George Benjamin - Sleep! Sleep!
For solo organ 
Performed by Charles Maxtone-Smith

For more details and score: https://ram.ac.uk/multimedia/sleep-sleep

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As part of its Bicentenary celebrations, the Royal Academy of Music embarked on an ambitious project, inviting 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. The recordings and scores for these works, written for every principal study instrument taught at the Academy, are now available, creating a new library of varied contemporary works by many of the world’s leading composers.
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Sleep! Sleep!

Benjamin - Sleep! Sleep!

Darren Bloom - The Solar System does not play well-tempered
For solo bass clarinet
Performed by Leo Kerr

For more details and score: https://ram.ac.uk/multimedia/the-solar-system-does-not-play-well-tempered

About 200 PIECES:

As part of its Bicentenary celebrations, the Royal Academy of Music embarked on an ambitious project, inviting 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. The recordings and scores for these works, written for every principal study instrument taught at the Academy, are now available, creating a new library of varied contemporary works by many of the world’s leading composers.
ram.ac.uk/200-pieces

The Solar System does not play well-tempered

Bloom - The Solar System does not play well-tempered

Daniel Kidane - Sublime Light
For solo violin
Performed by Iona McDonald

For more details and score: https://ram.ac.uk/multimedia/sublime-light

About 200 PIECES:

As part of its Bicentenary celebrations, the Royal Academy of Music embarked on an ambitious project, inviting 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. The recordings and scores for these works, written for every principal study instrument taught at the Academy, are now available, creating a new library of varied contemporary works by many of the world’s leading composers.
ram.ac.uk/200-pieces

Sublime Light

Kidane - Sublime Light

Grace-Evangeline Mason - Whirl Up, Sea
For solo cello
Performed by Theo Bently Curtin

For more details and score: https://ram.ac.uk/multimedia/whirl-up-sea

About 200 PIECES:

As part of its Bicentenary celebrations, the Royal Academy of Music embarked on an ambitious project, inviting 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. The recordings and scores for these works, written for every principal study instrument taught at the Academy, are now available, creating a new library of varied contemporary works by many of the world’s leading composers.
ram.ac.uk/200-pieces

Whirl Up, Sea

Mason - Whirl Up, Sea

Bethan Morgan-Williams - Shivaree
For solo trumpet
Performed by Lucy Humphris

For more details and score: https://ram.ac.uk/multimedia/shivaree

About 200 PIECES:

As part of its Bicentenary celebrations, the Royal Academy of Music embarked on an ambitious project, inviting 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. The recordings and scores for these works, written for every principal study instrument taught at the Academy, are now available, creating a new library of varied contemporary works by many of the world’s leading composers.
ram.ac.uk/200-pieces

Shivaree

Morgan-Williams - Shivaree

Yshani Perinpanayagam - I Am More Than
For solo flute
Performed by Sofiia Matviienko

For more details and score: https://www.ram.ac.uk/multimedia/i-am-more-than

About 200 PIECES:

As part of its Bicentenary celebrations, the Royal Academy of Music embarked on an ambitious project, inviting 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. The recordings and scores for these works, written for every principal study instrument taught at the Academy, are now available, creating a new library of varied contemporary works by many of the world’s leading composers.
ram.ac.uk/200-pieces

I Am More Than

Perinpanayagam - I Am More Than

Joseph Phibbs - Moto Perpetuo
For solo clarinet
Performed by Wladyslaw Lech

For more details and score: https://www.ram.ac.uk/multimedia/moto-perpetuo

About 200 PIECES:

As part of its Bicentenary celebrations, the Royal Academy of Music embarked on an ambitious project, inviting 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. The recordings and scores for these works, written for every principal study instrument taught at the Academy, are now available, creating a new library of varied contemporary works by many of the world’s leading composers.
ram.ac.uk/200-pieces

Moto Perpetuo

Phibbs - Moto Perpetuo

Tansy Davies - Proem
For solo cello
Performed by Ho Man Fong Jonathan

For more details and score: www.ram.ac.uk/multimedia/proem

About 200 PIECES:

As part of its Bicentenary celebrations, the Royal Academy of Music embarked on an ambitious project, inviting 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. The recordings and scores for these works, written for every principal study instrument taught at the Academy, are now available, creating a new library of varied contemporary works by many of the world’s leading composers.
ram.ac.uk/200-pieces

Proem

Davies - Proem

Helen Grime - Remnant
For solo trumpet
Performed by Eliza Talman

For more details and score: https://www.ram.ac.uk/multimedia/remnant

About 200 PIECES:

As part of its Bicentenary celebrations, the Royal Academy of Music embarked on an ambitious project, inviting 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. The recordings and scores for these works, written for every principal study instrument taught at the Academy, are now available, creating a new library of varied contemporary works by many of the world’s leading composers.
ram.ac.uk/200-pieces

Remnant

Grime - Remnant

Hollie Harding - Summertide
For solo harp
Performed by Mared Pugh-Evans

For more details and score: https://ram.ac.uk/multimedia/summertide

About 200 PIECES:

As part of its Bicentenary celebrations, the Royal Academy of Music embarked on an ambitious project, inviting 200 composers to write 200 new works for solo instrument or voice. The recordings and scores for these works, written for every principal study instrument taught at the Academy, are now available, creating a new library of varied contemporary works by many of the world’s leading composers.
ram.ac.uk/200-pieces

Summertide

Harding - Summertide

written as part of BBC National Orchestra of Wales Composition: Wales 2016

'songs from the stars' was inspired by the Philae spacecraft that formed part of the Rossetta mission in 2014. It is based upon transcriptions of the sun, solar flares, a radio storm between Jupiter and Io and stardust and is inspired by spectralist techniques. The first of four movements, the piece follows a satellite lost in space, similar to when Philae was thought to be out of operation. Exploring the loneliness of space the first movement takes a panoramic view of space, slowly introducing each transcription throughout the orchestra, culminating into a cacophony of sound before slowly dying away.

© Carol J Jones 2021

songs from the stars (2016) [excerpt]

Composer 

Carol J Jones is a composer of contemporary classical music, writing chamber, orchestral and vocal music. Informed by scientific methods, her work deconstructs sounds to create bold, layered compositions. Her work focuses on highlighting our changing understanding of the natural world as well as lesser-heard female stories.

songs from the stars (2016) [excerpt]

Carol J Jones

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