Richard Causton

Richard Causton's Night Piece for solo piano is a short encore work based on the clarinet line from the slow movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. It was premiered by the Polish pianist Piotr Anders...

The music moves through five short sections. It isn't until some way into the final section that Fat's Waller's song, 'Ain't Misbehavin', the theme on which the piece is based, emerges fully. This wit...

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano. Phoenix is a series of interlinked, contrasting sections - by turns elegiac, radiant, and menacing - culminating in a luminous cantilena for the four melody...

Causton explores the various timbres of the violin in this unaccompanied work. The improvisatory fantasy of the opening gives way to a virtuosic Double and then a lyrical, pensive Air which closes the...

Commissioned by King's College, Cambridge for the 2015 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, this setting of a poem by George Szirtes on the subject of the flight to Bethlehem has rich and ethereal har...

For SATB and 3 solo voices unaccompanied. With words drawn from an anonymous poem depicting Mary's woeful lullaby to her newborn son, this reflective piece draws the three solo voices from the chorus...

A movement from In Windsor Forest, setting Shakespeare's text from Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Scene 3.

This work is made up of two contrasting treatments of the same underlying melody. The first is entitled Grizzly Bear Jam because of its ferocity, playfulness and rhythmic instability. Song to End Mour...

With this majestic work Chilcott takes on a landmark of the choral repertory, the Christmas Oratorio. Words from St Luke and St Matthew are intertwined with 16th-19th-century poetry to create a compel...

A single movement for bassoon exploring the potential of an instrument much neglected in solo music.

On Christmas Night is a sequence of eight carols with a variety of performance options. Chilcott uses several familiar carol melodies within his own settings, which employ a wide range of styles and m...

Victoria opens this motet with a dramatic homophonic account of Judas's betrayal of Jesus, similar to the opening of another of his responsory settings, Jesum tradidit impius, before a contrasting sec...

For violin and piano. From the first sporadic drops to showers, monsoons and drenching sheets, the instruments in this piece (the piano prepared with blu-tack) work closely together to effectively cap...

'The Bridge of Fire', written in 1906, is the title poem of James Elroy Flecker's first published volume. It is largely a vivid description of the many Gods of Heaven, the great and the good, the bad...

For solo baritoneThe Flea was commissioned as a work 'suitable for singing in an informal setting and easily memorised'. It is a free and humorous setting of John Donne's poem in which the poet attemp...

This attractive carol has a tuneful melody with a slight modal feel. Opening with melody alone, sung solo or in unison, the carol builds up harmonically, moving from octave thirds to the rich, occasio...

For unaccompanied female voice. The five short songs which make up this work are all settings of translations of Chinese poetry from the Tang dynasty (618-906AD) and several of them are about the sepa...

Fernando Taberner pairs percussion and mixed voices in his innovative and zealous new carol that depicts a shepherd's joy at the birth of Christ. The two percussion parts may be played on tambourines...

This Marian piece opens with an extended soprano passage, underpinned by soft yet characterful organ writing. Several hallmarks of Jackson's style are evident, including soaring, melismatic soprano li...

Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerful intensity and skilful...

Setting an invigorating Easter text from the Song of Songs, this episodic anthem is full of expressive passages and lyrical melodies. The canonical soprano parts are echoed in the lower voices, contri...

This setting of texts from Cymbeline and The Merchant of Venice, and Sonnet 98, is characterised by inventive textures and vibrant word-setting. The harmonic language is mostly diatonic but never plai...

Bob Chilcott has composed O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen for the occasion of Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022. This is a reflection on a piece of the same title by Willia...

Wilberg arranged this familiar hymn for the funeral of US President Gerald Ford. The first two verses are set for unison voices (men on verse one, women on verse two). The final verse is a setting for...