Album: MUSIC for BOSCH PEOPLE

Discography
Educator
Calender
Art

Music for Concerts
Music for Operas (also music-theatre & vocal)
Music for Jazz & Improvisation
Music for Film & Theatre
Music for Children
Orchestrations & Arrangements




”Turbulent and joyful...surfing on the crest of this exuberance is an extraordinary experience" – The Wire




Spit Crystal Yeast-Rack Dripping (à l’Orange) (20 mins)

Meany (8 mins)
flute, Clarinet trumpet Keys jazz drums, Violin, Cello
Jazz Vox, Jazz soloist

Shrimpbit Baby-Face (20 mins)
1.0.1.0 0.1.1.0 1 perc keys 1.0.1.1.1

ILOLLIPOP (25 mins)
Solo Trombone improviser and
Ensemble Modern
Alex Paxton’s Ilollipop. Ensemble Modern. Photo: Walter Vorjohann

Candyfolk Space-Drum (30mins)

flute, clarinet, trumpet, 2 keys, violin
Jazz Drum Kit
improvising soloist
Children’s Chorus

“Paxton had the polymorphous, day-glo chaos of a TikTok stream; the kids were trusted with a lot and seemed to have a blast.” Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Sout Bank Centre

SOMTIMES VOICES (10 mins)
Keyboards and drum kit

Levels of Affection
Chamber Orchestra + improvising soloist
1.1.1.0 0.1.0.0 Perc. 2Pno 1.1.1.1.1

Philharmonia Orchestra

OD ODY PINK’d (10 mins)
Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Musician.(2.2.2.2 4.2.3.1 T+2Perc Hp Strings 12.10.8.6.4 + soloist)

Recorded by Purple-Tree Tapstry Orchestra

“The turbulent and joyful spirit of his music bubbles up irrepressibly in his trombone playing, and courses torrentially though his flamboyantly unpredictable compositions.”  The Wire

MUSIC for BOSCH PEOPLE (16 mins
(2sax. 2trb. kit. 2 Egtr. + electronics)

Sweet Wishes (4 mins)
Small Orchestra

CarPig (8mins)
Solo Keyboard



Just-Gum Friends (12 mins)
Harpsichord and Percussion

DADD’s FAIRIES (5mins)
London Symphony Orchestra
Picc, Oboe, 3 Violins







Music for Bosch People
Birmingham Record company and NMC label


PURLPLE TREE TAPESTRY (12 mins)
for 11 players (sopsax.altosax.2trbs.synths.kit.ct.vln.vc)


TELLSONG (When I see a Disney Movie I am moved to salty tears) (5mins)
sopranino recorder

IlOLLI-Pop (25 mins)

(1.1.1.1 1.1.0 2perc.2Pno 2.1.2.1  improvising soloist)

Alex Paxton performing Lolli-Pop with Ensemble Modern
conducted by Enno Poppe

IN the DARKNESS
(sopsax.trb.kit.Egtr. + electronics)

Alex Paxton’s Dream Musics - studio recording.David Ingermells, Felix Josza, David Zucchi, Alex Paxton, Harriet Burns.
PRAYER. LIKE in HOT PINK
(barisax. trb. kit. Egtr. + electronics)

Alex Paxton’s Dream Musics - studio recording.David Ingermells, Felix Josza, David Zucchi, Alex Paxton,


premiered by Tabea Debus and Listenpony

LIKE I KNOW
(barisax.trb.kit.Egtr. + electronics)

Alex Paxton’s Dream Musics - studio recording.David Ingermells, Felix Josza, David Zucchi, Alex Paxton.

NIGHT PICTURES
(sopsax.trb.kit.Egtr. + electronics)
Alex Paxton’s Dream Musics - studio recording.David Ingermells, Felix Josza, David Zucchi, Alex Paxton, Alyson Frazier, Emma Purslow.


BYE (10 mins)
For wind, brass and improvisers. (flt.cl.bcl.altosax.tnrsax.2trbs.epno)Alto Flute, Clarinets, Saxophones, Trombones, Wurlitza
Taylor Maclennan, Lloyd Coleman, David Zucchi, Alex Paxton


PRAYER with Night Pictures (3 mins)
(picc.sopsax.trb.kit.sop.Egtr. + electronics)

Alex Paxton with Ensemble X.Y
live at Kammer Klang, Cafe Oto


Recording OD ODY PINK’d. Alex Paxton with the Royal Scotish National Orchestra (RSNO)
FOOL in the RAIN (25 mins)
Song cycle. For Ensemble X.Y SONG
excerpts EVERY DAY
Vocal Ensemble and Rhythm-section version.


VII. RAINY RAIN RAIN - 6 singers and piano


um...well...so what happened was…I left her and let the silhouette of coldkettle and cigarette regret the bowl of alphabetti spaghetti (microwaved merely for mother and formality) HESITATE before collecting my clear set plastic-bag-pound-shop-polythingime-jacket, kept for the inevitable onset of precipitation, and ran with it! racing towards my expecting-spectating lover excitedly excreting perspiration. O HOW EXHILARATING not to fret or forget but CELEBRATE the sensual secreting of sweet freshly flesh sweating redolence, that at first lay low kept abated by slow biology yet only delayed by later bacterial changes when you bet once warm inside without warning it leapt and let out a mighty cry of “RAINY RAIN SMELLS!”

III. BLOW BLOW BLOW - SATB




BACCHII (4 mins)
for Clarinet, horn, violin, cello

FOR the LOVE of THORSTEIN SHIVER (25 mins) opera
S.S.M-S.T.B
(flt.cl.vln.vla.vc)
Premiered in conjunction with English National Opera and Helios Opera Collective. more details and video recording can be found here

Erlkönig Franz Schubert
Violin duet
X.Y Ensemble

POOR WAYFARING STRANGERTrombone, kazoos, samba-whistle, duck-call. 2 drum kits with improvisers.


Bow-Bones Trombone Unit.
Feat. David Ingamells - drums.


BEACH RUBBLE (3 mins)
for Community Orchestra
“If you are squeamish,
Do not prod the beach rubble.”
Sappho 570 BCE
translation Mary Bernhard



RAVEN’s CHILD (15mins)
orchestra and male jazz singer.
juicy bits excerpts

“One must have a heart of stone to read the death
of little Nell with out bursting into tears…of laughter” – Oscar Wilde


"She walked behind me, sir that I might not know how lame she was

Upon her little bed
Her little bird was stirring in its cage

The smile on her face is fixed and changeless, old fireside had
smiled on that same sweet face

Upon her little bed,
Her little bird was stirring nimbly in its cage

Heart, heart of stone

No sleep so beautiful and clam, so free from trace of pain, so fair to
look upon, there upon her little bed

Dear patient noble Nell was dead

Her little bird, a poor slight thing, the pressure of a figure would
have crushed, was stirring nimbly in its cage and the strong heart of
its child mistress was still and motionless.
I must have a heart of stone."Full recording
Conductor Christopher Austin
RAM Symphony Orchestra
Vox Jacob Collier

Noah Mosley conducting in passion
“FOR the LOVE of THORSTEIN SHIVER”


FANFARE for GODI-THINGMAN  (3mins)
Solo Flute

FANFARE for GODI-THINGMAN (3mins)Flute, oboe, Eflat trumpet.

Premier Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall  Beowulf:

HWÆT, WE GAR-DEna     in geardagum,
þeodcyninga                         þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas                ellen fremedon!
oft Scyld Scefing             sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum     meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas,                 syððanærest wearð
feasceaft funden;         he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þah,
oð þæt him                     æghwylc ymbsittendra
ofer hronrade               hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan;          þæt wæs god cyning!

“not only was extraordinary musically, but brought diverse communities together in ways that exemplified a new, creolized identity for classical music. Alex’s vision of new music could help to transform classical music into a true world music. He is a composer of far ranging vision and talent, and I look forward to many more exciting pieces to come.” George Lewis quotation for
Hindemith Prize laudatory Speech 2023

Scrunchy Touch Sweetly to Fall (1.1.1.0 0.1.1.0 perc,pno 1.1.1.1.1  +electronics)

NOW WE ARE DUH-DUR (15mins)
for Large Ensemble (2.2.2.2  2.2.2.1 2.Perc. PnoHrp 3.2.2.2.2)

Written for London Philharmonic Orchestra , Foyles Future Firsts, St John Smith Square. London.
Recorded by Purple-Tree Tapestry Orchestra.
(2.2.2.2  2.2.2.1 2.Perc. PnoHrp 3.2.2.2.2)

CORNCRACK DREAMS
(Alex Paxton with Nevis ensemble)
puplished by Non Classical label

PRAYER with Strings (5mins)(barisax. trb. kit. Egtr. + electronics) 
Alex Paxton’s Dream Musics - studio recording.David Ingermells, Felix Josza, David Zucchi, Alex Paxton

(flt.bari.sax.trb.kit.Egtr. Sop strings 1.1.1.1.1)
Alex Paxton with Ensemble X.Y
live at Kammer Klang, Cafe Oto

GO-PLAY 
Solo Piano (1min.)





FLORRID HORRID  (15 mins.)
String Quartet
commissioned by Machoncy String Quartet


SPUDSPANGLE(5 mins.)
1.1.1.1 1.1.1.0 2perc hrp pno 1.1.1.1.1


DADD’S FAIRIES. (3mins.)
Chamber Orchestra and Jazz Musician(1.1.1.1. 1.1.1.1 Perc 4.3.2.2.1 + soloist)

AlexPaxton · Dadd's Fairries

PRAYER. LIKE in HOT PINK (solo sax)
For Baritone Saxophone and Tape

Estampie (12 mins)
commisioned by Slide Action trombone Quartet


SPAKE (10mins)
for Orchestra (3.3.3.3 4.2.3.1 strings)
I. ‘MY GRANDFATHER WAS JAMES JOYCE’S GODMOTHER’ tittle  from ‘Celebration’ by Harold Pinter

II. ‘BUT MY WORDS WILL NOT FADE AWAY’ 
tittle  from ‘The Gospel of Mathew’ 

II. ‘AND MUMMY CAME IN ALL GUNS BLAZING’
tittle from  a mom.

premier conducted by BEN PALMER RCM Philharmonic Orhcestra
Alex Paxton with chamber orchestra recording

BAND (13 mins)
For brass quintet
5Kbrass Quintet. Leksand. Sweden.

PREACH Arpeggiator and improvisers (Drum kit & trombone) DAVID INGAMELLS - DRUMS
ALEX PAXTON - TROMBONE

BEL and the DRAGON (20mins) opera S.M-S.T.B.B. 
1.1.1.1 1.1.1.0 perc pno/synth 1.1.1.1.1
more details and video recording can be found here
Lullaby 1

solo piano

CHATSONG for THIRTY-ONE. (8mins)
fl.cl.perc.vln. vc

Pierrot Ensemble

GODIGODI (6mins)
mixed septet (picc.ob.barisax.trb.epno.vln.vc)
Taylor Maclennan - Piccolo
Myfanwy Price - Oboe
David Zucchi - Baritone Saxaphone
Quinn Parker - Trombone
Christine Cheng - Electric Clavinet
Salomé Rateau - Violin
Deni Teo - Cello

TWOChant with PAINTS (6mins)
Flute and CLarinet Duo written for PSAPPHA ensemble.

 LARNER’s CUDDLES CHORALES. (12mins) wind quintet, piano and narrator

text BENJAMIN LARNER.
Music: ALEX PAXTON
Premier by MAGNARD ENSEMBLE


GODI-THINGMAN  (7mins)
Saxophone Quartet and Flute

Flute - Aleksandra Henszel
Soprano sax. - Rusne Mikiskaite
Soprano sax. - Philip Attard
Baritone sax. - David Zucchi
Baritone sax. - Azusa Ono

PYNCHON’s CLOCKS (6mins)for two metronoms and 5 improvising musicians,

THE POMEGRANATE SONG (7mins)Mezzo-soprano, alto saxophone, trombone, violin.

text and music Alex Paxton. Based on a lyric by Thomas Handley.

Sinead O Kelly - Dramatic soprano
Sara Cubarsi - Violin
Ronnan Perrat -Alto saxophone
Owen Dawson - trombone

WHALEING (1940-1949)
multi media concert piececommissioned by DECO ensemble
recording and more info can be found here

HORIZON (6mins)
Dramatic Mezzo and piano
collaberation with lyrcist Laura Attridge 
AndSoForthProductions
premier Claire Barnett-Jones

WOOLF MUSIC
radio opera
Premiered at the Forge Camden. (2sops. 2 female actors. pno.egtr.kit strings 1.1.1.1.1)words & music Alex Paxton
more details can be found here


The EQUIVOCAL HARRIET BOWDLER
Premiered at the Cockpit Theatre as part of the Second Movement Rough for opera. words & music Alex PaxtonThe EQUIVOCAL more details can be found here

As flies to wanton boys  (7mins)
mixed ensemble
premier Parry Rooms London

Gum Jelly Lips (5mins)
electronics and narratorpremier David Josefowitz Recital Hall

Smelting Metal Head (8mins)
for brass dectet
premier by Bold as Brass Dectet

COFFLE (7mins)
for String Quartet
premier by Arensky Quartet

TALENT   (4mins)
Piano and voice
premier Ludlow English Song Festival

Unraveled Yearning (10mins)
Symphony Orchestra (3.3.3.3 4.2.3.1 strings)
premier Royal Academy of Music

Three Lullabies (6mins)
Solo Piano
premier Hannah Yip

Five Ponds for Bassoon and Piano(6mins)
premier David Josefowitz Recital Hall

Gargoyles (6mins)
Symphonic wind ensamble

When I am Alone (7mins)
Solo trumpet

Sebastian Horsely's Itch (6mins)
Symphony Orchestra. (3.3.3.3 4.2.3.1 strings)
premier Dukes Hall London

The Elephant's Lament (6mins)
chamber orchestra and soprano
Premiered at the Forge Camden.

Rowan Williams Takes A Bath (8mins)
chamber orchestra and soprano
Premiered at the Forge Camden.


More available recordings can be found in Alex’s sound diary here...