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•Orchestra

•Chamber (3+ players)

•Duo (instrumental)

•Solo (except piano, with or without accompaniment)

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•Choral

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•Vocal (accompanied)

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•Variable Forces

Orchestra

(6 Scores)

Offshore
(1975-76) Duration: 11’
Forces: 3(pic)3(3ca)3(ecl,bcl)3(cbn)/4331/3perc/hpd.pf.2hp/str(12.0.10.8.6)

Work No.: 33
Publisher: [Universal]
fp: 13.9.82 Barbican Centre, London. Philharmonia Orchestra, dir. Oliver Knussen.
     

Alongside
-1979 Duration: 19’
Forces: 1111/1110/perc/pf/str(1.1.1.1.1)

Work No.: 60
Publisher: [Universal]
Commissioned by the London Sinfonietta. fp: 19.2.80 St John’s Smith Square, London. London Sinfonietta, dir. Roland Zollman. Title of printed edition: alongside [sic].
     

Sea and Sky
(1979-80) Duration: 24’
Forces: 4(2pic)3.2(2ecl)2(cbn)/4.4(4ptpt)3.1/timp.4perc/2cel.2hp/str: (10.10.10.8.8)

Work No.: 70
Publisher: [Universal]
Commissioned by The London Philharmonic Orchestra. fp: 16.5.80 RFH, London. London Philharmonic, dir. Elgar Howarth. Title: after Turner watercolour of same name.
     

Red Earth
(1987-88) Duration: 21’
Forces: 3(pic)303/0330/2didjeridus/4perc, 2timp/2hp/strings

Work No.: 137
Publisher: [Oxford] 3632306
‘To Barrie Gavin.’ Commissioned by the BBC. fp: 2.8.88 Royal Albert Hall, London. BBC SO, dir. Lothar Zagrosek. BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concert.
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Eph-phatha
Title: (Greek) - ‘Be Opened’ (St Mark).
(1988-89) Duration: 13’
Forces: 2111/1110/perc/hrp/pf strings (3.3.3.3.1)

Work No.: 143
Publisher: [Oxford] 3632063
Commissioned by the New English Orchestra. fp: 2.5.89 Northampton. New English Orchestra, dir. Nigel Swinford.
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Speak its Name!
Title: ‘The love which dare not speak its name’ (Lord Alfred Douglas).
-1996 Duration: 22’
Forces: 2222/2210/2vib,timp/hp/quartertone keyboard/strings (min. 8.8.6.6.3)

Work No.: 211
Publisher: [Oxford] 3564599
Commissioned by the Brunel Ensemble fp: 26.10.96 Victoria Rooms, Bristol. Brunel Ensemble, dir. Christopher Austin.
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