Hilary Tann (1947-2023)
Hilary Tann (1947-2023)
Welsh-born composer, Hilary Tann (1947-2023) lived in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York, where she was the John Howard Payne Professor of Music at Union College, Schenectady, until her death on February 8th, 2023. You can find her obituary here: https://tinyurl.com/2hjnpdbp.
Tann’s early musical studies were with Alun Hoddinott at the University of Wales, Cardiff, and with J. K. Randall at Princeton University, USA. Her music was influenced by her love of Wales and by her strong identification with the natural world. A deep interest in the traditional music of Japan led to private study of the shakuhachi and guest visits to Japan, Korea, and China.
Numerous organizations have supported her work, including the Welsh Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Meet The Composer, and National Endowment for the Arts.
Many works are available on CD from North/South Recordings, Channel Classics, Deux Elles, Albany Records, and others. Her music is published by Brichtmark Music, Inc., Rowanberry Music, and Oxford University Press. Ensembles that have commissioned and performed her works include the European Women’s Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony, North American Welsh Choir, Tenebrae, Presteigne Festival, American Guild of Organists, North American Saxophone Alliance, Louisville Symphony Orchestra, Women’s Philharmonic, Meininger Trio, Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Thai Philharmonic, and KBS Philharmonic in Seoul, Korea.
Shakkei, a diptych for oboe solo and chamber orchestra, was premiered by oboist Jinny Shaw in the Presteigne Festival, August 2007, and has since been recorded (North/South Recordings) and performed with different soloists in Dublin, at the 2008 IAWM Congress in Beijing, in New York City, in Rio de Janeiro, in San Francisco, and at the 15th World Saxophone Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, with Susan Fancher, solo soprano saxophone, July 2009.
Other websites include: ukcatalogue.oup.com, www.deux-elles.co.uk, www.upstatedimsum.com, and www.composersofwales.org.
To gain access to Hilary’s scores and music archives, which are housed in the Tŷ Cerdd – Music Centre Wales, you can visit their website: https://www.tycerdd.org/welsh-music-collection.
Melangell Variations (for piano & soloists)
Year: 2018
Duration (in minutes): 13
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice, piano, soprano
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: melangell_variations-sopbaripiano-7pgs-secure-5.pdf
Description: Several years ago it was my good fortune to be introduced to the Shrine Church of Saint Melangell, at Pennant Melangell, deep in the Berwyn Mountains of Wales. While there, I purchased a book of poems about St. Melangell, “The Hare That Hides Within,” and was immediately drawn to a set of six poems by former Welsh poet laureate, Gwyneth Lewis.
Melangell Variations (string orch & vocal soloists)
Year: 2018
Duration (in minutes): 13
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string orchestra
Instruments: baritone voice, soprano
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: melangell_variations-score-7pgs-secure-5.pdf
Description: Melangell Variations in three linked movements, was commissioned by Jeremy Huw Williams and the Welsh Chamber Orchestra with the assistance of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust and Ty Cerdd. It was first performed at the Beaumaris Festival, May 28, 2018, by the Welsh Chamber Orchestra, c. Anthony Hose, with soloists Karen Coker Merritt and Jeremy Huw Williams. 1. The Story, 2. Her Silence, 3. A Cloud of Witnesses)
In the Theater of Air
Year: 2017
Duration (in minutes): 15
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: flute, piano, violin
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: in_the_theater_of_air-flvcpno-7pgs-secure-5.pdf
Description: In the Theater of Air was commissioned by the Marsyas Trio with funds provided by the Fidelio Charitable Trust and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. It received its premiere, May 25, 2017, at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Seven images of birds in flight underlie the composition.
And the Snow Did Lie
Year: 2014
Duration (in minutes): 23
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: string quartet
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: and_the_snow_did_lie-pgs1-10_secure-5.pdf
Description: Ten images for string quartet based on André Bergeron's lithographs for
Germaine Guèvremont's French-Canadian classic, Le Survenant.
Embertides
Year: 2013
Duration (in minutes): 15
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: organ
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: Embertides consists of four separate movements that take their inspiration from the roughly equal divisions of the church year – Advent, Lent, Whitsun, Michaelmas. These divisions in turn pay homage to earlier, secular traditions – Winter (seeding), Spring (awakening), Summer (harvesting), Autumn (vintage). The cycle is unified by references to verses from the 11th-century plainsong sequence ‘Veni Sancte Spiritus’; in addition, each piece contains hints of hymns appropriate to each season. The work may be performed as a concert suite or individual movements may be used separately within church services.
Duration: whole suite 15 minutes. Advent: 3′20″ Lenten 3′40″, Whit 3′40″, Michaelmas 4′00″.
Embertides will be premiered at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists, 24-7 June 2014, Boston, MA
Seven Poems of Stillness
Year: 2013
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo string instrument
Instruments: cello, narrator/speaker
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: seven_poems_of_stillness-pgs7-13_secure-5.pdf
Description: Seven Poems of Stillness for violoncello solo with poems by R. S. Thomas was composed in response to a request from Dr. Rhian Davies, Artistic Director of the Gŵyl Gregynog Festival, to whom the work is dedicated.
Solstice
Year: 2013
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: solstice-marimba-pno-pgs1-10_secure-5.pdf
Description: Commissioned by the Ricochet Duo to honor Adirondack woodswoman, Anne LaBastille. LaBastille's four woodswomen books are the direct inspiration for the composition. The title, Solstice, comes from book IIII/p.19 ("the sense of full circle").
On Ear and Ear
Year: 2011
Duration (in minutes): 9
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: piano, viola
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: on_ear_and_ear-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: On Ear and Ear … takes its cue from the opening few measures of Milton Babbitt’s 1950 Composition for Viola and Piano. Heard in slow motion, there is something so tender about the timbral and registral choices in the first four measures and these become reference points for this hommage. The title is from Gerard Manley Hopkins’ sonnet, “The Sea and the Skylark”. The two “ears” become those of the composer and her mentor at Princeton (Milton Babbitt); the two instruments (piano and viola); and the sea (“low lull-off or all roar”) and lark (“his rash-fresh rewinded new-skeinèd score”). On Ear and Ear … was composed in June/July 2011 for the Perspectives of New Music / Open Space memorial tribute to Milton Babbitt. (Audio features Matthew Jones, vla; Annabel Thwaite, pno.)
Between Sunsets
Year: 2011
Duration (in minutes): 11
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: between_sunsets-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Between Sunsets was commissioned by the Strempel-Beaudette Duo for inclusion in an all-Cummings CD and was premiered at the 2012 Eastman School of Music Women in Music Festival in Rochester NY, March 29. Three poems by E. E. Cummings are set in a continuous cycle and the outer songs use some of the same musical material. The texts echo each other in mentioning sunsets, stars, and skies and are also united by greater senses of love. – HT
Reibo
Year: 2010
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: reibo-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Tone poem composed for 25th anniversary of Community Women's Orchestra, Oakland, CA.
Some of the Silence
Year: 2010
Duration (in minutes): 9
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet
Instruments: alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: some_of_the_silence-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf
Description: Single slow movement commissioned by Lunar Saxophone Quartet. Based on a haiku: a deep gorge / some of the silence / is me (John Stevenson). (Audio features the Lunar Saxophone Quartet.)
Paradise
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: paradise-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Text by George Herbert. Written for Tenebrae. Accepted by Schola Cantorum on Hudson, Project Encore. (Audio features Harvard University Choir, E Jones, Conductor.)
Shakkei
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: shakkei-mvmt_ii-pgs19-22-secure-5.pdf
Description: Two contrasting movements inspired by Japanese landscape gardens.
With The Heather And Small Birds
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: percussion, timpani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-with_the_heather_and_small_birds-pgs1-9_secure-5.pdf
Description: Composed for European Women's Orchestra. "Splendid curtain-raiser" (SF Chronicle). (Audio features Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)
Water's Edge - piano duet
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: waters_edge-2_pno-mvts-pgs1-5_secure-5.pdf
Description: Three linked movements. Composed for NYSTMA. (Audio features an excerpt from Movement II - From the Riverbed.)
Through The Echoing Timber
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: timpani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: through_the_echoing_timber-orch-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: Short, dramatic, needs good brass.
Adirondack Light
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 18
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: adirondack_light-narrator_chamb_orch_pgs27-39-secure-5.pdf
Description: Composed for centennial of Adirondack Park.
As Ferns
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 9
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: cello
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: as_ferns_-_string_orch_pgs1-5_secure-5.pdf
Description: Evocative slow movement.
Of Erthe And Air
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 15
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: bass clarinet, clarinet, flute, other, percussion, piccolo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-of_erthe_and_air-pgs1-8-secure-5.pdf
Description: Strong Japanese influences. Recorded on "Celtic Connections" CD. (Audio features the Concorde Ensemble.) The instrumentation is for three performers, with flute doubling piccolo, clarinet doubling bass clarinet, and frame drums (see score for specific drum options).
Open Field
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: timpani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: the_open_field-orch-pgs1-9-secure-5.pdf
Description: Subtitle: "In memoriam Tienanmen Square, June 1989". Dramatic overture.
Llef
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 7
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: cello, flute, other
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-llef-booklet_pgs4-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Originally for shakuhachi and cello. Echoes of Welsh hymns.
Arachne
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 12
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: musical theater
Instruments: soprano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-arachne-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Theater piece for solo soprano (lyrical but challenging).
Winter Sun, Summer Rain
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 12
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet
Instruments: celesta, cello, clarinet, flute, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: winter_sun_summer_rain-chamber-pgs1-9-secure-5.pdf
Description: Three interlinked descriptive movements.
Sound Dawn
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-sound_dawn-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: Text by composer. Lyrical/challenging.
Duo
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 10:30
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: oboe, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-duo_for_oboe_and_viola-pgs4-5_booklet-secure-5.pdf
Description: Intimate dialogue for the two instruments. (Audio features Alun Darbyshire, oboe; Matthew Jones, viola.)
Water's Edge - for String Orchestra
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: cello, contrabass
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: waters_edge-strg_orch-mvt2-secure-5.pdf
Description: String orchestra version of original piano duet. Performed by the North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Conductor.
Psalm136 (Luminaria Magna)
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-psalm_136-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Anthem of praise. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or as part of a three-psalm set: 136-86-104. (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)
That Jewel-Spirit ...
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Brichtmark Music
Score PDF: jewel_spirit-ssa-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Concert piece with Japanese influence. Text by Penny Harter and Basho (Higginson). (Audio features Radcliffe Choral Society, Conductor, Jameson Marvin.)
Anecdote
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-anecdote_cellosolo_part-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: One movement soliloquy for solo cello and orchestra. (Audio features the Newark Symphony, Ovidiu Marinescu, Cello, Roman Pawlowski, Conductor.)
Children of Grace
Duration (in minutes): 9
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: children_of_grace-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Sacred anthem with text by George Herbert and Penny Harter
Contemplations 21, 22
Duration (in minutes): 5
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Brichtmark Music
Score PDF: contemplations-21_22-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf
Description: Concert piece with words by Anne Bradstreet. (Audio features the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum & Radcliffe Choral Society.)
Psalm 86 (Incline Thine Ear)
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: psalm_86-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Words by George Herbert. Optional trumpet. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or as part of a three-psalm concert set: 136-86-104. (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)
Psalm 104 (Praise, My Soul)
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-psalm104-satbtptsorg-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: Anthem of praise for the North American Welsh Choir. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or combined with Psalms 86 and 136 to make concert set (136-86-104). (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)
Moor
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-the_moor-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Words by R. S. Thomas. May be concert piece or anthem. Original for solo S & MS. Most often performed by female choir.
Wales, Our Land
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-wales_our_land-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Concert piece with text by Welsh slate miner in exile.
Wellspring
Duration (in minutes): 3:30
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Brichtmark Music
Score PDF: wellspring-ssa-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Female choir test piece for Llangollen Music Festival. Words by Menna Elfyn.
Songs of the Cotton Grass
Duration (in minutes): 17
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any high voice, any woodwind, oboe, soprano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-a_girls_song_to_her_mother-pgs12-secure-9.pdf
Description: Four songs with texts by Menna Elfyn. Three are "reverse lullabies".
"A Girl's Song to Her Mother", "Slave's Song", "Wings of the Grasses", "Vale of Feathers". Multiple CD recordings. The duo is for voice and oboe, or another melody instrument. (Audio is an excerpt of "Vale of Feathers, with Elizabeth Donovan, sop; Matthew Jones, vla.)
Mother and Son
Duration (in minutes): 3
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: cello, Eb clarinet, soprano, viola, violin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: mother_and_son-vocal-chamber-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Text by R. S. Thomas
Sarsen
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra
Instruments: timpani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-sarsen-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Exciting for younger players. (Audio features the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra, John Clinton, Conductor.)
From the Song of Amergin
Duration (in minutes): 13
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: flute, harp, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: from_the_song_of_amergin-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Recorded by Emily Beynon, Concertgebouw First Chair. (Audio excerpt features Lucy Wakeford,harp; Kathryn Thomas,flute; Matthew Jones,viola.)
Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici
Duration (in minutes): 13
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: cello, flute, piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-gardens_of_anna_maria_luisa_de_medici-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: CD Recording by Meininger Trio. (Audio is an excerpt of 3rd Mvt, performed by the Meininger Trio.)
Nothing Forgotten
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: cello, piano, violin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: nothing_forgotten-pgs3-7_secure-5.pdf
Description: Homage inspired by the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. (Audio features Matthew Jones, vln, Thomas Carroll, vc, Michael Hampton, pno)
Walls of Morlais Castle
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: cello, oboe, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-walls_of_morlais_castle-chamber_trio-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: CD recording on "Songs of the Cotton Grass" (Deux-Elles). (Audio features Alun Darbyshire, ob; Matthew Jones, vla; Thomas Carroll, vc.)
High Rock Spring
Duration (in minutes): 7
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: high_rock_spring-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Colorful concert piece composed for Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra. (Audio features the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra.)
Here, The Cliffs
Duration (in minutes): 17
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-here_the_cliffs-vnsolo-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: A rhapsody for violin and orchestra inspired by the mountains of Wales. (Audio features Frantisek Novotny, vn, Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)
Fanfare for a River
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-fanfare_for_a_river-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Knoxville Symphony NEA commission. Optionally brass in balcony.
From Afar
Duration (in minutes): 18
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: from_afar-pgs1-11-secure-5.pdf
Description: Large-scale, one-movement work with strong Japanese influences. (Audio features the Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)
From the Feather to the Mountain
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-from_the_feather_to_the_mountain-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Premiered by Empire State Youth Orchestra. Shows off woodwinds, strings, then brass. (Audio features the Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)
Grey Tide and the Green
Duration (in minutes): 11
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-the_grey_tide_and_the_green-pgs1-10-secure-5.pdf
Description: Premiered by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the Welsh Proms. (Audio excerpt features the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen.)
In the First, Spinning Place
Duration (in minutes): 12
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: alto saxophone, piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-itfsp-saxpno-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Piano/alto sax transcription of original concerto. Premiered at WSCXV and recorded by Debra Richtmeyer.
Toward Dusk
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: flute, piccolo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-toward_dusk-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Arrangement of last movement of Water's Edge. (Audio features Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)
Walls of Morlais Castle - for String Orchestra
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: cello, contrabass
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: walls_of_morlais_castle-_strg_orch-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: String orchestra version of chamber music trio. "A handsome piece for string orchestra, with dusky melodies and bracing, rustic rhythms." (Steve Smith, NY Times, March 10, 2010) (Audio features the North-South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, conductor.
Sad Pavan Forbidding Mourning
Duration (in minutes): 5
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: guitar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-sad_pavan_forbidding_mourning-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Contains excerpts from Thomas Tallis. (Audio features Gerard Cousins, guitar.)
Doppelganger
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: doppelganger-pno-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: Concert piece. (Audio features Pola Baytelman, piano. Released on "View From The Keyboard," Society Of Composers, Inc.)
First Watch
Duration (in minutes): 7
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-first_watch-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Celebrating the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers in Albany, NY.
Kilvert's Hills
Duration (in minutes): 10:30
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: bassoon
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: kilverts_hills-bassoon-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Extended solo for bassoon. Sometimes performed with dance and/or slides. Recorded on Beauport Classical. (Audio features Kassimir Ivanov, bassoon.)
Light from The Cliffs
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: light_from_the_cliffs-piano-pgs3-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Based on slow movement of violin concerto, "Here, The Cliffs". (Audio features Max Lifchitz, piano.)
Look Little Low Heavens
Duration (in minutes): 7
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo brass instrument, solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: trumpet
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-look_little_low_heavens-pgs1-3_secure-5.pdf
Description: Slow-fast-slow solo for C trumpet.
Pinnae Ventorum
Duration (in minutes): 4:30
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: organ
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-pinnae_ventorum-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Registrations by Carson Cooman.
Cresset Stone
Duration (in minutes): 9
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: cello, viola, violin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-the_cresset_stone_vla-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: A meditation on stone and light. (Audio features the viola version with Matthew Jones, violist.)
Windhover
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: flute
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-windhover-pgs4-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Virtuoso solo. (Audio features Christine Meininger, flute.)
Like Lightnings
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: oboe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-like_lightnings-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Single movement meditative concert piece
In the First, Spinning Place (for Saxophone, Orchestra)
Duration (in minutes): 12
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-in_the_first_spinning_place_sax_orch-pgs1-8-secure-5.pdf
Description: Commissioned by NASA2000, premiered by Debra Richtmeyer. (Audio features Debra Richtmeyer, alto sax, Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor.)
Psalm 104 (Praise, My Soul) (SATB w Orchestra)
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-psalm_104-satb_orch-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Small orchestra version of original organ accompaniment.
That Jewel-Spirit ... (SSA, Fl, String Orchestra)
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Brichtmark Music
Score PDF: jewel-spirit-w_strg_orch-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf
Description: Concert piece with Japanese influence. Text by Penny Harter and Basho (Higginson)
Contemplations 8, 9
Duration (in minutes): 5:40
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: contemplations-8-9-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Contemplations (8, 9) was composed for Cappella Clausura’s celebration of the 400th anniversary of Anne Bradstreet’s birth.
Wings Of The Grasses
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any high voice, oboe, soprano, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-wings_of_the_grasses-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: The cycle, Songs of the Cotton Grass, evolved over six years with all texts by Welsh poet Menna Elfyn. These “reverse lullabies” -- in which a daughter lulls her mother to sleep -- recall the open, high moorland of South Wales, near the composer’s home. The second song in the cycle, Wings of the Grasses was composed for "A Garland for Presteigne” and received its first performance August 25, 2003 by soprano Gillian Keith with Simon Lepper, piano. The duo is for voice and oboe, or alternatively, viola. (Audio features Elizabeth Donovan, sop, Matthew Jones, vla.)
Shakkei (piano and soloist)
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument with piano
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Description: Two contrasting movements inspired by Japanese landscape gardens.
Exultet Terra
Duration (in minutes): 42
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: exultet-i-exultet_terra-pgs27-42-secure-5.pdf
Description: SATB (for antiphonal choirs and double-reed quintet) (5 movements; may be performed independently).
I. Exultet Terra (SATB; 2 ob, ca, 2 bsn)
II. Trio of Descent (2 ob, ca)
III. In Santis Eius (SATB; solo oboe)
IV. Trio of Ascent (2 bsn, ca)
V. Iubilate Domino (SATB; 2 ob, ca, 2 bsn)
(Audio features Mvt I. Exultet Terra, performed at the Eastman Women in Music Festival.)
Girl’s Song to Her Mother
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: oboe, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-a_girls_song_to_her_mother-pgs12-secure-11.pdf
Description: The cycle, Songs of the Cotton Grass, evolved over six years with all texts by Welsh poet Menna Elfyn. These “reverse lullabies” -- in which a daughter lulls her mother to sleep -- recall the open, high moorland of South Wales, near the composer’s home. The first song, is A Girl’s Song to Her Mother. (Audio features Elizabeth Donovan, soprano; Matthew Jones, viola.)
Women's Voices
Includes Melangell Variations commissioned by baritone, Jeremy Huw Williams and the Welsh Chamber Orchestra for baritone, strings, piano.
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: Lorelt
Product ID: LNT143
And the Snow Did Lie
And the Snow Did Lie, ten images for string quartet based on Andre Bergeron's lithographs
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Navona Records, LLC
Product ID: NV6280
Buy URL: https://www.amazon.com/Hilary-Tann-Snow-Did-Lie/dp/B086H768K7/
Buy URL 2: https://music.apple.com/us/album/hilary-tann-and-the-snow-did-lie-single/1505360479
Tomorrow's Air
Anecdote (a soliloquy for cello and orchestra) performed by the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Târgu Mure, with conductor, Ovidiu Balan and cellist, Ovidiu Marinescu.
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: Navona Records, LLC
Product ID: NV6108
Buy URL: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=2259187
In the Theater of Air
In the Theater of Air (fl, vc, pn) performed by the Marsyas Trio
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: NMC Recordings Ltd
Product ID: NMC D248
Only Breath - New choral music from Wales
Paradise (SAATBB)
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: Tŷ Cerdd – Music Centre Wales
Product ID: TCR022
Buy URL: https://www.tycerdd.org/only-breath
Kid Stuff
Solstice – for marimba and piano
Composers: Hilary Tann, and others
Label: Ravello Records
Product ID: RR7977
Buy URL 2: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kid-stuff/1331546700
Lotus Pond: Exotic Oboe Sounds
Exotic oboe sounds with piano, harp and percussion featuring an oboe and piano transcription of Shakkei performed Cynthia Green Libby, oboe and Peter Collins, piano.
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: MSR Classics
Product ID: MS1421
Buy URL: https://www.amazon.com/Lotus-Pond-percussion-Premiere-Recordings/dp/B009EDQ0SA
Buy URL 2: http://www.msrcd.com/catalog/cd/MS1421
Exultet Terra - choral music
Exultet Terra (for antiphonal choirs and double-reed quintet)
The Moor (a cappella women's choir)
Contemplations 8,9 (a cappella women's choir)
Contemplations 21,22 (a cappella women's choir)
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Navona Records, LLC
Product ID: NV6069
Buy URL: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQV8H2G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_J2QtybMJA9C1G
Buy URL 2: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Catalog?catalog_num=6069&label_id=11497&x=0&y=0
Seven Poems of Stillness
Works for solo cello, performed by Guy Johnson, based on poems by R.S. Thomas
I. “the air / a staircase for silence” (Kneeling)
II. “the great brush has not rested” (The View from the Window)
III. “like some huge moth out of the darkness” (The Empty Church)
IV. “as the interior of a cathedral” (The Moorland)
V. “Bright Field / lit bush” (The Bright Field)
VI. “the possibility of your presence” (Cones)
VII. “nights that are so still” (The Other)
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Tŷ Cerdd – Music Centre Wales
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Buy URL: http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Poems-Stillness-Thomas-Johnston/dp/B00MYM7S2U
Unto thee I burn: Song Settings of E.E. Cummings
Between Sunsets (sop, pn) performed by Eileen Strempel, soprano; Sylvie Beaudette, piano.
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Centaur Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: CRC-3395
Buy URL 2: http://www.amazon.com/Unto-Thee-Burn-Settings-Composers/dp/B00T3IQSP6
Images of Eve
Windhover (solo flute) performed by Wendy Rolfe
Composers: Hilary Tann, plus others
Label: CDBaby.com
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: CDBaby-WRolfe
Buy URL: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/wendyrolfe
Dragon – William Perconti and the Alloy Saxophone Quartet
Windhover for solo alto saxophone
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: Albany Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: TROY1440
Of Erthe and Air
Of Erthe and Air: Susan Francher and Friends play Music of Hilary Tann
Windhover for solo soprano saxophone
Of Erthe and Air for flute/piccolo, saxophones and percussion
Songs of the Cotton Grass for mezzo soprano and soprano saxophone
Shôji for flute and soprano saxophone
Some of the Silence for saxophone quartet
Shakkei for soprano saxophone and small orchestra
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Arizona University Recordings (BMI)
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
La Voix Nue
Mezzo-soprano Patricia Green performs Hilary Tann's dramatic song cycle Arachne (soprano solo with crotale)
I. A Primer For Those Who Have Dealings with the Gods
II. Arachne’s Boast
III. Athene’s Song
IV. The Spider’s Valediction
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Buy URL: http://www.bluegriffin.com/index.php/Compact-Disks/La-Voix-Nue-Patricia-Green/flypage.tpl.html
Here, the Cliffs
With the Heather and Small Birds (chamber orchestra)
In the First Spinning Place (Concerto for Solo Alto Saxophone and Orchestra)
From the Feather to the Mountain (full orchestra)
Here, the Cliffs (Rhapsody for Solo Violin and Orchestra)
From Afar (full orchestra)
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: North/South Recordings
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: N/S R 1056
Expressions
The Walls of Morlais Castle (for string orchestra) performed by the North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Conductor
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: NSR1054
Buy URL: http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=1226979#
Women's Work and Play
Reibo (for full orchestra) performed by the Women's Community Orchestra
Composers: Hilary Tann
Buy URL: http://www.amazon.com/Womens-Work-and-Play/dp/B0043XBYBY
These Visions
Some of the Silence performed by the Lunar Saxophone Quartet
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Buy URL 2: http://www.signumrecords.com/catalogue/sigcd233/index.shtml
Millennium Overture
Performers: Chai-lun Yueh, Wolfram Koessel, Max Lifchitz, North/South Consonance Ensemble, Deborah Buck
Conductor: Max Lifchitz
Composers: Hilary Tann, Sarah Meneely-Kyder, and others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S R 1027
Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1027
Shining Place
Janeanne Houston, soprano
Robert Jorgensen, piano
Shannon Spicciati, oboe
For our time, songs by living American composers that are virtuosic, creative, and passionate, that grab the heart and bring it into the light.
Composers: Hilary Tann, Lori Laitman, Paul Moravec, Lee Holby, & others
Label: Elmgrove Productions
Buy URL 2: http://www.northwestartists.org/shining/index.htm
So Much Beauty
Hundley, Lori Laitman, Jorgensen, Locklair, Finzi, Carol Sams, Penhorwood, Burge and Hilary Tann: A Girl's Song to Her Mother and Wings of the Grasses performed by Janeanne Houston (soprano) and Shannon Spicciati (oboe).
Composers: Hilary Tann, others
Label: Elmgrove Productions
British Women Composers Volume 2
Martinez: Canciones
Weir: Airs from Another Planet
Maxwell: Pibroch
Tann: Winter Sun, Summer Rain
Alberga, Dancing with the Shadow
Composers: Hilary Tann, and others
Label: Lorelt
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: LNT-103
Buy URL: http://www.lorelt.co.uk
Celtic Connections
Jane O'Leary: Silenzio della Terra
Hilary Tann: Of Erthe and Air
Hilary Tann: The Cresset Stone
Jane O'Leary: Duo for Violin and Cello
Nicola LeFanu: Trio I
Composers: Hilary Tann, Jane O'Leary, Nicola LeFanu
Label: Capstone Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: CPS-8640
Buy URL: http://www.ctv24shop.com/p-71827-celtic-connection-various.aspx
American Tapestry
Kraft: L'Unicorno
Tann: Water's Edge
Schiffman: Concertino for Oboe
Alburger: S. # 1, Op. 21 in C
Composers: Hilary Tann, others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S R 1037
Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1037
World Without Words
Tann: In the first, spinning place
plus nine other composers' works from the 2008-9
University of Illinois Saxophone Studio
Debra Richtmeyer, conductor, performer
Composers: Hilary Tann, others
Label: Mark Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: 8657-MCD
Buy URL 2: www.amazon.com
Metamorphosis
McCloskey: Star Chamber
Martin: Owl and Pussycat
Bradshaw: Elucidate
Carollo: Metamorphosis No. 13
Juusela: Apollo and Daphne
Bahr: Undaunted
Tann: Like Lightnings
Tann: Kilvert's Hills
Composers: Hilary Tann and others
Label: Beauport Classical
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: BC1805
Buy URL: http://www.beauportclassical.com/Beauport_Classical/Collaboration_Series.html
Buy URL 2: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=11901&name_role1=1&bcorder=1&comp_id=336115
Endangered
Fennimore: Five Rivers
Lieberson: The Ocean ...
Tann: Light from The Cliffs
Kennedy: Naturali Periclitati
Heitzeg: Sandhill Crane
Composers: Hilary Tann and others
Label: Albany Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: Troy1051
Emily Beynon Flute and Friends
Hilary Tann: From the Song of Amergin
Amy Beach: Theme and Variations
Sally Beamish: Words for my Daughter
Thea Musgrave: Impromptu
Louise Farrenc: Trio Op. 45
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: CCS SA 26408
Buy URL: http://www.channelclassics.com
Songs of the Cotton Grass
The Walls of Morlais Castle
Songs of the Cotton Grass
The Cresset Stone
From the Song of Amergin
Duo
Nothing Forgotten
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Deux-Elles
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: DXL 1132
Buy URL 2: http://www.deux-elles.co.uk/DXL_1132.html
Musical Landscapes of Hilary Tann
On Ear and Ear ...
Light from the Cliffs
Kilvert's Hills
Doppleganger
The Cresset Stone
Water's Edge
... slate, blue-gray
Nothing Forgotten
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Centaur Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: CRC 3357
LANDSCAPES for Chamber Orchestra
Binnette Lipper: CIRCLES OF LIGHT
Edward Green: CONCERTINO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA
Dinos Constantinides: CHINA II - BEIJING
LANDSCAPE VI - RHAPSODY FOR HARP AND STRINGS
Hilary Tann: SHAKKEI
Mary Jean Van Appledorn: AYRE
Composers: Hilary Tann, Binnette Lipper, others.
Label: North/South Recordings
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: N/S R 1048
Buy URL: http://www.northsouthmusic.org/product.asp?dept_level=2&p_id=1048
Buy URL 2: http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=778192
Gardens of Medici
Meininger-Trio (flute, cello & piano).
Includes Voces de mi tierra by Elisenda Fábregas; Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici, The Cresset Stone, Windhover and Llef by Hilary Tann; and Colours of the Sea by Elena Kats-Chernin.
Composers: Elisenda Fábregas, Anna Maria Luisa de Medici, Hilary Tann, others.
Label: Profil Edition Günter Hänsler
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: PH-05019
Buy URL: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=109686&name_role1=1&bcorder=1&comp_id=194757
Shakkei (Mvt. I)
Composer: Hilary Tann
Description: Saxophonist, Susan Fancher performs Hilary Tann's Shakkei (Mvt. I). Thailand Philharmonic, directed by Allan McMurray. 2009 World Saxophone Congress.
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC5L5RhpNqQ
Winter sun, Summer rain
Composer: Hilary Tann
Description: Performed by: Ingrid Culliford, flute; Andrew Sparling, clarinet; Ruth Crouch, violin; Jane Salmon, cello; Shelagh Sutherland, piano; Richard Benjafield, percussion. Ensemble diretto da Odaline de la Martinez.
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eChttwAXfw
Contemplation 8, 9
Composer: Hilary Tann
Description: Live performance in Cambridge, Mass by Cappella Clausura, March, 2012.
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXsRXcYPepI
Tann's early musical studies were with Alun Hoddinott at the University of Wales, Cardiff, and with J. K. Randall at Princeton University, USA. Her music was influenced by her love of Wales and by her strong identification with the natural world. A deep interest in the traditional music of Japan led to private study of the shakuhachi and guest visits to Japan, Korea, and China.
Numerous organizations have supported her work, including the Welsh Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Meet The Composer, and National Endowment for the Arts.
Many works are available on CD from North/South Recordings, Channel Classics, Deux Elles, Albany Records, and others. Her music is published by Brichtmark Music, Inc., Rowanberry Music, and Oxford University Press. Ensembles that have commissioned and performed her works include the European Women’s Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony, North American Welsh Choir, Tenebrae, Presteigne Festival, American Guild of Organists, North American Saxophone Alliance, Louisville Symphony Orchestra, Women’s Philharmonic, Meininger Trio, Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Thai Philharmonic, and KBS Philharmonic in Seoul, Korea.
Shakkei, a diptych for oboe solo and chamber orchestra, was premiered by oboist Jinny Shaw in the Presteigne Festival, August 2007, and has since been recorded (North/South Recordings) and performed with different soloists in Dublin, at the 2008 IAWM Congress in Beijing, in New York City, in Rio de Janeiro, in San Francisco, and at the 15th World Saxophone Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, with Susan Fancher, solo soprano saxophone, July 2009.
Other websites include: ukcatalogue.oup.com, www.deux-elles.co.uk, www.upstatedimsum.com, and www.composersofwales.org.
To gain access to Hilary's scores and music archives, which are housed in the Tŷ Cerdd - Music Centre Wales, you can visit their website: https://www.tycerdd.org/welsh-music-collection.
Melangell Variations (for piano & soloists)
Year: 2018
Duration (in minutes): 13
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: baritone voice, piano, soprano
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: melangell_variations-sopbaripiano-7pgs-secure-5.pdf
Description: Several years ago it was my good fortune to be introduced to the Shrine Church of Saint Melangell, at Pennant Melangell, deep in the Berwyn Mountains of Wales. While there, I purchased a book of poems about St. Melangell, “The Hare That Hides Within,” and was immediately drawn to a set of six poems by former Welsh poet laureate, Gwyneth Lewis.
Melangell Variations (string orch & vocal soloists)
Year: 2018
Duration (in minutes): 13
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, string orchestra
Instruments: baritone voice, soprano
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: melangell_variations-score-7pgs-secure-5.pdf
Description: Melangell Variations in three linked movements, was commissioned by Jeremy Huw Williams and the Welsh Chamber Orchestra with the assistance of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust and Ty Cerdd. It was first performed at the Beaumaris Festival, May 28, 2018, by the Welsh Chamber Orchestra, c. Anthony Hose, with soloists Karen Coker Merritt and Jeremy Huw Williams. 1. The Story, 2. Her Silence, 3. A Cloud of Witnesses)
In the Theater of Air
Year: 2017
Duration (in minutes): 15
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: flute, piano, violin
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: in_the_theater_of_air-flvcpno-7pgs-secure-5.pdf
Description: In the Theater of Air was commissioned by the Marsyas Trio with funds provided by the Fidelio Charitable Trust and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. It received its premiere, May 25, 2017, at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Seven images of birds in flight underlie the composition.
And the Snow Did Lie
Year: 2014
Duration (in minutes): 23
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: string quartet
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: and_the_snow_did_lie-pgs1-10_secure-5.pdf
Description: Ten images for string quartet based on André Bergeron's lithographs for
Germaine Guèvremont's French-Canadian classic, Le Survenant.
Embertides
Year: 2013
Duration (in minutes): 15
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: organ
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: Embertides consists of four separate movements that take their inspiration from the roughly equal divisions of the church year – Advent, Lent, Whitsun, Michaelmas. These divisions in turn pay homage to earlier, secular traditions – Winter (seeding), Spring (awakening), Summer (harvesting), Autumn (vintage). The cycle is unified by references to verses from the 11th-century plainsong sequence ‘Veni Sancte Spiritus’; in addition, each piece contains hints of hymns appropriate to each season. The work may be performed as a concert suite or individual movements may be used separately within church services.
Duration: whole suite 15 minutes. Advent: 3′20″ Lenten 3′40″, Whit 3′40″, Michaelmas 4′00″.
Embertides will be premiered at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists, 24-7 June 2014, Boston, MA
Seven Poems of Stillness
Year: 2013
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo string instrument
Instruments: cello, narrator/speaker
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: seven_poems_of_stillness-pgs7-13_secure-5.pdf
Description: Seven Poems of Stillness for violoncello solo with poems by R. S. Thomas was composed in response to a request from Dr. Rhian Davies, Artistic Director of the Gŵyl Gregynog Festival, to whom the work is dedicated.
Solstice
Year: 2013
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: solstice-marimba-pno-pgs1-10_secure-5.pdf
Description: Commissioned by the Ricochet Duo to honor Adirondack woodswoman, Anne LaBastille. LaBastille's four woodswomen books are the direct inspiration for the composition. The title, Solstice, comes from book IIII/p.19 ("the sense of full circle").
On Ear and Ear
Year: 2011
Duration (in minutes): 9
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo string with piano
Instruments: piano, viola
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: on_ear_and_ear-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: On Ear and Ear … takes its cue from the opening few measures of Milton Babbitt’s 1950 Composition for Viola and Piano. Heard in slow motion, there is something so tender about the timbral and registral choices in the first four measures and these become reference points for this hommage. The title is from Gerard Manley Hopkins’ sonnet, “The Sea and the Skylark”. The two “ears” become those of the composer and her mentor at Princeton (Milton Babbitt); the two instruments (piano and viola); and the sea (“low lull-off or all roar”) and lark (“his rash-fresh rewinded new-skeinèd score”). On Ear and Ear … was composed in June/July 2011 for the Perspectives of New Music / Open Space memorial tribute to Milton Babbitt. (Audio features Matthew Jones, vla; Annabel Thwaite, pno.)
Between Sunsets
Year: 2011
Duration (in minutes): 11
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: between_sunsets-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Between Sunsets was commissioned by the Strempel-Beaudette Duo for inclusion in an all-Cummings CD and was premiered at the 2012 Eastman School of Music Women in Music Festival in Rochester NY, March 29. Three poems by E. E. Cummings are set in a continuous cycle and the outer songs use some of the same musical material. The texts echo each other in mentioning sunsets, stars, and skies and are also united by greater senses of love. – HT
Reibo
Year: 2010
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: reibo-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Tone poem composed for 25th anniversary of Community Women's Orchestra, Oakland, CA.
Some of the Silence
Year: 2010
Duration (in minutes): 9
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, woodwind ensemble, woodwind quartet
Instruments: alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: some_of_the_silence-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf
Description: Single slow movement commissioned by Lunar Saxophone Quartet. Based on a haiku: a deep gorge / some of the silence / is me (John Stevenson). (Audio features the Lunar Saxophone Quartet.)
Paradise
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: paradise-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Text by George Herbert. Written for Tenebrae. Accepted by Schola Cantorum on Hudson, Project Encore. (Audio features Harvard University Choir, E Jones, Conductor.)
Shakkei
Year: 2008
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: shakkei-mvmt_ii-pgs19-22-secure-5.pdf
Description: Two contrasting movements inspired by Japanese landscape gardens.
With The Heather And Small Birds
Year: 1994
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: percussion, timpani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-with_the_heather_and_small_birds-pgs1-9_secure-5.pdf
Description: Composed for European Women's Orchestra. "Splendid curtain-raiser" (SF Chronicle). (Audio features Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)
Water's Edge - piano duet
Year: 1993
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: waters_edge-2_pno-mvts-pgs1-5_secure-5.pdf
Description: Three linked movements. Composed for NYSTMA. (Audio features an excerpt from Movement II - From the Riverbed.)
Through The Echoing Timber
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: timpani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: through_the_echoing_timber-orch-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: Short, dramatic, needs good brass.
Adirondack Light
Year: 1992
Duration (in minutes): 18
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: adirondack_light-narrator_chamb_orch_pgs27-39-secure-5.pdf
Description: Composed for centennial of Adirondack Park.
As Ferns
Year: 1991
Duration (in minutes): 9
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: cello
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: as_ferns_-_string_orch_pgs1-5_secure-5.pdf
Description: Evocative slow movement.
Of Erthe And Air
Year: 1990
Duration (in minutes): 15
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: bass clarinet, clarinet, flute, other, percussion, piccolo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-of_erthe_and_air-pgs1-8-secure-5.pdf
Description: Strong Japanese influences. Recorded on "Celtic Connections" CD. (Audio features the Concorde Ensemble.) The instrumentation is for three performers, with flute doubling piccolo, clarinet doubling bass clarinet, and frame drums (see score for specific drum options).
Open Field
Year: 1989
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: timpani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: the_open_field-orch-pgs1-9-secure-5.pdf
Description: Subtitle: "In memoriam Tienanmen Square, June 1989". Dramatic overture.
Llef
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 7
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: cello, flute, other
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-llef-booklet_pgs4-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Originally for shakuhachi and cello. Echoes of Welsh hymns.
Arachne
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 12
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: musical theater
Instruments: soprano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-arachne-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Theater piece for solo soprano (lyrical but challenging).
Winter Sun, Summer Rain
Year: 1986
Duration (in minutes): 12
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument quintet
Instruments: celesta, cello, clarinet, flute, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: winter_sun_summer_rain-chamber-pgs1-9-secure-5.pdf
Description: Three interlinked descriptive movements.
Sound Dawn
Year: 1983
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-sound_dawn-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: Text by composer. Lyrical/challenging.
Duo
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 10:30
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: oboe, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-duo_for_oboe_and_viola-pgs4-5_booklet-secure-5.pdf
Description: Intimate dialogue for the two instruments. (Audio features Alun Darbyshire, oboe; Matthew Jones, viola.)
Water's Edge - for String Orchestra
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: cello, contrabass
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: waters_edge-strg_orch-mvt2-secure-5.pdf
Description: String orchestra version of original piano duet. Performed by the North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Conductor.
Psalm136 (Luminaria Magna)
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-psalm_136-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Anthem of praise. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or as part of a three-psalm set: 136-86-104. (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)
That Jewel-Spirit ...
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Brichtmark Music
Score PDF: jewel_spirit-ssa-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Concert piece with Japanese influence. Text by Penny Harter and Basho (Higginson). (Audio features Radcliffe Choral Society, Conductor, Jameson Marvin.)
Anecdote
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-anecdote_cellosolo_part-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: One movement soliloquy for solo cello and orchestra. (Audio features the Newark Symphony, Ovidiu Marinescu, Cello, Roman Pawlowski, Conductor.)
Children of Grace
Duration (in minutes): 9
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: children_of_grace-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Sacred anthem with text by George Herbert and Penny Harter
Contemplations 21, 22
Duration (in minutes): 5
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Brichtmark Music
Score PDF: contemplations-21_22-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf
Description: Concert piece with words by Anne Bradstreet. (Audio features the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum & Radcliffe Choral Society.)
Psalm 86 (Incline Thine Ear)
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: psalm_86-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Words by George Herbert. Optional trumpet. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or as part of a three-psalm concert set: 136-86-104. (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)
Psalm 104 (Praise, My Soul)
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-psalm104-satbtptsorg-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: Anthem of praise for the North American Welsh Choir. Hymn tunes woven into text. May be sung alone or combined with Psalms 86 and 136 to make concert set (136-86-104). (Audio features Cappella Clausura.)
Moor
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-the_moor-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Words by R. S. Thomas. May be concert piece or anthem. Original for solo S & MS. Most often performed by female choir.
Wales, Our Land
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-wales_our_land-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Concert piece with text by Welsh slate miner in exile.
Wellspring
Duration (in minutes): 3:30
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Brichtmark Music
Score PDF: wellspring-ssa-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Female choir test piece for Llangollen Music Festival. Words by Menna Elfyn.
Songs of the Cotton Grass
Duration (in minutes): 17
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: any high voice, any woodwind, oboe, soprano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-a_girls_song_to_her_mother-pgs12-secure-9.pdf
Description: Four songs with texts by Menna Elfyn. Three are "reverse lullabies".
"A Girl's Song to Her Mother", "Slave's Song", "Wings of the Grasses", "Vale of Feathers". Multiple CD recordings. The duo is for voice and oboe, or another melody instrument. (Audio is an excerpt of "Vale of Feathers, with Elizabeth Donovan, sop; Matthew Jones, vla.)
Mother and Son
Duration (in minutes): 3
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble, solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: cello, Eb clarinet, soprano, viola, violin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: mother_and_son-vocal-chamber-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Text by R. S. Thomas
Sarsen
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra
Instruments: timpani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-sarsen-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Exciting for younger players. (Audio features the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra, John Clinton, Conductor.)
From the Song of Amergin
Duration (in minutes): 13
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: flute, harp, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: from_the_song_of_amergin-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Recorded by Emily Beynon, Concertgebouw First Chair. (Audio excerpt features Lucy Wakeford,harp; Kathryn Thomas,flute; Matthew Jones,viola.)
Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici
Duration (in minutes): 13
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: cello, flute, piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-gardens_of_anna_maria_luisa_de_medici-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: CD Recording by Meininger Trio. (Audio is an excerpt of 3rd Mvt, performed by the Meininger Trio.)
Nothing Forgotten
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, piano trio (vln, vc, pno), small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: cello, piano, violin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: nothing_forgotten-pgs3-7_secure-5.pdf
Description: Homage inspired by the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York. (Audio features Matthew Jones, vln, Thomas Carroll, vc, Michael Hampton, pno)
Walls of Morlais Castle
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: mixed instrument ensemble, mixed instrument trio, small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: cello, oboe, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-walls_of_morlais_castle-chamber_trio-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: CD recording on "Songs of the Cotton Grass" (Deux-Elles). (Audio features Alun Darbyshire, ob; Matthew Jones, vla; Thomas Carroll, vc.)
High Rock Spring
Duration (in minutes): 7
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: high_rock_spring-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Colorful concert piece composed for Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra. (Audio features the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra.)
Here, The Cliffs
Duration (in minutes): 17
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-here_the_cliffs-vnsolo-pgs6-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: A rhapsody for violin and orchestra inspired by the mountains of Wales. (Audio features Frantisek Novotny, vn, Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)
Fanfare for a River
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-fanfare_for_a_river-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Knoxville Symphony NEA commission. Optionally brass in balcony.
From Afar
Duration (in minutes): 18
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: from_afar-pgs1-11-secure-5.pdf
Description: Large-scale, one-movement work with strong Japanese influences. (Audio features the Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)
From the Feather to the Mountain
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra, youth orchestra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-from_the_feather_to_the_mountain-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Premiered by Empire State Youth Orchestra. Shows off woodwinds, strings, then brass. (Audio features the Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)
Grey Tide and the Green
Duration (in minutes): 11
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-the_grey_tide_and_the_green-pgs1-10-secure-5.pdf
Description: Premiered by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the Welsh Proms. (Audio excerpt features the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen.)
In the First, Spinning Place
Duration (in minutes): 12
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo instrument with piano, solo woodwind with piano
Instruments: alto saxophone, piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-itfsp-saxpno-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Piano/alto sax transcription of original concerto. Premiered at WSCXV and recorded by Debra Richtmeyer.
Toward Dusk
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: flute, piccolo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-toward_dusk-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: Arrangement of last movement of Water's Edge. (Audio features Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor.)
Walls of Morlais Castle - for String Orchestra
Duration (in minutes): 10
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: orchestra and chamber orchestra
Instruments: cello, contrabass
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: walls_of_morlais_castle-_strg_orch-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: String orchestra version of chamber music trio. "A handsome piece for string orchestra, with dusky melodies and bracing, rustic rhythms." (Steve Smith, NY Times, March 10, 2010) (Audio features the North-South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, conductor.
Sad Pavan Forbidding Mourning
Duration (in minutes): 5
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: guitar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-sad_pavan_forbidding_mourning-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Contains excerpts from Thomas Tallis. (Audio features Gerard Cousins, guitar.)
Doppelganger
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: doppelganger-pno-pgs1-7-secure-5.pdf
Description: Concert piece. (Audio features Pola Baytelman, piano. Released on "View From The Keyboard," Society Of Composers, Inc.)
First Watch
Duration (in minutes): 7
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-first_watch-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Celebrating the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers in Albany, NY.
Kilvert's Hills
Duration (in minutes): 10:30
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: bassoon
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: kilverts_hills-bassoon-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Extended solo for bassoon. Sometimes performed with dance and/or slides. Recorded on Beauport Classical. (Audio features Kassimir Ivanov, bassoon.)
Light from The Cliffs
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: piano
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: light_from_the_cliffs-piano-pgs3-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Based on slow movement of violin concerto, "Here, The Cliffs". (Audio features Max Lifchitz, piano.)
Look Little Low Heavens
Duration (in minutes): 7
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo brass instrument, solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: trumpet
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-look_little_low_heavens-pgs1-3_secure-5.pdf
Description: Slow-fast-slow solo for C trumpet.
Pinnae Ventorum
Duration (in minutes): 4:30
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano
Instruments: organ
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-pinnae_ventorum-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Registrations by Carson Cooman.
Cresset Stone
Duration (in minutes): 9
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo string instrument
Instruments: cello, viola, violin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-the_cresset_stone_vla-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: A meditation on stone and light. (Audio features the viola version with Matthew Jones, violist.)
Windhover
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: flute
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-windhover-pgs4-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Virtuoso solo. (Audio features Christine Meininger, flute.)
Like Lightnings
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: oboe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-like_lightnings-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Single movement meditative concert piece
In the First, Spinning Place (for Saxophone, Orchestra)
Duration (in minutes): 12
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: concertos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-in_the_first_spinning_place_sax_orch-pgs1-8-secure-5.pdf
Description: Commissioned by NASA2000, premiered by Debra Richtmeyer. (Audio features Debra Richtmeyer, alto sax, Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor.)
Psalm 104 (Praise, My Soul) (SATB w Orchestra)
Duration (in minutes): 8
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-psalm_104-satb_orch-pgs1-5-secure-5.pdf
Description: Small orchestra version of original organ accompaniment.
That Jewel-Spirit ... (SSA, Fl, String Orchestra)
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: choral
Publisher: Brichtmark Music
Score PDF: jewel-spirit-w_strg_orch-pgs1-6-secure-5.pdf
Description: Concert piece with Japanese influence. Text by Penny Harter and Basho (Higginson)
Contemplations 8, 9
Duration (in minutes): 5:40
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: contemplations-8-9-pgs1-3-secure-5.pdf
Description: Contemplations (8, 9) was composed for Cappella Clausura’s celebration of the 400th anniversary of Anne Bradstreet’s birth.
Wings Of The Grasses
Duration (in minutes): 4
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players
Instruments: any high voice, oboe, soprano, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-wings_of_the_grasses-pgs1-4-secure-5.pdf
Description: The cycle, Songs of the Cotton Grass, evolved over six years with all texts by Welsh poet Menna Elfyn. These “reverse lullabies” -- in which a daughter lulls her mother to sleep -- recall the open, high moorland of South Wales, near the composer’s home. The second song in the cycle, Wings of the Grasses was composed for "A Garland for Presteigne” and received its first performance August 25, 2003 by soprano Gillian Keith with Simon Lepper, piano. The duo is for voice and oboe, or alternatively, viola. (Audio features Elizabeth Donovan, sop, Matthew Jones, vla.)
Shakkei (piano and soloist)
Duration (in minutes): 14
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo instrument with piano
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Description: Two contrasting movements inspired by Japanese landscape gardens.
Exultet Terra
Duration (in minutes): 42
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral
Publisher: Rowanberry Music
Score PDF: exultet-i-exultet_terra-pgs27-42-secure-5.pdf
Description: SATB (for antiphonal choirs and double-reed quintet) (5 movements; may be performed independently).
I. Exultet Terra (SATB; 2 ob, ca, 2 bsn)
II. Trio of Descent (2 ob, ca)
III. In Santis Eius (SATB; solo oboe)
IV. Trio of Ascent (2 bsn, ca)
V. Iubilate Domino (SATB; 2 ob, ca, 2 bsn)
(Audio features Mvt I. Exultet Terra, performed at the Eastman Women in Music Festival.)
Girl’s Song to Her Mother
Duration (in minutes): 6
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: solo voice(s) with solo instruments
Instruments: oboe, viola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Score PDF: oup-a_girls_song_to_her_mother-pgs12-secure-11.pdf
Description: The cycle, Songs of the Cotton Grass, evolved over six years with all texts by Welsh poet Menna Elfyn. These “reverse lullabies” -- in which a daughter lulls her mother to sleep -- recall the open, high moorland of South Wales, near the composer’s home. The first song, is A Girl’s Song to Her Mother. (Audio features Elizabeth Donovan, soprano; Matthew Jones, viola.)
Women's Voices
Includes Melangell Variations commissioned by baritone, Jeremy Huw Williams and the Welsh Chamber Orchestra for baritone, strings, piano.
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: Lorelt
Product ID: LNT143
And the Snow Did Lie
And the Snow Did Lie, ten images for string quartet based on Andre Bergeron's lithographs
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Navona Records, LLC
Product ID: NV6280
Buy URL 2: https://music.apple.com/us/album/hilary-tann-and-the-snow-did-lie-single/1505360479
Tomorrow's Air
Anecdote (a soliloquy for cello and orchestra) performed by the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Târgu Mure, with conductor, Ovidiu Balan and cellist, Ovidiu Marinescu.
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: Navona Records, LLC
Product ID: NV6108
In the Theater of Air
In the Theater of Air (fl, vc, pn) performed by the Marsyas Trio
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: NMC Recordings Ltd
Product ID: NMC D248
Only Breath - New choral music from Wales
Paradise (SAATBB)
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: Tŷ Cerdd – Music Centre Wales
Product ID: TCR022
Kid Stuff
Solstice – for marimba and piano
Composers: Hilary Tann, and others
Label: Ravello Records
Product ID: RR7977
Buy URL 2: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kid-stuff/1331546700
Lotus Pond: Exotic Oboe Sounds
Exotic oboe sounds with piano, harp and percussion featuring an oboe and piano transcription of Shakkei performed Cynthia Green Libby, oboe and Peter Collins, piano.
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: MSR Classics
Product ID: MS1421
Buy URL 2: http://www.msrcd.com/catalog/cd/MS1421
Exultet Terra - choral music
Exultet Terra (for antiphonal choirs and double-reed quintet)
The Moor (a cappella women's choir)
Contemplations 8,9 (a cappella women's choir)
Contemplations 21,22 (a cappella women's choir)
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Navona Records, LLC
Product ID: NV6069
Buy URL 2: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Catalog?catalog_num=6069&label_id=11497&x=0&y=0
Seven Poems of Stillness
Works for solo cello, performed by Guy Johnson, based on poems by R.S. Thomas
I. “the air / a staircase for silence” (Kneeling)
II. “the great brush has not rested” (The View from the Window)
III. “like some huge moth out of the darkness” (The Empty Church)
IV. “as the interior of a cathedral” (The Moorland)
V. “Bright Field / lit bush” (The Bright Field)
VI. “the possibility of your presence” (Cones)
VII. “nights that are so still” (The Other)
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Tŷ Cerdd – Music Centre Wales
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Unto thee I burn: Song Settings of E.E. Cummings
Between Sunsets (sop, pn) performed by Eileen Strempel, soprano; Sylvie Beaudette, piano.
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Centaur Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: CRC-3395
Buy URL 2: http://www.amazon.com/Unto-Thee-Burn-Settings-Composers/dp/B00T3IQSP6
Images of Eve
Windhover (solo flute) performed by Wendy Rolfe
Composers: Hilary Tann, plus others
Label: CDBaby.com
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: CDBaby-WRolfe
Dragon – William Perconti and the Alloy Saxophone Quartet
Windhover for solo alto saxophone
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: Albany Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: TROY1440
Of Erthe and Air
Of Erthe and Air: Susan Francher and Friends play Music of Hilary Tann
Windhover for solo soprano saxophone
Of Erthe and Air for flute/piccolo, saxophones and percussion
Songs of the Cotton Grass for mezzo soprano and soprano saxophone
Shôji for flute and soprano saxophone
Some of the Silence for saxophone quartet
Shakkei for soprano saxophone and small orchestra
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Arizona University Recordings (BMI)
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
La Voix Nue
Mezzo-soprano Patricia Green performs Hilary Tann's dramatic song cycle Arachne (soprano solo with crotale)
I. A Primer For Those Who Have Dealings with the Gods
II. Arachne’s Boast
III. Athene’s Song
IV. The Spider’s Valediction
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Here, the Cliffs
With the Heather and Small Birds (chamber orchestra)
In the First Spinning Place (Concerto for Solo Alto Saxophone and Orchestra)
From the Feather to the Mountain (full orchestra)
Here, the Cliffs (Rhapsody for Solo Violin and Orchestra)
From Afar (full orchestra)
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: North/South Recordings
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: N/S R 1056
Expressions
The Walls of Morlais Castle (for string orchestra) performed by the North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Conductor
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: NSR1054
Women's Work and Play
Reibo (for full orchestra) performed by the Women's Community Orchestra
Composers: Hilary Tann
These Visions
Some of the Silence performed by the Lunar Saxophone Quartet
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Buy URL 2: http://www.signumrecords.com/catalogue/sigcd233/index.shtml
Millennium Overture
Performers: Chai-lun Yueh, Wolfram Koessel, Max Lifchitz, North/South Consonance Ensemble, Deborah Buck
Conductor: Max Lifchitz
Composers: Hilary Tann, Sarah Meneely-Kyder, and others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S R 1027
Shining Place
Janeanne Houston, soprano
Robert Jorgensen, piano
Shannon Spicciati, oboe
For our time, songs by living American composers that are virtuosic, creative, and passionate, that grab the heart and bring it into the light.
Composers: Hilary Tann, Lori Laitman, Paul Moravec, Lee Holby, & others
Label: Elmgrove Productions
Buy URL 2: http://www.northwestartists.org/shining/index.htm
So Much Beauty
Hundley, Lori Laitman, Jorgensen, Locklair, Finzi, Carol Sams, Penhorwood, Burge and Hilary Tann: A Girl's Song to Her Mother and Wings of the Grasses performed by Janeanne Houston (soprano) and Shannon Spicciati (oboe).
Composers: Hilary Tann, others
Label: Elmgrove Productions
British Women Composers Volume 2
Martinez: Canciones
Weir: Airs from Another Planet
Maxwell: Pibroch
Tann: Winter Sun, Summer Rain
Alberga, Dancing with the Shadow
Composers: Hilary Tann, and others
Label: Lorelt
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: LNT-103
Celtic Connections
Jane O'Leary: Silenzio della Terra
Hilary Tann: Of Erthe and Air
Hilary Tann: The Cresset Stone
Jane O'Leary: Duo for Violin and Cello
Nicola LeFanu: Trio I
Composers: Hilary Tann, Jane O'Leary, Nicola LeFanu
Label: Capstone Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: CPS-8640
American Tapestry
Kraft: L'Unicorno
Tann: Water's Edge
Schiffman: Concertino for Oboe
Alburger: S. # 1, Op. 21 in C
Composers: Hilary Tann, others
Label: North/South Recordings
Product ID: N/S R 1037
World Without Words
Tann: In the first, spinning place
plus nine other composers' works from the 2008-9
University of Illinois Saxophone Studio
Debra Richtmeyer, conductor, performer
Composers: Hilary Tann, others
Label: Mark Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: 8657-MCD
Buy URL 2: www.amazon.com
Metamorphosis
McCloskey: Star Chamber
Martin: Owl and Pussycat
Bradshaw: Elucidate
Carollo: Metamorphosis No. 13
Juusela: Apollo and Daphne
Bahr: Undaunted
Tann: Like Lightnings
Tann: Kilvert's Hills
Composers: Hilary Tann and others
Label: Beauport Classical
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: BC1805
Buy URL 2: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=11901&name_role1=1&bcorder=1&comp_id=336115
Endangered
Fennimore: Five Rivers
Lieberson: The Ocean ...
Tann: Light from The Cliffs
Kennedy: Naturali Periclitati
Heitzeg: Sandhill Crane
Composers: Hilary Tann and others
Label: Albany Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: Troy1051
Emily Beynon Flute and Friends
Hilary Tann: From the Song of Amergin
Amy Beach: Theme and Variations
Sally Beamish: Words for my Daughter
Thea Musgrave: Impromptu
Louise Farrenc: Trio Op. 45
Composers: Hilary Tann, & others
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: CCS SA 26408
Songs of the Cotton Grass
The Walls of Morlais Castle
Songs of the Cotton Grass
The Cresset Stone
From the Song of Amergin
Duo
Nothing Forgotten
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Deux-Elles
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: DXL 1132
Buy URL 2: http://www.deux-elles.co.uk/DXL_1132.html
Musical Landscapes of Hilary Tann
On Ear and Ear ...
Light from the Cliffs
Kilvert's Hills
Doppleganger
The Cresset Stone
Water's Edge
... slate, blue-gray
Nothing Forgotten
Composers: Hilary Tann
Label: Centaur Records
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: CRC 3357
LANDSCAPES for Chamber Orchestra
Binnette Lipper: CIRCLES OF LIGHT
Edward Green: CONCERTINO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA
Dinos Constantinides: CHINA II - BEIJING
LANDSCAPE VI - RHAPSODY FOR HARP AND STRINGS
Hilary Tann: SHAKKEI
Mary Jean Van Appledorn: AYRE
Composers: Hilary Tann, Binnette Lipper, others.
Label: North/South Recordings
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: N/S R 1048
Buy URL 2: http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=778192
Gardens of Medici
Meininger-Trio (flute, cello & piano).
Includes Voces de mi tierra by Elisenda Fábregas; Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici, The Cresset Stone, Windhover and Llef by Hilary Tann; and Colours of the Sea by Elena Kats-Chernin.
Composers: Elisenda Fábregas, Anna Maria Luisa de Medici, Hilary Tann, others.
Label: Profil Edition Günter Hänsler
Label's Website: www.hilarytann.com
Product ID: PH-05019
Shakkei (Mvt. I)
Composer: Hilary Tann
Description: Saxophonist, Susan Fancher performs Hilary Tann's Shakkei (Mvt. I). Thailand Philharmonic, directed by Allan McMurray. 2009 World Saxophone Congress.
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC5L5RhpNqQ
Winter sun, Summer rain
Composer: Hilary Tann
Description: Performed by: Ingrid Culliford, flute; Andrew Sparling, clarinet; Ruth Crouch, violin; Jane Salmon, cello; Shelagh Sutherland, piano; Richard Benjafield, percussion. Ensemble diretto da Odaline de la Martinez.
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eChttwAXfw
Contemplation 8, 9
Composer: Hilary Tann
Description: Live performance in Cambridge, Mass by Cappella Clausura, March, 2012.
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXsRXcYPepI