On The Beach At Night Alone  (1983)

Text: Walt Whitman (from Sea Drift) 

(2 S soli, Mezzo-soprano solo, SATB divisi)

7 mins.

 

 

Into the Night  (1984, rev. 2008) 

Texts: W. B. Yeats (from Last Poems)

• 1.    What Was Lost
• 2.    The Black Tower
• 3.    The Man and the Echo

Unaccompanied choir (3 S soli, 3 A soli, 4 T soli, 3 B soli, SATB divisi)

[for advanced or professional choirs]

21 mins.

fp: BBC Singers, cond. Simon Joly; BBC Maida Vale, 16 June 1986

fb: BBC Radio 3, 18 October 1986 (rec. of above)

 

 

Alleluia Nativitas  (2005) 

Carol-motet with double Latin and English text: plainchant Alleluia Nativitas for the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin (mid-September)/15th-century Christmas carol

Unaccompanied choir (2 S soli, 1 Mezzo-soprano solo, 2 A soli, 2 T soli, 2 Bar soli, SATBarB divisi: SATB minimum 6.6.6.6)

10 mins.

fp: BBC Singers, cond. James Morgan; BBC Maida Vale, 13 September 2007

fb: BBC Radio 3, 20 December 2007 (rec. of above) 

To listen online, please go to Listen to Scores menu on the left

 

 

Mirabile Misterium  (2006) 

Text: 15th-century English and Latin

Christmas carol for unaccompanied choir (2 Tr/S soli, TrATB/SATB divisi)

4½ mins.

fp: New College Choir, Oxford, dir. Edward Higginbottom; New College Chapel, 2 December 2007  

 

 

Corpus Christi  (2006) 

Text: 15th-century English 

for unaccompanied choir (S solo, SATB divisi)

5½ mins.

fp: Syred Consort, cond. Ben Palmer; St Michael's Church, Battersea, London, 17 November 2007

Published by Faber Music (Faber New Choral Works):

http://www.fabermusic.com/Repertoire-Related-Products.aspx?ID=5497

or:

http://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Corpus-Christi-Solo-SATB/2013640

Recording: Oxford Schola Cantorum, cond. Jamie Burton (Faber Music Choral Sampler CD)

To listen online, please go to Listen to Scores menu on the left

 

 

The Wild Swans at Coole  (2009) 

Text: W. B. Yeats

Unaccompanied choir (2 S soli, T solo, Bar solo, SATB divisi)

10 mins.

Commissioned by the Syred Consort

fp: Syred Consort, cond. Ben Palmer; St Giles-in-the-Fields Church, New Oxford Street, London, 17 April 2010  

 

 

Lullay, mine Liking  (2009)

Text: 15th-century English 

Carol for unaccompanied choir (Mezzo-soprano solo, T solo, SATB divisi)

6 mins.

fp: The Joyful Company of Singers, cond. Peter Broadbent; St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, London, 10 December 2009

  

 

The Cloths of Heaven  (2010)

Texts: W. B. Yeats (from The Wind Among the Reeds)

• 1.    He Gives his Beloved certain Rhymes
• 2.    He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 

Unaccompanied choir (S solo, T solo, SATB divisi)

7 mins.

  

 

May Magnificat  (2010)

Motet with double Latin and English text: plainchant Gaudeamus omnes in Domino for the Feast of the Assumption/Gerard Manley Hopkins, The May Magnificat

Unaccompanied choir (2 S soli, A solo, T solo, SATB divisi)

12 mins.

***fp (scheduled): BBC Singers, London, 23 April 2012: venue and conductor tbc***

 

 

Prayer  (2011)

Text: Carol Ann Duffy (from Mean Time, © 1993 Carol Ann Duffy; set by permission of Anvil Press Poetry Ltd.)

Unaccompanied choir (SATB divisi)

8 mins.

[for performance separately, or with The Dolphins (see below): collective title Dolphins and Prayer]

 

 

 

Projected:

 

The Dolphins

Text: Carol Ann Duffy (from Standing Female Nude, © 1985 Carol Ann Duffy; permission granted by Anvil Press Poetry Ltd.)

Unaccompanied choir (2 S soli, A, T solo, Bar solo, SATB divisi)

7 mins. ca.

[for performance separately, or with Prayer (see above): collective title Dolphins and Prayer]

 

 

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February 2012