Faber Music

The work was inspired by a visit to Easter Island, famous for its great stone heads, monuments that can be seen as both an example of the indomitable nature of the human spirit and as part of its grea...

Full score of Thomas Adès' 1993 composition for large Orchestra. Instrumentation: 3(all=picc).3(III=ca.I+II=ca ad lib).3(II=Ebcl.III=bcl).3(III=cbsn) – 6.3(I=crt ad lib).2.btrbn.1 – perc(6): timp/6 tg...

It is written to please and does not put a foot wrong, as it dances energetically along to some singable themes, with invigorating rhythms, cast in a clear structure, and above all flourishing a maste...

Instrumentation: 2.afl.2.ca.2.bcl.2 - 4230 - timp - perc(2): wdbl/3 susp.cym/cyms/BD+cym/hi-hat/glsp/vib/BD+foot ped/tam-t/flexatone/mar - pno(=elec keyboard ad.lib) - harp - strings (min 24[vln div i...

'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...

Originally conceived to be performed in conjunction with excerpts from Fritz Lang's classic silent film Metropolis , this brooding 11-minute work from 1996 now exists as a concert work in its own...

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...

'These Premises Are Alarmed' was written for the Halle Orchestra during Thomas Ades's period as Composer-in-Association with them. The first performance was given by the Halle Orchestra conducted by K...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).3(III=ca).2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(3): SD/BD/cyms/susp cym/tgl/tamb/t.bells - 2 harp - pno - strings

Instrumentation: picc.2.2.2.2 - 4331 - timp - perc(3): t.bells/glsp/cyms/tam-t/BD - strings

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2(II=ca).2.2 - 4231 - timp - perc(1): cyms - strings

Instrumentation: 2.2(II=ca).2.2 - 2230 - timp(=tgl) - harp - strings

Instrumentation: 2.2.2(II=bcl).2 - 4230 - timp(2) - perc(1): cyms/BD - strings

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2(II=bcl).2(II=cbsn) – 2200 – perc(1): large tam-t/4 gongs/4 bamboo clusters/10 small bowls and bells/4 Japanese rins/3 crot/2 susp.bells/wdbl – strings (min 7.6.4.3.3)

This work was first performed at the RNCM by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier and commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).3(III=...

Instrumentation: 1.picc.2.2.2 - 2200 - timp - strings

Commissioned by the BBC and first performed at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Promenade Concerts, July 1998. Instrumentation: 3(II+III=picc).3(III=ca).3(III=bcl).3(III=cbsn) - 4331 - timp(=w...

"Pluto is dedicated to the memory of Holst's daughter Imogen, with whom I worked for many years until her death in 1984, and who I suspect would have been both amused and dismayed by this ven...

Instrumentation: 2(II=afl+picc).2(II=ca).2.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2): vib/SD/TD/BD/cyms/susp.cym/tam-t/c.bells/t.bells/tamb/whip/tgl - harp - strings

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): tam-t/susp.ch.cym/susp.cym/BD/SD/bongo/3 tom-t/thunder sheet/chime - strings

RPM was commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and first performed on 25 May 1997 in Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney, Australia by the Sydney Sinfonia and Richard Gill. Matthew Hindson RPM RPM sta...

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(...

Isabella' is Bridge's second symphonic poem, and was completed on January 1907, and was the first orchestral work he chose to acknowledge. It is the only one of Bridge's orchestral work to follow a de...

This arrangement of Rave-Elation was commissioned by Musiktheater im Revier. The first performance was given by Ballett Schindowski, with the Neue Philharmonie Nordrhein- Westfalen conducted by Bernha...

Ralph Vaughan Williams' Heroic Elegy and Triumphal Epilogue was composed in 1901. The Elegy dates from January and the Epilogue towards the end of the year, in early November. After some revision by t...