Jonathan Harvey

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: fl.picc(=fl).2 ob.2 cl(I=Ebcl.II=bcl).2 bsn – 2 hn Serenade was commissioned by Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Written to preface performances of The Magic Flute, my Serenade ends with...

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...

This motet for unaccompanied SATB choir was written for the choir of Winchester Cathedral. An intimate work, full of rhythmic and harmonic subtlety, entirely shaped by the meaning of the words.

MARAHI is a hymn of adoration to the Divine Feminine in the form of the Virgin Mary and the buddhist Goddess Varahi. The divine love is envisaged as active in three realms: the angelic realm (major tr...

In Jonathan Harvey’s Toccata for organ and tape an agile, brilliant organ part is set against a moto perpetuo stream of electronic sound. The 6-minute work was developed at IRCAM and was premiered in...

. . . a world of shimmering sounds and unusual moves. That world has a chaotic surface, yet there is an undeniable internal coherence and drama that engages the attention and the imagination. . . Mr H...

In Quartet no. 3 there is a dialectic between a surface texture which is fleeting and fragmented and an underlying structure which is very strictly repetitive. A number of ‘themes’ (ten, or twenty whe...

In Quartet no. 3 there is a dialectic between a surface texture which is fleeting and fragmented and an underlying structure which is very strictly repetitive. A number of ‘themes’ (ten, or twenty whe...

. . . a world of shimmering sounds and unusual moves. That world has a chaotic surface, yet there is an undeniable internal coherence and drama that engages the attention and the imagination. . . Mr H...

This one-movement quartet was generated entirely by the innocent unison melody which occurs near the beginning. Having written this melody I analysed it, (the first stage of departure from innocence)...

This one-movement quartet was generated entirely by the innocent unison melody which occurs near the beginning. Having written this melody I analysed it, (the first stage of departure from innocence)...

Chant in English implies a liturgical or ritualistic incantation. This two-minute piece is based on a drone and has a ceremonial character. It was originally written for viola and was then rewritten f...

These two brief and fragmented miniatures are based on similar and fugitive material, though they span the 10 years between 1967 and 1977. Dialogue is dedicated to Sharon McKinley and Song is dedicate...

Chant in english implies a liturgical or ritualistic incantation. This two-minute piece is based on a drone and has a ceremonial character. It was originally written for viola and was then rewritten f...

The piece was prompted by the experience of exposure to close lightning, and running fast before it in wild exhilaration, aware that it could kill at any moment. The flute, with its vivid connection t...

Electronic Equipment: mixer/amplifier/2 speakers/2 reverberator/microphones

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 – 2200 – perc(1): 2 susp.cym/2 timp/2 rototoms/2 wdbl/2 tpl.bl/tgl/tam-t (with water trough) – strings (min 6.4.3.3.2)

Instrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.2.2 – 2200 – perc(1): 2 susp.cym/2 timp/2 rototoms/2 wdbl/2 tpl.bl/tgl/tam-t (with water trough) – strings (min 6.4.3.3.2)