Richard Reed Parry's Quartet For Heart And Breath for mixed Ensemble.Quartet for Heart And Breath was commissioned for Kronos Quartet by the 2009 MusicNOW Festival. The mixedEnsemble arrangement was premiered by yMusic.Instrumentation: Flute Clarinet in Bb Trumpet in Bb Violin Viola Violoncello and Double Bass (optional).'This piece is based around the idea of using the widelyvarying internal rhythms of the performers? bodies as performance parameters. There is no actual tempo or meter built into the piece. The breathing rates of the players are used in alternation with the individual performers? heartrates to determine the pace at which all of the musical material is played. This requires that the performers generally play quietly and delicately with little or no vibrato so as to be able to hear their heartbeats adequately.This in combination with thenatural variance between the different heart rates results in a kind of delicate musical ?pointillism?: starts and stops which are somewhat staggered parts which repeatedly line up and fall out ofsync with each other different individuals? pulses rising and falling. The piece is never performed exactly the same way twice.The performers wear stethoscopes positioned over their hearts so that each can follow his orher own heart rate. Two eighth notes/quavers correspond to the two sounds of a normal heartbeat and performers should match as closely as possible the staccato and irregular rhythm they hear. When instructed to ?play to breath? the natural cycle of one inhalation and one exhalation or vice versa will determine the length of the bar (two quarter notes/crotchets) without any attempt to make it metronomic. For wind players this means that the phrase isextended to encompass the whole of their natural breath without straining to hold for as long as possible. When one instrument is designated the leader their breath will determine the starts of phrases and the procession from

Hope's Place by Anthony Gilbert. 18'18'; for septet of 4 Wind and String trio.Chamber concertino for Flute doubling Alto Flute; Oboe doubling Oboe d'amore; Clarinet in Bb doubling either Bass Clarinet in Bb & Clarinet in A or Basset Clarinet in A with extension to low written C; Bassoon; Violin; Viola; Cello.Commissioned for Clark Rundell and Ensemble 10/10.First performance by Ensemble 10/10 dir. Clark Rundell at The Cornerstone Liverpool Hope University on 16th October 2013.

This is the original version of Winternacht for 7 instruments composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 1976-78. Programme Note: Winternacht was written in 1976-78 and the title was taken from a poem by the Austrian poet Georg Trakl. The four movements which are all very precise and dreamingly poetic are almost classical in terms of clarity and discipline in orchestration and form: hence the dedication of the third movement to Igor Stravinsky. However the music has a strong impressionistic quality as well: four introverted still lives of the velvety dark iceness of a silvery winter night (one can veritably sense the fairy-tale-likesleigh ride in the two outer movements).The second movement is dedicated to the eccentric lithographer M.C. Escher and the first and last movements are both dedicated to Georg Trakl. As in the well-known orchestral work Stratifications we can enjoy Abrahamsen's fascination with having several events occur simultaneously: a thoughtful as well as playful multilayered quality mirrors the poetic and mysterious worlds of painting literature nature and most important of all: music.Poul Ruders

An entertainment for ten singers/actors and small orchestra.10 SINGERS/ACTORS FLT (PIC) OB (CORA) CLT1 (ASAX) CLT2 (BASS CLT) BSN 2HN TPT TBN 2PERC PFC GTR (BJO) STR INST(44222 OR MORE) DB WITH LOW C. ONSTAGE:VLN VLC PFC ELECPF GTR EGTR 2 GAVELS TAMBOURINE

For mixed chamber choir and 8 instruments.Published in 2001.1.1.0.0 / 0.0.0.0 / pf.vib / 1.0.1.1.1Commissioned by Ensemble United Berlin.First performance: Ensemble United Berlin conducted by PeterHirsch Berlin 11th April 2001.Conductor's score.4 Part choir Flute Oboe Violin Viola Cello Double Bass Vibraphone and Piano.

Commissioned by Norland Music Festival with the financial support from The Norwegian Culture Council. Premiered by Bodo Sinfonietta and Christian Lindberg.InstrumentationFlute/PiccoloOboe/English HornBb ClarinetBassoonoHorn in FTrumpet in BbTrombonePercussion 1 - Vibraphone Grand Cassa 3 suspended metals Crotales 2 BongosPercussion 2 - Marimba Timpani (F-C) 3 suspended metals Glockenspiel 2 BongosPiano2 ViolinsViolaCelloDouble Bass (5 String or with C extension)