Faber Music

Schubert's simple yet poignant setting of the first four stanzas of the Passiontide text is a gem. Brian Newbould's edition, prepared from the composer's original manuscript, will be welcomed by choir...

Instrumentation: perc(1): tam-t/susp.cym - strings

Instrumentation: 0.3(III=ca).0.1 - 0320 - timp - strings Stars was composed in 1970 for Paul Steinitz's London Bach Society. I used all the available forces at the concert in which it was first perfor...

Choral Symphony is a large-scale work for chorus, organ and orchestra by the Australian composer Carl Vine. It sets a creative myth of Akkadia (c.1250 BC) describing the creation of the world from pri...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 – 2200 – perc(1): 2 susp.cym/2 timp/2 rototoms/2 wdbl/2 tpl.bl/tgl/tam-t (with water trough) – strings (min 6.4.3.3.2)

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 – 2200 – perc(1): 2 susp.cym/2 timp/2 rototoms/2 wdbl/2 tpl.bl/tgl/tam-t (with water trough) – strings (min 6.4.3.3.2)

Instrumentation: picc.2.2.2.2 - 4231 - timp - perc(3): mar or xylo/glsp/vib or mar/tamb/wdbl/c.bell/drum kit (BD/SD/hi-hat/ splash, crash and ride cyms) - pno - strings

The Three Spirituals contained in this volume, 'Go down, Moses', 'Deep River' and 'Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel', were written and first performed in 1998. Each presents a different 'mini-drama'; a s...

Instrumentation: 3(II+III=picc).3(III=ca).3(III=bcl).3(III=cbsn) – 4331 – perc(2): 2 wdbl/tpl.bl/2 tgl/5 susp.cym/mark tree/t.bells/tam-t/guiro/4 c.bell/japanese temple bell/bongos/BD/gong – vib – gls...

Instrumentation: 2.2.Ebcl.1.bcl.2.cbsn - 4231 - timp - perc(3): 2 BD/4 tom-t/bongos/tam-t/susp.cym/siz.cym/tgl/tamb/lujon/log drum/2 c.bells/ratchet/sleigh bells/sandpaper block/guiro/vib/glsp - harp...

Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.2.2 - 4331 - timp - perc(2): cyms/BD/SD/tam-t/glsp/tamb/xyl/cast - harp - strings

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

Carl Vine’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997) is one of three large-scale works composed with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in mind – the others being his first two piano sonatas. Its composer d...

Dominic Muldowney Oboe Concerto My recent work in the concert hall has almost entirely been in the form of ‘song-cycle’ and ‘concerto’ –a theatrical form for me and a reflection, I’m sure, of my work...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).ca.2(II=bcl).asax.2 - 4231 - timp - perc(3): BD/SD/bongos/2 conga/2 mcas/3 susp.cym/ch.cym/tgl/tamb/flexatone/steel drum/gong/t.bells/crot/vib/mar - pno(=cel) - harp - stri...

Instrumentation: picc.2.0.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn – 4221 – perc(4): 4 claves/2 cabaca/6 tom-t/2 wdbl/4 susp.cym/2 tgl/glsp/2 BD/mar/2 splash cym/4 tpl.bl/mcas/SD/vib – harp – strings Dominic Muldowney Oboe Co...

Instrumentation: 2222 - 0200 - perc(3): 2 rainsticks/thunder sheet/tam-t/ch.cym/bongos/tom-t - strings

‘A work of extraordinary inner energy that already seems like a classic.’ Financial Times (Andrew Clark) on the Violin Concerto, 11 May 2005 Instrumentation: 3.1.ca.2.1.cbsn - 3220 - timp(...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2(II=ca).2(II=Ebcl).bsax(=bcl).2(II=cbsn) - 4221 - timp - perc(2): jazz drum kit/BD/tam-t/tamb/tgl/ch.cym/bell tree/glsp/vib/xyl/mar/crot - cel(=pno) - harp - strings (min....

Violin Part to Oliver Knussen's Violin Concerto, available to print instantly at home in digital sheet music format. One of Oliver Knussen’s most celebrated works, the Violin Concerto, begins and ends...

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...