Chester Music & Novello: New Works - December 2016
1st December 2016
Chamber
Simon Holt
Fool is Hurt (piccolo concerto)
Duration: 15 Minutes | solo piccolo
Orchestration: ca.cbn/tba/2perc/hp/vn.va.vc.db | Hire (available from December 6)
Commissioned jointly by the NOVA Ensemble and the London Sinfonietta.
Michael Nyman
Two Sonnets for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (2014) – new piano reduction
Duration: 8 Minutes | Orchestration: voice (medium) and piano | Buy
If (1995) – new arrangement
Duration: 5 minutes | Orchestration: soprano saxophone and piano
Originally composed for the 1995 Japanese anime movie Anne no Nikki (アンネの日記) - The Diary of Anne Frank.
Gabriel Prokofiev
Sleeveless Scherzo (2007)
Duration: 10 Minutes | Orchestration: solo violin | Buy
Kevin Volans
Abhaya (2016)
Duration: 7 Minutes | Orchestration: 4 percussion | Buy
Commissioned by Hamiruge – the LSU percussion Group
Choral
Richard Rodney Bennett
Nowell, nowell, tidings true (1963)
Duration: 4 Minutes | Chorus: SATB | Buy
Commissioned by Novello for its carol collection 'Sing Nowell' edited by Louise Halsey and Basil Ramsey
Lullaby, baby
Duration: 3 Minutes | Chorus: SATB | Buy
A carol recently re-discovered whilst cataloguing early manuscripts
David Hill
O Come All Ye Faithful (verses 6 & 7 only)
Duration: 3 Minutes | SATB chorus + descant | Buy
From the Novello Noel! Series
Owain Park
Have yourself a merry little Christmas (2016)
Duration: 3 Minutes | Chorus: SATB | Buy
For Stephen Layton and The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
