Julian Philips Chamber Works

ACTOR AND ENSEMBLE

 

Melodys of Earth and Sky (2024)

Suite for actor & chamber ensemble (10 players)

Duration: 45 minutes
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips

 

SOLO PIANO

 

Barcarola (2019)

(Commissioned for pianist Dominic Degavino)
Duration: 15 minutes
Contact: ‘Barcarola’ – Julian Philips

 

 

INSTRUMENTAL

 

A Series of Strange Encounters (2023)
For Marimba & Wind Quintet

Duration: 15 minutes
For hire/purchase
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips

Through Silence (2021)
for Oboe & String Quartet

(Commissioned by Wigmore Hall)
Duration: 25 minutes
For hire/purchase
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips

Melodys of Earth and Sky (2021)
for Clarinet & violin

A collection of creative transcriptions of folk melodies collected by poet John Clare
Duration: 2-50 minutes

 

Winter Music (2016)
for solo harp

(commissioned by the Tanza Trust for harpist Oliver Wass)
Duration: 10 minutes
Contact: ‘Winter Music’ – Julian Philips

Ricochets between (2010)
for clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola & piano

(commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall)
Duration: 12 minutes
For hire/purchase: ‘Ricochets Between’, Wise Music

EXPLORE

Score for Ricochets Between

Four Characters (2003)
for viola & piano

(commissioned by BBC Radio Three)
Duration: 12 minutes
For hire/purchase: ‘Four Characters’, Wise Music

Sextet (1999)
for wind quintet & piano

(commissioned by the Warwick & Leamington Festival)
Duration: 16 minutes
Contact: ‘Sextet’ – Julian Philips

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EXPLORE

Score for Sextet

 

VOICE & INSTRUMENTS

 

Cantos de Sonho (2013)
for soprano, tenor & piano trio

Poems by Alexander Search
(commissioned by the Ludlow English Song Weekend)
Duration: 35 minutes
For hire/purchase: “Cantos de Sonho’, Wise Music

Sweet Love Remembered (2005)
for baritone & string quartet

Poems by Amy Lowell, Amy Levy, Byron, May Swenson, James Merrill & Muriel Rukeyser
(commissioned by Sir Nicholas Goodison & Wigmore Hall)
Duration: 25 minutes
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips

Swift Partitions (2003)
for baritone & chamber ensemble

Poems by Emily Dickinson
Ensemble: fl/ob/clar/bsn, hn, string quartet & piano
Duration: 14 minutes
Contact: ‘Swift Partitions’ – Julian Philips

Love is more thicker than forget (1997)
for soprano, tenor & organ

Poem: Emily Dickinson
Duration: 3 minutes
For purchase: ‘Love is more thicker than forget’, Wise Music

Coronach (1995)
for mezzo-soprano & viola

Poem: Olive Fraser
Duration: 9 minutes
For purchase: ‘Coronach’, Wise Music