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Anne de Lucy Songs
[10'] [1992]
Text by Fray Luis de L?on
Soloist(s) Soprano
pf
Commissioned by Nicola Walker Smith and the Hudderfield Festival
First performance 24/11/127, Huddersfield Festival
Nicola Walker Smith, soprano / Graham Fitkin, piano
Ariel Songs (from Prospero's Books) Version 1
[14'] [1992]
Text by Shakespeare
Soloist(s) Soprano
pf
First performance 24/11/127, Huddersfield Festival
Nicola Walker Smith, soprano / Graham Fitkin, piano
Also available for low voice/string quartet; soprano/Michael Nyman Band and ssx/pf
Ariel Songs (from Prospero's Books) Version 2
[1992]
Text by Shakespeare
Soloist(s) Low voice
str4tet
Also available for S/Michael Nyman Band i. S/pf ii. ssx/pf
Grounded
[4'] [1995]
Soloist(s) Mezzo-soprano
ssx.asx.tsx/vn/pf
Commissioned by the BBC for inclusion in the 'Fairest Isle Songbook' series
Hilary Summers, mezzo-soprano / John Harle, saxophone / Andy Findon, saxophone / David Roach, saxophone / Ann Morfee, violin / Michael Nyman, piano
I am an Unusual Thing (from Letters, Riddles & Writs)
[5'] [1991]
Text by Mozart
Soloist(s) Contralto
pf
Also available for C/Michael Nyman Band
If (from The Diary of Anne Frank)
[5'] [1995]
Text by Roger Pulvers
Soloist(s) Contralto
fl/pf/str
Also available for i) ssx.asx/pf/str ii) pf
Miserere (from The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover)
[1989]
Text by Psalm 51
Soloist(s) Soprano
str4tet
Commissioned by the Vale of Glamorgan Festival
First performance 26/8/127, Vale of Glamorgan Festival
Sarah Leonard, soprano, Smith Quartet
Also available for i) S/SATB chorus/Michael Nyman Band ii) solo boy soprano/SATB chorus
Mozart on Mortality
[5'] [1992]
Text by W.A. Mozart
Soloist(s) Soprano
six instruments (variable)
First performance 7/6/127, Purcell Room, London
Mary Wiegold, soprano, composer, Martyn Brabbins (conductor), The Composers Ensemble
The Piano Sings (from The Piano)
[1994]
Soloist(s) Soprano
str4tet
Commissioned by the Greenwich Festival
First performance 11/6/127, Greenwich Festival, London
Sarah Leonard, soprano, Smith Quartet
Also available for A/str4tet
Polish Love Song
[3'] [1990]
Text by wordless
Soloist(s) Soprano
six instruments (variable)
First performance 14/11/127
Mary Wiegold, soprano, John Woolrich (conductor), The Composers Ensemble
Shaping the Curve
[11'] [1991/99]
Soloist(s) soprano saxophone
str4tet
First performance 127, Zurich
John Harle, saxophone, Balanescu Quartet
Also available for ssx/pf
