Song Offerings by Jonathan Harvey is a piece of great energy and sensuality. It was first performed by Spectrum with Rosemary Hardy soprano and conducted by Guy Protheroe in London at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the 22nd March 1985. The piece is written for soprano and 8 instrumentalists.

'… a lovely work wistful yearning elusive and full of atmosphere.'Central Western Daily (E.M.W.) 2 June 1976

Written for Melinda Maxwell and the Orchestra of St. John's Smith Square to commemorate the orchestra's twenty first anniversary. the happy surprise of his Little Concert. . . beneath the graceful long lines and jig-like spurts of a solo part expressly written for Melinda Maxwell Maw finds time and space enough to draw quite long-range implications from his basic motif of a semitone plus a major third and to insert some of his special densely poetic harmonies.Bayan Northcott The Independent 6 June 1988.Scored for Oboe solo two Horns two Violins Viola Cello and Double Bass.

'. . .It is a revelation to hear something of the composer's other side. The Viola Concerto featuring Rivka Golani is the real thing: post Walton heartfelt viola writing. . .'Sarah Pope CD Classics December 1992

'. . .immediately engaging with its uplifting horn melody lively fanfares comfortable harmonies and easy-to-follow trajectory. . .'Mark Stryker Dayton Daily News 13 January 1994

'A cleverly devised texturally fresh and engaging short essay. . .with its percussive tick-tocks extended melodies for a woodwind section including saxophone. . .'Paul Driver Financial Times June 1986

Bhakti was written in 1982 to a commission from IRCAM Paris. It is in twelve short movements totalling about fifty minutes. There are 36 subsections; each one defined by a certain number of instruments playing a certain pitch cell. As there are only 12 types of subsection each occurs (with variation) 3 times thus making for repetitions over the course of the work.Scored for a chamber group fo 15 instrumentalists and quadraphonic tape.

The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Oliver Knussen in the Barbican Hall London on 11 February 1994.

Memento Mori is a work for Orchestra from celebrated Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe. The piece features some hauntingly beautiful melodies and striking tonal contrasts. The work is said to be inspired by a visit to Easter Island famous for its great stone heads monuments that can be seen as both an example of the indomitable nature of the human spirit and as part of its great folly -for their making and transportation deforested and impoverished the island.