Stephen Pratt

Uneasy Vespers for choir, soloists and orchestra. Part I of this work was completed and performed in 1991 as part of a commission for Liverpool Philharmonic's 150th anniversary celebrations. Newly com...

At the Turn of the Year is a revised version (2016) of a set of four short piano studies sketched mostly between December 1991 and January 1992. The work is in four sections, all derived from the open...

Recall an event, then 're-tell' it in different ways: that is the raison d'être of Stephen Pratt's Telling the Tale. As the piece progresses, the focus slips away from the original event to become a l...

The opportunity to write a string quartet for the Chilingirians was on the table for a long time. After several false starts, the present piece was begun in Crete in the summer of 2000. An earlier wor...

Entre Nous, written for the outstanding Norwegian cellist Jonathan Aasgaard, is one of a proposed series of three related works, all featuring solo cello. The title reflects the sense of collaboration...

Solo Uno was completed in summer 2015 and first performed by Nicholas Cox in a July recital at the International Clarinet Festival in Madrid. It consists of three contrasting movements: a moderately p...

Dirigier- und Studienpartitur - Blasorchester und Schlagwerk

6 solo Singstimmen, Chor, Orchester

Symphonies of Time and Tide was written to be performed during the composer's 70th birthday year and it is dedicated to members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and its remarkable chief c...

Double Act has been commissioned by The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for Ensemble 10:10 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first concert of the ensemble. Funds towards the commission have been...

In Hope has been written for Pixels Ensemble. The first performance will be given at a concert of Stephen's work in the Angel Field Festival at Liverpool Hope University in June, 2021. The event, mark...

Three Imaginary Folksongs was requested by the Concerts Society of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral for their concert season marking the 50th anniversary of the opening of the cathedral. The composer...

Noting the Landscape was composed in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic. During the periods of lockdown Stephen Pratt had found it impossible to compose and he turned instead to painting. But a subse...

I began work on my violin concerto late in 1991, shortly after the death of my father. An amateur violinist, he bought a violin in India during the second world war, and it later accompanied him on hi...

Chants du Printemps is an expanded version of a smaller work, completed in 2010, for two oboes, cor anglais, harp and percussion. The earlier piece, Canto di Primavera, included a couple of oblique re...

Lovebytes was composed between June 2002 and May 2003, although the third song is a re-working of part of a setting of Adrian Henri's Harbour which was first heard in 1987 at a concert celebrating Adr...