Written for soprano and ensemble (Eb clarinet C clarinet viola cello double bass) with text by Mozart.

Set for unaccompanied upper voices this piece by Carol Barratt features an updated English language version of the sacred text. It was commissioned by Gordon Pullin and the Madrigal Choir of Notting Hill and was first performedat St. Paul's Cathedral in 1992.

L'heure bleue a Serenade for 16 instruments was commissioned by Alte Oper Frankfurt and premiered on 13th September 2001 performed by the Ensemble Modern and conducted by Oliver Knussen. Duration 10 minutes.

A short 3 minute piece d'occasion written in 1951 for Tadeusz Ochlewski director of Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne.

Two Human Hymns comprises of settings for six-part choir and organ of two poems by 17th century English poets who are almost exact contemporaries; George Herbert and Henry King. The music for the choir is mostly composedin simple songlike shapes which are little hymns. The texts though clearly relate to Christian beliefs could be more widely applicable to all human experience which is why they have called them 'Human Hymns'. Thus Love BadeMe Welcome (G.Herbert) whilst obviously a Christian allegory can be read as a gently hypnotic love song and it is attempted to capture something of this atmosphere in the setting. Like to the Falling of a Star (H.King) although it mentions no God could be a Calvinist sermon capping its lovely account of the wonders of nature with an almost operatically sinister denouement. In the first half of the piece the music bubbles upwards fresh andoptimistic; in the second half like all those doomed sinners it is going down down down. The first performance was given by University of Aberdeen Chapel Choir on 22nd October 1995. Duration: c.7 minutes.

A work for solo clarinet in B flat timpani percussion and strings commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra. It was first performed in September 1991 at the Barbican Centre London by Andrew Marriner (clarinet) and theLondon Symphony Orchestra directed by Michael Tilson Thomas. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

Commissioned by George Watson's College to mark the Millennium. The work was first performed in December 2000 at St. Giles Cathedral Edinburgh as part of the College's Festival Of Nine Lessons And Carols by the choir ofGeorge Watson's College.

Terrestre was commissioned to celebrate the composer’s fiftieth birthday and while the name Terrestre calls to mind earthbound things the score suggests the physical sensation of taking wing. The first of the two movements l’Oiseau dansant describes an aboriginal tale of a bird that teaches a village to dance while the second movement l’Oiseau un satellite infime (infinitesimal) takes flight diving and soaring.The flutist is called upon to sing as he or she plays sometimes matching the Flute note sometimes harmonizing with it. Musicianship of the highest order is required of every member of the ensemble. KaijaSaariaho is a contemporary Finnish composer living and working in Paris and much influenced by the electronic experimentations of her association of IRCAM although Terrestre is entirely acoustic in itsinstrumentation. She gained international renown for her first opera l’Amour du Loin and continues a prolific compositional life with a wide range of international performances.

A New Beginning was written for the closing minutes of 1999 to herald the New Millennium. Commissioned by the New Millennium Experience Company. Scored for solo treble children's chorus SATB chorus and orchestra. Duration: c. 7 minutes. Vocal score and chorus parts are available on sale.

Falla's best-known works arranged for intermediate piano solo (Grades 4-6). Includes 'Ritual Fire Dance' 'Dance Of The Miller' and 'Cancion'.

Work for Violin and Piano commissioned by Young Uck Kim.

Composed for unaccompanied Double Mixed Chorus these two songs were commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation for the 75th Anniversary Concert of the Swedish Radio Choir. Based on two poems by Ann Jäderlund with textin Swedish and an English translation. By contemporary composer Esa-Pekka Salonen Djupt I Rummet and Kyss Min Mun are written for SSAATTBB Choir a cappella.

This collection of 21 popular tunes has been carefully arranged and graded to provide attractive teaching repertoire for young alto saxophonists. The familiarity of the material will stimulate pupils' enthusiasm and encouragetheir practice. The technical demands of the solo part increase progressively up to the standard of Associated Board Grade I. The piano accompaniments are simple yet effective and should be within the range of most pianists. Jerry Lanning is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is a widely experienced arranger in both popular and classical fields with many published arrangements to his credit. He also teaches(mainly the piano) at Wycombe Abbey School and Bradfield College.

Delta (Solo Percussion)-Work for Solo Percussion and Electronics. As the title suggests Trois rivières is divided into three separate sections. The first part introduces all the instrumental colours used in the piece. The rhythmic aspect ishere nearly eliminated giving room for the timbral scales colours resonances attacks and textures to come to the fore. The instruments come from all members of the percussion family but unpitched instruments are given aprimary role.

Judith Weir: My Piano Quartet (2000) is part of an extended series of works for piano and strings which I have written over the last twenty years - although I didn't know it was going to be a series when I wrote the first of theseworks Music for 247 Strings in 1980. During this period it has been far more usual for composers to write for mixed wind and string ensembles. But I continued (and still continue) to be fascinated by the potential of stringsand piano; particularly the chance to write for the instruments as soloists or as a group and often to use both these options simultaneously. Piano Score. Premiered July 2000 at the Cheltenham Festival by the SchubertEnsemble. Parts available: SOS03075

A moving work written by Tavener in loving memory of his father. For solo tenor (or baritone) and unaccompanied choir SATB with optional strings.

The six short movements of this quartet can be described as follows but are not necessarily played in this order:1) A fast scherzo-like mechanism of terraced accelerandos 2) Quiet heterophony - col legno vertical spiccato 3)Alla chitarra 4) Al tamburo 5) Static harmony with microtonal inflexions 6) A second scherzo with changing metre. Benedict Mason's close association with the Arditti Quartet stems from the 1989 Huddersfield Festival whenthey gave the premiere of his first quartet. They subsequently recorded this work for Bridge Records. Duration 20'

Strathclyde Concerto No. 6 (Flute Part)-The solo flute here is kept in high profile by the absence from the orchestra not only of other flutes but also of violins and oboes; in addition the trumpets are used sparingly (they do not for instance play in the slowmovement) so that for much of the time the flute is playing against a mellow ensemble of clarinets horns bassoons and low strings. If this is nevertheless one of Davies's most open-spirited pieces that comes partly from theready flights of the soloist partly from its glockenspiel accompaniments in the outer movements (replaced by ticking claves in the Adagio) partly from the dancing character of so much of the music and partly from the harmonicclarity in a light region not far from C minor. Flute part with piano reduction of the orchestral score.

Modern Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin's Drei Gedichte 'arranged for the mezzo soprano voice and piano. These three poems were written between 1900 and 1908 and they are very different in terms of form subject matter and atmosphere. Liebes-Lied is about a strong but painful love Buddha in der Glorie a description of religious ecstasy quite unusual in the works of Rilke and Sluss-stück about death which existsin the midst of us in the middle of life.

Crystalline III was commissioned by Encounters in Canada. It was first performed by Eve Egoyan at the Glenn Gould Studio at the CBC on 9th May 2000. Karen Tanaka: 'From the composition of Crystalline for solopiano in 1988 I have desired to project the image of crystals in sounds and space. Hommage en cristal (1991) Metallic Crystal (1994-95) and Crystalline II (1995-96) are linked to this earlier piece in whicha glassy solid yet transparent sound suggests cold crystal sound sculptures. This idea has been extended and developed in Crystalline III but it has become more joyful and more rapidly fluttering in space.