ELIZABETH MACONCHY

Music for Voices

 

1.   Creatures - 1: The Hen and the Carp (1979)

2.   Creatures - 2: The Snail (1979)

3.   Creatures - 3: Rendez-vous with a Beetle (1979)

4.   Creatures - 4: Tiger! Tiger! (1979)

5.   Creatures - 5: Cat's Funeral (1979)

6.   Creatures - 6: The Dove and the Wren (1979)

7.   Creatures - 7: Cat! (1979)

8.   Nocturnal - 1: Come! (1965)

9.   Nocturnal - 2: Will you come? (1965)

10.  Nocturnal - 3: In the Night (1965)

11.  Four Miniatures - 1: Light the lamps up, Lamplighter (1978)

12.  Four Miniatures - 2: For Snow (1978)

13.  Four Miniatures - 3: The Night will never Stay (1978)

14.  Four Miniatures - 4: For a Mocking Voice (1978)

15.  Sirens' Song (1974)

16.  Prayer before birth (1972)

17.  This Day

18.  On Stephenses day (1989)

19.  Two Epitaphs - 1: Our life is nothing but a winter's day (1975)

20.  Two Epitaphs - 2: As the tree falls (1975)

21.  Propheta Mendax [The Lying Prophet] (1965)    

22.  A Hymn to God the Father

23.  The Ribbon in her Hair

24.  The Voice of the City

25.  The Armado

26.  Still falls the Rain (1985)

 

Richard Pearce (piano)

BBC Singers / Odaline de la Martinez

 

Dorothy Ker was born in New Zealand in 1965 but after studying composition and electronic music with John Rimmer she emigrated to the UK where she is now Research Fellow at Sheffield University.

 

Apart from the cello solo all the pieces feature the clarinet and were composed with one player in mind: Andrew Sparling.

 

Ker's creative preoccupations are form, space and memory -- each composition  draws stimulus from an extra-musical source, from the natural world to the inner world of the dream.

 

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