Ensemble

First performance by the Nash Ensemble (Philippa Davies, alto flute/piccolo, Lawrence Power, viola, andLucy Wakeford, harp) on 12th July 2004 at the Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, as part of the Che...

Written for chamber ensemble. This work was commissioned by the BBC. First performance on 6th September 2004 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, as part of the BBC Proms Chamber Music Series, b...

This work was written for Endymion's 'Sound Census' project, in celebration of their 30th Birthday. It was first performed by Endymion with Melinda Maxwell (oboe), at Kings Place, London, as part of t...

Commissioned by The Bath Festival. 'If the idea behind the piece comes from anywhere, the 'Disparates' (Follies) of Goya were certainly at the back of my mind when writing. The Goya images are nightma...

Commissioned by The Bath Festival. 'If the idea behind the piece comes from anywhere, the 'Disparates' (Follies) of Goya were certainly at the back of my mind when writing. The Goya images are nightma...

For instrumental ensemble. Commissioned for the ''At Lunch'' series by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall. World Premiere given at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris on 1st March 2011 by members of Britten Sin...

Für Orgel und 3 Pauken (E-G-d) . Auff.-Dauer: 12'00 min. (III-IV)áá

Violine und Flöte, mit schöner Melodieführung, wie bei Kretzschmar üblich.áá

Adonai Malach (Psalm 93) was commissioned by Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun in Milwaukee, as part of a 1985 conference of composers and cantors, where each composer was paired with a cantor and a...

Adonai Malach (Psalm 93) was commissioned by Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun in Milwaukee, as part of a 1985 conference of composers and cantors, where each composer was paired with a cantor and a...

For French Horn, Chimes, Timpani. Set of performance scores. Composed 1994. Duration 4:10.

The title is taken from Rabelais's famous passage about frozen words. The words themselves reach a verdict in the hyper objectivity of a rigid world, in the delirium of an auditory hallucination. It i...

Music for the eponymous film recorded on December 2, 1986 by members of Ensemble Itinéraire, shown for the first time on December 7, 1987 at the French Cinémathèque (Palais de Chaillot, Paris) and per...

The title refers to a gouache by Barnett Newman dating from 1946-47. Rejecting the grid pattern, the fragmentation of time, and the compartmentalised spaces that constrain occidental tradition, contra...

Written for eight instruments, The Watery Star is marked by minimalist poetics. The watery star, a title borrowed from Shakespeare and mentioned in Panofsky's book on Dürer, signifies a particular mel...

During the 18th century, Tiepolo was one of the principal representatives of religious and decorative Rococo painting. He turned Catholicism into a painterly apotheosis. Reality dissolved into transfi...

The lightning annihilates movement. Nature succumbs to narcosis. Only colour emerges from an imponderable, irrepressible mobility that erodes contours and casts them in a brownish light. The hue relat...

Between 1752 and 1753, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo decorated the immense vault of the Great Stairwell in the Würzburg Residence, which had been built under the supervision of Balthasar Neumann, architec...