This is the 3rd of the series of Playlists which include those works by which I would most like to be remembered. White Winter, Black Spring is a setting of texts by Robert Lowell for tenor, baritone and large ensemble. It was commissioned by the BBC for the Huddersfield Festival and first performed there by Martyn Hill, Henry Herford with the Lontano Ensemble conducted by Odaline de la Martinez. Faustus was another BBC commission for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales who premiered it under the baton of Jan Latham Koenig. Sinfonia was commissioned by the Sinfonia of Cambridge who performed it with the conductor Grant Llewellyn, but this BBC studio recording is by the City of London Sinfonia conducted by Richard Hickox.

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Tenor, Baritone and Chamber Ensemble
Martyn Hill (tenor), Henry Herford (baritone), Lontano Ensemble conducted by Odaline de la Martinez
text from poems by Robert Lowell

White Winter, Black Spring

chamber orchestra
City of London Sinfonia
conducted by Richard Hickox

Sinfonia I/2

Sinfonia II/2

orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
conducted by Jan Latham- Koenig

Faustus I/2

Faustus II/2

These SoundCloud posts contain most of my work, and the series of 5 Legacy playlists in the Spotlight are all those by which I would most like to be remembered. They begin with Noche Oscura, which I wrote in 1976, and end with Broken Forms from 2021 and the opera Russian Jerusalem, completed in 2022.
Details of all my compositions, and information about their publication, can be found at my publisher's address: Ricordi London (http://www.ricordi.com/en-US/Composers/H/Hopkins-John.aspx)

Legacy 3

John Hopkins