Commission List 2009 2005 Michael Zev Gordon The Impermanence of Things William Attwood Iwwer Tiermen Dominic Muldowney Songs of the Zeitgeist Harrison Birtwistle Neruda Madrigales** James Saunders either/or BTP Unsuk Chin Cantatrix Sopranica CC John Woolrich cc Between the Hammer and the Sam Hayden Relative Autonomy CC Anvil David Lang / Peter Writing on Water L 2008 Greenaway Thomas Adès In Seven Days Piano Concerto with Moving Image ## 2004 Django Bates The Corncrake Plays the Gavin Bryars From Egil’s Saga Bagpipes SS Elliott Carter Dialogues Harrison Birtwistle The Message SS Ben Foskett Violin Concerto Mira Calix Ort-oard SS Dai Fujikura Fifth Station Philip Cashian Opening of the House KPMF Jonathan Harvey Two Interludes for an Opera Tansy Davies Hinterland ** Brian Herrington Symphonia Larry Goves Springtime Silvina Milstein Tigres Azules David Lang lend/lease SS Thomas Larcher Die Nacht der Verlorenen## 2003 Christian Mason In Time Entwined, In Space Harrison Birtwistle Theseus Game CC ** Enlaced Alexander Goehr Marching to Carcassonne ** Anna Meredith Lylat SS Stuart MacRae Interact CC Silvina Milstein surrounded by distance ACEST Peter Wiegold the great wheel Claudia Molitor Untitled 40 [desk-life] Judith Weir Tiger Under the Table Alexander Nowak Quantemporette KMA Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky Notturno Nigel Osborne Rock Music CC Karin Rehnqvist Embrace Me 2002 SS John Woolrich Fragment Louis Andriessen La Passione ** Julian Anderson Quasi una Passacaglia L 2007 Louis Andriessen Very Sharp Trumpet Concerto L Simon Bainbridge Music Space Reflection – George Benjamin Olicantus L Manchester Elliott Carter Au Quai L Harrison Birtwistle Cortege ## Alexander Goehr Only two notes for olly (the other Richard Causton Phoenix five for later) L Heiner Goebbels Songs of Wars I Have Seen ### Detlev Glanert Dancing Landscapes L Simon Holt Sueños ## L BTP Magnus Lindberg Bubo Bubo Anna Meredith flak L CC Colin Matthews Flourish, with fireflies Anthony Payne Windows of Eternity L BMS Augusta Read Thomas Light the First Light of Evening Tazul Tajuddin Warna Yang Bernada L Mark-Anthony Turnage Snapshots Mark-Anthony Turnage About Water ## Charles Wuorinen Fifty Fifty L Ian Vine ocre oscuro (BTP) Robert Zuidam I suppose a fugue is out of the Scott Walker And Who Shall Go to the Ball ## question? L Peter Maxwell Davies Crossing Kings Reach MM 2006 Paul Clay either total Luke Bedford Or Voit Tout En Aventure (BTP) Jonathan Cole Assassin Hair Philip Cashian Piano Concerto Bryn Harrison four cycles (BTP) John Croft Siramour Kenneth Hesketh Detail from the Record ∞ Dai Fujikura Blue Sky Falling Michael Nyman/Hanif I was a Total Virgin § Detlev Glanert Secret Room Kureishi David Gorton Oblique Prayers Steve Reich Variations for Vibes, Pianos and Strings ¤ Emily Hall Sante ¥ 2001 Gerald Barry God Save the Queen # 1995 Luke Bedford Five Abstracts Simon Bainbridge Landscapes and Memory Mary Bellamy Earth and sky reflect each other Steve Reich City Life ** HK Gruber Zeitfluren** Morgan Hayes Tracery Balustrades 1994 Alfred Schnittke Fragment Thomas Adès Living Toys Joby Talbot minus 1500 Julian Anderson Khorovod Fraser Trainer The Colour of Scars Anders Nordentoft City of Threads Mark-Anthony Turnage Dark Crossing ** Paul Whitty if/it/is/i/change/can/could/crowd 1993 Peter Wiegold Farewells take place in silence George Benjamin A tribute to Olivier Messiaen † Charles Wuorinen Cyclops (2000) Robert Saxton Psalm – A Song of Ascents 2000 1992 Julian Anderson Alhambra Fantasy James MacMillan Sinfonietta William Attwood Tourbillons Benedict Mason ! Jonathan Cole Ouroboros Colin Matthews Contraflow Tansy Davies Torsion Nicholas Maw Shahnama Joe Duddell Alberti Addict Dmitri Smirnov The River of Life Bryn Harrison Time and Intervention Michael Torke Monday and Tuesday Sir John Tavener In One Single Moment 1991 1999 Hans-Jürgen von Bose Scene Simon Bainbridge Towards the Bridge ** Hans Werner Henze Requiem/5 Geistliche Konzerte Richard Rodney Bennett Rondel ** Detlev Müller-Siemens Tom-a-Bedlam * Gavin Bryars When Harry met Addie ** Dmitri Smirnov Jacob's Ladder ** Gérard Grisey Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil‡ Nikki Iles A Gentle Prayer ** 1990 Harrison Birtwistle Ritual Fragment Rachel Leach Another Junk Shop Martin Butler Jazz Machines Poul Ruders Sophisticated-Caravan-Solitude ** Geoffrey King Magritte Weather Edward Rushton Cheap Drinks Magnus Lindberg Marea † Esa-Pekka Salonen Five Images after Sappho** Jonathan Lloyd Revelation * Karen Smith Within the Walls Bent Sørenson Shadowland Ian Vine Three black moons Pawel Szymanski quasi una sinfonietta Marc Yeats Tightropes of the Mind 1989 1998 Rupert Bawden Dramatic Cantata Oscar Bettison Hang Louche (Legend of Apollo & Daphne) Rachel Leach The Concrete Explosion Elena Firsova Chamber Concerto No.4 Peter Lieberson Free and Easy Wanderer ** John Lunn Violin Concerto 1988 Stuart MacRae Into Light Hans Abrahamsen Lied in the Fall Joseph Phibbs Cayuga Harrison Birtwistle Four Songs of Autumn Toshiro Saruya Flair of the Seeds Robin Holloway Double Concerto Huw Watkins Finale Simon Holt Ballad of the Black Sorrow Thomas Adès Concerto Conciso ** Jo Kondo Res Sonorae Django Bates Some More Upsets Nigel Osborne Stone Garden Alexander Goehr Idées Fixes Toru Takemitsu Tree Line Fraser Trainer Motion Pictures Iannis Xenakis Waarg 1997 1986 David Sawer Tiroirs ** Richard Rodney Bennett Dream Dancing Fraser Trainer True to Life James Dillon Überschreiten Iannis Xenakis O-Mega ** Dominic Muldowney Sinfonietta Nigel Osborne Hell's Angels ** 1996 Michael Rosensweig Sinfonietta John Adams Gnarly Buttons ** Robert Saxton The Circles of Light Harrison Birtwistle Bach Measures Mark-Anthony Turnage On all fours Harrison Birtwistle Slow Frieze Magnus Lindberg Engine 1985 1977 Hans Abrahamsen Märchenbilder Harrison Birtwistle Silbury Air Simon Bainbridge A Cappella * Peter Maxwell Davies A Mirror of Whitening Light Peter Maxwell Davies First Ferry to Hoy Anthony Gilbert Crow Cry Steve Martland American Invention Dominic Muldowney Three-part Motet Colin Matthews Suns Dance Paul Patterson Cracowian Counterparts Nigel Osborne Zansa Poul Ruders Four Dances in One Movement 1976 Iannis Xenakis Thallein Alexander Goehr Lyric Pieces Iain Hamilton The Alexandrian Sequence 1984 Robin Holloway Concertino No.3 Harrison Birtwistle Secret Theatre (Homage to Weill) Harrison Birtwistle Songs by Myself † Thea Musgrave Space Play Jonathan Lloyd Mass for Six Voices * Iannis Xenakis Phlegra Dominic Muldowney Saxophone Concerto 1975 1983 Gilbert Amy Seven Sites Simon Bainbridge Concertante in moto perpetuo Luciano Berio Chemins IV Martin Butler Concertino Michael Finnissy World Simon Holt Kites Robin Holloway Sea Surface Full of Clouds Witold Lutoslawski Chain I † Mark-Anthony Turnage After Dark Wolfgang Rihm Silence to be Beaten 1974 Martin Dalby El Ramanso del Pitido 1982 Hans Werner Henze Voices † George Benjamin At First Light Elliott Carter In Sleep, In Thunder 1973 Brian Ferneyhough Carceri d'Invenzione I Earle Brown Centering Michael Finnissy Kelir * Alexander Goehr Behold the Sun 1972 Hans Werner Henze Le Miracle de la Rose Elisabeth Lutyens The Tears of Night Nigel Osborne Choralis I, II, III * John Tavener Canciones Españolas Toru Takemitsu Rain Coming 1971 1981 Harrison Birtwistle Meridian Jonathan Lloyd Waiting for Gozo Harrison Birtwistle Prologue ** Detlev Müller-Siemens Under Neon Light Justin Connolly Obbligati III Iain Hamilton Voyage 1980 Henri Lazarof Textures Satie arr. Birtwistle Mercure – Poses plastiques Hugh Wood Chamber Concerto Neely Bruce Perfumes & Meanings* Brian Chapple Venus Fly Trap 1970 Michael Finnissy alongside Don Banks Meeting Place Robin Holloway Aria Richard Rodney Bennett Jazz Pastoral 1979 1969 Oliver Knussen Coursing Harrison Birtwistle Verses for Ensembles Nigel Osborne In Camera Roger Smalley Pulses for 4 x 5 players Aribert Reimann Invenzioni for 12 players John Tavener A Celtic Requiem 1978 1968 Harrison Birtwistle Carmen Arcadiae David Bedford Pentomino Mechanicae Perpetuum Hans-Jürgen von Bose Travesties in a Sad Landscape Martin Dalby Aleph John Tavener Kyklike Kinesis Key CC With the support of the London ‡ Commissioned for the # Commissioned by the Sinfonietta Commissioning Circle London Sinfonietta by Royal Festival Hall as part BBC Sounding the Century. of its 50th birthday celebrations. * London Sinfonietta Voices Commission L London Sinfonietta/Royal MM Commissioned by Arup Festival Hall co-commissions: to mark the completion of the ** Joint commission gifts to Oliver Knussen on the London Millennium Bridge. occasion of his 50th birthday. † Gift from the composer ¤ Commissioned by ECHO for the ∞ Commissioned by the Michael London Sinfonietta BTP Commissioned through the Vyner Trust for the London Sinfonietta London Sinfonietta’s Blue Touch § Commissioned for the London Paper scheme. ¥ Commissioned by the Genesis Opera Sinfonietta by FuseLeeds 2006 Project for the London Sinfonietta and Aldeburgh Productions Ltd BMS Commissioned by the British ## Commissioned by Southbank Centre ### Commissioned by Southbank Malaysian Society to be premiered by for the London Sinfonietta Centre for the London Sinfonietta the London Sinfonietta and the OAE ACEST Commissioned by ACE Study L Creative collaboration with Lloyd’s SS ‘Sinfonietta Shorts’ Tours to be premiered by the London Commissioned for London Sinfonietta Sinfonietta 40th Anniversary KMA Commissioned for the London Sinfonietta by Krakow Music Academy KPMF Co-commission between Kings Place Music Foundation and the London Sinfonietta .