Faber Music

Britten's last opera, Death In Venice , is based on the short story by Thomas Mann. It follows the inner turmoil of the ageing novelist Gustav von Aschenbach, who becomes infatuated by a boy he sees o...

Commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, this 25-minute journey from complex momentum to expressive simplicity displays all the ingenious craft we have come to expect from Matthews, together...

Hillborg's first Violin Concerto , composed in the early 90s, is a pivotal work in his oeuvre. Composed in the wake of his highly experimental Clang & Fury and Celestial Mechanics - both of which empl...

Instrumentation: 3(all=picc).3(III=ca).3(III=bcl).3.cbsn – 4.4.3.1 – perc(3): glsp/crot/vib/t.bells/glass harmonica (or 4 wine glasses - 2 players)/wind chimes/cast/tam-t/BD – harp – pno – chorus (64...

Inspired by Oliver Sacks's fascinating exploration of atypical mental states 5 Hallucinations , Carl Vine's Trombone Concerto was premiered in October 2016 by Michael Mulcahy and the Chicago Symphony...

An intense reflection on romantic passion and loss, Anders Hillborg's …lontano in sonno… for voice (mezzo-soprano/soprano) and orchestra sets sonnets by Petrarch. Originally written for Anne Sofie von...

This full score is a perfect accompaniment to the previously published vocal score and text. Instrumentation: 8 Singers: KING (Bar)/ISABEL (S)/GAVESTON/STRANGER (Bar)/MORTIMER (T)/BOY/YOUNG KING (High...

Dedicated to the memory of Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin's 2021 Concerto for Orchestra premiered at the BBC proms by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Benjamin said that the piece attempts 'to conjure a...

Cette édition en fac-similé de la partition intégrale des Planètes Opus 32 de Gustav Holst, éditée par Imogen Holst et Colin Matthews, est présentée sous la forme d'une édition reliée, en couleurs, av...

Picture a day like this is the fourth operatic collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the...

Interludes and Aria from 'Lessons in Love and Violence' (2024) est un montage de 15 minutes d'extraits pour soprano et orchestre du célèbre opéra de Benjamin et Crimp de 2018. Créés par Sir Simon Ratt...

Vocal score to Benjamin Britten's The Rescue of Penleope , for narrator, four solo voices and orchestra. The concert version of the radio drama The Rescue (1943) prepared by Christopher de Souza i...

The Oboe Concerto was commissioned by the BBC for the 1996 BBC Proms. The first performance was given by Nicholas Daniel and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthias Bamert in the Royal Albert...

Purcell composed six of his finest odes to honour the birthdays of Queen Mary in successive years from 1689. Come, ye sons of art (1694) followed recent stage successes and contains some of the compos...

Composed for Steven Isserlis in 2004, Carl Vine's Cello Concerto is an exhilarating 20-minute work that traverses a vast emotional palette. The Concerto begins arrestingly, with soloist pitted against...

Carl Vine's Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997) is one of 3 large-scale works composed with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in mind - the others being his first two piano sonatas. Its composer describes it as '...

First performed Piers Lane and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Carl Vine's vibrant Piano Concerto No.2 (2012) is an attractive 25-minute work comprising 3 movements. A Rhapsody and Nocturne lead to a f...

Rich, colourful and multi-layered, Carl Vine's Symphony No.7 (2008) is subtitled 'scenes from daily life'. The first two 'scenes' mirror the same idea from opposite sides: the first allowing competing...

Carl Vine's atmospheric Violin Concerto (2011) creates a rich and multi-faceted relationship between soloist and orchestra. Unfolding over two finely-crafted movements of roughly equal length, the 23-...

A kaleidoscopic showpiece for orchestra entirely worthy of its name. The piece bristles with contrast and energy. Within the first few minutes we journey from a mellifluous woodwind pastorale to a fan...

The sonorous, majestic and expressive qualities of baroque brass music have rarely been surpassed. This colourful collection, arranged for trombone with simple piano accompaniments presents some of th...

Melodrama, sentimentality, vulgarity, and sheer cockney cheek: the Victorian era was a period of extremes. With brass bands abounding in concert halls, bandstands and even street corners, the trombone...

In Ricercare una melodia , an ingenious work for solo instrument and tape delay from the mid 1980s, Jonathan Harvey takes the literal meaning of Ricercare - 'to seek' - as the inspiration for its stru...

With this masterful 8-minute work Coll - a trombonist himself - has created a major addition to the instrument's repertoire. The Chanson is almost Bergian with its dark harmonies and slow-burning pass...

Ballad, composed by Edvard Grieg and arranged by Alan Gout for trombone in bass clef with piano accompaniment in digital sheet music format.