Partituras para conjunto mixto

Capitale de la douleur (Capital del dolor) nació en 2013 de la amistad entre el Duo Sità (dúo de flauta y clarinete) y el compositor Romain Dumas. Este ciclo es una puesta en escena de tres textos del...

This refreshing work from Ola Gjeilo employs a folk-like sound to capture Yeats' wonderfully descriptive words about the Lake Isle of Innisfree. The movement in the piano, the strumming of the guitar,...

Variations On A Chanukah Song'. From a song by M. Ravino. For SATB, keyboard and brass quartet.

Bolcom's commission was originally to write a duet piece for Metropolitan Opera stars soprano Benita Valente and mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos. However, while the composition was in development, Troy...

Musical theatre composer Jason Robert Brown wrote In This Room to be performed at his wedding.

Ten songs arranged for cello, piano and voice from the 2008 CD featuring popular classical cellist Yo Yo Ma and a star-studded assembly of guest artists

This baritone solo with string quartet accompaniment sets part of the text from Herman Melville's first novel, BILLY BUDD to music. It was written for Stephen Salters and the Lark Quartet.

Peter Sculthorpe's The Song of Tailitnama borrows from a culture - that of the Australian Aboriginal. . . and does so with a reverence and sense of wonder. Roger Covell, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 J...

Instrumentation: perc(2): tam-t/water gong/ch.cym/crot/ch.bell tree/bongos/timb/music sticks/guiro/wood chimes/sand block

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...

'Space Stringpops' is designed to provide enjoyable, yet worthwhile study for the intermediate string player. Within each piece is a different musical 'episode' to stimulate the imagination. The playe...

This is a remarkable work, a setting of Yeats' Long-Legged Fly', where Benjamin has found a newly expressive sound world - rasping colours in rich dissonant chords, pizzicato and tremolo effects. And...

. . . a genuinely atmospheric, highly allusive, tautly organized suite of dance references. Maw's titles and tempo indications suggest a fashionably vampiric nightmare, but the music sounded warm and...

Instrumentation: afl(=picc).cl(=bcl) - hn - perc(1): 4 tom-t/tam-t/crot or glsp - pno - vla.vlc.db

Maw's harmonic eloquence and rhythmic fervour crystallize the initial agitation to become a flowing vocal line coloured by the writing for flute, viola and harp, the words borne aloft like a continuat...

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

Upon Silence sets Long-legged Fly, a late poem of Yeats which portrays three momentous figures in history absorbed in silent contemplation: Julius Caesar planning a crucial military campaign, Helen of...

Composer's note: Catch structures itself around various combinations of the four instruments (piano, cello, violin and clarinet). There are several games going on: at the start, the clarinet is the ou...

Huw Watkins’ Sonata for Cello and Eight Instruments was composed for his brother, Paul, to perform with the Nash Ensemble. Its first movement is a vigorous Allegro in sonata form. The cello plays almo...

Nicholas Maw’s The Head of Orpheus (1992) is a 6-minute setting of a poem by the American poet Robert Kelly for high voice and two clarinets. Written for Mary Wiegold and the Composers Ensemble,...

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...