Richard Rodney Bennett and Marian Montgomery: Just Friends In Print

Marian Montgomery with Richard Rodney Bennett in words, music and pictures. Compiled by M Easton.

Robert Walker: Brass Nexus (Score and Parts)

Written for brass quintet. This work was commissioned by the Farnaby Brass Quintet with funds provided by Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts. It was first performed by the Farnaby Brass Quintet in Louth Parish Church on 7 M arch 1989.

Rose, M Round Dance Score

Harrison Birtwistle: Music In Sleep

Music for Sleep is designed to be played by children, and performed by the following voices and instruments: a) Children?s voices, unison, two and three parts b) Piano c) Three wind instruments (any one from each list) 1. piccolo, flute, sopranino recorder, descant recorder 2. flute, descant recorder 3. treble recorder, clarinet in B flat d) Three percussion players 1. Three suspended cymbals (S,M,L). For preference, the largest cymbal should be 22 inches and the smallest not less than 8 inches, to be played with felt sticks. 2. Two small drums of different sizes, without snares (not Bongos), to be played with felt sticks. 3. Claves, one maraca, tambourine (skin downwards), played by tapping on the edge with the fingers.

Sullivan Lost Chord Organ

Written at the deathbed of Arthur Sullivan’s brother Fred in 1877 and setting words by Adelaide Anne Proctor, The Lost Chord was immediately successful and became the biggest sensation of any song in its decade. Of all the drawing room ballads of the Victorian era, The Lost Chord has remained alive in the popular imagination. This arrangement for solo Organ is true to the original without overplaying its drama and restores the eponymous 'lost chord’ to the Organ from whence it originally came. Composer Arthur Sullivan is known the world over for his operatic collaborations with W S Gilbert, including H M S Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance, among many others. But Sullivan was also a composer of a host of other works , among them operas, Orchestral works, ballets, and hymns and church pieces.