Partitions pour ensemble mixte

Aus 'Florilegium II',

Aus 'Florilegium II',

Commissioned by the International Horn Society for Douglas Hill.

For horn quartet and rhythm section (harpsichord, guitar, bass and drums).

Alec Wilder's Jazz Suite for horn quartet, harpsichord, guitar bass and drums with four movements: Horns O'Plenty, Conversation Piece, Serenade, and Horn Belt Boogie. This suite was composed in 1951 a...

. . . luminously scored and graced by a good deal of glorious vocal writing... Paul Griffiths, The Musical Times, January 1981, Instrumentation: 0000 – 1110 – perc(1): claves/2 susp.cym/vib/2 wdbl/2 s...

My Oboe Quartet No.1 was written early in 1981 to a centenary year commission from the University of Nottingham. The work, which lasts about 10 minutes, is in fifteen short sections (all linked by rel...

My Oboe Quartet No.1 was written early in 1981 to a centenary year commission from the University of Nottingham. The work, which lasts about 10 minutes, is in fifteen short sections (all linked by rel...

... the sheer technical aplomb of the work continues to amaze. Benjamin wrote it when he was eighteen; the beautifully dappled structure and wonderfully imagined effects seem to evidence a far deeper...

Instrumentation: picc.ob.bcl.cbsn - hn - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

Bhakti was written in 1982, to a commission from IRCAM, Paris. It is in twelve short movements totalling about fifty minutes. There are 36 subsections; each one defined by a certain number of instrume...

Benjamin augurs well to become the most important British composer of his generation. An Antara' is a Peruvian panpipe. Benjamin's 1987 work synthesizes its sound via computer and adds trombones, flut...

Instrumentation: 1.1.1.bcl.1 - 1100 - perc(1): BD+foot ped/hi-hat/wdbl/(tam-t)/flexatone/vib/glsp/(mar) - pno(= elec keyboard ad lib) - harp - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

The core of The Music Factory is a flexible Teacher Resource Book, containing 120 practical activities for classroom music-making. A series of interrelated instrumental workbooks, each containing 25 u...

The title is the Russian for 'round dance'. The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Markus Stenz, in the Barbican Hall, London, on 6 December 1994, Instrumrentation: 1(...

The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Oliver Knussen in the Barbican Hall, London, on 11 February 1994, Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1(=ca+sopranino recorder).1(=Ebcl+bcl...

This piece takes its title from a painting by Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) in the Manchester City Art Gallery. Its subject is the mock Celtic Legend of a water nymph who falls for a mortal and struggles...

'Scena' is a quasi-operatic scene either for singer and ensemble or for a singer-like solo instrument and ensemble. In this case the solo violin proceeds through several dramatic events roughly signal...

Instrumentation: afl.ca(=ob).cl.bcl(=Ebcl ad lib).bsn(=cbsn) - 2 hn.tpt- perc(1): BD/4 tom-t/vibraslap/susp.cym/hi-hat/tam-t/vib/mar - pno - harp - 2 vln.vla.vlc.db

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).0.2(II=bcl).1 - 2110 - perc(1): party siren/susp.cym/splash.cym/glsp/2 t.bells/ timp/BD/tgl/c.bell/tpl.bl/2 bongo/tom-t/crot/vib/talking drum/wdbl - pno - 2 vln.2 vlc

Full of oddities – whirring ratchets, raucous off-stage clarinets, wonky waltzes –that brilliantly capture the humour and nostalgia of the Tom Phillips drawings that inspired them. The Dai...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc+bfl).1(=sop.rec+ca).2(I=Ebl.II=bcl).ssax - hn - perc(3): vib/2 susp.cym/2 conga/bongo+djembe/BD/2 wdbl/2 tgl/tam-t/mar/cyms/mcas/tam-t/2 timp/glsp/crot/t.bells harp - pno - ce...