Chamber - Philip Cashian

Dances and Nocturnesfor piano quartet 2019 13:00:00 Composers Edition preview score buy/hire

forces: violin, viola, cello, piano
Dances and Nocturnes, for piano quartet, is about 13 minutes long. As the
title suggests the piece moves between fast rhythmic music and slower
more reflective sections.
The piece opens with an almost folk-like unison line before the instruments
start to splinter apart eventually leaving the piano alone. The string trio
rejoins, juxtaposed against the piano before sharing it’s triplet figure and
moving into a new section marked gentle but energetic. A high, shared note
between violin and piano mark the beginning of a descent into a brief,
nocturnal interlude for solo piano marked fantastico. This music spreads
through the quartet, with a viola solo in the foreground leading into more
static, choral-like music. The tempo picks up again with a triplet moto
perpetuo figure in the piano eventually joined by pizzicato strings passing
into a new section marked stately. An intertwined, overlapping crescendo
call in the strings, each one building in intensity before dying away takes us
into the final section – nocturnal where short piano chorales gradually fade
away into high sustained notes in the strings.
Dances and Nocturnes was commissioned by Wye Valley Chamber Music
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Silent Steps for five players 1995 00:14:00 Composers Edition nkoda buy/hire

forces: wind quintet: fl, ob, cl, bn, hn
Five pieces for wind quintet
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So Lonely for mezzo soprano and string quartet 1995 00:16:00 Composers Edition nkoda buy/hire Recordings: Dark Inventions

forces: mez, string quartet: 2vn, va, vc
So Lonely sets two poems by Louis McNeice. It was commissioned by the BBC for the ‘Towards the Millennium’ series
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Concertantes for four players 2009 00:07:00 Composers Edition nkoda buy/hire Recordings: Endymion: Sound Census

forces: cl/bcl, hn, va, vc
Written for Endymion on their twenty fifth anniversary.
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Three Duets Three arrangements of duos by Orlando di Lassus 2017 00:00:07 Composers Edition nkoda buy/hire

forces: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones
Three arrangements of duets by Orlando di Lassus for brass
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Bone Machine for four players 2009 00:01:30 Composers Edition nkoda buy/hire

forces: bcl, pf, vln, vc
Bone Machine is a Sinfonietta Short, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta to commemorate their fortieth anniversary.
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Braggadocio for mixed ensemble 2014 00:01:00 Composers Edition nkoda buy/hire

forces: for any combination of wind, brass, keyboards and tuned percussion
Braggadocio is a short fanfare for an open scored ensemble of any number of instruments upwards from a duet.
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Blue Circus for solo clarinet and five players 1991 00:10:00 Composers Edition nkoda buy/hire Recordings: Dark Inventions

forces: cl, perc:vib, vn, va, vc, db
Blue Circus is a concertante piece for solo clarinet , vibraphone and strings which takes it’s title from the gravity defying painting by Marc Chagall.
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among the bleached stars and suns for wind quintet 2000 00:10:00 Composers Edition nkoda buy/hire Recordings: Untold

forces: wind quintet: fl/bfl, ob, cl, bn, hn
among the bleached stars and suns takes its title from a poem by Kevin Crossley-Holland. The quintet is divided into three groups; a trio of oboe, clarinet and bassoon, off-stage horn and solo bass flute.
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String Quartet No.1 for string quartet 1987 00:13:00 Music Sales buy/hire Recordings: Bingham String Quartet

forces: string quartet:2vn, va, vc more...

String Quartet No. 2 for string quartet 2016 00:18:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: string quartet:2vn, va, vc
The quartet is in four movements: Swarming, Drifting, Freezing, Reeling.
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Spinlock for string quartet 2007 00:10:00

forces: string quartet:2vn, va, vc
Spinlock was written for young musicians in Birmingham as part of a collaboration (devised by BCMG and funded by the Wellcome Foundation) between scientists and composers

Samain for string quartet 2011 00:10:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: string quartet:2vn, va, vc
Samain is in four short movements and is based on the painting of the same name by Leonora Carrington
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Pietro’s Machine for three players 1999 00:03:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: piano trio: pf, vn, vc
Four miniatures for piano trio commissioned by Thalia Myers for the Chamber Music Exchange Project.
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Near Winter for female voice and five players 1988 00:05:00

forces: sop, 2cl/bcl, va, vc, db
A song setting a text by Ian Whyte

Music for the Night Sky for piano quartet 1999 00:05:00 Music Sales buy/hire Recordings: A White Room

forces: vn, va, vc, pf
Written for the Schubert Ensemble’s Chamber Music 2000 project
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Moon Song for female voice and four players 1991 00:04:00

forces: sop, cl/bcl, va, vc, db
A song setting a text by Edward Bond

Horn Trio for three players 1998 00:12:30 Music Sales buy/hire Recordings: Digital Discoveries 4: Into A Several World

forces: hn, vln, pf
Commissioned by the Rainbow over Bath concert series for the New Music Players
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Firewheel for five players 2013/14 00:09:00 Music Sales buy/hire Recordings: Firewheel

forces: picc/flt, cl/bcl, vibes, vln,vc
The title Firewheel is borrowed from the painting of the same name by British artist Bryan Wynter (1915-1975). In recent years I’ve been fascinated by his brilliantly coloured late abstract paintings and their allusion to patterning found in the natural world. My piece is playful in character, conceived in layers and grows out of repetition, line and ostinati.
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Devil’s Box, The for three players 1999 00:10:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: cl, va, pf
The Devil’s Box is a set of five miniatures. Movement two features the viola, movement three is for solo clarinet and in the fourth movement the piano takes on the role of soloist in a brief corteÌ€ge. The first movement is a monody and the last a moto perpetuo.
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Dark Inventions for five players 1992 00:15:00 Music Sales buy/hire Recordings: Dark Inventions

forces: fl/afl, cl/bcl, perc (glock, vibes, sizz cym, 5 gongs, marimba), pf, vc more...

Creeping Frogs, Flying Bats and Swimming Fish for eight players 1997 00:15:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: cl, bn, hn, 2vn, va, vc, db [0011, 1000.2111]
Commissioned by the Cambridge Music Festival.
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Brass Quintet for brass quintet 2018 00:12:00

forces: 2tpts,hn tbn,tba

Caprichos for four players 2003 00:13:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: cl/bcl, vn, vc, pf
Caprichos takes its name from Goya’s Los Caprichos, a set of eighty aquatints which depict the bizarre, mischievous and often grotesque world of 18th century Spain. The music isn’t a literal depiction of Goya’s work, but takes it as a starting point for a set of musical portraits that explore the possibilities of clarinet, piano, violin and cello.
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Aquila for three players 2010 00:14:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: cl/bcl, pf, vc
The image of Aquila swooping across the pages of Flamstead’s Atlas Coelestis gave me the idea for this trio. A fierce and powerful eagle is in mid flight but trapped between lines of longitude and latitude and destined to mechanically circle round and round the heavens, forever in the same orbit.
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A Web of Shadows for solo guitar and string quartet 2011 00:11:00 Music Sales buy/hire

forces: solo guitar and string quartet
A Web of Shadows was commissioned by Tom Kerstens, who gave the first performance with the Castalian String Quartet at the Purcell Room on 4 June 2011. Like a lot of my music the piece is made up of a series of short musical ideas that sit side by side or are stitched together. The problem of balance between the solo guitar and string quartet was a concern whilst writing the piece and led to music that has a delicate, almost filigree, quality. The string quartet play with practise mutes throughout as I wanted to try and give the impression that they were performing behind a veil.
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