Brian Ferneyhough - Selected Works

Selected Works

Some works at Sound and Music include score samples

• Sonatas for String Quartet (1967)
• Time and Motion Study I for solo bass clarinet (1971-77)
• Transit for solo voices and ensemble (1972-75)
• Time and Motion Study II for singing cellist and live electronics (1973-76)
• Time and Motion Study III for sixteen solo voices (3S, Mez, 4A, 4T, 2Bar, 2B), percussion and electronics (1974)
• La Terre est un Homme for orchestra (1979)
• Second String Quartet (1980)
• Lemma-Icon-Epigram for solo piano (1982)
• Etudes Transcendantales (1985)
• Carceri d'Invenzione I for fl,ob,2cl,bn, hn,tpt,trb,euphonium, 1perc, pf, 2vn,va,vc,db (1982) (analysis, score sample)
  (inspired by the "Carceri d'Invenzione by Giambattista Piranesi).
• Third String Quartet (1987)
• La Chute d’Icare for solo clarinet and chamber ensemble (1988)
• Kurze Schatten II for solo guitar (1989) (essay, analysis, analysis, score sample)
• Trittico per G.S. for solo double bass (1989)
• Fourth String Quartet (1989-90)
• Bone Alphabet for solo percussion (1991) (score sample)
• Allgebrah for oboe and 9 solo strings (1996) (score sample)
• Incipits for solo viola, obbligato percussion and six instruments (1996)
• Unsichtbare Farben for violin (1999) (score sample)
• The Doctrine of Similarity for chorus (SATB), 3 clarinets, violin, piano and percussion (2000) (score sample)
• Shadowtime (1999–2004), premiered at the Munich Biennale
• String Quartet No.5 (2006)
• Plötzlichkeit for large orchestra (2006)
• Chronos-Aion for large ensemble (2007–8)
• Dum transisset I–IV for string quartet (2007)
• Exordium for string quartet (2008)
• Renvoi/Shards for quarter-tone guitar and vibraphone (2008)
• String Quartet No.6 (2010)
• Liber Scintillarum for 6 instruments (2012)