This month we bring you a first batch of works from our latest signing Christopher Fox, three ensemble and two works by Ed Bennett and more from Paul Alan Barker, Martin Bussey, Joe Cutler, Jeffrey Holmes, John Palmer, Richard Pantcheff, Emma-Ruth Richards and Colin Riley.
Also available as a PDF and an MS Excel Spreadsheet.
Paul Alan Barker
Ed Bennett
Song of the Books
for cello, amplified ensemble and electronic sounds
Commissioned with assistance from the PRSF Foundation Composers Fund and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Major Individual Award.
Song of the Books (Crash Ensemble Version)
for cello, amplified ensemble and electronic sounds
Commissioned with assistance from the PRSF Foundation Composers Fund and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Major Individual Award.
Martin Bussey
Mary’s Hand
for mezzo-soprano with three instrumentalists
Mary Tudor, first Queen of England to rule in her own right. Premiered by Tete-a-Tete Opera.
Jack of Hearts
for solo oboe
based on music from his 2018 chamber vocal work Mary’s Hand, called Mary Pieces
Joe Cutler
Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii
for saxophone and orchestra
a meditation on a story titled Somni-451, which forms part of the novel Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
Christopher Fox
1-2-3
for string quartet
Commissioned by the Smith Quartet for Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and dedicated to the memory of Gyorgy Ligeti
From the water
for choir (SATB)
Commissioned by Merton College, Oxford and celebrating St. John the Baptist, to whom the college chapel is dedicated.
schwarz-weiss
for 3-9 musicians
written for Trio Scordatura and Ensemble Klang and premiered by Ensemble Klang in Amsterdam
She dreams, she dances
for soprano and piano
Song-cycle to poems by W. B. Yeats for Elizabeth Hilliard and David Bremner, premiered by them in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
The Calm of Mountains
for piano
Composed for Florian Steininger and dedicated to him and to the memory of Horațiu Rădulescu.
The Missouri Harmony
for organ
Composed for Huub ten Hacken and the beautiful organ of Sint Janskathedral, ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. The piece takes its title from a 19th century treatise on the musical practice of the Shakers
Jeffrey Holmes
John Palmer
Richard Pantcheff
Emma-Ruth Richards
Secure the Ghosts
aria for soprano
Written for the national opera studio 12:42 commissioning project 2020. Libretto: Nic Chalmers.