Music: Styles & Genres

Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) was one of the leading international composers of the post-war period as well as one of the most productive. Pete...

Oliver Knussen's concise and effervescent Eccentric Melody occupies a small but important place in the solo cello repertoire, and would enliven any...

Ring Out, Wild Bells is a short and fantastically vital setting for a Lord Alfred Tennyson''s poem composed for an unaccompanied double choir (SSAA...

As a noted composer and critic, Paul Dukas was a major figure in fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century French music. Best known for L'Apprenti ...

A new narrative for the emergence of human music, drawing from archaeology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory. What is the...

These three exquisite miniatures - composed in 2009 and lasting a total of 5 minutes - are responses to the poetry of George Bruce. In the first, s...

In 1935 the French baritone Pierre Bernac formed a duo with the composer Francis Poulenc that became a legend throughout the world. Unprecedented i...

The Light We Cast presents three works for unaccompanied SATB choir by BAFTA-winning composer Jessica Curry. Including The Light We Cast from the s...

In his Kongsgaard Variations (2006), Swedish composer Anders Hillborg takes the Arietta-theme from Beethoven''s last piano-sonata, No. 32 in C mino...

In his Kongsgaard Variations (2006), Swedish composer Anders Hillborg takes the Arietta-theme from Beethoven''s last piano-sonata, No. 32 in C mino...

Anders Hillborg''s Close Ups unfolds as an exhilarating flurry of notes - in part ingeniously generated from a prime number series. An enthralling ...

From the dynamic rhythms of its opening Prelude, and the luxurious harmonies of Meditation and the breathless Toccata, Carl Vine''s Sonata for Pian...

Carl Vine''s atmospheric Violin Concerto (2011) creates a rich and multi-faceted relationship between soloist and orchestra. Unfolding over two fin...

Lyrical, direct and exhibiting a masterful understanding of vocal writing, Carl Vine''s secular cantata for soprano and strings, The Tree of Man, i...

Piano reduction and violin part. Carl Vine''s atmospheric Violin Concerto (2011) creates a rich and multi-faceted relationship between solo...

This fiendish 6-minute toccata by Carl Vine is not for the faint-hearted. Commissioned by the 2012 Sydney International Piano Competition of Austra...