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Catalogue and Recordings

Music Theatre
Orchestras, choirs, concert bands
Wind and brass chamber ensembles
String chamber ensembles
Vocal music
Other chamber ensembles
Keyboards
Open scored music

Music Theatre

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February 25th. 1.10pm. St Alfege, Greenwich - FREE

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Orchestras, choirs, concert bands

NEW Guernica - Gaza, 1937 - 2009, 6 mins
Rehearsal recording
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'A Transpontine Academic Festival Overture', 5 mins
Concert recording
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Chamber Symphony 5, 9 mins
Concert recording
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The Light Fading in the West, 6 mins
MIDI recording
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Cancion a la Tierra, for chamber orchestra, 10 mins
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El Crimen Fue En Granada, for chamber orchestra, 6 mins
MIDI recording
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Sevilla, for symphony orchestra, 9 mins
MIDI recording
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Where Will The West Wind Blow You?, for chamber orchestra, 9 mins
MIDI recording
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To The Edge, for concert band, 10 mins
MIDI recording
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Chamber Symphony No 4, 19 mins
Recording - Ensamble Rosario, Argentina, 2004
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Chamber Symphony No 3, 20 mins
MIDI Recording
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Chamber Symphony No 2, 22 mins
Recordings by the Forum London Chamber Symphony
1st movement
2nd movement
3rd movement
4th movement
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"strained almost to breaking point", for string orchestra, 5 mins
Recording - Ensamble Rosario, Argentina, 2003
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Cold Eye, for chamber orchestra, 11 mins
Recording - Ensamble Rosario, Argentina, 2003
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Three Modern Tasters for Strings, for string orchestra, 3 mins each
Number One - MIDI recording
Number Two - MIDI recording
Number Three - MIDI recording
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Solemn Processional, for string orchestra, 2 mins
MIDI Recording - MIDI recording
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For the troubled dead of Northern Ireland, open scored ensemble + voices, 6 mins
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Wind and brass chamber ensembles

NEW Four Problems for wind quintet, 5mins
MIDI Recording
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NEW Race to the Top, for clarinet duo, 5mins
MIDI Recording
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Rondo, for clarinet quartet, 8mins
MIDI Recording
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Rondo, for saxophone quartet, 8mins
MIDI Recording
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Five Incomplete Episodes, for brass quintet, 8 mins
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four
Episode Five
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Lugubrian Dances, for double wind quintet, 10 mins
Dance 1 - Nintrice Three-Step
Dance 2 - Zabije-Mycsaj Lament
Dance 3 - Matransi Serenade
Dance 4 - Domsne Gallop
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Voices, for clarinet choir, 5 mins
MIDI Recording
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In Remembrance of a Passing Generation, for wind nonet, 8 mins
MIDI Recording
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Travel Together To..., for sax quartet and vibraphone, 6 mins
MIDI Recording
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One Step Forward, One Back, for wind quintet, 5 mins
MIDI Recording
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Repetitive Strain, for trombone trio, 8 mins
MIDI Recording
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Four Unwritten Love Songs, for various instrumentations, including clarinet quartet, 8 mins
MIDI Recordings
1, Decay
1, Deserted
3, Rediscovery
4. Final Parting
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Solemn Processional, for recorder quartet, 2 mins
MIDI Recording
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Four European Dances, for recorder trio, 2 mins each
MIDI Recordings
First Dance
Second Dance
Third Dance
Fourth Dance
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String chamber ensembles

NEW Learning to Compose for Harp, 6 mins
MIDI Recording
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String Quartet No.4, 14 mins
MIDI Recordings
1st movement
2nd movement
3rd movement
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Ground Bass Day, 5 mins
MIDI Recording
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To catch the floating sighs, 5 mins
Concert Recording
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Dance to this if you can!, 8 mins
MIDI Recording
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Sequenzas Sensatas y Faciles, guitar and string quartet, 7 mins
MIDI Recording
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String Trio, 5 mins
Recording - Ensamble Rosario, Argentina, 2004
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String Quartet No. 3, 7 mins
MIDI Recording
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Seeds of Destruction, for cello duo, 15 mins
1st movement - MIDI recording
2nd movement - MIDI recording
3rd movement - MIDI recording
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Four Unwritten Love Songs, for various instrumentations, including string quartet, 8 mins
MIDI Recordings
1, Decay
2, Deserted
3, Rediscovery
4. Final Parting
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Solemn Processional, for string quartet, 2 mins
MIDI Recording
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Vocal music

NEW 'Dorothy', for soprano duo and piano, 6 mins
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Different Stones, for mezzo soprano and viola, 5 mins
Recordings
The Way Down
Breaking The Fall
The Fenced Wood
by Alessia Mankovskaya and Josema Gandia
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In the desert, bells toll no more, for soprano, piano, and guitar, or mezzo and oboe 5 mins
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NEW A Vindication of the Rights of Women, for female vocal trio, 3 mins
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Letters from Darkness, for soprano and piano, 5 mins
Live concert recording
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Those Voices, for mezzo soprano and piano, 9 mins
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Love and War in the Poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880 -1918, for soprano, male voices, piano, percussion, flute, trumpet, cello, 12 mins
Live Recording
Cornelius Cardew Ensemble
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River and Field, for tenor and piano, OR quartet of tenor, piano, horn, and double bass, 6 mins
MIDI Recordings
The River - tenor and piano
The Field - tenor and piano
The River - quartet
The Field - quartet
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Other chamber ensembles

NEW Lament and Interludes, for clarinet, viola and piano, 3 mins
MIDI Recording
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NEW Perdida, for clarinet, viola and piano, 3 mins
MIDI Recording
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Struggle and Lamentation, for violin and piano, 8 mins
MIDI Recording
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The Grasshopper, for tenor sax and marimba (or piano), 6 mins
MIDI Recording
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Communique, for clarinet, cello, and piano, 6 mins
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Running From The Waves, for piano quintet, 7 mins
MIDI Recording
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Conversation IV, for Bb or bass clarinet and piano, 5 mins
Bb Clarinet - MIDI Recording
Bass Clarinet - MIDI Recording
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Midnight Abstract, for fl, vln, cl, vlc, pno, perc, 5 mins
Recording - Vamos, London, 2004
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Conversation III, for viola and piano, 5 mins
Recording - Ensamble Rosario, Argentina, 2004
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For the people of East Timor, for sextet of fl, cl, vln, vlc, pno, perc, OR recorder and piano, 6 mins
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Recordings of sextet version, Ensamble Rosario, Argentina, 2003
First Movement
Second Movement
Third Movement
MIDI recordings of the recorder and piano version
First Movement
Second Movement
Third Movement

Shot In The Foot, for percussion ensemble, 7 mins
Recording: Brake Drum Assembly
The recording, of course, does not convey the theatrical aspects of the piece - there is action in the silences.
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Keyboards

NEW A Very Brief Guide to Recent Trends in Contemporary Music, for piano, 5 mins
Concert recording - Annie Ball
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'And its hard, being dead', for piano, 5 mins
Live Recording
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'Glorifying Terrorism', for piano, 7 mins
MIDI Recording
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Aspects of Arrival, for organ, 4 mins
MIDI Recording
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Open scored music

These pieces can be played by ensembles with a variety of different instruments. Most have four lines of music in treble, alto, tenor, and bass parts.

'Aftershocks' requires as many percussionists as can be assembled. The 'Schnittke' piece also requires two pianists.

Two Incomplete Episodes, for flexible quartet, 3 mins
MIDI Recording
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Aftershocks, 4 mins
MIDI Recording
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Four Unwritten Love Songs, 8 mins
MIDI Recordings
1, Decay
2, Deserted
3, Rediscovery
4. Final Parting
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On learning of the death of Alfred Schnittke, 6 mins
MIDI Recording
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A fine October day in the garden, and other simple pleasures, an improvisation, 8 mins
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