Partitions pour ensemble mixte

Dans sa transcription musicale du poème évocatif mais plein de retenue de Dylan Thomas In my craft or sullen art, Watkins fait surgir comme par magie une introduction merveilleusement introspective en...

Les 'Laude' sont de courts hymnes populaires à la louange de la Vierge Marie, datant du XIVe siècle et que Gavin Bryars a conservés dans leur exquise simplicité de style. Les 'Laude Cortonese' ont été...

Les 'Laude' sont de courts hymnes populaires à la louange de la Vierge Marie, datant du XIVe siècle et que Gavin Bryars a conservés dans leur exquise simplicité de style. Les 'Laude Cortonese' ont été...

Postlude' was one of 10 birthday candles written for Mobius' 10th anniversary and is scored for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet. At just 3 minutes in length and with a lento tempo marking, 'P...

L'idée d'écrire un trio avec cor est venue au compositeur (qui est aussi un pianiste renommé) après qu'il eut donné un concert avec un corniste du Nash Ensemble of London. Au programme figuraient les...

I had written the Cadman Requiem in 1989 for the Hilliard Ensemble in memory of my friend and sound engineer Bill Cadman, who was killed in the Lockerbie air crash. His death affected me very deeply a...

I had written the Cadman Requiem in 1989 for the Hilliard Ensemble in memory of my friend and sound engineer Bill Cadman, who was killed in the Lockerbie air crash. His death affected me very deeply a...

A virtuoso work for an increasingly popular instrumental combination, the title (after Van Gogh's visionary painting The Starry Night) gives a sense of the intensity of this music. Personal memories o...

Van Gogh's visionary painting The Starry Night provides the title, if not the stimulus, for this music. Rather, personal memories of Africa are recalled and in particular the sound of music and dancin...

Like Goehr's quintet for clarinet and strings op. 79, manere is influenced by early music and more specifically the Gregorian chant Sic eum volo manére found in the Graduale Romanorum. The work itself...

Commandé pour le célèbre Florestan Trio en 2009 qui l'ont joué au Royaume-Uni, en France et en Allemagne, le Piano Trio de Huw Watkins représente ajout d'importance au répertoire de musique de chambre...

The music's air of simplicity clearly stands for gifted craft, from the recurring harp arpeggios of the fist movement to the rhythmic drive of the second and the barefaced major chord that ended the t...

Cette courte pièce de musique de chambre de Tippett paraît enfin dans la série Edition Schott. Prelude, Recitative and Aria est une transcription de l'aria d'Hermès O Divine Music tiré de l'opéra King...

It Never Rains is a short piece written in the summer of 2010 that was commissioned by Jim Fox for the Californian label Cold Blue Music and is dedicated to them. The title comes from two sources: the...

Largo Siciliano is a slow dance movement in a simple metre comprising a sequence of variations, separated by a refrain; a single idea is continually reworked and recast. This idea, or little siciliano...

The intense and surreal musical narrative so apparent in Gerald Barry's hugely successful opera The Importance of Being Earnest returns in a new guise for his latest vocal work Jabberwocky. Setting Le...

This work's title comes from DM Thomas's dramatic poem on an imagined episode in the life of Cleopatra. Cleopatra offers any three men from her royal court a night of unbridled passion, in return for...

This work's title comes from DM Thomas's dramatic poem on an imagined episode in the life of Cleopatra. Cleopatra offers any three men from her royal court a night of unbridled passion, in return for...

Overture was written on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Countess of Munster Trust at Glyndebourne

Für 2 Klarinetten, Marimbaphon, Klavier, Viola und Violoncello.

Gavin Bryars' haunting soundworld is ever present in this trio for bass clarinet, electric guitar and cello. The fusion of electric and acoustic in a bass-dominated tessitura creates a sombre elegy th...