional tam-tam part) but the interval of a...

An arrangement of Scenes 5 and 12 from a projected stage-work on the life of Tchaikovsky. They are identical in structure and draw on the set of Russian folk songs that Tchaikovsky arranged for piano-...

This enchanting setting brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenth-century text. The dialogue between Mary and the infant Jesus is woven to a beguiling folk-like melody through each of the voice part...

For violin and piano. The composer writes: 'Persistent Memory is a little six minute drama . . . although the piano begins as the more aggressive partner and triggers the violin into animation, it is...

The work is in three movements - the first is fast and aggressive and is based on a sequence that repeats throughout the rest of the piece. The second movement is, by contrast, slow and would seem to...

In this angry, passionate piece, there is much contrast between aggressive, violent sounds and soft, wounded ones. It is a memorial to someone who died an atrocious death quite needlessly.

For violin and piano. This is a reworking of material from Berkeley's 1979 Violin Sonata, and is an evocative and atmospheric single movement. Veilleuse means 'Night Watch' or 'Night Lantern', and the...

In O be joyful, the lyrical melody lines from the upper voices are supported by a sensitive and melodic piano accompaniment. The piece moves through a variety of tonalities and metres, which is typica...

For mezzo-soprano and piano. Song cycle originally scored for tenor and harp. These songs are among Berkeley's earliest compositions, written at the suggestion of Peter Pears. The poems, by Thomas Har...

Howard Helvey's arrangement of this traditional American melody is tender and expressive, with the lilting melody set in a variety of choral textures.

A moving, traditional Irish blessing set to music of great simplicity and beauty. Chilcott perfectly captures the warmth and sincerity of the text, and weaves a memorable melody, which he clothes in r...

In this setting, which includes salient fragments for St Luke's gospel (in Greek), alongside the customary text from the Book of Common Prayer, Finnissy renders this excitement, joy, awe, and trepidat...

For high voice and piano. These two short songs are set to texts by A E Housman and Edward Thomas.

These three songs for soprano or tenor were sketched when the composer was a student at the Royal Academy of Music in the late 1960s, and subsequently revised. The texts are by W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Ow...

Orchestration: Flute (doubling piccolo), Oboe, Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon Horn in F (also plays Wood Block) Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) The Romance of the Rose was commissioned by th...