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Drop, drop slow tears, a sacred cantata (1960) for mezzo soprano, flute and piano - words from Luke 7 and the poem by Phineas Fletcher. |
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This little cantata was written for Angela Carroll who had sung the main role in my first opera. It takes roughly the form of a baroque cantata (recit., aria, recit., aria) but reverses the traditional procedure by having the recitatives accompanied by the flute and the piano entering for the arias. The extract gives the end of the first recitative leading into its aria. Published by Novello |
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| Violin Concerto (1966) | |||
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The concerto was written for
Erich Gruenberg who first performed it with the BBC Northern Ireland
Orchestra conducted by Terence Lovett and later with the City of |
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| Burnt
Norton Sketches for piano trio (1985) |
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This was a commission for the
Poezie en Muziek festival held in |
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St. John Passion for T. Bar. B. solos choir and organ (1999) |
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The aim was to provide a passion setting suitable for a church choir of modest ability. Spirituals are used in place of hymns or chorales and the congregation can, if desired, join in three of them. The words are adapted and modernized from the A.V. by the composer. To give more pace, phrases such as ‘and he said’ have been omitted where the identity of the speaker is obvious. Published on Sibeliusmusic |
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| Picasso
Pictures for wind quintet (2003) |
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| A commission to celebrate
the centenary of the Bristol Music Club in an ingeniously designed
programme with works from the years 1603, 1703, 1803 and 1903. There are
five movements of which an extract from the last, Bacchanal,
is here quoted. The work is published by Emerson Edition Ltd., see
website www.JuneEmerson.co.uk |
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Brooks and Blossoms (2004) |
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Settings of eight poems by Robert Herrick for mezzo-soprano solo, SSAA choir, flute and strings. The cantata was commissioned by the Tiffin Girls’ School to celebrate their one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary in 2005 and first performed by the girls of the school with Emma Selway as soloist. The sixth movement, from which the extract is taken, is scored for just sopranos and violins. Published on Sibeliusmusic |
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| Bridgwater
Fair, divertimento for strings on |
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Written for the Emerald
Ensemble, directed by Roger Huckle and first performed by them in |
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| Another
Spring (2008) |
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These five settings of poems by Christina Rossetti were written for Amanda Pitt (soprano) and David Owen Norris (piano). Lord David Cecil said of Rossetti that as a religious poet “she had faith; she had charity; she lacked hope”. This sequence of songs is intended to show that this is not quite true, though it certainly is true of this first song, Bitter for Sweet, beautiful as the poem is, beginning: Summer is gone with all its roses Published on Sibeliusmusic |
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