Psalm 78 1 - 14 - Ely Sat 230715

Performed live at Advent Carols, St Augustine's Kilburn by The Epiphoni Consort – 3 Dec 2023

Advent Calendar - Simon Beattie

Composed in 2009.  The text for the third of these was one of the readings at our wedding. Having discovered it, I read more of Heine’s work, and found two more poems of his I wanted to set.If you would like to see a copy of the score, please contact me at simon@simonbeattie.co.uk.

The rose, the lily, the sun, and the dove,
I love them all once in the rapture of love.
I love them no more, for my sole delight
Is a maiden so slight, so bright and so white
Who, being herself the source of love
Is rose and lily and sun and dove.

Recorded live at St Augustine’s, Kilburn, on 21 January 2019.  Sung by (S) Emma Brain-Gabbott, Amy Carson, Katy Hill, Kirsty Hopkins; (A) Patrick Craig, Caroline Trevor, Hannah Cooke, Chris Field; (T) Mark Dobell, Will Balkwill, George Pooley, Adam Tunnicliffe; (B) Edward Grint, Tim Jones, Jimmy Holliday, Stuart Young.  Directed by Simon Johnson.

Unknown album (18/02/2019 08:22:51)

Three Heine Love Songs 1: Rose, Lily, Sun, Dove

Winner of the ORA Singers Composer Competition 2019, Open Category, and receiver of the Audience Prize. 

A reflection on John Taverner's 'Dum Transisset Sabbatum', composed in 2019.

Áine Mallon- Dum Transisset Sabbatum

The history of the classic Christmas poem 'A Vision of St Nicholas', or 'The Night Before Christmas': from Victorian Britain back to its roots in 19th-century America, and on to Germany immediately after World War II. A podcast by Type & Forme antiquarian booksellers.

To see images of the poem as it appeared in The Strand magazine in 1891, please go to our website: https://www.typeandforme.com/index.php/2020/12/22/christmas-podcast-a-vision-of-st-nicholas/

A Vision Of St Nicholas

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Three Heine Love Songs 1: Rose, Lily, Sun, Dove

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