Tansy Davies

The Ice Core Sample Says Composed by Tansy Davies, text by Nick Drake. Arranged for piano and voice in digital sheet music format.

This short, melancholy setting a fragment of John Clare sees Tansy Davies at her most refined, responding to the text’s nature imagery and deep greens with music of clear, cool, beauty.

Static is one of two songs by Tansy Davies setting poems by Nick Drake, who would go on to write the libretto for Davies’s opera Between Worlds. Capricious in nature, the two-minute work sees the pian...

This Love is one of two songs by Tansy Davies setting poems by Nick Drake, who would go on to write the libretto for Davies’s opera Between Worlds. Obsessive in the way that all its 3 minutes of music...

A gloriously offbeat scherzo made from “distressed” materials.' The Sunday Times (Paul Driver) 27 February 2005 Instrumentation: bcl(with amplification).ssax - perc(1): mar/trash metal/BD/...

Nature , Tansy Davies' gloriously offbeat concerto for piano and ten instruments from 2012, teems with invention. This 20-minute work was inspired by shamanic rituals and the supernatural, and Davies...

Composer Tansy Davies describes her Forgotten Game 2 for oboe and piano as ‘a kind of meditation on nature, in a pagan or spiritual sense’. Over the course of the 6-minute work, the oboist plays the r...

Arabescos by Tansy Davies, for oboe and piano. Score and parts available to print instantly as a digital sheet music download. A note on the piece from the composer: Arabescos was composed after a vis...

In Tansy Davies’s solo percussion work Dark Ground, everything grows up from a root - the Pedal Bass Drum - a dead sound, cycling in a simple yet deceptive 7/8. Composed for Joby Burgess in 2005, this...

Described by its composers as a ‘dialogue between violence and longing’, loure is based on the dance of the same name from Bach’s E-major Partita for solo violin BWV 1006. Over 3 minutes, scratchy and...

Kingpin was commissioned for the City of London Sinfonia by Medway Council. The first performance was given by the City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Douglas Boyd, at the Turner Sims Concert Hall,...

Tansy Davies’s 17-minute song cycle Troubairitz is a setting 12th-century poems by women troubadours in translations by Derek Mahon. The extraordinary emotional directness of these texts is honoured i...

Davies’s Loopholes & Lynchpins, a set of five inventions for piano, takes material from a number of Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas and puts it through processes of warping. Notes slip up or down a semiton...

Drake's libretto deftly weaves together a wide variety of texts, from actual communications sent on the morning of 9/11 to passages from the Latin Requiem Mass.