Faber Music

The concerto has a dashing first movement marked by jazz memories and a lento whose wistful melancholy also suggests the sentimental lyrical style of the 1930s. The leap from this to the crude whoopin...

On the surface a listener-friendly extension of Field's early-Romantic idiom, this is music encompassing switchbacks of mood and material so bizarre as to be almost unnerving. (Imagine Chopin as it mi...

Instrumentation: 0.2.0.2.cbsn - 2231 - perc(3): tam-t/susp.cym/bongo/3 congas/BD/glsp/crot/3 tom-t - strings

Contemporary-music-without-tears has always been his aim, and this succinct little three-movement work showed him as skilful as ever in unpretentious directness of utterance, as it were in the vernacu...

. . . the happy surprise, of his Little Concert. . . beneath the graceful long lines and jig-like spurts of a solo part expressly written for Melinda Maxwell, Maw finds time and space enough to draw q...

Commissioned by the Canberra Symphony Orchestra in 1996, Carl Vine’s Concerto for Oboe is permeated with energetic rhythms and brilliant, snaking arabesques for the soloist. An ear-catching 16-m...

Instrumentation: 2(I=picc.II=afl).2.2(II=bcl).2(II=cbsn) - 2200 -perc(2): 12 thai gong/2 tam-t/BD/spring coil - harp - strings

The full score for this large work for orchestra, written in 2005 for violinist Anthony Marwood. The complete score and parts are available for rental only. Please contact [email protected]...

Composer's note: ''There is something innately human about cherishing one's deepest desires while knowing that they are impossible. Part of the model in this work is also the folly that a flute - the...

Irkanda is an Australian native word meaning 'a remote and lonely place'.

Fanny Waterman is the most outstanding piano teacher of our time. Joint founder, with Marion Harewood, of the Leeds International Piano Competition, her ever growing list of prize-winning pupils has b...

... perhaps the most impressive, motivated handling of orchestral forces in an output which has always demonstrated an extraordinary control of large forms. And the most telling of its time-tricks is...

'Earth cry' is a straightforward and melodious work. Its four parts are made up of a quick ritualistic music, framed by a slower music of a supplicatory nature, and an extended coda. It owes a debt to...

The first performance of 'Asyla' was given by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, in the Symphony Hall, Birmingham, on 1 October 1997. Das Stimmenmaterial ist vom...

Instrumentation: 4(I-IV=picc, IV=afl).0.4(IV=cl in A, III+IV=bcl).0.cbsn - 3.4(I=ptpt).btpt.1.btrbn.1 - perc(3): 2 xyl/5 SD/2 whip/2 vib/2 vibraslap/2 BD/tgl/3 tpl.bl/2 congas/5 bongos/4 c.bells- pno(...

Instrumentation: 2 fl(II=picc2).picc(=fl3).2.Ebcl.2 cl(I=Eb, II=Bb, A &bcl).bcl.2.cbsn - 4.2.3.1 - timp - perc(4): 15 tpl.bl(large-very small)/2 guiros(large & small)/tam-t/2 ratchet/BD/2SD(medium & v...

Instrumentation: 0100 - 0200 – timp – perc(2): BD/chimes/tgl/ch.cym/tam-t/vib/tom-tom/susp.cym/glsp – harp – strings

... conveyed an impression of a harsh, blistering landscape, which seemed at times on the point of eruption. Scotsman (Conrad Wilson), 27 August 1984, Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.2.2 - 4231 - timp(=BD)...

Instrumentation: 2.2(II=ca).2(II=bcl).2 - 2(1)00 - timp(=rototom or tom-t+glsp) - strings (min 4.4.3.3.2)

Music for Japan begins with a great sobbing breath of sound, rather like the deep chesty vocalism of Japanese classical singer-actors. Slow planetary wanderings of timbre and accent give way to a midd...

Lush and pictorial, it consisted of sharply defined sections that courted the charge of mere exoticism - evocations of Oriental musics and sounds, full of throbbing strings, rapidly reiterated percuss...