A vocal divertimento for high voice, clarinet, viola and piano (17 mins) Words by Stephen Tunnicliffe Introduction – a spinning top Interlude 1 – the pebble in the pond Interlude 2 the dance First performance 20 March 1970 Dartington Hall, Devon by Audrey Attwood, Dartington Ensemble Contact us for more information on this work Vocal score ISMN M 708046…
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Op 1 Balulalow
for unaccompanied choir (SATB) (3 mins) Words by Wedderburn (16th century) First performance Christmas 1955 London (Christ Church, Kensington) Contact us for more information on this work Score ISMN M 708046 01 1
Op 11 Ode to the Evening Star
for unaccompanied choir (SSAATTBB) (4 mins) Poem by William Blake First published 1967. Revised 2016. First performance 28 April 1967 London (Arts Council) by the Vaughan Williams singer, conducted by Francis Routh Contact us for more information on this work Score ISMN M 708046 09 7 DOWNLOAD THE SCORE
Op 10 Songs of Lawrence Durrell
for high voice and piano (13 mins) This unimportant morning Water Music Nemea Lesbos Echo First performance 16 May 1966 London (Arts Council) by Noelle Barker and Robert Sherlaw Johnson Contact us for more information on this work Score ISMN M 708046 08 0
Op 8 Songs of farewell
‘In memoriam Benjamin 24.ix.59-13.viii.60’ (13 mins) For high voice and piano The spring (Kathleen Raine) Glycine’s Song (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Comfort to a youth that had lost his love (Robert Herrick) A baby’s epitaph (Algernon Charles Swinburne) A farewell (George Gascoigne) First performance 7 May 1965 London (Arts Council) by Ilse Wolf and Paul Hamburger Contact us for more…
Op 6 Elegy
For high voice, violin and piano (9 mins) Poems by St John of the Cross, translated by Roy Campbell Recitative Upon a gloomy night Passacaglia Upon that lucky night Andante quasi Adagio Within my flowering breast First performance 1 October 1968 Nottingham University by Ilse Wolf, Yfrah Neaman and Martin Isepp Contact us for more information on this work…
Op 5 Four Shakespeare Songs
‘for Ilse Wolf’ (13 mins) For high voice and piano Orpheus with his lute from King Henry VIII How should I your true love know? from Hamlet Sigh no more, ladies from Much ado about nothing Blow, blow thou winter wind from As you like it First performance 12 November 1963 Cologne (British Council) by Ilse Wolf and Martin Isepp…
Op 4 A woman young and old
7 songs for high voice and piano (15 mins)
Op 23 Spring Night
‘for Janet Stickland’ (22 mins)
Concert Aria for mezzo soprano and orchestra Poems by Sidney Keyes