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A virtuoso work for an increasingly popular instrumental combination, the title (after Van Gogh's visionary painting The Starry Night) gives a sense of the intensity of this music. Personal memories o...

Van Gogh's visionary painting The Starry Night provides the title, if not the stimulus, for this music. Rather, personal memories of Africa are recalled and in particular the sound of music and dancin...

Like Goehr's quintet for clarinet and strings op. 79, manere is influenced by early music and more specifically the Gregorian chant Sic eum volo manére found in the Graduale Romanorum. The work itself...

Commissioned for the renowned Florestan Trio in 2009 and performed them in the UK, France and Germany, Huw Watkins' Piano Trio is a formidable addition to the chamber music repertoire. As an establish...

The music's air of simplicity clearly stands for gifted craft, from the recurring harp arpeggios of the fist movement to the rhythmic drive of the second and the barefaced major chord that ended the t...

Tippett's short chamber work is finally available as part of the Edition Schott series. 'Prelude, Recitative and Aria' is an arrangement of Hermes' Aria 'O Divine Music' from the composer's 1962 opera...

It Never Rains is a short piece written in the summer of 2010 that was commissioned by Jim Fox for the Californian label Cold Blue Music and is dedicated to them. The title comes from two sources: the...

Largo Siciliano is a slow dance movement in a simple metre comprising a sequence of variations, separated by a refrain; a single idea is continually reworked and recast. This idea, or little siciliano...

The intense and surreal musical narrative so apparent in Gerald Barry's hugely successful opera The Importance of Being Earnest returns in a new guise for his latest vocal work Jabberwocky. Setting Le...

This work's title comes from DM Thomas's dramatic poem on an imagined episode in the life of Cleopatra. Cleopatra offers any three men from her royal court a night of unbridled passion, in return for...

This work's title comes from DM Thomas's dramatic poem on an imagined episode in the life of Cleopatra. Cleopatra offers any three men from her royal court a night of unbridled passion, in return for...

Overture was written on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Countess of Munster Trust at Glyndebourne

Für 2 Klarinetten, Marimbaphon, Klavier, Viola und Violoncello.

Gavin Bryars' haunting soundworld is ever present in this trio for bass clarinet, electric guitar and cello. The fusion of electric and acoustic in a bass-dominated tessitura creates a sombre elegy th...

No. 42 (In the Alps) could perhaps best be described as a melodrama. It combines many of the subjects that fascinate me: the relationship of text narrative and musical narrative, the history of opera,...

Although this piece is short, it includes several Barry hallmarks - fierce ostinato passages and contrasting instrumental sections marked by strong accents. Take note of the composer's instruction: Ha...

A wonderful work from the rich repertoire for string quartet with solo clarinet, Divertimento is full of folk, jazz and neoclassical influences. The piece was sketched on a train journey in 1926 and i...

It is a piece in which the moments of change between sections are as important as the musical content - rather like those points in paintings where objects or areas of colour meet. (Gerald Barry)

It is a piece in which the moments of change between sections are as important as the musical content - rather like those points in paintings where objects or areas of colour meet. (Gerald Barry)