Christus Resurgens (from 'Umbrations') - Sheet Music for Brian Ferneyhough

The full score and parts to Christus Resurgens (from 'Umbrations'), composed by Brian Ferneyhough for double bass and string quartet in digital sheet music format [EP73026].

After examining viol consort pieces by several composers I settled on Christopher Tye's remarkable array of stylistically homogenous works, as ideal for my project, since I had quite soon determined that the realization of my vision implied the availability of a more substantial body of work than the initial request for a short 'occasional' piece might have been thought to require. At that early stage I did not consider assembling the results of my encounter into a larger scale multi-movement work: the coming together of various stages of exposure to the compositional challenges involved, spread as they were over more than ten years of sporadic focus, should not, therefore, be understood as a definitive, formally balanced 'cycle' but rather as an almost open-ended collection of encounters the order of which was not determined by date of composition but by considerations of instrumentation and degrees of affinity or contrast.

Brian Ferneyhough