For mixed choir (SSATTBBarB) with soloists.

'This piece for solo harpsichord (1995, duration 10 minutes) was commissioned by Maggie Cole. '... I have offered many options with ornamentation, suggesting some, writing out others completely, but also encouraging the player to use their invention and instincts to add others where not specified and generally to adopt an open approach to the piece.'

Saxophone quartet.

This organ chorale is a setting of the opening chorus of Bryars' second opera Doctor Ox's Experiment.

Soprano and organ.

I. Prelude: The Roman Ending; II. The Venetian Beginning; III. First Intermezzo; IV. Second Intermezzo; V. The Corinthian Middle

For Double Bass and Piano Reduction, with optional bass chorus.

These Madrigals were written especially for the Hilliard Ensemble with who Gavin Bryars has worked for many years. The texts are by the poet and writer Blake Morrison.

Soprano sax and piano.

Alto voice and string trio.

Viol consort and lute.

Recorder, clarinet in B flat, piano, vibraphone, violin, double bass.

I did not want to write a virtuoso show-piece, but rather to draw on the orchestra's alertness as an ensemble. The solo part is essentially lyrical and there is no cadenza as such. But I was also conscious of the fact that, as with a baroque concerto, the soloist may also direct the work and does so here." (G. Bryars)

String Quartet No. 1 ('Between the National and the Bristol') was commissioned by the Vienna Festival for the Arditti Quartet to perform in October 1985. '... a great deal of the music is in the high register, most notably towards the end where each instrument de-tunes a pair of strings and thereafter plays only in harmonics, both natural and artificial.'

String Quartet No. 2 was written in 1990 commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival and the Balanescu Quartet. 'This second quartet is a more relaxed, easy-going piece than the first.

Soprano and ensemble.

Solo violin and ensemble.

For 21 solo strings. "Commissioned by the Primavera Orchestra, and designed for the orchestra's string formation, this short work for strings alone originates in a 13 bar musical theme by Wagner which appears to have been started during the period when he was composing the second act of Tristan und Isolde and finished shortly after the completion of Parsifal in Palermo.

9 clarinets.