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David Hamilton  

A Child Comes Forth

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 2006
for SSA choir with percussion and harp

  • Programme Note

    This work was written at the request of conductor Elise Bradley for her highly regarded choir Key Cygnetures at Westlake Girls High School (Auckland).

    It was intended for a ‘mid-winter Christmas’ concert which was to also feature Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. I therefore felt happy to turn to Christmas texts with some of the more traditional Christmas references (snow etc).

    The first text is from the fifteenth century and is a general text mentioning Mary, the manger, the wise men, and the gifts they brought, and ends with call to delight in the Christ child. The second text, by G.K. Chesterton contains images of snow and night, and ends with the line that gives the work its overall title. The third text is a variant of the carol ‘I saw three ships come sailing in’ and may refer either to the medieval myth that Joseph and Mary travelled to England, or obliquely to purported journeys of the relics of the wise men. The fourth text is a lullaby by nineteenth century poet John Addington Symonds. Again the wise men and their gifts are mentioned along with the shepherds. The final text is another anonymous one, and is simply a brief and energetic welcome to ’heaven’s King’.

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Ronald Dellow  

All Saints Mass

Duration: 10' 00"
for unison or SATB with optional piano or organ

Jack Body  

Carol to St. Stephen

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1975
for soprano, alto and tenor soloists and SATB choir

Craig Utting  

Confessio of St. Patrick

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1985
for choir

Clare Maclean  

Et Misericordia

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1986
for unaccompanied choir

Gillian Whitehead  

Five Songs of Hildegard Von Bingen

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1976
for unaccompanied SATB choir

John Wells  

Gloria Tonga

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2000
for SATB choir and piano

John Ritchie  

Kyrie and Gloria

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1963
for SATB choir, strings, timpani

Chris Adams  

Mass for Double Choir

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 2005, r. 2013
setting of the traditional Latin Mass for double choir

Dorothy Buchanan  

Mass in English

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1966
for unaccompanied SSA choir