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Mathias' third and final quartet was commissioned by the 1986 Harrogate International Festival and premiered there in August that year by the Medici Quartet. It has three movements: the first takes th...

This work is in two parts; each starts and ends with the same musical gestures, but surrounded by other music which results in the identical passages having totally different musical meanings.

The work is in one unbroken span that is formed from four linked movements.

For string quartet. Written for the Smith Quartet, the title refers to some of the many different meanings of the word 'catch' - fishing, tricks, rounds. The result is a twelve-minute piece played con...

For string quartet. Tendrils has been described as a 'masterly display of Skempton's utterly natural art. ' It is built out of continuous undulating lines that sustain their effect throughout, the imp...

A fantasia based on five folk tunes which was first performed by Pablo Casals in 1930. The piano reduction was prepared by John Lenehan from the original score. Score and parts of the version for orch...

For string quartet. Harmony for string quartet is a musical summation of three harmonic principles: Peace-Light-Love. The first movement starts with a vigorous five-note chromatic motive, followed by...

This arrangement for choir and orchestra of a traditional American spiritual conjures a deep fervency, belying its simple appearance. The opening instruction is 'With hushed awe', and that encapsulate...

The music is shared at first between the upper-voice and mixed choirs before they come together, the one a delicious counter-melody to the other. The music is quite simply beautiful, in keeping with t...

This arrangement meets the demand for timeless popular songs, designed to appeal to teachers and students alike. For three-part choir, it contains that memorable tune, Joel's clever lyrics, riffs asso...

Cecilia McDowall has used six Shakespeare texts, and her response encompasses a fleet-footed impression of Scottish fiddle music, a gorgeously plangent slow movement, and a helter-skelter finale that...

For string quintet. Sentinels is really a long, unrelenting march whose pulse never slackens or quickens, and in which slightly quirky military-style gestures are almost always present. Butler imagine...

Abstract Mirror is a single movement work for string quintetThe composer writes: 'After listening to the Schubert Quintet, it occurred to me that one of the many virtues of that score is the way the s...

The pairing of a slowish and a lively movement has long been attractive to composers, certainly since the days of pavanes and galliards. Skempton uses the contrast to great effect here, where if 'Rest...

For 2 euphoniums and 2 tubas. The pairing of a slowish and a lively movement has long been attractive to composers, certainly since the days of pavanes and galliards. Skempton uses the contrast to gre...

Blechbläser und Schlagzeug - Partitur mit Stimmen

Scoring for the 5-part arrangement is: 2 trumpets in B flat, horn in F, trombone, tuba, and optional percussion. Scoring for the 8-part arrangement is: 4 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, and opt...

Three short movements for flute and clarinet.

Subject to the Weather uses the Welsh folk song The Blackbird as its inspiration, but also references Wesley's hymn tune Aurelia: The Church's one Foundation. The music evokes country life and birdson...

Setting a beautiful text by Rabindranath Tagore, Wake, Love, Wake! explores evocative imagery and metaphors through sonorous harmonies and freedom in tempo. The resulting piece is romantic, stirring,...

Setting the well-known text by Joseph Addison, The spacious firmament is a mysterious and powerful concert work. Bullard uses a variety of textures throughout the piece, resulting in a unique and memo...

In the First, Spinning Place was inspired by Dylan Thomas's exuberant poem Fern Hill. The first section of the concerto is a light, dancing movement, the second section contains echoes of Welsh hymnod...

Holy Roller is a revival sermon captured in the sounds of the alto saxophone and piano. It is inspired by classical revival preaching and the music seeks to represent the language: cajoling and incant...

Holy Roller is a revival sermon captured in the sounds of the alto saxophone and piano.