Welcome to our recommendations page where we ask composers and performers involved with Sound World to tells us about a piece of music that is special to them.
SWS6
Sally Beamish on Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek
![](https://sound-world.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Sally-Beamish.jpg)
SWS6
Sadie Harrison on Harrison Birtwistle’s Fields of Sorrow
![](https://sound-world.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IMGP2533-685x1024.jpeg)
SWS5
Dame Evelyn Glennie writes about Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel
![](https://sound-world.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/credit-Caroline-Purday-1024x683.jpg)
SWS4
Howard Skempton talks about Webern’s Op 27
![](https://sound-world.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Skempton-Howard-credit-Katie-Vandyck--683x1024.jpg)
SWS3
Anna Meredith talks about Eternity by Emily Hall
![](https://sound-world.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019_07_08_Anna_Meredith0917-Gem-Harris-1024x683.jpg)
SWS2
Sir James MacMillan talks about Martyrs – Gaelic Psalm
![](https://sound-world.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/James-MacMillan_00319_Philip-Gatward-831x1024.jpg)
SWS1
Roxanna Panufnik talks about Wa Habibi
![](https://sound-world.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Roxanna-Web-1024x724.jpg)