Hawkes Pocket Scores

The first movement begins with a short, punchy motive, which kicks off a fast, jerky solo violin theme. This is followed by a high, floating singing line, with murmuring accompaniment.The second movem...

Birtwistle's Concerto for violin and orchestra was commissioned for Christian Tetzlaff by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was first performed at Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts by Tetzlaff and...

HPS 846

HPS 943

HPS 1172

Study Scores

Immerse yourself in one of the most gripping masterpieces of the 20th century: The Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 77 captivates with its profound emotional intensity, virtuosic passion,...

The Four Hymns are in similar vein to the Five Mystical Songs (1911) although on a smaller and more intimate scale. Together with the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis these form a succession of wo...

HPS 1236

Dieses 28-minütige, einsätzige Werk für großes Orchester wurde von der BBC für das BBC Symphony Orchestra in Auftrag gegeben, das das Stück 2003 in der Barbican Hall in London unter der Leitung von Ju...

Les deux versions de Pétrouchka de Stravinsky sont deux répliques différentes et parallèles d'un des chefs-d'oeuvre fondamentaux de la musique du XXème siècle. On peut toutefois soutenir que la versio...

Britannia was written in 1994 as a celebration of a major force in our musical life, the British orchestra. The work fulfils a commission from British Telecommunications plc with the Association of Br...

Dernier apport à la série Hawkes Pocket Score, cette oeuvre a été commissionnée par ROCHE pour le Festival de Lucerne 2004 comme un pendant de The Shadow of Night ; elle doit son titre au texte de Joh...

A 16-minute orchestral tribute to the city of Chicago commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation as part of the composer's residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and first performed in 2...

Cette (oEuvre en trois mouvements a été commissionnée par la Juilliard School à New York pour célébrer son 100e anniversaire en 2005. Elle fut exécutéee en octobre de la même année au Carnegie Hall pa...

Die 35-minütige Orchestersuite Book of Visions wurde vom Orchestre National de Belgique, dem NHK Symphony Orchestra und dem Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Auftrag gegeben und erlebte ihre Urauff...

Concert overture for orchestra, first performed in 2007 by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis. The Times described the five-minute piece as 'an irreverent deconstruction of th...

The Sacrifice is my second opera, written for WNO and premiered in 2007. It is based on one of the Mabinogian stories, a collection of ancient Welsh myths. It is a tale of love set amidst a civil or c...

Chorale (2001-02), for orchestra, is a kind of musical meditation on the chorale Es ist genug from Bach's cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, itself a harmonisation of J R Ahle's 1662 hymn. Nick Kimber...

Composed in 1991 this London Sinfonietta commission was first performed by them in May 1992 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Scored 'for orchestra or chamber orchestra' the instrumentation compris...