Illuminations Evening & Night Prayer from Common Worship for cantors, oboe, cello, voices and organ. Poetry by St. Symeon the New Theologian, an Eastern mystic of the Uncreated Light, and plainchant themes illuminate the liturgy. This is peaceful and contemplative music designed to be performed by candlelight.  Song Offerings SATB and string quartet. Five poems from the Gitanjali of Rabindranath Tagore. I was first introduced to the work of Tagore by the amazing Roma Bradnock, shortly before our visit to West Bengal and Bangladesh. The Hindu texts glimpse an incarnational redemption which embraces Christianity. Missa Sancti Marci  A full setting of the new Roman translation of the mass in English, for congregation, organ, cantors and choir. Responsorial Psalm, Alleluia and communion antiphon Mandatum Novum are included for festival services and workshops.  Ave, alegre luz  Motet for SATB unaccompanied + divisi, setting the Phos Hilaron in Portuguese.

Missa Brevis Sancti Petri Completed on the Feast of the Annunciation, 2010, a short setting of Common Worship Order One for cantor, unison voices and organ, with a few surprises!

Mistral Lyrics  New for 2013! A cantata for narrator, children's choir, soprano solo, SATB chorus and chamber ensemble. Based on the beautiful poetry of the Chilean Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral, this work traces the passage of time throughout the day as the course of life, interwoven with the poet's tragic relationship with her adopted son, angels and pine trees. Scoring for string quartet, vibraphone, piano and double bass.

Missa Alme Pater A complete setting of all the musical parts of the mass  including the use of the beautiful plainchant of Mass X from the missal, together with the communion antiphon Alme Pater, Jesu magne, a setting of words from an 11th century Beneventan Troporum. The complete mass was first performed on 17th May 2008, as part of the Daphne du Maurier Festival.

 

 

 

Triptych For upper voices and organ: three short but rewarding pieces in one, two and three parts. Poscaders a Deeze (in Cornish), Fæder ure (in Anglo-Saxon) and Se do bheatha a Mhuire (in Gaelic). 

Two Vanstone Hymns Settings of Love's endeavour, love's expense 

and Joseph of Arimathaea's Easter for choir and organ, with descants.

 

 

Sing! An exciting and entertaining anthology of fifty arrangements, editions and compositions, with illustrations by Jonathan Owen. This book was launched in January 2010 aboard M.V. Discovery in Singapore.

Discovery Sings! A collection of exciting arrangements specially for use onboard M.V. Discovery in Brazil on 17th January, 2011. A sea-shanty; La Mer; a Mexican villancico; folk, contemporary and Baroque music from Brazil; a Taquirari from Bolivia; three choruses from South Africa; a contemporary hit, a song from the Great American Songbook and a much-loved show song. The cover illustration Cristo Redentor is by Jonathan Owen. 

Click here for the online shop. All of this music will soon be available for download and printing as PDF files.

Watch out for forthcoming performances of many of these works during 2012!