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World Sound Matters is a fully-integrated anthology of music from around the world, the entire series comprising: 2 compact discs of 58 traditional music recordings (ED 12572), representing 35 differe...

World Sound Matters is a fully-integrated anthology of music from around the world, the entire series comprising: 2 compact discs of 58 traditional music recordings (ED 12572), representing 35 differe...

This quartet arrangement of Allegrasco was originally planned for clarinettist Roger Heaton and violinst Alexander Balanescu - two members of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble - to perform outside the context...

Une suite de concert de trois morceaux pour clarinette, violon et piano. Le compositeur a créé de courtes images acoustiques : fantasques, spirituelles et mordantes, elles contribuent de manière intér...

This short trio combines angular lines and troubling chromaticism to create a highly effective piece of mood music with an empty, eerie feel to it. A beautiful and poignant work in memory of the celli...

La ballerine d'une boîte à musique a une vie secrète. Même si elle semble se comporter normalement, dès que le couvercle est fermé, sa propre vie commence. La constellation vibraphone/guitare dépeint...

Trio mêlant une musique douce, hypnotique à des éruptions moins tranquilles, cette oeuvre évoque l'atmosphère qu'on associe à la nuit et au sommeil. La forte complémentarité de la clarinette, du violo...

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...

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...