Music by Jools Scott
Libretto compiled by Sue Curtis
Based on poems by Robert Graves

Conducted by Robin O'Neill
Soprano - Charlotte Ashley
Sung by Philharmonia Voices

"December’s come and all is dead;
Weep, woods, for summer far has sped
And leaves rot in the valley bed.

Grey-blue and gaunt the oak-boughs spread
Mourn through a mist their leafage shed.
December, season of the dead!

Brown-golden, scarlet, orange-red
Autumn’s bright hues are faded, fled.
December, season of the dead!"

'Lament In December' from The Cool Web, by Jools Scott & Sue Curtis

I am a composer from Bath, UK.

'Vice' the musical, written with long-term collaborator and librettist, Sue Curtis, is a Jacobean revenge play using period language to juxtapose with a wild jazz/classical score. More info at http://www.joolsscott.co.uk

'The Cool Web : A Robert Graves Oratorio' is a brand new First World War commemoration piece for SSAATTBB choir, baritone soloist and 17 piece chamber ensemble based on texts from Robert Graves' poems, some First World War poems, some from before and after the 1914 War. This WW1 Centernary oratorio follows the experiences and creative reaction of one of the great English poets, subjected to the horrors of the 'first modern war'. 

Christmas album: http://www.thegoldeneggs.co.uk