Terra Ephemera | 2024 | - [Large Orchestra] by Christopher Cook

Written for the Royal Academy of Music Soloists

Three Paths Through A Puzzle for String Ensemble

Performed by Lydia Hillerudh in a private masterclass with Magnus Lindberg and Anssi Karttunen at the Royal Academy of Music.

Limoncello

Kalabadi Galdinami _ Kamer Youth Choir

I Feign Not Friendship Where I Hate (Orlando Gibbons, Arr. Gareth Moorcraft)

For choir and chamber orchestra. Text by Gavrila Derzhavin. In memory of Edison Denisov 

Premiere: 6 April 2000, Geneva. Lev Markiz, conductor

Elena Firsova: River Of Time op.81 (1997)

THE LAMB, Op.83 (1995) for counter-tenor and six viols. The poem by William Blake Performers: Michael Chance, counter-tenor, ensemble Fretwork

The text:

William Blake: THE LAMB / Уильям Блейк: АГНЕЦ


Little Lamb who made thee?
Dost you know who made thee?
Gave the life & bid thee feed
By the stream & o'er the mead;
Gave the clothing of delight
Softest clothing wooly bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice:
	Little Lamb who make thee
	Dost thou know who made thee

	Little Lamb I'll tell thee,
	Little Lamb I'll tell thee:
He is called by thy name,
For he calls himself a Lamb:
He is meek & he is mild,
He became a little child:
I a child & thou a lamb,
We are called by his name.
	Little Lamb God bless thee,
	Little Lamb God bless thee.

Dmitri N. Smirnov: The Lamb 0p83 for countertenor and 6 viols

Performed by Uncharted Lines ensemble, conducted by Matthew Hardy, with Joseph Hardy and Clark Alexander narrating.

1936 - movt. 1

For eight players.

Performed by the Berkeley Ensemble at St James Piccadilly in London on the 22nd of November 2018, recorded by Aaron Holloway-Nahum.

Full recording available privately on request: robinhaigh@gmail.com

Morfydd (excerpt)

This piece was written for the Ligeti Quartet for their project at the Centre for New Music at Sheffield, supported by Arts Council England.


workshop recording

Samoyeds

Commissioned and performed by The Hermes Experiment. Recorded live at the Royal Nottingham Concert Hall.

Kalimotxo (excerpts)

Delhi-born composer Param Vir is a leading figure in contemporary music. Based in London, his output encompasses works in several genres that include chamber music, symphonic works and opera / music-theatre. His works have been performed by major ensembles, orchestras and opera houses, and presented at several international festivals. He is supported by the PRS Foundation for Music.

The last few seasons have seen the premieres of several major works, including a full-length opera Black Feather Rising, a choral work He Begins His Great Trance for the BBC Singers, A Spread of Dreams for the Orchestra of the Swan, two works for cellist Rohan de Saram and a work for the BCMG and Darbar Asian Arts Heritage. 

His work is inspired by varied sources drawn from world mythology, art and literature. Groups that have performed or given premieres of Vir’s works include The Netherlands Opera, London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, Schoenberg Ensemble, Fulcrum Point (Chicago), Scottish Opera, Music Theatre Wales and Ensemble Modern. Recent premieres include A Cave of Luminous Mind for the 2013 BBC Proms and RAGA FIELDS for BCMG, Fulcrum Point and Klangforum Wien, which has seen performances at Birmingham, Chicago, Cologne, Vienna and Amsterdam. A London premiere followed at the Royal Festival Hall with the Philharmonia on 15 October 2015. 

New works just finished: We Want To Live In #Peace, inspired by the Syrian refugee crisis, and A Kinsman to Danger, song cycle for Baritone and Piano, settings of poems by Sri Aurobindo. 

Two CDs of his work have been released, including the album 'Wheeling Past the Stars' by the NMC label in 2021. In 2024 the contemporary music label Meteor released the beautifully designed double CD album of his first two operas 'Snatched by the Gods' and 'Broken Strings' in a BBC recording with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Markus Stenz.

The BCMG has played and recorded several of his large-ensemble works, notably 'Hayagriva' and 'A Spread of Dreams'.

Kalabadi Galdinami _ Kamer Youth Choir

Param Vir

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