Composer's Notes : When I was asked to write a piece to celebrate the restoration of Michelangelo’s Mosè I returned to the paper written by Sigmund Freud on the sculpture which I had discovered by chance many years ago.Freud’s fascination with the Mosè began in 1901 when he visited San Pietro in Vincoli for the first time. A series of subsequent visits culminated in the publication of the Moses of Michaelangelo in 1914 from which I have usedtwo extracts to ‘frame’ the main body of my text which consists of selections from Michelangelo’s own letters. In 1505 Michelangelo was summoned to Rome by Pope Julis II and was commissioned to build a tomb which would reflectthe magnificence of the Pontiff’s reign. Forty years and four Popes later the tomb modified and scaled down due to a variety of financial and political changes of circumstance was completed. The letters give the impression ofan idealist at work: Michelangelo personally selected each piece of marble and supervised its transportation to Rome by his more worldly and capricious paymasters. His creative and artistic frustrations are mirrored by problems ofa more a practical nature; payment for both his services and the materials is erratic. At one point his is accused of embezzling funds. The complete text tells the story of an artists struggle and eventual triumph againstexternal circumstances. The Mosè by virtue of its very nature combines the elements of the physical and the spiritual with which Michelangelo challenged and eventually triumphed over the restraints of the context in which he hadto work. The lovingly selected and cared for marble in the hands of the unpaid exploited artist is transformed into something more substantial and eternal. Michael Nyman

Scored for String Quartet and Live Electronics. Parts only.

At the grave of Beethoven was commissioned by the Brodsky Quartet on the occasion of the bicentenary anniversary of Beethoven's opus 18. The title suggests admiration and a tribute towards Beethoven and the first movementwas inspired by the first four bars of opus 18 no.3.

A Choral Suite in eight movements for SATB (multi divisi). The texts are taken from different sources including Chuang Tse an Acoman Indian and a poem written by a young Czech victim of Auschwitz. Scored for 4 Sopranos 3Altos 3 Tenors and 3 Basses (SSSSAAATTTBBB) a cappella.

Work for Soprano and Violin. The piece has been written for Edna Michell's Compassion project. In the composition I follow the idea of a dialogue suggested by the text I have chosen. The intimate nature and fragilesound world of the duo mirror the fragility of our uncertain existence. © Kaija Saariaho

Kevin Volans has been described as one of the more inventive composers since Stravinsky. Songlines was composed in 1988 and revised in 1993. Dedicated to Bruce Chatwin and premiered by the Kronos Quartet. Parts available:CH61336

This version for solo percussion and piano was made by the composer in 1997. It differs significantly from the original version in that the number of percussion instruments is smaller the composer has provided a shortenedversion of the Cadenza for performance with piano. The original orchestral version of the Concerto is available on hire from the publishers.

The long-awaited collection of familiar Michael Nyman melodic creations in intermediate level arrangements for soprano saxophone and piano. The long-awaited collection of familiar Michael Nyman melodic creations in intermediate level arrangements for soprano saxophone and piano. Includes: If' from The Diary of Anne Frank Debbie' from Wonderland Taking It as Read' Here to There' from The Piano The Mistress' from The Libertine Tango' from Never Forever Franklyn' from Wonderland In C Interlude' Witness 1' The Fort the Port and thePoint' from On Landguard Point

A New Beginning was commissioned by the New Millennium Experience Company and will be performed in the Millennium Dome London in the closing minutes of 1999 to herald the New Millennium. For solo treble children's chorus SATB chorus and small orchestra. This vocal score includes a piano reduction of the instrumental score. Duration c. 7 minutes.

String Quartet No.3 was written for and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London. Duration 16 minutes. A score is available on sale.. Quoting composer: In the summer of 1989 Icomposed a choral work Out of the Ruins for Agnieszka Piotrowska’s BBC2 documentary which dealt with the physical and emotional responses of some inhabitants of Leninakhan to the earthquake which devastated Armenia theprevious December. When he heard the recording of the work that I made with the Holy Echmiadzin Chorus under the fervent conducting of Khoren Meykhanejian Alex Balanescu suggested turning Out of the Ruins into a string quartet. There seemed no reason or opportunity to do this until I felt the need to add to the intensity of my experiences in Armenia the no less profound experience of witnessing the images of the Romanian revolution on television duringthe later part of December 1989. The compositional procedure was as follows: to take Out of the Ruins as a template on which the Romanian vocal or instrumental music would be superimposed quite often stretched into newintervallic shapes though the demands of the completely performed harmonic structure.

This work for Clarinet in A Violin Cello and Piano was premiered in May 2002 in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. The piece has a fast rhythmic opening in which the violin and cello answer short statements by the pianowith the clarinet mediating between them. The work is decorated by rhythmic and melodic flourishes on the clarinet violin and cello and development sees the piece pick up in tempo and activity. Score edition of PeterMaxwell Davies 'Economies Of Scale'. Parts available: SOS15774

Mishima String Quartet (String Quartet No.3) originally appeared as parts of the film score for Mishima by film maker Paul Schrader. The film follows a complex narrative structure which divides the life of thisfamous contemporary Janpaeses novelist into 3 parts - his childhood his mature years and the last day of his life. These subjects were intercut to produce a shifting kaleidoscopic vision of Mishima's life. The scenes of hischildhood were filmed in black and white and scored for String Quartet. An excellent contemporary string quartet by the innovative Philip Glass.

A ballet in two acts written between 1917 and 1919. Words by G. Martinez Sierra after a story by D. Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Edited by Yvan Nommick. Translates to Three Cornered Hat.

Over the weekend of 7th July 2001 composers from many countries came together at La Leprara in Marino near Rome in celebration of Hans Werner Henze's 75th Birthday. Eleven new works were performed forming the content of thiscollection of works for one or two pianos. Suitable for advanced pianists.

This 1992 work by the Finnish spectral composer Kaija Saariaho is an intense and complex piece for solo Cello and electronics. The music is derived from preliminary recordings made by the composer with Cellist Anssi Karttunen with an electronic part constructed from these recordings at IRCAM. The finished electronic realisation relies in part on real-time processing with Max/MSP along with several external processors and triggers the details of whichare provided within the score. Much of the notation for the Cello part has been specially devised to express the effects and unorthodox playing techniques required by the piece and a full guide to the less familiar symbols isalso provided. This Cello part is also available separately through item code CH61239-01.

Work for SATB Chorus Two Flutes Trumpet Organ and Strings.

Composer's notes : The Fool is a time-honoured Orthodox religious figure: a Saint the highest of all who discards everything for Christ's sake. He discards all convention all decency all wealth actual and spiritual and turns himself into a figure of fun - defying all acceptable behaviour - and all religious decency. He stands in the square and lets down his trousers - he stuffs himself with food on Good Friday - he gets drunk - he 'appears'to fornicate wildly. There is a faint possibility (in not the highest of 'Fools') of gaining worldly popularity by such flagrant denial of all moral behaviour. Can such behaviour be too interesting? The true fool however embraces all of this and also (unseen) shrinks before the face of his God. By his behaviour he plucks out all hypocrisy false piety and corruption. He is a figure much needed in our times!!! The way I have tried to tacklethis extraordinary subject is to show him in seven stages from an obscene huge fat traditional clown who is drunk fornicating etc. through a stumbling frail agonized figure to a sallow-faced gaunt business man in a formalsuit staring at an empty glass. Having first revered him then mocked him the 'people' while they get drunk and jabber away at 'Christmas' and at the Feast of Feasts 'Easter' are no longer aware of him. But the audience seeshim - a tiny ragged scrap of mortality lying in a corner and faintly so faintly the voice of the Fool the true Fool for Christ's sake sings above the ribald crowd. 'He has given His life'. The Gogmagogs are the 'people' 'priests' 'singers' etc. and one male singer who can 'create' or 'uncreate' this vast role (singing and acting miming etc.) John Tavener Arranged for SSATBB chorus. Date of composition 2000. Chorus part only.

Performing Score edition of Saariaho 'Folia' arranged for solo Double Bass And Optional Electronics. Duration 10 minutes.

Every one of the beautifully mellow pieces in this book has been specially selected from over three centuries of music for its relaxing calming nature. Unwind with old favourites from Bach Debussy Tchaikovsky and Schumann ormeditate on contemporary music by Phillip Glass and Stanley Myers. Buy this book to enjoy yourself or as a present for someone who needs it!

Work for Flute Oboe Clarinet and Cello written in 1980. Parts available: CH66869-01