Chester Music & Novello: New Works - November 2016
1st November 2016
Orchestral
Nico Muhly
Keep in Touch (orchestral version) (2005)
Duration: 12 Minutes | Solo viola
Orchestration: 1(afl).1.1+bcl.0/1.1.0+btbn.0/4perc/pf/str(1.1.0.1.1)/tenor voice | Hire
Commissioned by Alarm Will Sound and recorded by them with Nadia Sirota (viola) on Bedroom Community.
Kevin Volans
Piano Concerto No 4 (2016)
Duration: 28 Minutes | Solo piano
Orchestration: 2.2.2(2bcl).0/2.2.2.0/str(2.0.2.2.2) | Hire (available from November 12)
Commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with financial assistance from the following individuals through BCMG’s Sound Investment Scheme. First performed by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Geoffrey Paterson, on 11 November 2016 at CBSO Centre, Birmingham.
Chamber
Philip Glass
String Quartet No 6 (2013) | Buy
Commissioned by Kronos Quartet and first performed by them on October 19, 2013 at the Chan Shun Concert Hall in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
String Quartet No 7 (2014)
Duration: 20 Minutes | Buy
Commissioned by Nederlands Dans Theater and the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet. First performed on July 7, 2014 by the Kronos Quartet at the Colours International Dance Festival in Amsterdam in the performance of 'Spiritwalking' by the Nederlands Dans Theater.
Nico Muhly
Fast Dances (2014)
Duration: 12 Minutes | Orchestration: two harps | Buy
Commissioned by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund. First performed by Duo Scorpio.
Pulses, Cycles, Clouds (2016)
Duration: 6 Minutes | Orchestration: percussion ensemble | Hire
Pulses, Cycles, Clouds is a piece for large mixed percussion ensemble written for the 50th anniversary of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. First performed by a student ensemble from the George Mason University at the Tanglewood festival.
Hugh Wood
Ithaka, Op 61 (2016)
Duration: 12 Minutes | Orchestration: violin, viola and cello | Buy
This work was commissioned by the Britten-Pears Foundation, the RVW Trust and the Swaledale Festival. It was first performed on 2nd June 2016 by the Florin Trio, at St. Andrew's Church, Grinton, as part of the 2016 Swaledale Festival.
Choral
Richard Allain
The Beloved (2014)
Duration: 3 Minutes | Chorus: SATB choir & organ | Buy
The Magi's Gift (2013)
Duration: 3 Minutes | Chorus: SATB choir unaccompanied | Buy
Both The Beloved and The Magi’s Gift were commissioned by Merton College, Oxford as part of the Merton Choirbook, a collection of music being assembled to celebrate Merton College’s 750th anniversary in 2014. First performed on 19th January 2014 in Merton College Chapel by the Choir of Merton College, conducted by Benjamin Nicholas.
Patrick Hawes
Song of Songs (SSA version) (2009)
Duration: 20 Minutes | Chorus: SSA | Orchestration: harp and strings | Soloist: soprano | Buy
SSA version commissioned by Leweston School
The Angel of Mons (2014)
Duration: 25 Minutes | Chorus: SSA & Soprano solo | Orchestration: hp/str | Buy / Hire
Premiered on 23 August 2014 in St Michael & All Angels Church, Edenham, Lincolnshire and conducted by the composer Patrick Hawes on the exact centenary of the apparition of the angel.
John Joubert
Of a Rose, a Lovely Rose (from Five Songs of Incarnation Op 163) (2007)
Duration: 4 Minutes | Soloist : Tenor solo | Orchestration: SATB choir unaccompanied | Buy
I sing of a maiden (from Five Songs of Incarnation, Op 163) (2008)
Duration: 3 Minutes | Chorus: SATB | Buy
Five Songs of Incarnation was commissioned by Nicholas and Pamela Fisher as part of ‘Joubertiade 2007’, a nationwide series of concerts in celebration of the composer’s eightieth birthday.
Paweł Łukaszewski
Beati (2014)
Duration: 7 Minutes | Chorus: SSAATTBB | Buy
Commissioned by YL Male Voice Choir, Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat, Finland
Cantate Domino (2014)
Duration: 5 Minutes | Orchestration: SATB choir unaccompanied | Buy
Commissioned by Brady Allred and Salt Lake Vocal Artists, USA.
Daylight Declines (2013)
Duration: 4 Minutes | Orchestration: SSATBB choir unaccompanied | Buy
Inspired by the motet on the same text by Waclaw z Szamotul (c.1533-68). Commissioned by Cantatrix Choir, The Netherlands.
Deus misereatur nostri (2012)
Duration: 7 Minutes | Orchestration: SSAATTBB choir unaccompanied | Buy
Composed for Stephen Layton, Polyphony, and The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Lamentationes (2011)
Duration: 16 Minutes | Orchestration: SSAATTBB choir unaccompanied | Buy
Commissioned by Wratislavia Cantans Festival, Poland
Like as the waves (2015)
Duration: 4 Minutes | Orchestration: SATB choir unaccompanied | Buy
Composed for proMODERN Vocal Sextet
Judith Weir
Leaf from leaf Christ knows (2016)
Duration: 4 Minutes | Orchestration: SATB chorus and organ | Buy
Leaf from leaf Christ knows was given its first performance by the Choir of Wells Cathedral, James Kealey (organ) and Matthew Owens (conductor), during the festival new music wells 76–16,on Thursday 20th October 2016. It was commissioned by Cathedral Commissions of Wells Cathedral, through the generous support of over forty individuals.
James Whitbourn
Pater Noster (2016)
Duration: 3 Minutes | Orchestration: SATB choir unaccompanied | Buy
Composed for the wedding of Isabella Burns and Reed Pilegaard. Dedicated to Isabella and Reed and to Alison, in celebration of our silver wedding marked on the same day, June 2016.
Agnus Dei (from Missa Carolae) (2004)
Duration: 4 Minutes | Chorus: SATB choir & solo treble | Orchestration: organ, optional piccolo | Buy
Missa Carolae was commissioned by the Rochester Cathedral for its 1400th anniversary and in its full version is scored for SATB (with divisi), Piccolo (or fife), 3 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, Organ, 2 percussionists, and Congregation part (ad lib.)