Work for Soprano Solo SATB Choir Narrator and Percussion.

A terrific volume of fifteen carefully arranged and graded pieces for young violinists. Making the Grade Violin And Piano is spread across three volumes each containing appropriate and attractive popular repertoire withpiano accompaniments which will provided needed relief from set pieces whilst inadvertently continuing the development of technique!

Work for Flute Piano and String Trio. Quoting Karen Tanaka: The title Invisible Curve suggests flexibly curved space-time in four dimensions. The curve occurs because of weight and energy of the space-time. Myintention was to create a beautiful projection of an image of the invisible curve into the soundspace. The score doubles as the piano part.

Miniature Score. This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 13th May 1998 London. This piece is based on a genuine old tune 'Maxwell's Strathspey' which the composer found inan 1824 collection of Scottish melodies and which unfolds at the start of the piece on solo cello. Variations and a bold up-tempo to the quick dance we know as a reel ultimately yield to the magic that has been promised right atthe start: the northern lights take over at the end of the piece. Its inspiration comes from a walk to a community event in Hoy Hall during which Davies saw the lights in the sky pulsing in and out of time with the sounds comingfrom the hall. Duration 12 minutes. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire.

This work was first performed by the Rascher Quartet in July 1995 at the Schleswig Holstein Festival in Hasselburg Germany. A version of the work with orchestral accompaniment 'Concerto for Four Saxophones' was premiered by the Rascher Quartet with the Stockholm Radio Orchestra in September 1995. Score available: DU10483 This work was first performed by the Rascher Quartet in July 1995 at the Schleswig Holstein Festival in Hasselburg Germany. A version of the work with orchestral accompaniment 'Concerto for Four Saxophones' was premiered by theRascher Quartet with the Stockholm Radio Orchestra in September 1995. Score available: DU10483

First performed on 9 May 1993 in Norwich Cathedral conducted by Michael Nicholas. For SSAATTBB Choir.

Five songs for solo soprano eight female voices and orchestra. Study Score edition. First performed at the Salzburg Festival 1996. Duration 24 minutes. Conductor's Score vocal part and orchestral parts are available on hireonly.

Musicians Wrestle Everywhere Is A Concerto Scored For Ten Instruments Flute Oboe Clarinet Bass Clarinet Horn Trombone Percussion Piano Cello And Bass. The Piece Is A Continuous Thirteen Minute Movement With Influence Coming From The Composer'S Experiences Whilst Walking Around South-East London In An Urban Street Environment. Sounds That Influenced The Piece Include Wind Turbulence Rain Showers Birds Wind Chimes And Traffic Noise. Work Commissioned By The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group First Performance Was Given At The Adrian Boult Hall Birmingham On 5 March 1995. Musicians Wrestle Everywhere is a concerto scored for ten instruments Flute Oboe Clarinet Bass Clarinet Horn Trombone Percussion Piano Cello and Bass. The piece is a continuous thirteen minute movement withinfluence coming from the composer's experiences whilst walking around South-East London in an urban street environment. Sounds that influenced the piece include wind turbulence rain showers birds wind chimes and trafficnoise. Work commissioned by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group first performance was given at the Adrian Boult Hall Birmingham on 5 March 1995.

This work composed for Children's Voices and String Quartet was commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York City.

Recorder Quartets (Playing Score)-A new collection of quartets for descant treble tenor and bass recorders by John Pitts. This varied selection of quartets includes Latin American dances hit show tunes folk and classical favourites blues and ragtime pieces and some original compositions by John Pitts. Challenging and wide-ranging the collection is aimed at the more advanced recorder group. In all the pieces all players have a chance to feature. Separate parts are availableseparately code CH65109.

An Idea for solo guitar was written for the 75th Birthday of Eli Kassner at Cordoba April 1999.

The polish composer Henryk Gorecki born in 1933 readily acknowledges the influence of national religious and folk traditions upon his music including the avant-garde works which made his name in the late 1950s. HisPsalm setting Beatus Vir was composed in 1979 to fulfil a request from Karol Wojtyla the Cardinal of Krakow made shortly before his election as pope. The commission the celebrated 900th anniversary of the martyrdom of St.Stanislaw a bishop of Krakow murdered by the king's henchmen while celebrating Mass. Beatus Vir is dedicated to Pope John Paul II and was premiered in his presence during his first pilgrimage to Poland.

A selection of beautiful and inspiring movements from the world's greatest piano works. Some of the most beautiful piano music in the world is to be found in introspective slow movements nocturnes elegies and so on. Thiscollection brings together a selection of the most inspiring and romantic original music for piano from the great composers. Suitable for intermediate players (grades 4-6).

Work for String Quintet. Commissioned by COMA this work was written as part of Tate Postcard Collection project.

The rather unusual title of Flute Sonata for a work for orchestra - in fact a Concerto - is explained by the fact that it was originally written by Francis Poulenc the French composer who died in1963 and was a member of the composers who were known as 'Les Six' for Flute and Piano. This is the full score. With his usual skill and expertise Sir Lennox Berkeley has 'converted' this short work into aconcert which is so convincing that the Composer himself might if he had heard it have wondered why he did not think of it in the first place! Flute Sonata is a most attractive work givingfull scope to the range and versatility to the Flute as a solo instrument as well as providing us with a slow movement of unalloyed charm.

A solo organ piece by the innovative North American composer Philip Glass.

Motet for Men's Voices (Two Bass Soli Three Tenors 3 Baritones 3 Basses).

For Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (Clarinet in A Viola Cello and Double Bass). This extended version of a knot of time was commissioned by Faith Wilson. First performance on 10th OCtober at the CBSO Centre Birmingham by Sarah Leonard (Soprano) and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Richard Baker. a knot of time' began its life in 1992 as a piece for the Composer's Ensemble for Clarinet Viola Celloand Bass with Mezzo Soprano. It was originally the title of only one setting using the poem 'Cada cancion' by Lorca. The tessitura of the vocal line always seemed generally too low for the music and there were also problems withthe clarinet writing so I changed the mezzo-soprano to soprano. I also felt that I should add more settings for the piece to have more of a life and so was thrilled when Faith Wilson asked me for some music to celebrate her 60thbirthday in 2008. I decided immediately to add two more Lorca settings to this first setting. I wrote 'El grito' and 'El silencio' quite quickly in June 2008. I added 'Aire de Nocturno' in October of the same year but stilldidn't feel that it was complete and so added a brief and rather explosive setting to close in April 2010; 'El puñal en el corazon'. The whole piece will be premiered in October 2010 with the soprano Sarah Leonard and membersof the BCMG eighteen years after the initial response to Lorca's texts.' - Simon Holt

Love from a Stranger was a 'thriller' starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone based on an Agatha Christie short story Philomel Cottage . As well as Britten's score the film also included excerpts from Grieg's Peer Gynt music and a contemporary dance band. Not all of the present score was used - No. 3 Brighton was omitted and cuts were made in nos. 5 and 6. In the latter a savage cut deleted the references to themusic of the other numbers in bars 13-20 including the trombone's scale which alludes to a scene in which a child practices the piano unseen. Britten was not happy with the way his music was used and this was to remain hisonly work for the commercial cinema composed in 1936.

This work composed for Children's Voices and String Quartet was commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York City. Conductor's score and String Parts are available from the Publishers. My text is extracted fromRodney Livingstone's translation of a short essay by the German cultural historian Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). It was written between 1914-15 during a metaphysical phase before Benjamin embraced Marxism. This text emphasises theyoung person's as opposed to the adult's approach to colour: 'for the person who sees with a child's eyes it marks boundaries it is not a layer of something superimposed on matter as it is with adults'. This work continues myinterest in art-based texts - from 'The Kiss' (1985) to my opera 'Facing Goya' (2000/02) © Michael Nyman 2003