Faber Music

Among the most beautiful of all melodies written by this master of light composition, this selection is well known the world over. Feature your best trumpeter in this original version. The work has be...

I hear in this Symphony an extraordinary feeling for the sound of poetry and for its meanings, a sure skill in timing and in plotting the motions from event to event, and beyond any question, that gif...

A cantata for chorus and orchestra written specifically with young performers in mind. English poet Patrick Dickinson sets the story of Odysseus returning for Penelope, with Arnold's music serving the...

edited by Colin Graham and Philip Ledger, Instrumentation: 2201 - 0000 - timp - strings

Overall, Benjamin's score aspired towards an exalted kind of jubilation - almost evoking angels in the music of the spheres: and as such it sounded vivid and imaginative. The Guardian (Meirion Bowen),...

Schubert's much-loved masterpiece is a mainstay of the classical choral repertoire. Prepared from the composer's autograph manuscript, Brian Newbould's authoritative new performing edition takes accou...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc (3 or 4): vib/xyl/glsp/SD/mil.SD/tgl/tam/susp.cym/cyms/2 tom-t/tam-t/BD - harp - strings

An atmospheric and subtly orchestrated piece, it compels attention from the opening wisps of sound on xylophone and mandolin, threading its way through forceful baritone phrases (William Dazeley, exce...

Prepared from the composer's autograph manuscript, Brian Newbould's authoritative new performing edition of Schubert's celebratory 'Magnificat' brings this little-known masterpiece to light. A short,...

The Wandering Scholar, Holst's last opera, was written in 1929-30: its original title was 'The Tale of the Wandering Scholar'. It was first performed in The David Lewis Theatre, Liverpool, in 1934, co...

This delightful 17-minute song cycle for soprano and orchestra was derived from Knussen’s fantasy opera Where the Wild Things Are . It brings together the bulk of solo scenes involving the opera...

... a beautifully wrought soundscape of crystalline bleakness out of which a soprano voice emerges. Its continuation delights by its unfailing inventiveness. The Independent (David Wright), 20 March 1...

Instrumentation: 2(=picc).1.ca.2(II=bcl).2 - 2210 - perc(1/2): timp/sleigh bells/vib/crot/mar/BD/ch.cym/susp.cym - harp -strings (min. 86442)

None of the four songs lasts more than a few minutes, yet they pack in an astonishing range of emotional and vocal nuance. . . with wonderfully lucid colours drawn from a vast ensemble; each song seem...

This set of spirituals presents three mini-dramas. One of revolt: 'Go down, Moses', One of release: 'Deep river' and one of joyous acceptance: 'Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel'.This work is also availab...

The full score for this large work for Orchestra, Mezzo-Soprano soloist, and chorus was written in 1999 as part of the New York Philharmonic's Millennium commission. Characteristic of Ades, the Orches...

Matthews' First World War cantata No Man's Land for tenor, baritone and chamber orchestra was much praised when it was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2011 and has gone on to win the vocal category of t...

In 1908 Vaughan Williams composed the Nocturnes for baritone and orchestra – each a setting of his favourite poet Walt Whitman – though these works were believed to be unfinished. The manu...

The individual emotional quality and organic structure of Oration place it high in Bridge's output and indeed in British music of the first half of this century. . .a profound work. . .Music and Lette...

Invocation was composed in 1911 and first performed on May 2nd of that year in the Queen's Hall, London, by May Mukle with the New Symphony Orchestra conducted by Landon Ronald. The work received seve...

Premiered at the BBC Proms in 1984, Matthews’ first concerto for cello is an extravagantly coloured collaboration between soloist and orchestra. Though packed with virtuosity, Matthews makes orchestra...

A kind of commedia dell'arte play gradually crystallises, with the various characters portrayed by the same person (the soloist). It is classy and humorous at the same time Göteborgsposten (Magnu...