Faber Music

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 - 2200 - timp(=susp.cym ad lib) - perc(1/2): glsp/SD/tgl/susp.cym - pno(=cel) - harp - strings In addition to his large-scale orchestral and choral work Standing Sto...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).1.ca.2.2 - 2000 - timp - harp - strings or 2(II=picc).1.ca.2.2 - 4000 - timp - harp - strings In addition to his large-scale orchestral and choral work Standing Stone, Paul...

Instrumentation: 0200 - 2000 - strings

Instrumentation: 0200 - 2000 - strings

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2.2.2 – 4231 – timp – perc(2/3): SD/BD+cym/susp.cym/tgl/gong – harp – cel – strings Completed on 20th May 1908, Dance Rhapsody consists of three contrasting dance episodes...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2(II=ca).2(II=bcl).2 - 2110 - perc(1): glsp/vib/timp/SD/BD/tabla/susp.cym/tgl/sleigh bells - harp - strings (min 8.6.4.4.2 players)

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4431 - timp - perc(3): vib/xyl/crot/t.bells/SD/BD/3 tom-t/tam-t/susp.cym/cyms/tgl - pno - harp - strings Two musical tales for narrator and orchestra T...

Instrumentation: 3(=picc).2(II=ca).2(I=Ebcl.II=Ebcl+bcl).2(II=cbsn) – 4231 – perc(5): vib/glsp/lujon/mcas/xyl/coiled spring/mark tree/BD/tpl.bl/c.bell/mar/siz.cym/crot/gong/t.bells/guiro/4 oriental go...

Instrumentation: picc.2.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(2/3): BD/hi-hat/cyms/2 susp.cym/2 anvil/4 tom-t/tgl/tamb/(vibraslap)/vib/2 tam-t/(flexatone)/ratchet or guiro/glsp/siz.cym - pno - harp -...

Instrumentation: 1212 – 2200 – solo perc: mar/xylrim/4 susp.cym/japanese bell/5 tom-t/bongos/2 conga/vib/4 small drum/pedal BD/4-8 boobam/4 wdbl – perc(2): 4 bongo/4conga/2 mcas(or chocalho)/2 BD/4 cl...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2.3(III=bcl).3(III=cbsn) – 4331 – perc(1): t.bells/glsp/2 oriental gong/3 wdbl/tpl.bl/tom-t/BD+foot ped – pno – harp – strings – reverberation unit + amplification (ad lib...

Instrumentation: 2(=picc).2.2.2 - 4431 - timp - perc(3): vib/glsp/crot/ t.bells/BD/tam-t - strings Handel called Britain ‘the ringing isle’ because when he came to live here, he heard bells ringing ev...

At the time, I wrote that Australia lacks “a common cause, and the self-interest of many has drained us of much of our energy. A bogus national identity and its commercialization has obscured the true...

Instrumentation: 2.2.2.bcl.2 - 4230 - timp - perc(1): tgl/susp.cym/cyms/BD - strings I orchestrated about half of Beethoven's 'Rule Britannia' Piano Variations in 1980 for Carl Davis' score for the 19...

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2(II=ca).2.2 – 4220 – perc(1): tamb/susp.cym/ch.cym/tam-t/BD – harp – strings

Krypton refers to the exploding planet from which the infant Superman escaped. A dark, microtonal soundworld is created with glissandi in the strings, trombones and siren. Two percussionists play anti...

Instrumentation: 2(I=picc).1.ca.2.2 - 2321 - timp - perc(2):SD/tgl/glsp/BD/susp.cym - pno - strings or 1(=picc).1.ca.1.bcl.2 - 2321 - perc(2):timp/BD/(mar)/glsp/susp.cym/SD/tgl/(t.bells) - pno(=cel) -...

It grows, it blossoms, it evolves with as much variety as the images in a kaleidoscope, and like a kaleidoscope it seems to fix the listeners' attention at a central point. . . musical ideas as fresh...

The program included one bona fide masterpiece, written in 1967 by Peter Sculthorpe. . .Sun Music III (Nos. I,II and IV are equally imposing) could have been written only in Australia. The sounds of t...

Malcolm Arnold Four Cornish Dances The Cornish people have a highly developed sense of humour. Many are sea-faring folk, and it is a land of male voice choirs, brass bands, Methodism, May Days, and Mo...

The work contains some of the most startlingly precise storm music ever written - it seems less evocation than the sound of the thing itself. But there is more to it than that: Eliot's lines suggested...

The wish to compose something for Barry Tuckwell had been somewhere at the back of my mind for almost as long as I can remember. Hence, when I received an invitation form the Suntory Foundation to wri...

Diptych is dedicated to Per Nørgård. Instrumentation: 3(II=picc.III=picc+afl).3(III=ca).3.3(III=cbsn) - 4331 - timp - perc(4): crot/t.bells/3 susp.cym/tam-t/vib/5 tpl.bl/SD/siz.cym/guiro/...

Completed on 20th May 1908, Dance Rhapsody consists of three contrasting dance episodes, linked by related short transitions and framed by an arresting, extrovert Allegro energico. Imstrumentation: 3(...