Titles: An die Schwester * Nahe des todes * Amen

Oliver Knussen composed this arresting 2-minute work for the Tanglewood Music Center, where he was Head of Contemporary Music from 1986 to 1993. Three groups of brass and percussion, spaced…

Described by its composer as ‘more concert aria than concerto’, this 13-minute work was written for the legendary Barry Tuckwell. A rich exploration of the horn’s many characters, from Mahlerian…

Dazzling and exquisite by equal measure, Ophelia Dances (1975) remains one of Oliver Knussen’s most performed works . Its composer has long been fascinated by Ophelia and states that here…

Oliver Knussen’s Variations for piano were composed in 1989 and premiered by Peter Serkin. Although they are concise - the twelve variations play for a little more than six minutes…

Study score

One of Oliver Knussen’s most celebrated works, the Violin Concerto, begins and ends with the same arresting sonority - a clangorous tubular-bell chord and a stratospheric high E…

O Hototogisu! is presented here as a typeset score with two facsimile pages from the composer's manuscript.

This exquisite 'fragment of a Japonisme' - premiered in 2017 and conceived as…