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Chorus and Orchestra

     
       

The Brightness of this day - Christmas Hymn 

Henry Vaughan 

 

1922/23 (work later withdrawn)

Christmas 1923 York Minster Minster Choir conducted by Edward Bairstow

     
       

Two Motets for Chorus & Orchestra or Organ

1. Psalm 121 (Vaughan) 2. The Recovery ( Traherne)

 

1922/23 (work later withdrawn

10th March 1925 York Minster, York Musical Society conducted by Edward Bairstow

     
       

Requiem da Camera - for baritone, chorus & orchestra

1. August 1914 (John Masefield) 2. In time of the breaking of nations (Thomas Hardy)

3. Lament (W.W. Gibson)

1924

 

f.p. 7th June 1990 Christ Church Spitalfields London. Stephen Varcoe, BBC Northern Singers, City of London Sinfonia conducted by Richard Hickox

     
       

Lo, the full, final sacrifice - Festival Anthem

Richard Crashaw

Op.26

1946

f.p. 12th September 1947 Three Choir’s Festival, Gloucester London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gerald Finzi

     
       

God is gone up - choral anthem

Edward Taylor

Op.27/2

1951

f.p. 20th May 1952 St. Paul’s Cathedral, London St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir conducted by J. Dykes Bower

     
       

Intimations of Immortality - ode for tenor, chorus & orchestra

William Wordsworth

Op.29

1938?/1950

f.p. 5th September 1950 Three Choirs Festival Gloucester Eric Greene & London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hebert Sumsion.

     
       

For St Cecilia - for tenor, chorus & orchestra

Edmund Blunden

Op.30

1946/47

f.p. 22nd November 1947 Royal Albert Hall, London René Soames, the Luton Choral Society & BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.

     
       

Let us now praise famous men - choral song

Ecclesiasticus

Op.35

1952

f.p. not known

     
       

Magnificat - for soloists, chorus and orchestra.

St Luke

Op.36

1956

f.p. 12th May 1956 Bromley, Bromley & Orpington Choir conducted by Audrey Langford

     
       

In Terra Pax- for soloists, chorus & orchestra

Robert Bridges & St. Luke 

Op.39

1954/56

 f.p. 27th February 1955 BBC Broadcast Myra Verney, Hervey Allan & the Goldsbrough Orchestra conducted by John Russell.

     

f.p. (with large chorus & full orchestra) 6th September 1956 Three Choirs Festival Gloucester Elsie Morison, Bruce Boyce & London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gerald Finzi.