Ian Venables

An extended work for choir and organ by 'Britain's greatest living composer of Art Song' (Musical Opinion) and 'a song composer as fine as Finzi and Gurney' (BBC Music Magazine). The work was premiere...

The Last Invocation is a song cycle for high voice and piano which sets text by great American poet Walt Whitman. It was commissioned by The Richard Hall Trust and first performed at the Elgar Festiva...

The song At the Court of the Poisoned Rose was commissioned by the countertenor, James Huw-Jeffries. It is based upon a long prose poem by the Scottish poetess Marion Angus (1866-1946). Published unde...

First performed in 1994 by Cirencester Parish Church and published here for the first time, this is a setting of text taken from the Psalms, scored for mixed voices with organ accompaniment

Six songs for Tenor, Clarinet and Piano, this set takes its name from Plato's Symposium setting texts by Constantine P. Cavafy, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jean de Sponde, Emperor Hadrian, Jim Denning and...

The Elegy for Cello and Piano Op. 2 was the first piece written by Ian Venables for solo instrument and Piano. Written in 1980 for the 'cellist Anthony Gammage, it is as an elegy for an unreturned lo...

Three Pieces For Violin And Piano Op. 11 were the first works to be written by composer Ian Venables after he moved to Worcestershire in 1986. The pieces, Pastorale, Romance and Dance have been called...

Ten settings for Baritone and Piano by Ian Venables. '...There is no mistaking the emotional and technical strength in Venables' songs, besides their very real beauty - qualities which can only come...

Song cycle for medium voice and piano, based upon the poetry of Ivor Gurney and Leonard Clark. A set of pieces very much in the English lyrical vocal writing tradition of Butterworth, Ireland and, of...

Venetian Songs Op. 22 is a cycle of four songs for High Voice and Piano by Ian Venables, setting the inspiring texts of John Addington Symonds. Venables has allowed the texts of Symonds' poetry to gu...

Ian Venables' Requiem Aeternam for SATB and Organ. Comissioned by Bryce and Cyntha Somerville. In memory of Thomas Bryce Somerville.

Ian Venables' The Song Of The Severn is a cycle of songs in celebration of Worcestershire, scored for Baritone Voice, String Quartet and Piano. 'The Song of the Severn... clothespoems by Masefield, H...

Ian Venables' The Song Of The Severn is a cycle of songs in celebration of Worcestershire, scored for Baritone Voice, String Quartet and Piano. 'The Song of the Severn... clothespoems by Masefield, H...

Ian Venables' lyrical, touching, sometimes angry post-Romantic settings of four poems of A. E. Housman: 1. Easter Hymn, 2. When Green buds hang, 3. Oh who is that young sinner 4. Because I liked you b...

Invite, to Eternity, Op. 31. Settings of poems by John Clare, for tenor voice and string quartet.

Invite, To Eternity. Settings of poems by John Clare, for tenor voice and string quartet.

Piano and String parts for Remember This, Cantata for soprano and tenor solists and piano quintet.

Ian Venables' Through These Pale Cold Days was composed in 2016 and is arranged for Tenor, Viola and Piano with an approximate duration of 23 minutes.

Remember This by Ian Venables, Cantata for soprano and tenor solists and piano quintet. Full score, required for the vocal soloists.

Piano and String parts for Remember This, Cantata for soprano and tenor solists and piano quintet.

This solo Organ work, written in 2009 and dedicated to the memory of the great 20th Century English church composer, Herbert Howells, has been received with high critical acclaim by both Organ special...

Ian Venables: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night is a Christmas Choral piece, first published in Noël 2!, beautifully composed for SATB Choir and Organ accompaniment.