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for string orchestra

Cradle Song

2001
3 minutes
Soprano, or mezzo, or chorus SATB (or SA) and strings with harp (minimum 22221)


Adaptation of original piece for unaccompanied choir SATB from "Cohen's Carols"

Premièred by City of Oxford Orchestra and choir/Jacques Cohen
Score and Orchestral parts available from Norsk Musikforlag

Leontovich: Carol of the Bells

2020
2 minutes
strings with harp (minimum 44221)


Premièred by Cohen Ensemble/Jacques Cohen
Score and Orchestral parts available from Norsk Musikforlag

Debussy: Two Winter Preludes (Snowflakes are Dancing & Footprints in the Snow)

2020
7 minutes (3,4)
strings with harp (minimum 44221)


The 2 Preludes can be performed together or separately
Premièred by Cohen Ensemble/Jacques Cohen
Score and Orchestral parts available from Norsk Musikforlag

For Angel

2018
8 minutes
for Strings 64442 (Principal 2nd Violin plays offstage and his seat remains empty throughout)


Written in memory of David Angel. First performed by the Cohen Ensemble conducted by the composer at the Southbank Centre on 17th May 2018

Beginnings & Endings

2018
4 minutes
for Strings 64442


First performed by the Cohen Ensemble conducted by the composer at the Southbank Centre on 17th May 2018

Firefly

2017
4 minutes
for Xylophone and Strings


First performed by Dame Evelyn Glennie with the Cohen Ensemble conducted by the composer at the Apex, Bury-St-Edmunds on 28th September 2017

Prelude 49

2014
7 minutes
for vibraphone and strings


First performance given at Baltais Fligelis, Sigulda, Latvia by Andrei Pushkarev and Kremerata Baltica conducted by Jacques Cohen.   UK premiere given by Dame Evelyn Glennie at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London with the Isis Ensemble conducted by Jacques Cohen

Score and parts available from Norsk Musikforlag

Listen to extract on the audio page

Love Journeys

2014
20 minutes
for soprano and strings (minimum 64442)
in 8 movements


First performance given at Southbank Centre by Marie Vassiliou and Isis Ensemble conducted by Jacques Cohen

Score and parts available from Norsk Musikforlag

Listen to extract on the audio page

Carsington Water

2012
5 minutes
Strings


Comissioned by Rachel Bolton and performed by Equinox and Isis Ensemble

Rachmaninov: Prelude Opus 3, No.2

2012
4 minutes
Strings


632 isis bookletsmlPremièred by Isis Ensemble/Jacques Cohen.
Also performed by Sofia Soloists/ Plamen Djurov


Recorded on Transcriptions for Strings
CD on Meridian

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

2009
35 minutes
strings (minimum 64442)


632 isis bookletsmlPremièred by Isis Ensemble/Jacques Cohen
Score and Orchestral parts available from Norsk Musikforlag

Performed by numerous orchestras and extensively toured by Kremerata Baltica

Score and parts available from Norsk Musikforlag

Recorded on Transcriptions for Strings CD on Meridian

Brahms: First Clarinet Sonata

2008
Arrangement for solo clarinet and strings


632 isis bookletsmlPremièred by Isis Ensemble/Jacques Cohen with Sarah Williamson and performed subsequently with Anna Hashimoto

Score and parts available from Norsk Musikforlag

Recorded on Transcriptions for Strings CD on Meridian

Yigdal

2006
15 minutes
Fantasia on a Traditional Jewish Theme for Strings


561_isis1st Performance by Isis Ensemble/Jacques Cohen, further performances by Sofia Soloists, Yehudi Menuhin Orchestra (on tour) and Hertfordhire Chamber Orchestra

Score and parts available from Norsk Musikforlag

Recorded on Music for Strings CD on Meridian

Listen to extract on the audio page

Fantasias, Canons and Fugues

1995
20 minutes
Strings 86442


1st performance in live broadcast by Bucharest Radio Chamber Orchestra, Romania and subsequently by the Isis Ensemble, and Oxford String Orchestra

Tuba Concerto

1989-2015
8 minutes
Tuba, Strings


Commissioned by Oren Marshall.
1st Performance, Oxford String Orchestra/Jacques Cohen.

Score and Orchestral parts available from Norsk Musikforlag

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