Faber Music

The Bells of Peover is a beautiful and lyrical cornet solo, conjuring up a pastoral scene with the distant ringing of church bells. The piece is named after a pub in the Cheshire village of Lower Peov...

Fanfares and Love Songs was commissioned by the National Children’s Brass Band of Great Britain for performance on 25th July 2009. Its three movements contrast the extrovert and lyrical qualities of t...

Fanfares and Love Songs was commissioned by the National Children’s Brass Band of Great Britain for performance on 25th July 2009. Its three movements contrast the extrovert and lyrical qualities of t...

Fanfares and Love Songs was commissioned by the National Children’s Brass Band of Great Britain for performance on 25th July 2009. Its three movements contrast the extrovert and lyrical qualities of t...

Fanfares and Love Songs was commissioned by the National Children’s Brass Band of Great Britain for performance on 25th July 2009. Its three movements contrast the extrovert and lyrical qualities of t...

A Masque (short for Masquerade) has been defined by Historians as 'A revel in which Mummers or masked folk come with torches blazing into the festive hall and call upon the company to dance and dice'...

East Coast Pictures was commissioned by the British Youth Wind Orchestra with funds from the National Westminster Bank plc. These three short 'pictures' were inspired by several visits to a small part...

Duration: 10 minutes

shelter Island' is the first movement of 'East Coast Pictures'. It is a depiction of the Shelter Island itself, a few hours drive east of New York. In the summer it becomes a crowded tourist trap; but...

In upstate New York lie the Catskills Mountains - an extraordinary combination of tranquillity and power, peace and majesty. Once seen, they call you back again and again. This piece forms the second...

The term 'Danceries' can be found in a copy of Playford's Dancing Master, an extensive collection of folk and popular tunes of the seventeenth century (and no doubt earlier). This publication was used...

Duration: 10 minutes Ray Farr’s arrangement of Malcolm Arnold’s Four Cornish Dances suite brilliantly retains the atmosphere of the orchestral original with its evocation of Cornish sea-farers, of des...

Around the world in just over eight minutes! Although commissioned for a Youth Band, no concessions are made here for lack of technical ability, particularly in the percussion department. The chimes o...

Around the world in just over eight minutes! Although commissioned for a Youth Band, no concessions are made here for lack of technical ability, particularly in the percussion department. The chimes o...

This seven-minute concert overture recalls the early days of the railways, and one of the most famous engines of all time, 'The Rocket'. It was commissioned by the Director of the North Hertfordshire...

This seven-minute concert overture recalls the early days of the railways, and one of the most famous engines of all time, 'The Rocket'. It was commissioned by the Director of the North Hertfordshire...

Unlike Nigel Hess's other works for wind band, The Winds of Power is not a programmatic work. After a dark and menacing opening a solo trumpet introduces a theme which will eventually become the centr...

Instrumentation: 3 fl(III=picc).2 ob(II=ca).Ebcl.3 cl.acl.bcl.cbcl.2 asax.tsax.bsax.2 bsn.cbsn - 4 hn.3 tpt.2 trbn.btrbn.2 euph.2 tuba - timp - perc(3): glsp/vib/xyl/cyms/BD/SD/susp.cym/3 tom-t/ tam-t...

Commissioned in 1994 by the Royal Air Force, 'scramble!' Is a concert overture for symphonic wind band inspired by images of the RAF's airfields during the Battle of Britain, immortalised for ever in...

The TV Detectives brings together five of Nigel Hess's best-known television themes (Dangerfield, Campion, Wycliffe, Maigret and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates), all originally written for small-screen...

. . . a sequence of dances which make up a vigorous rhythmic romp, brilliantly written for the instruments. Edward Greenfield, The Guardian, 25th July 1991 Instrumentation: 3(II=afl.III=picc).3.Ebcl(=...