Faber Music

After a period of intense work and isolation for Benjamin, his much-awaited new opera, Written on Skin, was premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival on 7 July 2012. A long standing ovation was the fi...

Drake's libretto deftly weaves together a wide variety of texts, from actual communications sent on the morning of 9/11 to passages from the Latin Requiem Mass.

A turning point for Adès and, it felt, for opera itself. ' The Observer (Fiona Maddocks), 31 July 2016 'Some of Adès's most powerful orchestral writing. . . The music is constantly fascinating. . . Ca...

Inspired by the fast-moving scenes and vulnerable, complex characters of Elizabethan drama, this new opera by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp considers what space, if any, exists for love and human a...

Instrumentation: perc(4): 3 gong/cel/vib/glsp/mar/5 bongo/timb/congas/timp/5 tom-t/BD/4 cencerro/3 tgl/musical saw/glasschimes/wood chimes/2 tam-t/3 susp.cym/4 tpl.bl/crot -harp - strings

Instrumentation: 2.picc.3.3.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): SD/cyms/BD- harp - strings or 2.2.2.1.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(2): SD/cyms/BD -strings

Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.2.2 - 4331 - timp - perc(2): cyms/BD/SD/tam-t/glsp/tamb/xyl/cast - harp - strings

Benjamin Britten wrote his 'String Quartet in F' in April 1928, shortly after he began lessons with Frank Bridge. He was fourteen at the time and it is thought that this piece was set as a homework ex...

The sources for this new edition of Britten's String Quartet No.3 was the original manuscript, a photocopy of the manuscript in progress, Rosamund Strode's fair copy. The Quartet was written for the A...

The writing of a string quartet seems to me to accompany a period in my life of intense personal and musical crisis, upheaval and change. Such were the circumstances which immediately preceded the com...

The writing of a string quartet seems to me to accompany a period in my life of intense personal and musical crisis, upheaval and change. Such were the circumstances which immediately preceded the com...

The living, indigenous musics of Kakadu National Park, in the north of Australia, and of Torres Strait and beyond, have been a part of my musical language since the late ‘eighties. The incorporation i...

In the first place, Autumn Song was a short work for SATB chorus, written in 1968. The words, by Roger Covell, sing of an autumnal Australian landscape still recovering from the devastation caused by...

In 1989, I made my first visit to Kakadu National Park, in the north of Australia. Looking out across the great floodplains there, I could see the abandoned sites of early white settlement, the Arafur...

This set of short pieces was composed specifically to cater for the technical abillities of junior string players. They encourage the player to maintain a strong sense of beat as well as de­manding ot...

Composers have been slow to recognise the full expressive potential of the modern value trumpet, and there is an unsatisfied appetite amongst trumpet players for solo music of a lyrical nature. Grieg'...

Violinist Nicola Benedetti has captivated audiences and critics alike with her musicality and poise. Here is Nicola’s own Violin Masterclass on core repertoire for intermediate to advanced violinists....