Name: A Canticle of Shadows (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra) by Richard Prior 3
Duration: 9 min 24 s
Description: Commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

LaGrange Symphony Orchestra recording session

27 June 2021

Copland: Suite from Appalachian Spring - chamber version (excerpt)

Symphony 3: 2. threnody (2011)

Commissioned in 2003 for the Association for Music in International Schools and premiered at The Hague, Netherlands. Two versions exist - one for large chorus and wind ensemble, and the one here for symphony orchestra and chorus, conducted in the premiere performance by the composer.

hymn for nations united

Simple work for strings, solo flute and solo oboe; high school commissioning consortium.

elegy for aurora (2012)

Clips from an unabashedly Neo-Romantic piano concerto that I conducted a few decades ago with the irreplaceable James Swisher, rediscovered on a fading DAT tape :-)

Concerto for Piano & Orchestra: 'Phoenix Rising' II. (excerpt - 1st & 2nd themes) (1996)

Commissioned by Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; multiple performances with orchestras in the United States.

...of shadow and light...(incantations for orchestra)

Commissioned by Jonathan Keeble. Multiple performances across the United States.

00:00 I. Prelude (recitative, arioso and march)
07:10   II. kinna for Shira Banki
17.46   III. conclusion

Concerto For Flute And Orchestra

Commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

A Canticle of Shadows (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra)

Commissioned by Ann Yeung and Jonathan Keeble for the National Convention of the American Harp Society; additional performances include Christina Smith, Principal Flute and Elisabeth Remy, Principal Harp, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

A Canticle of Shadows (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra)

Richard Prior 3

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