Forgotten Voices of the Great War
Song Cycle for soprano, tenor, baritone, cello & piano (12 songs)
Words: Max Arthur
vocal
Messiah
Director: Chris Swann
18th century costume drama highlighting the plight of London's abandoned children and celebrating the three great men who sought to find a solution.
What Is the Word
A setting of Samuel Beckett's last poem scored for 2 sopranos, cello and narrator
Instructions To Four Walls
A setting of W.S. Merwin's poem, scored for two sopranos, two contraltos, harp and glass harp
Care-charmer Sleep
For four voices (unaccompanied)
Words: Samuel Daniel
Never doubt I love
For 4 voices and string trio
Words: William Shakespeare
When days are long in May
Words: Jaufré Rudel
Translation: Frederick Goldin
Not waving, but drowning
For tenor, horn and piano
Words: Stevie Smith
The darkling thrush
Words: Thomas Hardy
choral
Thro’ midnight streets
A setting of William Blake's 'London'
A Winter’s Tale
SSA and piano
Words: Dylan Thomas
In the bleak midwinter
SSAATTBB unaccompanied
Words: Christina Rossetti
The Heart-in-Waiting
SSATB unaccompanied
Words: Kevin Crossley-Holland
Sheep like stones
Advent carol
SATB unaccompanied
Words: Jenny Overton
The Canticle of the Sun
SATB unaccompanied
Words: St Francis of Assisi, translated by Adrian House
songs for friends & family
The Shepherd’s Song
For my mother at Christmas
For mezzo, contralto and bass
Words: Edmund Bolton
To a child dancing in the wind
For my stepdaughter on her 15th birthday
For mezzo, horn and piano
Words: W.B. Yeats
Trust your heart
For my wife on her birthday
For mezzo and bass
Words: E.E. Cummings
Look thy last on all things lovely
For my mother
For 3 baritones, clarinet, horn, cello and piano
Words: Walter de la Mare
Tread lightly
For Charlotte
For mezzo, cello and piano
Words: Oscar Wilde
Carry her over the water
For Sasha and James on their wedding day
SATB unaccompanied
Words: W.H. Auden
The Villagers’ Carol
For friends, one Christmas
SATB unaccompanied
Words: Kenneth Grahame