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Canyons is a response to the imposing landscape of the American South West, an exploration of musical ideas. The piece falls into four main sections. Following a build-up in the brass and woodwind, th...

Omaggio is a homage to Italy and all things Italian. A brief Burla of a fast-moving scherzo character pays tribute to Verdi. Barcarola is sterner stuff - a grim black gondola evokes the Venice of the...

The title of this work comes from a poem by Kenneth Patchen, the imagery of which fits the sound of the music. Duration: 12 mins.

Catcher of Shadows was written in celebration of the work of photographer Frank Meadow Sutcliffe who lived and worked in the Yorkshire fishing port of Whitby at the end of the 19th and beginning of th...

Chaucer's Tunes (two sections of which began life as the theme music for a BBC radio series The Road to Canterbury) consists of six interconnected sections. These can equally well be played either as...

Extra Score only. Symphonic sequence after William Blake for Symphonic Winds using Holy Thursday from Songs of Innocence. Duration: 21 mins. Extra Score only. Symphonic sequence after William Blake fo...

This band work is based on the composer's opera, The Palace, deriving the composition in rhapsodic form from some of the main themes of the opera. While the score includes many of Sallinen's most infe...

Prelude and Fugue for Wind Band. Duration: 4 mins.

Prelude to Revelry is based on two traditional British drinking songs, Little Brown Jug and Come Landlord fill the Flowing Bowl. The material was originally used as incidental music for a radio comedy...

A Leadsman, Landsmen and Dances begins with The Jolly Sailor, a boisterous portrait of the subject. Then comes O Shepherd, O Shepherd, Won't You Come Home? which perhaps presents both austere and idyl...

Score & Parts.

The whole shape of A Plain Man's Hammer owes something to classical sonata form. It is a two part form of which the first is an exposition containing two tonally contrasted subjects and the second con...

Cloudcatcher Fells was originally written as a Brass Band work, but was transcribed into the contemporary wind ensemble while remaining true to the original. The title comes from a poem by David Wrigh...

The title of the work refers to the process of constant change that occurs in the music. The opening four note motif provides most of the intervallic and harmonic material. The work is in three main s...

Score & Parts: Picc; 2 Fl; 2 Ob; Cor Ang; Eb Cl; 2 Cl; B.Cl; 2 Bsn; 2 A.Sax; Ten.Sax; Bar.Sax; 4 Hn' 3 Tpt; 2 Tbn; B.Tbn; Tuba; Timp; 3 Perc' Pno' Hp' Dbl.Bass.

Duration: 5:30 Minutes.

3 FL (Picc); 3 Ob (Cor.Ang); 3 Cl' 3 Bsn; 4 Hn; 3 Tpt; 2 Tbn; B.Tbn; Tuba; Solo Piano; 3 Perc.

Refrains and Variations for 31 wind instruments and percussion. Catena, Latin for chain, is a work of enormous range; passages of power and fire alternating with sections of the utmost tranquillity an...

Commissioned by the National Trust for the opening of the Stratford Canal in 1964. The Allegro Maestoso opens with a brass fanfare which introduces the interval of a minor seventh from which much of t...

Written in memory of the composer's mother, the work takes its title from the hymn "Through all the changing scenes of life". The hymn tune Contemplation by Ousely is the source of much of the melodic...

Symphony No. 5 (Op. 74). Score available separately (large format)

Symphony No. 5 (Op. 74). Large format Score

Carol Symphony is one of Victor Hely-Hutchinson's most popular works. It is in four linked movements that may be played separately. Includes: Prelude: Adeste Fideles; Scherzo: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentl...