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A powerful, dissonant setting of texts by Michelangelo, dealing with love, life and death. Powers was inspired by the idea that a block of marble contains the finished sculpture within it.

For solo piano in two movements. Nubes II concludes the cycle which began with Nubes, both works sharing the same musical material. This second work contrasts with the first by a more subjective music...

Spring Rounds was commissioned for Chamber Music 2000. The Chamber Music 2000 works were designed to be technically easy, but still retain the composers own individuality and musical style.

For solo piano. This piece uses some melodic, rhythmic and harmonic materials from the late piano music of Albeniz as a starting point. Erkoreka exaggerates or simplifies certain aspects of the tradit...

For flute, clarinet, violin, and cello - This technically demanding chamber work is a response to the work of one of Spain's leading architects, Alberto Campo-Baeza, where symmetries and reflections a...

For clarinet (and bass clarinet), and cello. Towards the end of his life the Spanish painter Goya completed a series of works now known as 'The Black Paintings'. 'Saturno' is the most horrifying of th...

Nubes (clouds in Spanish) consists of two movements played without interruption. The first, Cumulus, is a play of sonorities based on a fixed intervallic structure. In the distance, one can hear intim...

For soprano saxophone (or oboe) and percussion (1 player). Kulamen Dilan is evocative of Khurdish love songs, exploring the 'methodology' of folk music, creating a mosaic from tiny motifs of pitch and...

For up to four musicians with (optional) assistant and pre-recorded tape(s). Recent Britain confronts several of the preoccupations of the media in Britain in the late 1990s: immigration, paedophilia...

WAM is an investigation of Mozart - it uses hundreds of slightly altered fragments of, or parodies of, his music - and, instead of assembling them as he might if he were composing, allows them to floa...

Molly-House contains two parallel streams of music. One consists of pages, some in conventional notation, others intentionally lacking determinacy with respect to durations and pitch. The other consis...

For hardanger fiddle, either solo or accompanied by reed-organ and/or piano (live or pre-recorded) and instrumental quartet. The piece is a 'cut-up' of passages quoted from, or composed in imitation o...

Suite from existing ballet for 2 cellos and percussion

Five Preludes were commissioned by the International Guitar Festival at Bath Spa University College with the financial assistance of South West Arts and Keller S.A. It has been recorded by Tom Kersten...

Sotto Voce consists of an intriguing interplay of isolated notes for the three instruments, with a good deal of pizzicato in the strings.

Garland demonstrates the composer's typically thoughtful approach to form and melodic material, the title of this work reflecting the circularity of both.

These three pieces serve as companion pieces to Reminiscence (2001) and Beguine (2002). Flight of Fancy takes its cue from Beguine; A Piece of the Action has the pace and character of a relaxed march;...

This is based on the opening bars of the Sarabande from Bach's second cello suite in D minor. 'Par la bande' means 'in a roundabout way' and suggests a circularity of form and a less than direct appro...

The opening movement of this five-movement work features the oboe, being a setting of a solo piece written by the composer in memory of Barbara Hepworth. The second is a lyrical canon for oboe, clarin...

Random Girl is a short, lyrical piece highlighting the melodic aspect of the vibraphone which engages in sinuous dialogue with the oboe.

The words are by Kamala Das who was born in Malabar in 1934 and is one of India's most distinguished poets. The setting evokes the suppleness and richness of Indian music.

In this unaccompanied setting of Thomas A. Clark's poem, Jackson beautifully conjures up the atmosphere of the onset of nightfall. Featuring a wide range of rhythms, textures, and dynamics, this is a...

Wilberg arranged this familiar hymn for the funeral of US President Gerald Ford. The first two verses are set for unison voices (men on verse one, women on verse two). The final verse is a setting for...

Written to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of the Foundress of St John's College, Cambridge, this celebratory setting is jubilant, melodic, and full of lively figuration for both the ch...

Vista is the first in a planned sequence of pieces, all to include piano. The sequence will form a musical reflection or interpretation of aspects of Italian renaissance and baroque gardens, typically...