The Music of John Hawkes

 

Audio Files

A number of audio files of my compositions are available for viewing and playing provided you have either the Sibelius Scorch plug-in browser (SIB files) or the Noteworthy plug-in browser installed (NWC files). Unfortunately the latter plug-in will not work with versions of Internet Explorer later than 5.5. The sound quality you hear will, of course, be dependent on your sound card. It should be noted that although the quality of the score presentations are better using Sibelius files, Noteworthy files are smaller and hence they download more quickly.

In addition  some pieces can be listened to as 'Streaming Audio files' (SA), these are excerpts from recordings of real life performances.

Noteworthy Sibelius SA
Orchestral Pieces
Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra 1st Mov.    
A Northumbrian Prelude (excerpt)    
Concerto Movement for Violin, Viola and Orchestra NWC    
Horn Concerto 1st Mov. NWC SIB  
Chamber/Instrumental Music (excluding recorder music)
Wind Quintet: 2nd Mov   SIB  
Six Pieces for Piano: movs 4,5&6 NWC  
String Quartet no 1 ('Landscapes')    
Sonatina no 2 for Clarinet and Piano.    
'Bright Hair Falling' (piano trio)    
'Encircling the Square' (sop., instr. ensemble)    
3 Songs of Death (Sop, clar., cello)    
String Quartet no 2 ('On High Ground'),excerpt    
Toeing the Line (4 inst. lines, pno, perc.)    
Bifurcations (Instrumental ensemble) NWC SIB  
Aurora Borealis II (Brass Quintet) NWC SIB  
In the background (percussion ensemble)    
Perpetual Night (cl., vln, vlc., perc.)    
'Prelude' for Windband    
'Dreaming and Singing (vln, cl., pno)    
'Echoes (Alto sax, vln, vlc, pno)    
Recorder Music
Sonata for Recorder and Violin: 2nd Mov. NWC SIB  
Sonata for two Alto Recorders: 3rd Mov. NWC    
Miniature Suite: 1st mov. NWC SIB  
Dance Suite: (Played by Blokkfløytistene Uranienborg)    
Recorder Quartet no 2: 1st Mov. NWC SIB  
Recorder Quartet no 3: 2nd Mov. NWC SIB  
Recorder Quartet no 4: 3rd Mov. NWC SIB  
Recorder Quartet no 5: 1st Mov. NWC SIB  
Recorder Quintet NWC SIB  
Recorder Septet: 1st Mov. NWC SIB  
Symphony for Recorders: 1st Mov. NWC SIB  
Prelude for Recorder orchestra    
Geodesic (excerpt)