John McCabe

Hawk in Winter Light was inspired by the sight of a hawk circling obsessively on a bright November day, hence the constantly circular nature of the music and, especially, its melodic material. Though...

Hawk in Winter Light was inspired by the sight of a hawk circling obsessively on a bright November day, hence the constantly circular nature of the music and, especially, its melodic material. Though...

Epithalamium was commissioned by John Sell as a birthday present for his wife Jane, and is dedicated to her and to Malcolm Binns. It was written during summer 2006 and derived from the two great chord...

Fantasy On A Theme Of Liszt was written in 1967 for a Cheltenham Festival concert. The theme which lies behind the work is the opening tune of Liszt's Faust Symphony, though this is never heard in its...

The gap between starting to learn an instrument and playing 'real' music is a very great deterrent to many players. Consequently, Afternoons And Afterwards tries to tackle this problem for thePiano, w...

Arranged for solo piano, suitable for advanced pianists. First performed 1994 at the Harrogate International Festival. Duration 20 minutes.

Berceuse was commissioned by the Birmingham Chamber Music Society for their Diamond Jubilee Season, 2011/12 - the first performance was given by John McCabe on 18th February 2012 at the Adrian Boult H...

John McCabe 'Scrunch' arranged for Solo Piano. Duration 6 minutes.

Commissioned by the British Music Society as a Test Piece for its Piano Awards Competition held at Trinity College of Music, London on 31st October 2004. The piece was inspired by the peal at Tunstal...

Chausson wrote some interludes for flute and harp for a production of Aristophanes' The Birds, performed at Le Petit ThéÔtre de la Galerie Vivienne, Paris, in 1889. At the request of Emily Beynon, wor...

This little tribute to William Ferris and the William Ferris Chorale consists of two sections, the first slow and the second quick. The text is simply the two words of the title, the Amen being the fi...

The 1964 setting for mixed chorus by John McCabe.

Written for SATB chorus, this is John McCabe's setting of a text by Thomas Hardy, celebrating the songbirds of England and the birth/rebirth of life itself. A Piano accompaniment is provided for rehea...

Commissioned by St John's College, Cambridge, the first performance of John McCabe's The last and greatest Herald took place at St. John's College, Cambridge, on 29th November 2008 by the combined Cho...