Song setting for alto and clarinet, about 3m long. December, 2018.
Text is a poem of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. (See this article on the fairly recent rediscovery of the autograph.)
Score here, with clarinet transposed.
Ballade de Jésus-Christ
November 8, 2018Arrangement of the tune known as “Picardy”, for choir (SATB, some divisi) with Renaissance instruments. About 3m.
November, 2018.
Score here. (Folder contains instrumental parts, also an arrangement with solo piano rather than the brass.)
The grace that comes from knowing things
June 25, 2018Organ and piano, about 6m. June 2018.
In practice, an electric keyboard was used, because of the difficulty of tuning a piano to an organ.
The Guardian of the Well
May 16, 2018Flute and piano, about 7m. May 2018. Originally intended as part of my opera project based on Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well.
Recording with Annelise Zamula, flute.
Susie Asado
March 17, 2018A setting of the Gertrude Stein text, for flute and soprano.
Score (PDF).
Nocturne: Blue and Silver — Chelsea
September 4, 2017Dimensions
May 18, 2017Setting for soprano and piano of the poem by Laura Riding. May 2017.
Score (PDF)
Performance recording, with Tricia Bell, soprano, and Richard Forde, piano.
Vance Maverick 