A new hit film - a timeless song. Here Beauty And The Beast by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman has been arranged for String Orchestra by Bruce Chase. 

One of this year's biggest adventure films King Kong had a soundtrack to match with James Newton Howard's epic orchestral score. This montage includes adventure chase and lyric themes heard throughout the film arranged into aconcert version that captures the aura of this memorable film.

Moving On is a single movement work for string quartet. Skempton masterfully combines classical string quartet textures with luxuriant harmonies and a fluid approach to tonality resulting in an appealing modern addition to the genre.

This piece owes its title and much of its elegiac but optimistic character to a poem by Mary Webb. Webb's fine lyric verse is echoed in the song-like directness and simplicity of form captured in this single movement work.

Tendrils has been described as a 'masterly display of Skempton's utterly natural art.' It is built out of continuous undulating lines that sustain their effect throughout the impulse being lyrical and experimental.

Tendrils has been described as a 'masterly display of Skempton's utterly natural art.' It is built out of continuous undulating lines that sustain their effect throughout the impulse being lyrical and experimental.