Faber Music

This is a calm, straightforward work, filled with thoughts of friends and friendly places. Its music grows from the falling intervals played by the guitar at the outset. In one movement, the work cons...

Enter Spring showed Bridge, like his contemporaries, Respighi and Szymanowski, to be a master of sensuous chromaticism which, judging from its enthusiastic reception, provides welcome relief from the...

... chamber music writ large, often abrasive in an almost Stravinskian way... the emotional weight is borne by the central slow movement. . . The finale is a brisk march, interrupted at one point by h...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 - 2200 - timp(=susp.cym ad lib) - perc(1/2): glsp/SD/tgl/susp.cym - pno(=cel) - harp - strings In addition to his large-scale orchestral and choral work Standing Sto...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).1.ca.2.2 - 2000 - timp - harp - strings or 2(II=picc).1.ca.2.2 - 4000 - timp - harp - strings In addition to his large-scale orchestral and choral work Standing Stone, Paul...

Instrumentation: 0200 - 2000 - strings

Instrumentation: 0200 - 2000 - strings

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2.2.2 – 4231 – timp – perc(2/3): SD/BD+cym/susp.cym/tgl/gong – harp – cel – strings Completed on 20th May 1908, Dance Rhapsody consists of three contrasting dance episodes...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2(II=ca).2(II=bcl).2 - 2110 - perc(1): glsp/vib/timp/SD/BD/tabla/susp.cym/tgl/sleigh bells - harp - strings (min 8.6.4.4.2 players)

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): vib/xyl/crot/t.bells/SD/BD/3 tom-t/tam-t/susp.cym/cyms/tgl - pno - harp - strings Two musical tales for narrator and orchestra T...

Instrumentation: 3(=picc).2(II=ca).2(I=Ebcl.II=Ebcl+bcl).2(II=cbsn) – 4231 – perc(5): vib/glsp/lujon/mcas/xyl/coiled spring/mark tree/BD/tpl.bl/c.bell/mar/siz.cym/crot/gong/t.bells/guiro/4 oriental go...

Instrumentation: picc.2.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2/3): BD/hi-hat/cyms/2 susp.cym/2 anvil/4 tom-t/tgl/tamb/(vibraslap)/vib/2 tam-t/(flexatone)/ratchet or guiro/glsp/siz.cym - pno - harp -...

Instrumentation: 1212 – 2200 – solo perc: mar/xylrim/4 susp.cym/japanese bell/5 tom-t/bongos/2 conga/vib/4 small drum/pedal BD/4-8 boobam/4 wdbl – perc(2): 4 bongo/4conga/2 mcas(or chocalho)/2 BD/4 cl...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2.3(III=bcl).3(III=cbsn) – 4331 – perc(1): t.bells/glsp/2 oriental gong/3 wdbl/tpl.bl/tom-t/BD+foot ped – pno – harp – strings – reverberation unit + amplification (ad lib...

Instrumentation: 2(=picc).2.2.2 - 4431 - timp - perc(3): vib/glsp/crot/ t.bells/BD/tam-t - strings Handel called Britain ‘the ringing isle’ because when he came to live here, he heard bells ringing ev...

At the time, I wrote that Australia lacks “a common cause, and the self-interest of many has drained us of much of our energy. A bogus national identity and its commercialization has obscured the true...

Instrumentation: 2.2.2.bcl.2 - 4230 - timp - perc(1): tgl/susp.cym/cyms/BD - strings I orchestrated about half of Beethoven's 'Rule Britannia' Piano Variations in 1980 for Carl Davis' score for the 19...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2(II=ca).2.2 – 4220 – perc(1): tamb/susp.cym/ch.cym/tam-t/BD – harp – strings

Krypton refers to the exploding planet from which the infant Superman escaped. A dark, microtonal soundworld is created with glissandi in the strings, trombones and siren. Two percussionists play anti...

Instrumentation: 2(I=picc).1.ca.2.2 - 2321 - timp - perc(2):SD/tgl/glsp/BD/susp.cym - pno - strings or 1(=picc).1.ca.1.bcl.2 - 2321 - perc(2):timp/BD/(mar)/glsp/susp.cym/SD/tgl/(t.bells) - pno(=cel) -...

It grows, it blossoms, it evolves with as much variety as the images in a kaleidoscope, and like a kaleidoscope it seems to fix the listeners' attention at a central point. . . musical ideas as fresh...

The program included one bona fide masterpiece, written in 1967 by Peter Sculthorpe. . .Sun Music III (Nos. I,II and IV are equally imposing) could have been written only in Australia. The sounds of t...

Malcolm Arnold Four Cornish Dances The Cornish people have a highly developed sense of humour. Many are sea-faring folk, and it is a land of male voice choirs, brass bands, Methodism, May Days, and Mo...

The work contains some of the most startlingly precise storm music ever written - it seems less evocation than the sound of the thing itself. But there is more to it than that: Eliot's lines suggested...