Iain Bell

An SATB arrangement of the final chorus from Bell's 2019 opera 'Stonewall', complete with accompaniment for piano and strings. 'Much to be Done' was commissioned by The Pink Singers.

The vocal score for The Hidden Place, a work for solo soprano and orchestra, written for Diana Damrau. The work sets to music a collection of poems that depict the intimate moments shared by two lover...

The Undying Splendour is a work by Iain Bell for Tenor Voice and Piano Accompaniment. The work was premiered in the UK at Wigmore Hall in London. The work sets three poems by First World War soldier J...

Iain Bell’s "Aurora" is a concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. It premiered at the BBC Proms in 2018 with soprano...

The vocal score for Bell’s 2019 opera, Stonewall. Commissioned by New York City Opera, and with a libretto by Mark Campbell, the opera was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stone...

A monodrama encapsulating the compassion, grief, hope and terror of those living through the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. The Man With Night Sweats was commissioned by Nigel Foster and the London Song Fe...

We Two is a song cycle for Bass-baritone and piano and sets excerpts from Leaves of Grass by great American poet Walt Whitman. The first live performance took place at the New York Festival of Song in...

Five sonnets for high, bel canto tenor and string orchestra, settings words by Richard Barnfield on the epiphanies, anxieties and obsessions of queer love.

Composer Iain Bell sets text by Eugene Fields in A Cradle Suite. Volume One sets ‘Japanese Lullaby’ alongside ‘Norse Lullaby.’ Volume Two, scored as a duet, evokes fairies, the Mirkland Queen, brownie...

Composer Iain Bell sets text by Eugene Fields in A Cradle Suite. Volume One sets ‘Japanese Lullaby’ alongside ‘Norse Lullaby.’ Volume Two, scored as a duet, evokes fairies, the Mirkland Queen, brownie...

Four songs for solo tenor and piano. Nahuatl poetic reflections on life and mortality. 15th century texts by Nezahualcoyotl. Commissioned by Concerts Pamplona, and first performed on 19 June 2022 in t...

These Motley Fools by Iain Bell is a song cycle for voice and piano commissioned by Wigmore Hall for countertenor Lawrence Zazzo. It is an exploration of the differing facets of the Shakespearean fool...

Much To Be Done is an arrangement of the final chorus from Bell’s 2019 opera Stonewall.

An SATB arrangement of the final chorus from Bell's 2019 opera 'Stonewall', complete with accompaniment for piano and strings. 'Much to be Done' was commissioned by The Pink Singers.

An arrangement of the final chorus from Bell's 2019 opera 'Stonewall' for solo SATB voices. 'Much to be Done' was originally commissioned by the Pink Singers and commissioned in this arrangement Mark...

Iain Bell’s Beowulf, for soloists, chorus and large orchestra, is a retelling of the famous Old English epic poem. It was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and prem...

'Tom O'Bedlam' is one of the best known examples of c.17th mad-song poetry. Part saga, part stream-of-consciousness, in this operatic 'ayre' Tom recounts his descent to madness by virtue of his libidi...

'Tom O'Bedlam' is one of the best known examples of c.17th mad-song poetry. Part saga, part stream-of-consciousness, in this operatic 'ayre' Tom recounts his descent to madness by virtue of his libidi...

Commissioned by Freunde und Förderer der Musikalischen Akademie des Bayerischen Staatsorchesters. First performance 20 July 2015 at Haus der Kunst as part of the Munich Opera Festival 2015 with T...

Day Turned Into Night is a work by Iain Bell for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano Accompaniment. The work is in five sections, each setting a different extract from Queen Victoria's writings concerning her lov...