…round the still earth…
Colin Riley

Browse Works

Body of Edges
Roads Shining Like River Up Hill After Rain
Three Movements
Impossible Worlds
Songs of Coiled Light
Fallen Angel
While Stars Light Your Way Across The Night
As the Tender Twilight Covers
Something In Our Minds Will Always Stay
Ruminations
Warp and Weft
Close the Door Put Out the Light
Right To The End of Our River
Hanging In The Balance
…round the still earth…
Science Fictions
Shenanigans
Landscapes With Birds
Close
Taking Leaves
Frieze Frame
Airs And Graces
The Sleep Of Reason
The Inside Springs
A Stranger Called This Morning
On The Sheltering Bars
Passing Places

Instrumentation

Choir
1

Additional Information

News! (text Anon 9th century)

Flight (text George Johnston)

The Warm And The Cold (text Ted Hughes)

As The Manner Is (text 15th century medieval lyric)

Snow Down (text Edward Thomas)

Into Leaf (text (Philip Larkin)

 

Commissioned by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain

First performance Dec 1994, Royal Albert Hall, London - National Youth Choir of Great Britain conducted by Michael Brewer

CD recording: In The Gloom of Whiteness CRCD01

Tags

choir

Details

a cycle of winter songs
Year
Publisher
Composers Edition
Minutes
25