Spartiti Jonathan Harvey per ensemble

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1(=ca).1.1 – hn – pno – 2 vln.vla.vlc.db Tendril (1987) is scored for eleven instruments and was commissioned and first performed by the Nash Ensemble. The work is a vivid so...

First performed by the Orion Trio in Southampton 1971. Arranged for Violin, Cello and Piano. Duration 15 minutes. Includes score and parts.

The playing score for Climbing Frame, composed by Jonathan Harvey for c. 12-15 instruments in digital sheet music format. This score includes a licence to produce a maximum of 15 copies for the indivi...

. . . luminously scored and graced by a good deal of glorious vocal writing... Paul Griffiths, The Musical Times, January 1981, Instrumentation: 0000 – 1110 – perc(1): claves/2 susp.cym/vib/2 wdbl/2 s...

The vocal writing. . . is economical and pithy, and it is complemented by brilliantly imagined instrumental colours. This is music of great energy and sensuality. . .Arnold Whittall, Gramophone, Octob...

Bhakti was written in 1982, to a commission from IRCAM, Paris. It is in twelve short movements totalling about fifty minutes. There are 36 subsections; each one defined by a certain number of instrume...

Instrumentation: fl(=picc).ob(=ca).ssax – tpt – perc(1): 2 susp.cym/mar/vib/2 congas/tom-t/gong/2 wdbl/bongos/glsp/whip – 2 Yamaha DX7 II synthesizers (1 player) – pno – 2 harp – 2 vln.vla.vlc

'Scena' is a quasi-operatic scene either for singer and ensemble or for a singer-like solo instrument and ensemble. In this case the solo violin proceeds through several dramatic events roughly signal...

The Riot is a work in which virtuoso exhilaration is predominant. The game is to throw around themes which retain their identity sufficiently to bounce off each other sharply, even when combined polyp...

Jonathan Harvey's The Riot was written for HET TRIO and commissioned by Bristol University Music Department, with funds provided in part by South West Arts, especially for the Colston Symposium 19...

Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was a British composer who studied at St Johns College, Cambridge and Princeton University, and who later taught at various universities and conservatoires across Europe an...

Commissioned by David Hellewell for the Apollo Emsemble with funds provided by the Southern Arts Association. Written for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and tam-tam.

Written for soprano, 3 clarinets and piano.

You is a short work written for the Composers' Ensemble at John Woolrich's behest, composed of nonsense syllables.

You is a short work written for the Composers' Ensemble at John Woolrich's behest, composed of nonsense syllables.

Concelebration is a ritualistic work in which the four melodic instruments go their own ways and yet from time to time meet and ‘dance’ together. A starting point was Bishop John of Winchester’s fine...

Commissioned by The Nash Ensemble with funds provided by IBM. In Buddhist writings the lotus, padma, signifies the world of form in all its individuality through which the light of reality shines. A l...

Instrumentation: ob.ob(=ca).bsn – harpsichord This is a parody of Stravinsky's parody of classical styles. Schoenberg's mockingly scornful parody of Stravinsky as "Der Kleiner Modernsky" serves as a p...

Instrumentation: ob.ob(=ca).bsn – harpsichord This is a parody of Stravinsky's parody of classical styles. Schoenberg's mockingly scornful parody of Stravinsky as "Der Kleiner Modernsky" serves as a p...

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1(=ca).1.1 – hn – pno – 2 vln.vla.vlc.db Tendril (1987) is scored for eleven instruments and was commissioned and first performed by the Nash Ensemble. The work is a vivid so...

Commissioned by The Nash Ensemble with funds provided by IBM. In Buddhist writings the lotus, padma, signifies the world of form in all its individuality through which the light of reality shines. A l...

Written for soprano, 3 clarinets and piano.