Partitions difficile chez Novello Publishing

The development of the character of Lady Macbeth is the subject of contemporary composer Joseph Horovtiz's Scena. He has selected words from the speeches of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's play and trea...

For a man who achieved so much in his own field, Bliss's wide-ranging, undogmatic appetite for the whole arts scene was extraordinary. While he had a profound knowledge and understanding of American a...

Gustav Holst wrote the libretto and music for his opera The Perfect Fool over the years 1918 to 1922. It had its premiere at in London the next year, but mystified audiences and has been rarely perfor...

E J Moeran was a 20th century British composer of Anglo-Irish background who spent his early years in Norfolk and influences of folksong and programmatic elements can be easily heard in this composer'...

The Saeviat Tellus Inter Rigores makes substantial virtuosic demands in the Soprano solo part. It is written in six movements, very specifically for the Order of Carmelites. Handel's early musical lif...

Omaggio is a homage to Italy and all things Italian. A brief Burla of a fast-moving scherzo character pays tribute to Verdi. Barcarola is sterner stuff - a grim black gondola evokes the Venice of the...

The performance score for Lefanu's Song For Peter for Soprano, Clarinet and Cello. Please Note both the score (Catalogue no. NOV951368) and this separate part must be ordered for a full performance.

The setting of texts from Joyce's Finnigan's Wake for two male (falsetto) and two female voices. Commissioned by the Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble, San Diego.

Refrains and Variations for 31 wind instruments and percussion. Catena, Latin for chain, is a work of enormous range; passages of power and fire alternating with sections of the utmost tranquillity an...

The Sound Barrier Rhapsody is a short, dynamic orchestral tour de force in five discernible sections. It can be fully appreciated as pure music, but it is interesting to note the source of the origina...

Score & Parts

Catcher of Shadows was written in celebration of the work of photographer Frank Meadow Sutcliffe who lived and worked in the Yorkshire fishing port of Whitby at the end of the 19th and beginning of th...

This band work is based on the composer's opera, The Palace, deriving the composition in rhapsodic form from some of the main themes of the opera. While the score includes many of Sallinen's most infe...

Score & Parts.

Cloudcatcher Fells was originally written as a Brass Band work, but was transcribed into the contemporary wind ensemble while remaining true to the original. The title comes from a poem by David Wrigh...

The title of the work refers to the process of constant change that occurs in the music. The opening four note motif provides most of the intervallic and harmonic material. The work is in three main s...

3 FL (Picc); 3 Ob (Cor.Ang); 3 Cl' 3 Bsn; 4 Hn; 3 Tpt; 2 Tbn; B.Tbn; Tuba; Solo Piano; 3 Perc.

2 Ob; 2 Cl; 2 Bsn; Contra Bsn; 2 Hn