An uplifting and beautiful piece for unaccompanied four part choir, set to a poignant and hopeful text by Alfred Lord Tennyson, performed by The Choir Of Christ Church Chelsea.

In Memoriam (Ring Out Wild Bells) Performed By The Choir Of Christ Church Chelsea

Siglo de Oro
Artistic Director: Patrick Allies 
Soprano: Hannah Ely, Fiona Fraser, Victoria Meteyard
Alto: Luthien Brackett, Rebekah Jones
Tenor: Paul Bentley-Angell, Chris Fitzgerald-Lombard
Bass: David Le Prevost, Ben McKee, Ben Rowarth
Recorded July 2021 at St Augustine's Kilburn, with the kind permission of the Rector and Churchwardens 
Recording (c) MoV (2021) 
Available in Multitude of Voyces Sacred Music by Women Composers Volume 3, No. 5. Purchase through www.multitudeofvoyces.co.uk
Digital offprint available from orders@multitudeofvoyces.co.uk

Multitude of Voyces, Volume 3, Advent to Candlemas

Ivy, chief of trees it is

Sarah Cattley (b.1995),  Ivy, chief of trees it is

Text (c) Revd Canon Jeremy Davies
The Gesualdo Six
Director: Owain Park
Countertenor: Guy James,
Tenor: Josh Cooter, Joseph Wicks
Bass: Michael Craddock, Sam Mitchell
Recorded July 2021 at St Martin's Church, Salisbury 
Recording (c) MoV (2021) 
Available in Multitude of Voyces Sacred Music by Women Composers Volume 3, No. 13. Purchase through www.multitudeofvoyces.co.uk
Digital offprint available from orders@multitudeofvoyces.co.uk

Hymn for the Feasts of St Joseph

Sarah MacDonald (b.1968), Hymn for the Feasts of St Joseph

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [2021] by Anna Disley-Simpson
Words by Robert Frost

Premiered and recorded on 10/12/21 by the Huddersfield Choral Society and Ellie Slorach @ Huddersfield Town Hall

Whose woods these are I think I know.   
His house is in the village though;   
He will not see me stopping here   
To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   
To stop without a farmhouse near   
Between the woods and frozen lake   
The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   
To ask if there is some mistake.   
The only other sound’s the sweep   
Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   
But I have promises to keep,   
And miles to go before I sleep,   
And miles to go before I sleep.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

This shadow,
intangible, ethereal, ephemeral
in unfluctuating symmetry

A shimmer of the sea
the glistening abyss
an eerie sunrise

A wingless bird
taking Flight

Taking flight explores identity, with subtle semitone and microtonal dissonances creating a sense of unease and insecurity. The shadow represents an inescapable reflection of oneself, always in unfluctuating and inescapable symmetry. There is a greater extent of improvisation for the performers as the piece progresses, expressing the freedom of a wingless bird taking flight.

Isabelle Freeman - Soprano
Hannah Dienes-Williams - Soprano
Megan Robinson - Flute
Mika Curson - Recorder
Sameer Aiyar-Majeed - Violin I
Lizzy Martin - Violin I
Sarah Bradley - Violin II
Siân Ellis - Violin II
Robert Jones - Viola
Julius Kiln - Viola
Max Todes - Cello
Hannah Wilkie - Cello
James Kiln - Double Bass
Greg May - Double Bass
Edwin Tang - Percussion

Conducted by Mary Offer
Text and Music © Mary Offer 2022

Taking Flight

For two electric guitars, performed by one guitarist (one guitar tuned a quarter-tone down).

Performed by Alkis Nicolaides at Contemporary Music Lab Cyprus, Nicosia, May 2022.

PAGEVAMPIRE (this house explores loneliness as ephemera)

a game for any four performers

image © Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimarães

ant music, i. ligeti quartet

Performed by the Consone Quartet, National Centre for Early Music, York, May 2022.

Anfang

Anna was commissioned by Diane Dever and Jonathan Wright to 'animate' one of their  'Pent House' sculptures for their entrance into the Folkestone Artworks permanent collection on 21st June 2015. What she created was a 10 minute performance inside the water tower structure of music inspired by the sculpture and the Pent Stream from which the piece takes its name. This is a studio recording of the piece made at Montrose Studios with vocals recorded at Clare Reeves Studios.

Music and words by Anna Braithwaite.

For more information about this piece go to: http://folkestoneartworks.co.uk/events/pent-house-music-anna-braithwaite-performance-2/

Pent House Music

Performed by The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge in their evensong on Sunday 19th January as part of The Minerva Festival, which celebrates music by female and non-binary people. 

Soprano - Matilda Mills
Conductor - Graham Ross

Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, UK.

Drop Down, ye Heavens, From Above - The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

A delicate and luminescent lullaby, this piece anthropomorphises the moon into a shimmering maternal figure who provides a blanket of comfort over the world at night time.

Piano: Luke Holman
Soprano: Anna Disley-Simpson

Artwork: Anna Disley-Simpson

Recorded remotely on 12.05.2020

M0ther M00n

Emily Hazrati is a composer based in London. Her practice is informed by sounds and landscapes from the natural world, as well as ideas around breath, ritual, and circularity. She has a particular affinity to working with narrative and text, and is interested in collaborative, interdisciplinary ways of making art.

Emily has recently been developing her chamber opera TIDE, commissioned by Britten Pears Arts, which premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival 2022 to sold-out audiences. Upcoming projects include a new work for London Symphony Orchestra as one of their Panufnik Composers 2024/25, a song commission for Ella Taylor and SongEasel (supported by the PRS Foundation's Open Fund for Music Creators and the Fidelio Charitable Trust), and music for Uckfield Concert Brass as part of Making Music's Adopt a Music Creator programme. Other recent commissions have included for the Ligeti Quartet as part of their 'Nouvelles Etudes’ project (co-commissioned by Britten Pears Arts, BBC Radio 3, and Bourgie Hall), Oxford International Song Festival, and National Youth Choir. She has worked with the BBC Singers, Royal Opera House, Psappha, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, and CHROMA Ensemble, amongst many others.

Emily’s music has received multiple broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, and performances in the UK, Canada, Germany, USA, and New Zealand. Her compositions have been released on NMC Recordings as part of their Young Composers 5 album, receiving critical acclaim from BBC Music Magazine and Planet Hugill. She is published in the Multitude of Voyces 'Anthology of Sacred Music by Women Composers Volume 3: Advent to Candlemas'.

Drop Down, ye Heavens, From Above - The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

Emily Hazrati

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