To that end, you can hear all his albums on iTunes now, or order the discs through his Web site, leronthomas.com; they range from the instrumental small-group jazz of "Around You," to the consolidated songcraft of "Juxtaposed," to the all-over-the-placeness of "Improvsensation" and the "Dirty Draws" series.
Musically, Britten matched his dramaturgy by examining old styles through a modern filter -- also harking back with his smaller instrumental forces to the more modest resources of 18th-century opera.
The conductor, Mary Greer, led this small instrumental ensemble and the New York Baroque Soloists, 12 members strong.
Soon original canzonas for organ, modelled on the transcriptions, and for small instrumental ensembles, were composed.
And on "Times Like These," the group drops a beat during the instrumental passages; this small surprise helps disguise a rather mundane song.
Mr. Rihm's instrumental forces are small here, but he reinforces his aggressiveness with extreme and sometimes ear-shattering highs and lows.
Among these, keyboard compositions predominate, but the canzone for unspecified instruments with basso continuo are of outstanding historical significance in the development of pieces for small instrumental ensembles.
The story of Josef K, who wakes up on his 30th birthday to find himself under arrest for an unspecified crime, has become a tight-knit work for eight singers and a small instrumental ensemble – the perfect touring show.
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"La Mer" is justly famous; "The Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" and the "Sacred and Profane Dances" are small instrumental miracles; but the "Images," with "Gigues" and "Spring Rounds" to go with "Iberia," represent perhaps Debussy's orchestral summa.
Frederic Wake-Walker's stagings follow traditional practice in having singers and members of the small instrumental ensembles wear hooded robes as they enter and leave in procession as well as encouraging familiar, stylized gestures.
