Ensemble

Most people have heard the saying, 'If you don't like the weather in New England, wait a minute. ' Driving through the Berkshires one day in Western Massachusetts, I came across such an event when thr...

The wildest and most open of his operas, New Year is an extraordinarily youthful conception for a composer in his mid-eighties, a work that spins his lyrical ecstasy and rhythmic vitality into a new w...

Commissioned by the BBC to inaugurate Birmingham's Symphony Hall on 12 June 1991, the sense of optimism surrounding that event is exactly mirrored in Momentum's long melodic lines and vibrant rhythms,...

The work is based on a tune called The Nag written by the jazz guitarist/composer John Scofield, of whom I have long been a fan and with whom I worked closely when writing Blood on the Floor (Mark-Ant...

No. 37b is a suite of four short pieces for orchestra. Like many of the composer's works the subject matter revolves around death and after life. Featuring some of the composer's most chaotic and fren...

Maxwell Davies' 'Das Rauschende der Farbe' (The Sound of Colour) is a reflection on the life and work of the German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker who died aged 31 in 1907. Maxwell Davies first got to...