Sonata: violare, col legno
Written and read by Philip Lancaster
Published by Guillemot Press, 2021, with cover artwork by Anna Hussey.  Available at: https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/philip-lancaster-sonata

Sonata: violare, col legno

Song cycle for tenor & violin
Poems by John Greening
Music by Philip Lancaster

Recorded live at the cycle’s first performance, Ludlow English Song Weekend, 30 October 2021. Performed by Ted Black (tenor) and Michael Foyle (violin)

FALLEN

Philip Lancaster: Carol of the Passion
for SSAATB choir
A setting of a 15th century carol.
Performed by the choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge (dir. Sarah MacDonald), cond. Michael Bawtree
Recorded by Edward Armitage at JAM’s ‘Music of Our Time’, 23 March 2022, St. Bride’s, Fleet Street, London.

Carol of the Passion

Carol Of The Passion

Encroaching Shadows: 17 haiku for solo piano based on poems by Tomas Tranströmer.  Haiku XIII.
Gavin Roberts (piano) at the St. Marylebone Festival, July 2021. 
Recording of the first performance of haiku XIII.

The November sun —
my enormous shadow swims 
becomes a mirage.

Encroaching Shadows: XIII

Into the Tomb: a lament for the Good Friday Deposition to words by William Blake
Published Stainer & Bell, 2019
Performed at Buckfast Abbey by the University of Exeter Chapel Choir, directed by Michael Graham, 15 March 2025.

Into_the_Tomb

Gurney, The Trumpet (c.1921). Poem by Edward Thomas.
Orchestrated by Philip Lancaster.
Recorded by the BBC Singers/BBC Symphony Orchestra, 2014.

The Trumpet. Ivor Gurney, orch. Philip Lancaster

Encroaching Shadows: 17 haiku for solo piano after Tomas Tranströmer.
I. Working up the slopes...
—A sneak preview of a work in progress.

Encroaching Shadows: I  [solo piano]

Philip Lancaster: Encroaching Shadows
A cycle of 17 haiku for solo piano 
after Tomas Tranströmer

III. 
On the balcony
I stand in a cage of sun-
beams — like a rainbow.

Performed by Francis Pott

Dr Philip Lancaster

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