repertoire: complete list of works performed

WP = world premiere UKP = UK premiere

Julian Anderson
I'm Nobody, Who Are You?
The Bearded Lady
Three Parts Off the Ground
(rev. WP)

Georges Aperghis
The Physiological Laugh (UKP)
Parentheses (UKP)
Recitations for cello(UKP)
Recitations for female voice
Fidelite
Il Gigante Golia
Les Septs Crimes de l'Amour
Les Secrets Elementaires (UKP)
Little Red Riding Hood (UKP)

Tom Armstrong
Partita (WP)
Dance Maze
Aerial Flights (WP)

Simon Bainbridge
Concertante in Moto Perpetuo

Howard Bashaw
seven spheres (WP)

Luke Bedford
Requiescat
Broken Neon Arabesque
Through Mazes Running

Eve Beglarian
Enough (UKP)

Alban Berg
Altenberg Lieder (arr. for ensemble, Philip Headlam, WP)
Lyric Suite for strings

Luciano Berio
Chamber Music

Harrison Birtwistle
Nenia: Death of Orpheus
Ring a Dumb Carillon

David Blake
Arias

William Bolcom
Dead Moth Tango

Denys Bouliane
Des caresses...(UKP)
Du Fouet et du Plaisir (UKP)

Johannes Brahms
Quintet op. 111 (arr. string orchestra Philip Headlam, WP)

Ferruccio Busoni
Elegies

Martin Butler
Jazz Machines
Suzanne's River Song

John Cage
Wonderful Widow of 18 Springs

Cornelius Cardew
Movement
Treatise (excerpts)
Mountains

Elliott Carter
Three Songs (poems of Robert Frost)
Voyage
90+
Duo for violin and piano

John Casken
Firewhirl

Richard Causton
Notturno

Paul Clay
Learning White (WP)

Barbara Croall
Eos (UKP)

George Crumb
Four Nocturnes

Luigi Dallapiccola
Machado Songs
Piccola Musica Notturna
Rencesvals (arr. for ensemble, Philip Headlam, WP)

Peter Maxwell Davies
The Sea Eagle

Manuel De Falla
Concerto

Claude Debussy
Pagodes

Pascal Dusapin
Iti
To God
Comoedia
If
In & Out
So Full of Shapes is Fancy

Henri Dutilleux
Figures de résonances
San Francisco Night
Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou
Preludes for piano
Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher
Les Citations

Hans Eisler
Hollywood Elegies (Hollywood,
In den Hugeln, I saw Many Men (The Ratmen) Bettelied, Der Mensch, Change the World

José Evangelista
O Bali
Clos de Vie
Merapi (UKP)

Sean Ferguson
Nuit Blanche (UKP)

Douglas Finch
Ucluelet (WP)
Illuminations (WP)
Lamentations (WP)
Landscape III (WP)
Invention (WP)
Landscape
Summer

Elena Firsova
You and I

Benjamin Foskett
Hornet

Erika Fox
On Visiting Stravinsky's Grave

Alexander Goehr
Around Stravinsky

Michel Gonneville
Chute-Parachute (UKP)
Montee de Printemps (UKP)

Larry Goves
turning aperture slowly clockwise spinning (WP)

Julian Grant
Moonstone Songs (WP)
Off Course (WP)
Tournament of Shadows (WP)

Gerard Grisey
Talea

Wilhelm Grosz
Bänkel vom Business, op. 31

Kyla Grunebaum-Crowcroft
Mandelstam Songs (WP)

Cristobal Halffter
Antiphonismoi (UKP)

Keith Hamel
Each Life Converges to Some Centre

John Harbison
Mirabai Songs (UKP)

Lou Harrison
Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra (UKP)

Hans Werner Henze
El Cimarron (Part I)
El Rey de Harlem

Kenneth Hesketh
Die Hangende Figur Ist Judas (WP)
Recit and Aria (WP)
Torturous Instruments (WP)
Netsuke
Aphorisms (UKP)
Cautionary Tales (WP)
The Love Sick Nightingale (WP)
Les Grandes Plaines du Jour (WP)
Gabo's Opus (WP)
Music of a Distant Drum (WP)

Paul Hindemith
There and Back
Eight Pieces for flute solo

Friedrich Hollander
Die Kleptomanin
Nimm dich Acht vor Blonden Frau’n
Cocktail Song
Und immer noch speil’nse Blues
Eine Kleine Sehnsucht
Reizend

Robin Holloway
Winter Music (Concertino No. 6)

Edward Dudley Hughes
Streams and Mountains (WP)

Charles Ives
Concord Sonata
Trio

Peter Knell
Vortex (UKP)

Oliver Knussen
Autumnal
Elegies and Arabesques

Ernst Krenek
Die Jahreszeiten, op. 35
Three Pieces for Mixed Chorus, op. 22 (UKP)

David Lang
Frag (UKP)

Jean Lesage
Un Jeu de Songes (UKP)

Lowell Liebermann
Flute Sonata (UKP)

Gyorgy Ligeti
Piano Etude no. 7
Three Pieces for Two Pianos

Magnus Lindberg
Moto

Colin Matthews
Night's Mask

Andrew McBirnie
Prayer (WP)

Colin McPhee
Ceremonial Balinese Music
i Gambangan
ii Taboeh Teloe
(arr. Philip Headlam, WP)

Stephen Montague
Wild Nights
Black 'n' Blues

Tristan Murail
Memoires/Erosion
Treize Couleurs du Soleil Couchant

Michael Oesterle
têtes-mortes (WP)
All Gebete sind schon geschrieben (UKP)

Isabelle Panneton
Chants d'Août (UKP)
sur ces decombres...(UKP)

Sergey Prokofiev
Akhmatova Songs

Sergey Rachmaninov
Suite no. 2

Shula Mit Ran
East Wind (UKP)
Mirage (UKP)

MauriceRavel
Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques (arr. chamber orchestra, Philip Headlam, WP)
Don Quichotte a Dulcinee (arr. ensemble, Philip Headlam, WP)
Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarmé

Steve Reich
Octet

Wolfgang Rihm
Klavierstuck 6

Colin Riley
Airs and Graces (rev WP)

George Rochberg
Trio, Summer 1990 (UKP)

Carl Ruggles
Angels (arr. for strings)

Daryl Runswick
Moto Ripreso (WP)

Frederick Rzewski
Sonata for piano (UKP)
Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Lost and Found (UKP)
Pocket Symphony(UKP)
Snippets   (UKP)

Robert Saxton
Ritornelli and Intermezzi

Giacinto Scelsi
Suite no. 7 (UKP)
Okanagon

Arnold Schoenberg
Phantasie

Daniel Schroyens
Two Songs (WP)

Erwin Schulhoff
Five Pieces for string quartet

Salvatore Sciarrino
Caprices

Peter Sculthorpe
Irkanda I

Ruth Crawford Seeger
Songs of Carl Sandburg
Three Songs of Carl Sandburg

Roger Sessions
Duo for violin and piano
Duo  (UKP)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue in d-
Sonata no. 1 op. 12

Jean Sibelius
Songs (6)

Arlene Sierra
Maria mit dem schlafenden Kind (UKP)
Scarab (UKP)

Roger Smalley
Chopin Variations
Crepuscle (UKP)
Poles Apart (UKP)
Trio (WP)
Piano Trio
Quintet (UKP)

Rob T. Smith
Skittermusic (UKP)

Mischa Spoliansky
Was sind morgen in den Zeitungen stehen?
Ich hab, ich bin
l’Heure Bleu
Ich weiss das ist nicht so
Baby, wenn du unartig bist
Die Beste Freundin
Auf Wiedersehen

K. S. Sorabji
Fantasiettina

Alastair Stout
The Darkling Heave (WP)

Igor Stravinsky
Concerto in Eb (Dumbarton Oaks)
Octet
Septet
Four Songs (1919/53)
Elegy for J. F. K.
Epitaphium
Three Clarinet Pieces
Three Shakespeare Songs
Pastoral

Eric Tanguy
Further (UKP)

John Tavener
Song for Ileana
The Child Lived
Thrinos
Six Russian Folksongs

Alessandro Timossi
Dittico
Impressioni di Viaggio (WP)
Storia (WP)

Ernst Toch
Egon and Emilie (UKP)
Cello Sonata, op. 50 (UKP)
Three Burlesques, op. 31 (UKP)
Five Capriccetti, op. 36 (UKP)
Violin Sonata, op. 44 (UKP)
Gesprochene Musik (UKP)
Five Pieces for Chamber Orchestra, op. 33 (UKP)
Die Chinesische Flöte, op. 29 (UKP)
Miniature Overture (UKP)
Valse

Michael Torke
The Yellow Pages

Mark Anthony Turnage
A Fast Stomp

Owen Underhill
Hinge (WP)

Galina Ustvolskaya
Symphony no 5

Edgard Varese
Octandre

Claude Vivier
Shiraz
Samarkand
Pulau Dewata (UKP) (arr. for ensemble John Rea)

Errollyn Wallen
Earth Stood Hard as Iron (WP)
Gastarbeiter
Dark Heart
Courtly Love (WP)
One Week Short of A Valentine
Look! No Hands! (WP in concert)
The Girl in my Alphabet
Are You Worried About the Rising Cost of Funerals? (Five Simple Songs)
Hunger (WP)
Horseplay
Dervish

Huw Watkins
Two Chorales (WP)
Coruscation and Reflection

Anton Webern
Three Little Pieces for cello and piano

Kurt Weill
Epitaph 1919 (Berliner Requiem)
Den wie man sich bettet so liegt man
Benares Song
Vom Tod im Wald
Mahagonny Songspiel
Das Berliner Requiem (alternative version by David Drew)
Violin Concerto, op. 12
Das Lied von der unzulänglichkeit des menschlichen Strebens
Wie man sich bettet, so liegt man
Berlin im Licht
Youkali
Es Regnet

Judith Weir
Natural History (WP)
Armida (WP)
The Voice of Desire
The Consolations of Scholarship

Christian Wolf
Serenade (UKP)

Stefan Wolpe
Passacaglia
Gesang weil ich etwas teures verlassen muss
Tango (from Six Piano Pieces 1920-9)
Two Dances, for piano
Zwei Chinesische Grabschriften, op. 25 (UKP)

Iannis Xenakis
Evryali

Udo Zimmermann
White Rose

Herbert Zipper
Dachaulied

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