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Higglety Pigglety Pop! is the second of Knussen's two extraordinary fantasy operas created in collaboration with the acclaimed author Maurice Sendak. It was composed between 1984--5 but finding its final form after a number of substantial revisions in 1999. The opera, subtitled There Must be More to Life, " is the story of a well-fed Sealyham terrier, Jennie, who escapes boredom to become prima donna of the Mother Goose World Theatre. Brimming...

This exquisite fragment of a Japonisme"---premiered in 2017 and conceived as a kind of double concerto for soprano, flute, and ensemble of 23 players---O Hototogisu! has proven to be Oliver Knussen's final work. The eight-minute piece couches seven exquisite haiku settings in richly evocative music, which incorporates signals from Japanese theater (particularly Kabuki). It concerns the Hototogisu (or Lesser Cuckoo), a bird widely invoked in Ja...

Ophelia's Last Dance for piano solo was commissioned by the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival and was first performed by the 2010 Gilmore Artist Kirill Gerstein on 3rd May 2010 at the Chenery Auditorium, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.

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The three frammenti, whose text consists solely of the word chiara sung in a variety of languages depict St Clare being wafted to church by Angels.

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Titles: Idol * Gravity * Imaginary Life * Gong

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Knussens wastes not a note, and though the work lasts only for seven minutes, its density of thought suggests something of sonata structure. - Paul Griffiths, Musical Times, January 1981

Composer's note: The 12th-century organa of the Notre Dame school (most notably those of Pérotin) employ plainchant as the slow foundation for rapid, ecstatic, dance-like melismata. In June 1994 I used this technique to write a very short piece for a Dutch project involving a two-octave musical box using only white notes. I dedicated the resulting 'Notre Dame des Jouets' to Peter Maxwell Davies on his 60th birthday and orchestrated it some mon...

Titles: When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer * A Noiseless Patient * Spider * The Dalliance of the Eagles * The Voice of the Rain

Titles: When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer * A Noiseless Patient * Spider * The Dalliance of the Eagles * The Voice of the Rain

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Titles: An die Schwester * Nahe des todes * Amen

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An engaging solo piano work by Oliver Knussen that draws the listener into its hazy texture and present fleeting moments of tension and release that make for compelling if nonspecific narrative.

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Oliver Knussen wrote this requiem entitled Songs for Sue, a setting of four poems for soprano and 15-piece ensemble, as a memorial tribute to his late wife. The music received its world première in Chicago in 2006. Instrumentation: >The score is notated in C.

The piano score and solo part to Oliver Knussen's Horn Concerto Op. 28. Piano reduction by Lionel Friend.