Cecilia McDowall

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VOCAL

Three Bronte Songs (1995)

Text: Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte
soprano, piano
duration: 10'
1 Retrospection; 2 Poor Captive Dove; 3 Snow
Gemini Publications
First performance June 1995
Sarah Poole (s), Nigel Clayton (pf)
Farnham, Surrey

The Buzzard (2003)

one of twelve especially composed songs from the cycle 'A Garland for Presteigne' commissioned to celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of the Presteigne Festival
Text: Simon Mundy
soprano, piano
duration: 3'
Commissioned by Presteigne Festival
First performance August, 2003
Gillian Keith (s), Simon Lepper (pf)
St Andrew's Church, Presteigne, Wales
MET CD 1065  listen - MET CD 1065

If there are angels (2005)

Text: Caroline Natzler
middle voice and piano
duration: 3'
Boosey & Hawkes
First performance 28 November, 2008
Nina Bernsteiner, soprano, and István Bonyhádi, piano
Austrian Cultural Forum
Review available

Inferno (1999)

dramatic scena
Text: Christie Dickason, after Rimbaud
counter tenor, trumpet, percussion
duration: 15'
Gemini Publications
Commissioned by Fibonacci Sequence
First performance November, 1999
Renzo Murrone (c-t), Paul Archibald (tpt), Simon Limbrick (perc)
St John's, Smith Square, London
See also: trumpet, vocal

Radnor Songs (2005)

Text: Simon Mundy
soprano, piano
duration: 15 minutes
1 The Buzzard; 2 Four; 3 Summergill; 4 Flat Out; 5 Radnor (New); 6 Radnor (Old), Church and Harp
Gemini Publications
Commissioned by Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts
First performance 29 August, 2005
Rachel Nicholls (s), Paul Plummer (pft)
St Andrew's Church, Presteigne, Wales
Review available
See also: The Buzzard
Programme note available

Two Ratushinskaya Songs (1996 rev. 2002)

Text: Irina Ratushinskaya
high or meduim voice, piano
duration: 10'
Song of the Mice, Chipmunk
Gemini Publications
Commissioned by Mary Hamilton
First performance 6 October, 1996
Mary Hamilton (a), Kathron Sturrock (pf)
St Olave's, London
TWO RATUSHINSKAYA SONGS  listen - Song of the Mice   Song of the Mice  listen - Song of the Mice   Chipmunk  listen - Chipmunk
See also: Chipmunk

Four Shakespeare Songs (1991)

Text: Shakespeare
soprano and piano
duration: 10 minutes
1 What 'tis to Love; 2 Give me my robe; 3 How should I my true love know; 4 First rehearse your song by rote
Friedrich Hofmeister
First performance 1992
Gillian Humphreys (s), Courtney Kenny (pft)
Southwark Cathedral, London
FOUR SHAKESPEARE SONGS  listen - What 'tis to love - SHE CD 9627  What 'tis to love  listen - What 'tis to love - SHE CD 9627  Give me my robe  listen - Give me my robe - SHE CD 9627  How should I?  listen - How should I? - SHE CD 9627  First rehearse  listen - First rehearse - SHE CD 9627
(from SHE CD 9627)
Programme note available

White Fox Woman (2002)

dramatic scena
Text: Christie Dickason
high or medium voice, oboe
duration: 9'
Gemini Publications
First performance 4 May, 2002
Linda Hirst (voc), Paul Goodey (ob)
Trinty College of Music, London
CC2003  listen - CC2003
Recording: Oboe Classics CC2003

 

Works catalogue updated 24 June 2010

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