For violin cello and piano'The title 'Time Will Pronounce'is taken from the last lines of Joseph Brodsky’s poem 'Bosnia Tune' which deals with the horror of the unnecessary unacceptable daily deaths in Bosnia during 1992 (andstill in 1993): ‘Time whose sharp blood-thirsty quill parts the killed from those who kill will pronounce the latter tribe as your type’. The violin and cello are (…

Score and Parts-Conveying a spirit of hope and inspiration this powerful overture (translated Ever Forward) features a diverse mix of styles and moods. The opening fast theme scored for the full ensemble is rich with vitality anddrive. A legato middle section trades themes from section to section and provides a variety of dynamic and emotional contours. The final fast section starts quietly prope…

Les Marteaux de La Marine was composed in 1999 as a commission by the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The composition contains three static elements which interchange. Static in this case means that development of the material isnot pursued (by the composer). The first element with which the piece begins is tranquil and colourful. The second element is sharp and incisive while the thir…

String Quartet No.4 was written for the Camilli Quartet who gave the first performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London April 1995. It is dedicated to the memory of Nyman's composition teacher Alan Bush.This quartet is anarrative made up of a chain of twelve complete but often cross-related movements each quite simple in design. For instance the Scottish melody first heard in the second ha…

Portraying the thrill and speed of alpine skiers navigating the demanding Super-G (super giant slalom) downhill course  Alpine Adventure is composed using a single fast tempo and takes the listener through a variety of stylistic moods.The opening and closing segments feature a driving syncopated style while the middle section features a more lyric melody in 3/4 but still at the energetic fast p…

Fassung Ii. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The St. John Passion ranks alongside the St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the B minor Mass as one of the great vocal works from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Leipzig years. In contrast to his other large-scale choral works, however, Bach never gave this work a definitive final form. Rather, for every performance he substantially revis…

Fassung Ii. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The St. John Passion ranks alongside the St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the B minor Mass as one of the great vocal works from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Leipzig years. In contrast to his other large-scale choral works, however, Bach never gave this work a definitive final form. Rather, for every performance he substantially revis…

Fassung Ii. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The St. John Passion ranks alongside the St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the B minor Mass as one of the great vocal works from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Leipzig years. In contrast to his other large-scale choral works, however, Bach never gave this work a definitive final form. Rather, for every performance he substantially revis…

This work was written at the pivotal point of both two centuries and two millennia. With its hopeful melodies and triumphant parts in the brass section the opening pictures the dawning of a new era of great expectations characterized by the high speed of communicating all over the world which is one of the most important aspects of life in the 21st century. This is achieved by musical themes be…

New to the MusicWorks series Ted Ricketts brings a fresh and exhilarating style to the concert band medium. Displaying a mastery of tone colors and scoring techniques this overture begins with a tuneful melody in a lush setting.This is followed by a dynamic fast section featuring strong percussion writing. The piece returns to the opening strains for a very effective ending.

A P-47 Tribute-The P-47 Thunderbolt was one of the workhouse airplanes of World War II becoming the most produced and also largest single piston engine fighter plane in history. This dramatic overture for band musically tells the story of thislegendary plane.(The composers father piloted a P-47 during the war in 1944). The opening heroic strain is contrasted with a slow reflective middle sectio…

Calling for the band to be divided into four separate ensembles (and spread apart if space permits) Villages explores a wide range of harmonic and rhythmic interplay between each of these musical “villages.”The opening creates a dense canopy of sound out of which the unique identity of each group variously emerges then melts back into the texture. As the fast pace continues melodic …