Chamber - Philip Cashian

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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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

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

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

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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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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