Compositions

melodrama for narrator and 7 instruments                     20′

cl/bcl, bn, crt, tbn, perc, vln, db

Text: Christopher Logue

commissioned by Musicon with funds made available by Northern Arts

first performance: Gavin Muir, Northern Sinfonia cond. Alan Fearon, Durham University, 7 May 1983

cl in A/Ebcl/bcl, bn, hn, 2 vn, va                                                         18′

in memory of Igor Stravinsky

commissioned by the Koenig Ensemble with funds made available by the Arts council of Great Britain

first performance: Koenig Ensemble cond. Jan Latham-Koenig, New Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, 11 March 1983

1 (+picc).0.2 (both+bcl, 1^st+Ccl ad lib).0 / 0.0.0.0 / pf / 1.0.1.1.0                                           17′

commissioned by Lumina for the 1982 Huddersfield Festival with funds made available by Yorkshire Arts

first performance: Lumina dir. David Blake, St.Paul’s Church, Huddersfield, 24 November 1982

solo trombone                                                                             10′

commissioned by the Park Lane Group with funds made available by the Arts council of Great Britain

first performance: John Kenny, Purcell Room, London, 8 January 1982

[published by Warwick Music]

solo double bass                                                                  9′

commissioned by Roger Dean with funds made available by Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts

first performance: Roger Dean, Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire, 27 November 1981

soprano and 5 instruments                                                         6′

Text: 12^th century anonymous French aube

afl, cl in A, pf, va, vc

first performance: Jane Ginsborg, Nomos, St Anne’s Church, Wandsworth, London, 21 November 1981

soprano, clarinet and piano                                                                          12′

Texts: Giacomo Leopardi

commissioned by the GLAA Young Musicians’ Scheme with funds provided by the Greater London Arts Association.

first performance: Jane Ginsborg, Mark van der Wiel, Richard Balcombe, Leighton House, London, 17 March 1981

1(+picc, afl).1(+ca).1(+bcl).1 / 1.1.0.0 / perc.pf(+cel).hp / 1.0.1.1.1        20′

commissioned by the BBC

first performance: London Sinfonietta cond. Lionel Friend, BBC ‘Music in Our Time’ broadcast, 27 May 1982

soprano and organ                                                              12′

Text: Psalms 117, 114 and 133 (in Hebrew)

commissioned by Phyllis Bryn-Julson

first performance: Phyllis Bryn-Julson and Donald S. Sutherland, Hertford, Connecticut, USA, 17 May 1981