Boosey & Hawkes

Etwas zurückhaltend was written in 1982 when the composer was a student at the University of Durham. The piece was forgotten until 2009, when MacMillan realised that much within its ideas seemed curre...

Contusion ist ein prägnanter, ergreifend ausgewogener Schmerzensschrei in einem einzigen Satz von 20 Minuten Länge. Seine Struktur ist ein Widerhall der klassischen Form einer Sonate. Das Stück ist ch...

This publication gathers together three miniatures for string quartet, all composed 'in memoriam' a particular individual. Memento (4 minutes) was written in memory of the composer's friend, David Hun...

Turnage's fourth string quartet, Winter's Edge was premiered by the Piatti Quartet at the Klarafestival, Brussels. Co-commissioned by the Quartet, the Wigmore Hall and Flagey ASBL, they gave the UK pr...

The composer explains that, in psychology, an ‘idée fixe’ is an obsessively held belief or preoccupation that is often impervious to attempts to correct or modify it. But it is also a musical term, fi...

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Aaron Copland - with the 25th anniversary of his death coming up in 2015 - was commissioned by Benny Goodman to write this clarinet concerto. This new edition of the score impresses with a new music n...

This arrangement provides the chance for orchestral performance of pieces widely known by those who have played the clarinet. The lush string writing captures the full sonority of the harmonic languag...

A seraph is a celestial being or angel, usually and traditionally associated with trumpets. MacMillan's Seraph is a concertino for trumpet and strings, in three short, contrasting movements, and a wel...

Eclogue was originally intended as the slow movement of a Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra. Sketches of the two outer movements exist; but they were never completed, and the composer wished the...

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