1983-2018
The works listed below are from the Schubert Ensemble’s Chamber Music 2000 project, which was set up in 1998 to provide challenging but accessible repertoire for young people and amateurs. The short works are scored for piano and single strings with works for every ability from grade 4 upwards. To buy scores and parts of the pieces, click on the titles below. Forty of these pieces can be heard performed by the Ensemble on two NMC recordings, a white room and Bright Future.
Chamber Music 2000 Commissions
The pieces have been graded according
to technical difficulty, from Level 1 (easiest)
to Level 5 (hardest).
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Barry, Gerald
Piano, violin, viola, cello, L4 (2')
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Beamish, Sally
Piano, violin, cello, L2 (1' 30")
Piano, violin, cello, L3 (2')
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Berkeley, Michael
Piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass L3 (2')
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Bingham, Judith
Piano, violin, viola (or violin 2), cello L2 (2' 30")
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Boyle, Rory
Piano, violin, viola, cello L4 (3' 30")
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Butler, Martin
Piano, violin, viola, cello L2 (3')
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Cashian, Philip
Piano, violin, viola, cello L4 (5')
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Copley, Peter
Miniature Overture
Piano, violin, viola, cello L4 (3')
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Cutler, Joe
Piano, 2 violins, viola, cello L5 (3' 30")
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Michael Finnissy
Bright Future Ignoring Dark Past
Piano, violin, cello L4 (3' 30")
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Firsova, Elena
Piano, violin, viola, cello L5 (6'-7')
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Fitkin, Graham
Piano, violin, viola (or violin 2), cello, double bass L3 (parts 2 & 4), L5+ (parts 1,3 & 5) (14')
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Gorb, Adam
Piano, 2 violins, cello L5 (3' 30")
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Hasse, Jean
Piano, violin, viola (or violin 2), cello L4 (3' 10")
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Hellawell, Piers
Piano, violin, viola (or violin 2), cello L4 (3')
Piano, 2 violins, cello L1 (2' 00")
Piano, violin, viola (or violin 2), cello L5 (2' 30")
Piano, violin, viola (or violin 2), cello L3 (1' 30")
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Hiscocks, Wendy
Kumas Dziesma (from Latvia)
Piano, violin, cello, L3 (3')
Piano, violin, cello, L4 (2' 40")
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Hughes, Ed
Piano, violin, viola, cello L4 (5')
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Knotts, David
Piano, violin, cello, L4 (2' 20")
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Leech, Owen
Piano, 2 violins, viola (or violin 3), cello L4 (5'-6')
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Le Fanu, Nicola
Piano, violin, viola, cello L3 (3' 30")
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Matthews, Colin
Piano, violin, cello, L2 (1' 30")
Piano, violin, cello, L3 (2')
Piano, violin, cello, L2 (1' 30")
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Matthews, David
Piano, violin, viola (or violin 2), cello L4 (2')
McDowell, Cecilia
Piano, 2 violins, viola, cello L3 (3' 20")
Montague, Stephen
The Hammer Hawk
Piano, violin, viola (or violin 2), cello, double bass L4 (8')
Novák, Pavel Zemek
The Year of the Bird
Piano, violin, viola (or violin 2), cello L4 (6'-7', 12 movements)
Panufnik, Roxanna
Piano, violin, viola, cello L3 (3')
Phibbs, Joe
Piano, violin, cello, L4 (4' 30", 3 pieces)
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Poole, Geoffrey
Piano, violin, cello, L3 (5')
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Pritchard, Alwynne
Barbara Allen: Fragments of a Lament
Piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass L4 (4')
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Runswick, Daryl
Piano, violin, viola (or violin 2), cello, double bass L2 (4' 30")
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Rushton, Edward
Piano, 2 violins, cello L4 (6')
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David Sawer
Piano, violin, cello, L2 (1' 30")
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Sculthorpe, Peter
Piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass L3 (5' 30")
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Skempton, Howard
Piano, violin, viola (or violin 2), cello L3 (1' 30")
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Steinhardt, Victor
Piano Quartet
Piano, violin viola, cello L5 (5')
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Stott, Rachel
Serendipity and Household Objects
Piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass L3 (3', 5 pieces)
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Warbeck, Stephen
Piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass L4 (3')
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Weir, Judith
Arise, arise!you slumbering sleepers
Piano, violin, viola, cello L4 (2' 30")
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Woolrich, John
Piano, violin, viola, cello L4 (4')
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