Boosey & Hawkes: Hits of the Noughties
(February 2010)
Boosey & Hawkes: Hits of the NoughtiesReviewing a decade of Boosey & Hawkes works composed between 2000 and 2009, the most popular – in terms of number of performances – illustrate the range of the catalogue, from orchestral and opera, to choral and band.
311 performances
Karl Jenkins: Requiem (2004)
for chorus and orchestra
97 performances
Christopher Rouse: Rapture (2000)
for orchestra
83 performances
Detlev Glanert: Jest, Satire, Irony and Deeper Meaning (2000)
comic opera
80 performances
Detlev Glanert: The Three Riddles (2003)
opera in two acts
72 performances
John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur (2003)
for electric violin and orchestra
70 performances
Elliott Carter: Dialogues (2003)
for piano and large ensemble
67 performances
Magnus Lindberg: Gran Duo (2000)
for woodwind and brass
62 performances
Michael Daugherty: Raise the Roof (2003)
for timpani and symphonic band (or orchestra)
59 performances
James MacMillan: O Bone Jesu (2002)
for chorus a cappella
57 performances
Karl Jenkins: Stabat Mater (2007)
for contralto, chorus and orchestra
Leading the Top 10 count is Requiem by Karl Jenkins, which also heads the choral field together with his more recent Stabat Mater and MacMillan works including O Bone Jesu toured extensively by The Sixteen. The most performed new B&H orchestral work of the decade is Rouse’s Rapture which has proved attractive to orchestral programmers in the concert-opener slot. Opera is headed by Glanert with his Biedermeyer comedy Jest, Satire, Irony and Deeper Meaning and his youth opera The Three Riddles widely performed in Germany and abroad. Most popular concertos are Adams’s The Dharma at Big Sur and Carter’s Dialogues performed internationally in the composer’s centenary year. Works for wind and brass completing the top ten are Lindberg’s Gran Duo in the orchestral sphere, and Daugherty’s Raise the Roof in the symphonic band category.
Snapping at the heels of the Top 10, with over 40 performances, are a number of additional Adams works including On the Transmigration of Souls and the opera Doctor Atomic, two concertos by Lindberg for clarinet and violin, Reich’s Cello Counterpoint, Glanert’s orchestration of Brahms’s Four Serious Songs, and a collection of works by Brett Dean.
If you are yet to discover any of these chart-topping works or composers please email composers.uk@boosey.com.
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