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The title derives from the French idiom se méfier de l'eau qui dort ('be wary of the water which sleeps'), meaning: be careful, because things are seldom as they appear. The performers should embrace...

Den lille danserinnen ('The Little Ballerina') evokes a charming, gracious, light-footed dancer, while Nocturne makes the piano sing in the romantic tradition. Both these delightful small pieces are i...

A programme of moods and characters runs through Bayo's Way. On a hot summer's night, Bayo, the eponymous hero, tumbles and floats his way through a wild jazz-fuelled pilgrimage. Imagine the bustle of...

A hitherto unpublished collection of keyboard music, suitable for harpsichord and organ, but specifically mentioning the clavichord, from the 1680s. Amongst the varied dance movements and suites is mu...

The music of John Dowland, the greatest English lute composer of that Golden Age, circulated widely in keyboard adaptations during his lifetime, suitable for performance on harpsichord, virginals or c...

In this remarkably inventive work, the composer subjects the melody to a series of intervallic expansions and contractions within several diVerent tonal, and sometimes microtonal, contexts that broadl...

Highly interesting contemporary work also accessible to players with limited technique.

The Zhuangzi, a 2000-year-old Daoist text by the Chinese philosopher 'Master Zhuang', is a large collection of anecdotes, allegories and fables, many of them picturesque and of great beauty. Verwandlu...

This fascinating work combines Chinese melodic roots with extreme European complexity.

The I Ching provides a symmetrical structural base, while Rimbaud's poem 'Barbarian', with its highly emotional imagery, evokes the spatial range and temporal pace of The Clash of Icicles against the...

These vibrant preces and responses are a refreshing addition to the repertoire for choral evensong. The composer approached the text as prayers, sometimes highlighting exultation, sometimes vulnerabil...

This simple, four-part setting of the introit 'Rorate Caeli' captures both the hope and the intimacy traditionally associated with Advent. With its haunting, cascading phrases, it is a valuable additi...

Scheibe's three sonatas for flute (or violin) and obbligato harpsichord were published by Haffner in the late 1750's, but were probably composed much earlier; they contain a significant quantity of el...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the leading composer of instrumental music in a flourishing school of composers active in Bologna in the second half of the seventeenth century and the opening decades...

Nirmali Fenn had already written three ensemble pieces including the accordion when Milan Osadsky asked her to create a solo work for the instrument. In The Edge of Self the composer homes in on one o...

Inspired by American poet Clayton Eshleman's reflections on the drawings of Henri Michaux, Nirmali Fenn creates a subdued yet highly expressive sound world in her latest work. The solo viola's open st...

Simon Balicourt (1706-1757), during a London career that lasted from 1735 (the year he arrived from the Continent) until his death, was a leading flautist and flute composer. He left two sets of flute...

This cantata, from an important manuscript in Berlin containing 18 Albinoni cantatas for soprano and continuo, is distinguished not only by its music, which is exceptionally finely wrought and ends wi...

Some Words with its theme of transformation, and transcendence was inspired by a set of four poems by Australian poet Judith Wright. Nirmali Fenn expresses in music the spatial allusions and metaphors...