i hate and i love
composed by Cloe Hotham
for string quartet
(2020)

Performed by the Ligeti Quartet in workshop at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (2021)

i hate and i love (string quartet)

Wilderness for Cello & Soprano (2019)

Text by Jim Morrison (1943-1971)

Where are my dreamers
Today and tonight.
Where are my dancers
whirling and screaming.

Where are my women
quietly dreaming
caught like angels
on the dark porch
of a velvet ranch
dance dance dance dance
dance dance dance

Now is blessed,
the rest
remembered.

Wilderness (Cello & Soprano)

Tantum Ergo

Premiered by the Choir of St Cuthbert's Church, Earl's Court at Choral Evensong and Benediction on Easter Sunday 20th April 2025

Tantum Ergo (SATB)

OAK for SATB [2025]

Premiered at the Cheltenham Music Festival as part of the Cheltenham Music Festival Composer Academy 2025

Performed by The Carice Singers, directed by George Parris


Text: 

Men came to use the varied
sounds of speech
By taking up the names of things, when talking each to each,
And in what way that awe of the gods slipped into the heart
Which on the globe of earth keeps some things sacred and apart:
The altars, shrines, lakes, groves, gods' graven images in art.

quove modo genus humanum variante loquella coeperit inter se vesci per nomina rerum;
et quibus ille modis divom metus insinuarit pectora, terrarum qui in orbi sancta tuetur fana lacus lucos aras simulacraque divom.

From Lucretius De Rerum Natura / On the Nature of Things
English translation by A. E. Stallings


Quercus robur | English Oak

Cloe Hotham

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