Faber Music

An atmospheric and subtly orchestrated piece, it compels attention from the opening wisps of sound on xylophone and mandolin, threading its way through forceful baritone phrases (William Dazeley, exce...

Prepared from the composer's autograph manuscript, Brian Newbould's authoritative new performing edition of Schubert's celebratory 'Magnificat' brings this little-known masterpiece to light. A short,...

The Wandering Scholar, Holst's last opera, was written in 1929-30: its original title was 'The Tale of the Wandering Scholar'. It was first performed in The David Lewis Theatre, Liverpool, in 1934, co...

This delightful 17-minute song cycle for soprano and orchestra was derived from Knussen’s fantasy opera Where the Wild Things Are . It brings together the bulk of solo scenes involving the opera...

... a beautifully wrought soundscape of crystalline bleakness out of which a soprano voice emerges. Its continuation delights by its unfailing inventiveness. The Independent (David Wright), 20 March 1...

Instrumentation: 2(=picc).1.ca.2(II=bcl).2 - 2210 - perc(1/2): timp/sleigh bells/vib/crot/mar/BD/ch.cym/susp.cym - harp -strings (min. 86442)

None of the four songs lasts more than a few minutes, yet they pack in an astonishing range of emotional and vocal nuance. . . with wonderfully lucid colours drawn from a vast ensemble; each song seem...

This set of spirituals presents three mini-dramas. One of revolt: 'Go down, Moses', One of release: 'Deep river' and one of joyous acceptance: 'Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel'.This work is also availab...

The full score for this large work for Orchestra, Mezzo-Soprano soloist, and chorus was written in 1999 as part of the New York Philharmonic's Millennium commission. Characteristic of Ades, the Orches...

Matthews' First World War cantata No Man's Land for tenor, baritone and chamber orchestra was much praised when it was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2011 and has gone on to win the vocal category of t...

In 1908 Vaughan Williams composed the Nocturnes for baritone and orchestra – each a setting of his favourite poet Walt Whitman – though these works were believed to be unfinished. The manu...

The individual emotional quality and organic structure of Oration place it high in Bridge's output and indeed in British music of the first half of this century. . .a profound work. . .Music and Lette...

Invocation was composed in 1911 and first performed on May 2nd of that year in the Queen's Hall, London, by May Mukle with the New Symphony Orchestra conducted by Landon Ronald. The work received seve...

Premiered at the BBC Proms in 1984, Matthews’ first concerto for cello is an extravagantly coloured collaboration between soloist and orchestra. Though packed with virtuosity, Matthews makes orchestra...

A kind of commedia dell'arte play gradually crystallises, with the various characters portrayed by the same person (the soloist). It is classy and humorous at the same time Göteborgsposten (Magnu...

The concerto has a dashing first movement marked by jazz memories and a lento whose wistful melancholy also suggests the sentimental lyrical style of the 1930s. The leap from this to the crude whoopin...

On the surface a listener-friendly extension of Field's early-Romantic idiom, this is music encompassing switchbacks of mood and material so bizarre as to be almost unnerving. (Imagine Chopin as it mi...

Instrumentation: 0.2.0.2.cbsn - 2231 - perc(3): tam-t/susp.cym/bongo/3 congas/BD/glsp/crot/3 tom-t - strings

Contemporary-music-without-tears has always been his aim, and this succinct little three-movement work showed him as skilful as ever in unpretentious directness of utterance, as it were in the vernacu...

. . . the happy surprise, of his Little Concert. . . beneath the graceful long lines and jig-like spurts of a solo part expressly written for Melinda Maxwell, Maw finds time and space enough to draw q...

Commissioned by the Canberra Symphony Orchestra in 1996, Carl Vine’s Concerto for Oboe is permeated with energetic rhythms and brilliant, snaking arabesques for the soloist. An ear-catching 16-m...

Instrumentation: 2(I=picc.II=afl).2.2(II=bcl).2(II=cbsn) - 2200 -perc(2): 12 thai gong/2 tam-t/BD/spring coil - harp - strings

The full score for this large work for orchestra, written in 2005 for violinist Anthony Marwood. The complete score and parts are available for rental only. Please contact [email protected]...