John McCabe

This Quartet was commissioned by the Delme String Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. First performed by the Quartet, London 1982. Duration 20 minutes. A Score is also available for sale.

Commissioned by the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts Limited, with funds provided by the Arts Council of Wales, for premiere in August 2012 by the Carducci String Quartet in St. Andrew's Chur...

This Quartet was commissioned by the Delme String Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. First performed by the Quartet, London 1982. Duration 20 minutes. Parts for this work are also available for sale.

Written in 1989.

Arranged for String Quartet.

Arranged for String Quartet.

Fantasy For Brass Quartet Op. 35 is a work by John McCabe, composed in 1965. This is the Full Score, a performance of which lasts around 8-9 minutes.

Postcards was written in 1991 for the Vega Wind Quintet, who first performed it at the Huddersfield Festival in the same year. It is a reworking of a set of eight Bagatelles written in 1965: each move...

Sonata for Violoncello And Piano. Includes score and part.

April Sonatina is a work composed by John McCabe for Solo Violoncello in 2011/2. The piece lasts around 3 minutes, and was dedicated to David Matthews on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

A collection of pieces by John McCabe aimed towards the intermediate Flautist around Grade 5. Each of the pieces is in some way a character study, or a portrait of some musical style. The Gymnopedie i...

For solo Flute. Composer's Programme Note 'March Sonatina is the third in a series of short sonatina-like pieces for solo instruments, and it was commissioned by the 25th Presteigne Festival of Music...

Floraison (literally, 'flowering' or 'blossoming') depicts the flower maiden and love goddess Blodeuwedd (which means 'bloom maiden'), who is also an owl goddess. She was made up of nine kinds of flow...

The Goddess Trilogy was inspired by the Welsh medieval legend of the goddess Cerridwen who was both destroyer and creator, a shape-changing being who appeared various as a white sow, a screaming black...

These three pieces for clarinet and piano were first performed at Cheltenham Festival, 1964, by Keith Puddy and Vivian Troon. Duration c. 8 minutes.