'Kyrie / The Rain of Merciful Cloud' from Requiem (2021)performed by Sydney Chamber Choir

Kyrie / The Rain of Merciful Cloud (from 'REQUIEM')

Music Theatre adaptation of Mem Fox's delightful children's book

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge - Audio only

Music Theatre Adaptation of Margaret Wild's classic Children's Book

Theres A Sea In My Bedroom (Audio Only)

'Mary Mother, Meek and Mild' for SATB Choir and organ performed by Voyces Chamber Choir, Perth.

Mary Mother, Meek and Mild (sample)

Giving Ground is based on Geminiani's 'La Follia' Concerto Grosso.

Giving Ground

A performance of Clarinet Trio 'Out of Darkness: Dawn', based on fragments of John Dowlands 'In Darkness let me dwell'.

Out Of Darkness: Dawn

A contemplative orchestral piece dealing in different strata and colours of orchestral clouds. Performed here by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

Cloudforms

The premiere performance of Lux Aeterna in its 6 voice version by False Relations.

Lux Aeterna, Vocal sextet

Male choir/vocal quartet version of 'I have not your dreaming' performed by False Relations.

I Have Not Your Dreaming TTBB

An orchestral tone-poem inspired by the Ocean and the warning signals it is giving us about human-induced climate change. Commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Stanhope - Ocean Planet

Short orchestral work written for the Sydney Symphony Education program in 2003.

Helter Skelter

Work for SSA choir and small chamber orchestra (strings, piano, percussion). Performed by MLC School chamber choir and orchestra in 2004.

Rainchant (Excerpt)

French horn solo, in response to Oodgeroo's poem "Dawn Wail for the Dead"

Dawn Interlude for solo French horn

Pulse • Heart • Beat is a highly energetic piece for mixed instrumental ensemble of flute/picc, 2 clarinets (2nd on bass), violin, viola, cello and piano. Originally titled 'Throbbing', this performance is by the Sonic Art Ensemble, conducted by the composer. 

Score available from the Australian Music Centre. www.australianmusiccentre.com.au

Pulse • Heart • Beat

"Dawn and Darkness" cello concerto - selection

A setting of the St James Liturgy Text 'Let all mortal flesh keep silent'. This excerpt recorded by Sydney Chamber Choir in Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium, June 2016 with the composer conducting.

Cherubic Hymn

Piano Quartet written in 2000 based on the Hymn tune by John Ireland.

Piano Quartet "My Song is Love Unknown"

Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, performed by Josh Davis and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra

Trombone Concerto WASO

Nephesh for String Nonet (or octet) performed here by the Danish Quartet and the Goldner Quartet with Andrew Meisel, double bass at the Huntington Festival of Music

1 Nephesh - Prayer

Jet Stream: Fanfare for Orchestra

Fantasia on a Theme of Vaughan Williams – orchestral piece. Awarded 2004 Toru Takemitsu Prize

Fantasia on a Theme of VW

A setting of a thoughtful and perhaps dystopian poem by Australian poet Michael Dransfield (written in the early 1970s). The music was written in 1998, so before the 9/11 attacks and the place in New York City known as 'Ground Zero'. Performance by Cant'ella (Germany).

Wake up, look around, memorise what you see.
It may be gone tomorrow. Everything changes.
Some day there may be nothing but what is remembered.
There may be no one to remember it.
Keep moving, wherever you stand is Ground Zero:
A moving target is harder to hit.

DCW Freiburg 2018

Ground Zero

Excerpt from the single movement piano trio 'Pulses', composed for the 2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music competition. Performance by White Halo Ensemble.

Oranges under the Full Moon

Oranges Under the Full Moon

Pulses for Piano Trio (Excerpt)

Spin Dance for chamber orchestra, performed by Sydney Sinfonia cond. Dan Carter.

Spin Dance

An excerpt from 'Agnus Dei – After the Fire' for violin and piano. Performed by the White Halo Ensemble.

Agnus Dei – After The Fire (excerpt)

"Raqad" is a Hebrew word meaning to 'leap' or 'dance'. There are plenty of leaping intervals and dancing rhythms in this short marimba duet.

RAQAD II for two marimbas

Performance by the Sydney Conservatorium sees singers, dancers and actors from the Bunuba community in the Kimberley region of Western Australia join forces with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music orchestra and choirs along with VOX and Sydney Children's Choir.

Jandamarra - Sing for the Country (Ngalanybarra Muwayi.u)

A recent performance of Machinations by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra cond. Ben Northey

Machinations

This "De Profundis" setting for chamber choir and chamber organ is based on the same Martin Luther melody as used by JS Bach in his cantata BWV 38. It is performed by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Chamber Choir.

De Profundis

Sydney-based composer and educator. Former Music Director, Sydney Chamber Choir. Associate Professor of Composition, Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Paul Stanhope

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