Gordon Crosse

This atmospheric concert work for oboe and mixed ensemble was composed for leading oboist Sarah Francis, who performed both the 1972 premiere of the work and on the later CD recording (Lyrita SRCD.259...

Epitaph is a work for unaccompanied SSATBB chorus by Gordon Crosse. It is a setting of words by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Commissioned by Jeremy Huw Williams with support from the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Composers' Note: Written for Anthea Gifford who had visited Essex University (while I was a fellow there) and she has recorded them on a National Trust disk called 'A Classical Guitar Recital at Cough...

Composed at Papay in Orkney and Wenhaston in Suffolk, Oct 2015 to March 2016.

Composer's Note: The subtitle comes from a poem 'Exequy'' by Peter Porter which memorialises the death of his first wife. The symphony was written in 2010 while my wife Elizabeth was coping with a ter...

Composers Note: This Quartet takes its inspiration from Quaker sources and above all the 'Silent Worship' of Meetings. The music is retrained and simple and avoids violent rhetoric. Above all, it uses...