Partitions Martin Butler piano

Un morceau de célébration, semblable à une fanfare, pour piano solo.

Sarah Quartel brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenth-century text in this enchanting carol. The dialogue between Mary and the infant Jesus is woven to a beguiling folk-like melody, in 6/8 metre,...

This strikingly effective carol for alto solo and a cappella choir combines verse by Robert Louis Stevenson with an ancient Latin antiphon text in music of great spaciousness and lyricism. Offprinted...

In this unaccompanied setting of Thomas A. Clark's poem, Jackson beautifully conjures up the atmosphere of the onset of nightfall. Featuring a wide range of rhythms, textures, and dynamics, this is a...

This inspiring and uplifting setting of a well-known text will appeal to all SATB choirs looking for fresh and accessible new repertoire for general church use.

Preludes Inegales, is named after an improvisatory group of which Butler is a member. It explores ways in which improvised material can be worked on in more formal compositional ways. Butler then impr...

For solo piano. Funerailles is probably best thought of as an extended study in piano sonorities, at times deep, dark, and resonant, at others vivid and bright.

A work in one movement, described by the composer as 'fanciful', which exploits the full range of keyboard colours.

This volume is an eclectic mix of short works composed over a number of years. Butler's idiomatic writing for the piano is instantly appealing and captures a wide variety of moods. His musical languag...