CHORAL & VOCAL

Pange Lingua

7'

Choir SATB

Mass for Four Voices

26'

Vocal consort SATB

Meditation on a Ruin

17'

Choir SATB
[at least 16 singers]
String ensemble
[at least 4 vln, 2 vla, 2 cello, 1 cb]

Maxims, Hymn, Riddle

20'

TTB

Te Deum

12'

Choir SATB, Piano

Phoning Up!

4'

Choir SS, Piano

LITURGICAL with organ

Praise the Lord

8'

Choir SSA, SATB
Organ
[optional 2 tpt, 2 tbn, timp]

A Carol of Mary

4'

Choir SATB, Organ

Duo Seraphim

7'

SA or TB, Organ

Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis

12'

Choir SATB, Organ

Requiem

10'

Choir SATB, Organ

SONGS with piano

Canzonetta

2'

S, MS & piano

Ten Riddles

6'

Voice & piano

The Swan

4'

Voice & piano

CHILDREN's CHOIR

Phoning Up!

4'

Choir SS, Piano

Praise the Lord

8'

Choir SSA, SATB
Organ
[brass: 2 tpt, 2 tbn]

Mass for Four Voices
 

1983

SATB (soli)

First performed at the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music 1984 and subsequently on BBC Radio Three

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sung by Rosemary Hardy, Linda Hurst, Martyn Hill & Stephen Varcoe
 

Richard Steinitz, Director of the Huddersfield Festival,
the recording of the work

This setting of the Mass Ordinary was intended to give a quartet of voices - with the phenomenal abilities of these performers - a concert piece of substance which might compare with, say, a string quartet, and in this way refer back to the medium of a consort of voices largely neglected since Renaissance times. The piece is also ambitious in having been planned in one movement: the text of the Mass, while important, is subsidiary to the way the music unfolds.