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VOCAL ENSEMBLE

IMAGES Book I, Op 92
1998
CtCtTBarBarB, 13 min
1. Autumn Haze
2. Ts’ai Chi’h
3. Oread
4. Yoshiware Lament
Words by Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, Amy Lowell
World premiere 2001, Pfarrkirche St. Anna im Lehel, Munich, IMAGO vocal ensemble
Recorded by Bavarian Radio
For choral version SSATBB (2002) see CHORAL WORKS | A Cappella

IMAGES Book II, Op 95
2000
CtCtTBarBarB, 15 min
1. Dusk
2. Beech Leaves
3. Desolation
Words by J.C. Squire, Richard Aldington, Amy Lowell
World premiere 2002, Cambridge Consort of Voices
Festival of European Church Music, Schwäbisch Gmünd
For choral version SSATBB (2005) see CHORAL WORKS | A Cappella

Der Lenz ist da, Op 101
2006
STTTBarB with instrumental obligati, 6 min
Words from German folk song
Commissioned by Singer Pur
Publisher Schott (ED 20301)
Recording “Save Our Songs” (Oehms Classics OC560SOS)
For choral version SAATBB a cappella see CHORAL WORKS | A Cappella

Estraines, Op 102
2006
CtCtTBarBarB, 16 min
1. Conceit
2. Day
3. Ad infinitum
4. On love
Words by Mervyn Peake, William Blake, William Carlos Williams, Robert Herrick
Commissioned by the King’s Singers
World premiere 2009, Philharmonie Essen
Recording (No 1) Signum Classics “From the Heart” (SIGCD1779) &
“A Cappella Collection” (SIGCD299)
For choral version SAATBB (2010) see CHORAL WORKS | A Cappella

Demesnes, Op 121
2012–2013
TTBB, 14 min
1. On the Night Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia . . .
2. On the Infinite
3. On Recollections
4. . . . on the Night Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia
Words by the composer after Giacomo Leopardi, commissioned by Quartonal
World premiere 2013, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ribnitz-Damgarten
Recording “Another Way” (Sony Classical 2065364)
For choral version SATB (2016) see CHORAL WORKS | A Cappella

Desire Lines, Op 126
2012–2015
SSSAAA, 24 min
In seven movements
Words by Richard Aldington, J.C. Squire, Richard Aldington, J.C. Squire,
Richard Aldington, F.S. Flint, Edward Storer
Commissioned by Sjaella
World premiere (parts I-III) 2014, Allerheiligen-Hofkirche Munich
For choral version SSAATB (2017) see CHORAL WORKS | A Cappella

VOICE & PIANO

Song, Op 25
1975
Tenor and piano, 3 min
Words by the composer

Nunc dimittis (I), Op 35
1976
Tenor and piano, 3 min
Words from the Bible, Luke 2:29—32 (King James Version)

Five Images, Op 63
1986
Soprano and piano, 9 min
1. Autumn Haze
2 The Skaters
3. Ts’ai Chi’h
4. Oread
5. Yoshiware Lament
Words by Amy Lowell, John Gould Fletcher, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolitle, Amy Lowell

VOICE & LUTE

Three Songs, Op 48
1978
Soprano and lute, 9 min
1. Now That the Night
2. Song
3. The Masque of Oberon
Words by Thomas Betterton, John Milton, Ben Jonson

VOICE & ORGAN

Aria, from The Song of Songs, Op 87
2002
Soprano & organ, 4 min
Arrangement of soprano aria ‘Until the day breaks’ from
“The Song of Songs” Op 87 (1993)
Words from the Bible, The Song of Solomon (New English Version)

VOICE & ENSEMBLE

The Way The Coloured Stones, Op 128
2015
Soprano, percussion (glock, marim, crot, cenc, tub b, sm tri, med tri, lge tri, lge sus cym, sm sus cym, wd ch, bell tr), harp & double bass, 12—20 min (mobile form)
Text by the composer, commissioned by the City of Fürstenfeldbruck
World premiere 2015, Museum Fürstenfeldbruck

2016
Soprano, clarinet in A, harp, double bass, percussion ossia 12—20 min (mobile form)
Version of “The Way the Coloured Stones” Op 128 (2015) for The Hermes Project