Premières given by
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| Michael Alcorn | Wind Quintet | WP | Oct 90 |
| Julian Anderson | Poetry Nearing Silence | WP * | Mar 97 |
| Julian Anderson | Prayer | WP * | Mar 09 |
| Julian Anderson | Towards Poetry | 1st CP * | Mar 99 |
| Julian Anderson | Van Gogh Blue | WP * | Nov 15 |
| Simon Bainbridge | Chamber Music | UKP | Mar 81 |
| Simon Bainbridge | Four Primo Levi Settings | WP | July 96 |
| Simon Bainbridge | Voicing | WP * | Jun 82 |
| Rupert Bawden | Donkey Dances | WP * | Mar 96 |
| Rupert Bawden | Ultima Scena | WP * | Aug 89 |
| Rupert Bawden | Wanderjahr | WP * | Jul 90 |
| Sally Beamish | Between Earth and Sea | WP * | Mar 97 |
| Sally Beamish | Madragali | WP * | Feb 95 |
| David Bedford | The ones who walked away from Omelas | WP * | Jan 77 |
| Richard Rodney Bennett | Book of Hours | WP * | Sep 91 |
| Richard Rodney Bennett | Commedia III | WP * | Feb 73 |
| Richard Rodney Bennett | Five Sonnets of Louise Labe | LP * | May 86 |
| Richard Rodney Bennett | Oboe Quartet | LP | Mar 76 |
| Richard Rodney Bennett | Sonata after Syrinx | LP * | May 86 |
| Michael Berkeley | Chamber Symphony | WP | Aug 80 |
| Michael Berkeley | Gethsemane | WP | May 03 |
| Michael Berkeley | Musical Chairs | WP * | Nov 10 |
| Michael Berkeley | Three Rilke Sonnets | WP * | Mar 11 |
| Michael Berkeley | Piano Quintet | WP * | Mar 09 |
| Michael Berkeley | Winter Fragments | WP * | Mar 96 |
| Harrison Birtwistle | New Work for voice & ensemble | WP * | Mar 15 |
| Harrison Birtwistle | Cantus Iambeus | WP * | Mar 05 |
| Harrison Birtwistle | Clarinet Quintet | LP | Jul 82 |
| Harrison Birtwistle | Crescent Moon over the Irrational | WP * | Nov 10 |
| Harrison Birtwistle | Duet for Eight Strings | WP * | Apr 19 |
| Harrison Birtwistle | Fantasia upon All the Notes | WP * | Mar 12 |
| Harrison Birtwistle | Nine Settings of Celan | WP * | Mar 00 |
| Harrison Birtwistle | Oboe Quartet | WP * | Mar 10 |
| Harrison Birtwistle | The Woman and the Hare | WP * | Mar 99 |
| Harrison Birtwistle | Three Songs from the Holy Forest | LP | Apr 1ß9 |
| Robin Black | In Paradisum | WP | Oct 69 |
| Denys Bouliane | Comme un silence entr’ouvert | UKP | Oct 87 |
| Martin Bresnick | Opera della Musica Povera | EUP * | Apr 94 |
| Martin Bresnick | Piano Trio | UKP | Jul 89 |
| Benjamin Britten | Britten’s Blues arr. Runswick | LP | Mar 93 |
| Benjamin Britten | Introduction and Allegro | WP | Nov 86 |
| Benjamin Britten | The Sword in the Stone Suite | LP | Mar 93 |
| Christopher Brown | Chamber Dances | WP * | Apr 82 |
| Christopher Brown | Divertimento | LP * | Nov 70 |
| Christopher Brown | The Snows of Winter | WP * | Nov 71 |
| James Francis Brown | A Dream and a Dance | WP * | Mar 13 |
| John Buller | Of Three Shakespeare Sonnets | WP * | Jun 85 |
| John Buller | The Cave | WP | Nov 70 |
| Geoffrey Burgon | Chamber Dances | WP | Apr 82 |
| Howard Burrell | Variants | LP | Oct 69 |
| Elliott Carter | Figment IV | UKP | Mar 09 |
| Elliott Carter | Gra | UKP | Apr 94 |
| Elliott Carter | Mosaic | WP * | Mar 05 |
| Elliott Carter | Oboe Quartet | UKP | Mar 03 |
| Elliott Carter | Poems of Louis Zukovsky | UKP * | Mar 10 |
| Elliott Carter | Syringa | LP | Apr 80 |
| John Casken | Infanta Marina | WP * | Mar 94 |
| John Casken | Misted Land | WP * | Sept 17 |
| Richard Causton | Night Piece for piano | WP | Jan 15 |
| Richard Causton | Notturno | WP * | Apr 98 |
| Richard Causton | Piano Quintet | LP | Mar 15 |
| Richard Causton | Rituals of Hunting and Blooding | WP * | Mar 00 |
| John Cheshire | Piece | WP | Oct 69 |
| Gilard Cohen | 10 Variations | WP | Mar 11 |
| Jonathan Cole | Scrawling Out | WP * | Mar 06 |
| David Collins | Clarinet Quintet | WP | Oct 87 |
| Justin Connolly | Sestina | WP * | May 72 |
| Justin Connolly | Triad V | WP | Feb 71 |
| John Cooney | Undertow | WP * | Feb 97 |
| Gordon Crosse | Oboe Quintet | WP | Dec 88 |
| Gordon Crosse | The World Within | WP * | Apr 77 |
| Gordon Crosse | Three Inventions | WP * | Jan 66 |
| Gordon Crosse | Wildboy | WP * | Feb 78 |
| George Crumb | Idyll for the Misbegotten | UKP | Jun 88 |
| Viet Cuong | Trains of Thought | WP | Mar 14 |
| Martin Dalby | Octet | WP * | Jun 81 |
| Martin Dalby | Man Walking | WP * | Jun 81 |
| Martin Dalby | Whisper Music | WP * | May 71 |
| Claude Debussy | La Boîte a joujoux arr. Merion Bowen | WP * | Feb 99 |
| Claude Debussy | Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé arr. Colin Matthews | WP * | Mar 99 |
| Edison Denisov | Dedicace | WP * | Feb 92 |
| David Dennis | Sextet | WP | Oct 69 |
| Peter Dickinson | Larkins Jazz | WP | Feb 90 |
| Louise Drewett | North Warren | WP * | Mar 19 |
| Zsolt Durko | Impromptus in F | WP * | Jun 84 |
| Zsolt Durko | Three English Verses | WP * | Sep 91 |
| Henri Dutilleux | Dyptique 'Les Citations' | LP | Sep 92 |
| Petr Eben | Piano Quintet | WP * | Feb 92 |
| David Ellis | Sequentia | WP * | May 66 |
| David Ellis | Wind Quintet | WP * | May 67 |
| Alvin Etler | Suite | UKP | Jan 65 |
| Silvio Ferraz | The Children who stopped time | WP | Aug 94 |
| Michael Finnissy | Goro | WP | May 79 |
| Michael Finnissy | Sir Tristran | WP * | Feb 78 |
| Michael Finnissy | The Cry of Zephaniah | WP | Dec 92 |
| Elena Firsova | Before the Thunderstorm | WP * | Mar 95 |
| Elena Firsova | Earthly Life | WP * | Nov 86 |
| Elena Firsova | Forest Walks | WP * | Jun 88 |
| Elena Firsova | Music for 12 | UKP * | Jun 90 |
| Elena Firsova | Odyssey | UKP * | Feb 92 |
| Elena Firsova | Piano Sonata | UKP | Jun 89 |
| Sebastian Forbes | Concertante | LP * | Oct 69 |
| Sebastian Forbes | Partita | WP * | Feb 76 |
| Sebastian Forbes | Serenade | WP * | Nov 70 |
| Sebastian Forbes | Serenade for 8 | WP * | Sep 79 |
| Lukas Foss | Cave of the wind | EUP | Aug 76 |
| Erika Fox | Eight Songs from Cavafy | WP | Nov 70 |
| Jean Francaix | Quintet No 2 | UKP | ul 93 |
| Roberto Gerhard | Songs from Schahrazada arr. Bowen | WP * | Mar 94 |
| Alexander Goehr | ... around Stravinsky | WP * | Mar 02 |
| Alexander Goehr | Clarinet Quintet Op.79 | WP * | Mar 08 |
| Alexander Goehr | Five Objects Darkly Op 62 | UKP | Mar 98 |
| Alexander Goehr | Largo Siciliano for piano, horn & violin | WP * | Jul 12 |
| Alexander Goehr | The Waking | LP | Sep 17 |
| Alexander Goehr | After The Waking | WP * | Sep 17 |
| Larry Goves | i wear you on my sleeve | WP * | Feb 03 |
| Francis Grier | The Cry of Mary | WP | Dec 92 |
| Sofia Gubaidulina | Homage a T.S.Eliot | UKP | Jun 88 |
| Sofia Gubaidulina | Zwei Lieder | UKP | Jun 90 |
| John Harbison | Variations | UKP | Apr 94 |
| Simon Harris | Concerto da Camera | WP * | Jan 66 |
| Simon Harris | Musica Mennipea | WP * | May 66 |
| Jonty Harrison | Farben | WP | Jul 87 |
| Jonathan Harvey | Lotuses | WP * | Sep 92 |
| Jonathan Harvey | Scena | UKP | May 95 |
| Jonathan Harvey | Tendril | WP * | Jun 87 |
| Christopher Headington | Horn Trio | WP | Feb 94 |
| Hans Werner Henze | Adagio for piano trio | UKP | Sep 94 |
| Hans Werner Henze | Drei Lieder uber den Schnee | UKP | Sep 94 |
| Hans Werner Henze | Five Neapolitan Songs | UKP | Mar 01 |
| Hans Werner Henze | Quintetto | EUP | Sep 94 |
| Hans Werner Henze | Songs and Dances from the Operetta 'La Cubana' | UKP | Sep 94 |
| Troy Herion | Sextet | WP | Mar 11 |
| Francesca Hilditch | Gathering Sea Glass | WP * | Mar 19 |
| Robin Holloway | Concertino No 5 | WP * | Sep 91 |
| Robin Holloway | Divertimento No 3 | 1st PP | Jun 82 |
| Robin Holloway | Serenade in C | WP * | Mar 79 |
| Robin Holloway | Serenade in E flat | WP * | Jun 85 |
| Robin Holloway | Spring Music | WP * | Oct 03 |
| Gustav Holst | Wind Quintet | WP | Sep 82 |
| Simon Holt | ...era madrugada | WP * | May 84 |
| Simon Holt | 4 Quarters | LP * rev | Mar 07 |
| Simon Holt | A Haunting | WP | Jun 83 |
| Simon Holt | A Song of Crocuses & Lightning | WP rev | Mar 02 |
| Simon Holt | all fall down | WP * | Feb 94 |
| Simon Holt | Bagatelarañas | WP * | Mar 17 |
| Simon Holt | Canciones | WP * | Jun 86 |
| Simon Holt | Capriccio Spettrale | UKP | Jun 89 |
| Simon Holt | fugaz | WP * | Nov 10 |
| Simon Holt | Shadow Realm | WP * | Sep 82 |
| Simon Holt | Sparrow Night | WP * | Mar 90 |
| Simon Holt | the other side of silence | WP * | Jul 04 |
| Simon Holt | The Torturer's Horse | WP * | Mar 11 |
| John Hopkins | Cantilever | WP | Jul 82 |
| David Horne | Life's Splinters | WP * | Mar 07 |
| David Horne | Splintered Instruments | WP * | Feb 05 |
| Wilfred Josephs | Adam and Eve | WP * | Feb 68 |
| John Joubert | The Secret Muse | WP | Dec 93 |
| Paul Kellett | Pascal’s Triangle | WP * | Sep 92 |
| Gordon Kerry | Blue Latitudes | WP * | Jan 00 |
| Oliver Knussen | Cantata | WP | Sep 79 |
| Oliver Knussen | Study for 'Metamorphosis' | UKP | Apr 19 |
| George Koumentakis | Concertino | WP | Nov 02 |
| Gyorgy Kurtag | Herdecker Eurythmie | EUP | Mar 94 |
| Nicola LeFanu | Deva | WP | Mar 79 |
| Malcolm Lipkin | Clifford’s Tower | WP * | Jul 80 |
| Malcolm Lipkin | Wind Quintet | WP | Jul 86 |
| Vasily Lobanov | Flute Sonata | UKP | Jun 88 |
| James MacMillan | Horn Quintet | WP * | Jul 07 |
| James MacMillan | Raising Sparks | WP * | Oct 97 |
| Edward Maguire | String Trio | WP | Jun 86 |
| Colin Matthews | 23 Frames for 4 Players | WP * | Feb 95 |
| Colin Matthews | A voice to wake... | WP * | Mar 05 |
| Colin Matthews | Hidden Variables | LP * | Jun 89 |
| Colin Matthews | It Rains | WP * | Mar 17 |
| Colin Matthews | LXX | WP * | Mar 17 10 |
| Colin Matthews | Night’s Mask | LP * | Jul 90 |
| Colin Matthews | Three Part Chaconne for Piano Quartet | WP * | Feb 90 |
| Colin Matthews | The Great Journey | WP * | Jun 88 |
| Colin Matthews | The Island | WP * | Mar 08 |
| David Matthews | A Blackbird Sang | WP * | Mar 13 |
| David Matthews | Arr. of Delius 2 Pieces for small orchestra | WP * | Jul 93 |
| David Matthews | Clarinet Quartet | WP * | Jun 84 |
| David Matthews | Happy Returns | WP * | Nov 96 |
| David Matthews | Horn Quintet | WP * | Mar 11 |
| David Matthews | In Valleys Green and Still | WP * | Nov 10 |
| David Matthews | Marina | LP | Jun 89 |
| David Matthews | String Trio No.1 | WP * | Dec 89 |
| David Matthews | Terrible Beauty | WP * | Mar 07 |
| David Matthews | The Sleeping Lord | WP * | May 92 |
| David Matthews | White Flame | WP * | Oct 18 |
| David Matthews | Winter Passions | WP | Jul 99 |
| Nicholas Maw | Flute Quartet | WP * | May 81 |
| Nicholas Maw | Ghost Dances | EP * | Jun 88 |
| Nicholas Maw | La Vita Nuova | WP * | Sep 79 |
| Nicholas Maw | Roman Canticle | WP * | Nov 89 |
| Peter Maxwell Davies | A Sea of Cold Flame | LP | Mar 17 |
| Peter Maxwell Davies | Mishkenot | WP | May 88 |
| Peter Maxwell Davies | Nocturne No.2 | WP * | Nov 10 |
| Peter Maxwell Davies | Seven Skies of Winter | WP * | Jun 04 |
| Peter Maxwell Davies | String Quintet | WP * | Mar 15 |
| Peter Maxwell Davies | String Sextet | WP * | Oct 09 |
| Peter Maxwell Davies | The Last Island | WP * | Oct 09 |
| David McBride | Clarinet Quintet | WP | Jan 77 |
| John McCabe | Time Remembered | WP | Oct 73 |
| Usko Merilainen | Metamorfora per 7 | UKP | Mar 96 |
| Jenifer Morphet | Etive | WP * | Mar 19 |
| Dominic Muldowney | Piano Trio | WP | May 82 |
| Detlev Müller-Siemens | Pavane | WP * | Jun 86 |
| Detlev Müller-Siemens | Sextet | WP * | Mar 94 |
| Tristan Murail | Vues aeriennes | WP * | Dec 88 |
| Peter-Paul Nash | Leaving Without Trace | WP | Mar 98 |
| Peter Paul Nash | Sextet | WP * | Oct 87 |
| Alasdair Nicolson | The Stamping Ground | WP * | Jun 06 |
| Anders Nordentoft | Hymne | WP * | Mar 96 |
| Per Norgard | Scintillation | WP * | Mar 94 |
| Michael Nyman | Introduction & Allegro Concertato | WP * | Jan 65 |
| Nigel Osborne | Fantasia | WP * | May 83 |
| Nigel Osborne | Mythologies | WP * | Jun 80 |
| Nigel Osborne | Zone | WP * | Oct 89 |
| Jim Parker | La Comédie Humaine | WP * | Dec 90 |
| Paul Patterson | At the Still Point of the Turning World | WP * | Feb 80 |
| Paul Patterson | Wind Quintet | WP * | Aug 67 |
| Anthony Payne | Empty Landscape - Heart’s Ease | WP * | Mar 95 |
| Anthony Payne | A Sea Change | WP * | Jun 88 |
| Anthony Payne | The Stones and Lonely Places Sing | WP * | Sep 79 |
| Anthony Payne | The World’s Winter | WP * | Jul 76 |
| Paul Pellay | Concertante | WP * | Sep 91 |
| Patrick Piggott | Candles | WP | May 88 |
| Francis Poulenc | Chamber Opera 'Le Gendarme Incompris' | UKP | Jun 87 |
| Howard Riley | String Trio | WP | Jun 76 |
| David Rowland | Franciscan Rounds | WP | May 77 |
| David Rowland | The Revolving Sphere | WP | Nov 70 |
| Poul Ruders | The Bells | WP * | Mar 94 |
| Daryl Runswick | Zany | WP * | Dec 75 |
| Jan Sandström | Wahlberg Variations | WP * | Mar 96 |
| Satie arr. Muldowney | Sports et Divertissements | WP * | Mar 81 |
| Robert Saxton | A Yardstick to the Stars | WP * | Feb 95 |
| Alfred Schnittke | Dialog | LP | Mar 94 |
| Alfred Schnittke | Piano Quartet | UKP | Jun 89 |
| Roger Sessions | Concertino for Chamber Orchestra | UKP | Nov 76 |
| Roger Smalley | Melody Study II | WP * | May 70 |
| Dmitri Smirnov | Eight Line Poems | WP * | Sep 92 |
| Dmitri Smirnov | Moonlight Story | WP * | Jun 89 |
| Dmitri Smirnov | The Seasons | UKP * | Jun 88 |
| Naresh Sohal | Experiment 2 | WP | Nov 70 |
| Tim Souster | Le Souvenir de Maurice Ravel | WP * | Jun 84 |
| Tim Souster | Sonata | WP | Aug 80 |
| Giles Swayne | A Song for Hadi | WP | May 83 |
| Toru Takemitsu | Quatrain | UKP | Jun 83 |
| John Tavener | Akhmatova Settings | WP * | Mar 95 |
| John Tavener | Lamentation Last Prayer and Exaltation | LP | Jan 79 |
| John Tavener | Requiem for Father Malachy | WP * | Jun 73 |
| John Tavener | Settings of Six Russian Folksongs | WP * | Jan 79 |
| John Tavener | The Gentle Spirit | WP * | Jun 77 |
| Michael Tippett | Suite from The Ice Break arr. Bowen | LP | Mar 99 |
| Michael Tippett | Suite: The Tempest arr. Bowen | WP * | Dec 94 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | A Constant Obsession | WP * | Mar 09 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Amelia's March | WP * | Nov 10 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | An Invention on 'Solitude' | WP * | Apr 98 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | At Close of Day | WP | May 93 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Bleak Moments | WP * | Mar 06 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Beating about the Bush | WP * | Jun 87 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Cantilena | WP * | Mar 02 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Cortège for Chris | WP * | Apr 98 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Entranced | LP | Jun 83 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Eulogy | WP * | Jul 03 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Her Anxiety | WP * | Sep 92 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Returning | WP * | Jul 07 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Slide Stride | WP * | Jan 03 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Three Farewells | WP * | Jul 90 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Two Baudelaire Songs | WP * | Oct 04 |
| Mark-Anthony Turnage | Vocalise | WP * | Jul 90 |
| Huw Watkins | Gig | WP * | Feb 05 |
| Huw Watkins | Horn Trio | WP * | Mar 09 |
| Huw Watkins | Sonata for cello and 8 instruments | WP * | Mar 99 |
| Huw Watkins | String Trio | WP * | Mar 15 |
| Michael Blake Watkins | The Magic Shadow-Show | WP | Jul 80 |
| Michael Blake Watkins | Spirit of the Universe | WP | Oct 78 |
| Judith Weir | Airs from another planet | WP * | Oct 86 |
| Judith Weir | In the Land of Uz | WP | Aug 17 |
| Judith Weir | The Prelude | WP | Jul 19 |
| Malcolm Williamson | Pas de Quatre | UKP * | Oct 68 |
| Malcolm Williamson | Piano Trio | WP | Jul 76 |
| Hugh Wood | Horn Trio | WP | Nov 89 |
| Arrangements | |||
| arr. J Dankworth & L Holloway | Songs for Marian Montgomery | WP * | Jun 74 |
| arr. J Dankworth | Songs for Cleo Laine | WP * | Jun 74 |
| Brahms arr. D Matthews | 6 Lieder | WP * | Jan 06 |
| Copland arr. D Matthews | Music for Movies | WP * | Feb 14 |
| Debussy arr. C Matthews | Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé | WP * | Mar 91 |
| Dvorak arr. D Matthews | Love Songs | WP * | Mar 09 |
| Gerhard arr. M Bowen | Songs from Schaharazada | WP * | Mar 94 |
| Gershwin/Rodgers/Porter etc arr. R Rodney Bennett | from The American Songbook | WP * | Feb 72 |
| Krasa arr. D Matthews | Brundibar Suite | WP * | Jan 12 |
| Krasa arr. P Pokorny | Brundibar Suite | UKP | Jun 10 |
| Mendelssohn arr. D Matthews | Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream | WP * | Mar 16 |
| Mozart arr. D Matthews | Don Giovanni Overture | WP * | Dec 07 |
| Richard & Mary Rodgers arr. D White | Songs | WP * | Mar 14 |
| Schubert arr. D Matthews | 6 Lieder | WP * | Nov 13 |
| Smetana arr. D Matthews | Bartered Bride Overture | WP * | Jun 10 |
| Smetana arr. D Matthews (smaller ensemble) | Bartered Bride Overture | WP * | Apr 13 |
| Richard Strauss arr. D Matthews | Closing Scene from 'Capriccio' | WP | Dec 05 |
| Richard Strauss arr. J Ledger | Four Last Songs | WP | Dec 05 |
| Commissions for Dance and Design | |||
| Ronald Hynd (choreography) | Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales | WP * | Dec 75 |
| Andre Prokovsky (choreography) Peter Farmer (designer) | Fauré Elegy in C minor | WP * | Dec 75 |
| Andre Prokovsky (choreography) Peter Farmer (designer) | Richard Rodney Bennett: Commedia I | WP * | Dec 75 |
| Patrick Wood & Richard Sykes (choreography) | Daryl Runswick: Zany | WP * | Dec 75 |
| The Nash Ensemble has also taken part in composers' forums including: | ||
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November 1981: BBC Young Composers' Forum performing works by: | Patrick Brandon Mark Griffiths Barry Guy George Nicholson Antony Philpot Julia Usher | |
| September 1981: Flanders Festival ISCM World Music Days performing works by: | Gerry Brophy Marc Antonio Consoli Nigel Osborne Colin Matthews Nicholas Maw David Olan Alvin Singleton Tim Souster | |
| BBC Young Musician of the Year 1992 performing works by: | Paul Ayres James Cudderford Daniel Grimley Philip Howard David Knotts Magnus Robb Elliott Tucker Richard Whalley | |
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