John Casken

Madonna of Silence is far from the quiet piece implied by the title. Indeed, it reflects the inner turbulence of Michelangelo's extraordinary drawing Madonna del Silenzio on which the work is based. M...

Casken's inspired double concerto for violin and viola makes reference to John Donne poem depicting two lovers on the bank of a river with their hands entwined. The dialogue between soloists is organi...

Casken's inspired double concerto for violin and viola makes reference to John Donne poem depicting two lovers on the bank of a river with their hands entwined. The dialogue between soloists is organi...

My Concerto for Orchestra (2007) is a twenty-minute work in which different sections of the orchestra, as well as individual solos and duos from within the orchestra, are highlighted as the music unfo...

My Concerto for Orchestra (2007) is a twenty-minute work in which different sections of the orchestra, as well as individual solos and duos from within the orchestra, are highlighted as the music unfo...

Composed for Northern Sinfonia Chorus and Gavin Osborn.

The Anglo-Saxon poem The Dream of the Rood was probably written in the 8th Century and is the earliest dream-vision poem in Old English. A fragment of the poem from the section that describes the cruc...

The work explores something of how we might experience winter. The title is a play on words and the normal meaning of reels as dances infects both the first movement, with its lilting triplet rhythms,...

Soprano and Small Ensemble

Flöte, Englisch Horn, Klarinette, Horn, Harfe, Viola, Bass

The Anglo-Saxon poem The Dream of the Rood was probably written in the 8th Century and is the earliest dream-vision poem in Old English. A fragment of the poem from the section that describes the cruc...

The work explores something of how we might experience winter. The title is a play on words and the normal meaning of reels as dances infects both the first movement, with its lilting triplet rhythms,...