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Written in 2010 for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Wigglesworth's nine-minute work explores the idea of perpetuum mobile (continuous movement) in seven connected, miniature inventions. A regular pu...

The work explores something of how we might experience winter. The title is a play on words and the normal meaning of reels as dances infects both the first movement, with its lilting triplet rhythms,...

Peter Maxwell Davies was thinking of individual and communal vulnerability when composing this piece, especially in relation to the problem of climate change and his home in the Orkney Islands, which...

This three-movement work reflects the character of the wunderkammer, or Cabinet of Curiosities, which flourished between the 16th to 18th centuries: 'in this labyrinthine landscape, I found a natural...

This major work from Alexander Goehr reflects upon the diametrically opposing roles towers can have. The composer writes 'Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the...

One of the movements in Scorched (arrangements of seventeen tunes by John Scofield for jazz trio and orchestra) has a coda, which repeats a dense, two-bar tag which sounded like it could be developed....

The title No people. comes from the surrealist Raymond Roussel. In 1932 he published a long poem called New Impressions of Africa. For this he commissioned 59 drawings to illustrate the text. The comm...

This highly complex and virtuosic ensemble work shows that even in his 80s Sir Peter Maxwell Davies shows no signs of taking it easy. Composed in Italy in 2012, The Trojan Games depicts a sequence of...

La Little Symphony pour orchestre à cordes de Watkins se compose d'un mouvement et de quatre séquences rattachées ensemble dans lesquelles un matériau rapide et plein d'élan alterne avec une musique p...

Commissioned by Gavin Bryars' long-standing collaborators, ensemble Aventa, and with a libretto by author and poet Marilyn Bowering, Bryars' Marilyn Forever examines the inner life of Marilyn Monroe,...

Gerald Barry uses Beethoven's only surviving love letter as the text for this richly scored, vivid and dramatic work for bass voice and ensemble.

The starting point was the collected letters of Vincent van Gogh. In spite of the tragedies for which van Gogh is best known, his letters are filled with joyous exuberance for the practical considerat...

Je ne parle pas français ; mais à l'époque, j'ai découvert que je pouvais dire des choses extraordinaires dans cette langue en utilisant des mots employés dans les deux langues. C'est ainsi qu'est né...

Le mythe de la nymphe Daphné fut au XVIIe siècle le premier sujet d'opéra de l'histoire de la musique. Benjamin Schweitzer a repris le thème en 2005, en se basant sur le livret du poète baroque Martin...

Vier Beginnt était développé pour l'enseignement pour les classes de cordes en âge d'école primaire, mais peut être même utilisé pour l'enseignement individuel. Grâce au grand nombre de chansons et mo...

Heinrich Poos (né en 1928) est un des grand compositeurs allemands de musique chorale de notre époque. Dans son cycle Orpheus, Poos reprend l'ancien mythe du chanteur et poète Orphée qui symbolise la...

Heinrich Poos (né en 1928) est un des grand compositeurs allemands de musique chorale de notre époque. Dans son cycle Orpheus, Poos reprend l'ancien mythe du chanteur et poète Orphée qui symbolise la...

Es war 1996, als mir Christoph Poppen, der damalige Leiter des Münchener Kammerorchesters, von einem kuriosen Konzert in Münsing (Ammerland) erzählte: während eines seiner Konzerte mit dem Orchester i...

We owe it to Paul Hindemith's interest in education, which, in turn, was owed not only to the professional musicians and composers, that he composed for children and amateur musicians as well. Dame Mu...

We owe it to Paul Hindemith's interest in education, which, in turn, was owed not only to the professional musicians and composers, that he composed for children and amateur musicians as well. Dame Mu...

We owe it to Paul Hindemith's interest in education, which, in turn, was owed not only to the professional musicians and composers, that he composed for children and amateur musicians as well. Dame Mu...