SKU: HL.14021094

ISBN 9780853609216.

This Quartet was commissioned by the Delme String Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. First performed by the Quartet, London 1982. Duration 20 minutes. A Score is also available for sale.

SKU: HL.14021087

8.25x12.0x0.059 inches.

John McCabe's Pueblo for solo Double Bass. Duration: approx. 7 minutes.

Pueblo is an off-shoot of a series of compositions inspired by desert country, and it was commissioned by Leon Bosch with the aid of funds provided by North West Arts. The piece is continous, falling into several sections, and is largeley based on the high circling motif heard at the start and referred to again in the harmonics at the close.
It is prefaced by the following quotation from Scenes in American Deserta by Reyner Banham, published by Thames and Hudson:

'Clouds, high and flat, were now building up in thesky, the wind was settling to silent calm, the weather was very cold, and the stream through the center of the pueblo was almost frozen across, the Indians chipping out ice to melt down for water.'

The aim in writing the piece was to express in musical terms a response to the vivid picture of a scene relating to life in the American desert conveyed by Reyner Banham's text. Although not numbered among other Desert works, this belongs to this family of compositions, along with another Banham setting, written for the King's Singers, Scenes In America Deserta. - John McCabe

SKU: HL.14037154

ISBN 9780853604648. 8.5x11.0x0.048 inches.

These Five Bagatelles For Piano by contemporary English composer John McCabe, are varied in their technical difficulty. They are suitable for the high intermediate to advanced student and would make perfect concert material.

SKU: HL.14021106

ISBN 9780711998438.

A Piano Quintet by John McCabe, in full score and parts.

SKU: HL.14030696

John McCabe's Sonata for Clarinet, Cello and Piano. Score and parts.

This work was commissioned by Brocklehurst-Whiston Amalgamated for the 1969 Macclesfield Festival.

SKU: HL.14021073

This was first performed by Martin Milner with the Halle Orchestra conducted by Maurice Handford in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, in March 1963, being broadcast some months later. The work and its general shape were suggested by T. S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, and the scoring includes a large percussion section.

SKU: HL.14021080

8.25x11.75x0.135 inches.

Mezzo-soprano and Piano.

SKU: HL.14021095

ISBN 9780853609186.

This Quartet was commissioned by the Delme String Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. First performed by the Quartet, London 1982. Duration 20 minutes. Parts for this work are also available for sale.

SKU: HL.14016569

8.25x11.75x0.076 inches.

Commissioned by the British Music Society as a Test Piece for its Piano Awards Competition held at Trinity College of Music, London on 31st October 2004. The piece was inspired by the peal at Tunstall Church, Kent, and is a tribute to the Piano music of Maurice Ravel.

SKU: HL.14023494

It is a setting of four medieval Latin poems dealing with various aspects of night.