Sonnet 126
In this, the final work in the sequence of sonnets directed towards a fair youth, Shakespeare reflects upon time and decay… For SATB choir or SATB soloists.
Porch Scribbles
This setting of a poem by Allen Ginsberg was written for the vocal trio Juice for a workshop performance at Cardiff University on 27th November 2007. The music attempts to reflect the various…
A Birthday
Lyrics: My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water'd shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;My heart is like a rainbow…
Baptismal Sentences
For George Albert William Owen Thomas Commissioned by Fr. Paul Thomas for St. James’s Church, Sussex Gardens. The texts is adapted from two sections of the 1662 baptismal service: Be stedfast…
Three Tantum Ergos
Commissioned by Fr. Paul Thomas for St. James’s Church, Sussex Gardens. Tantum ergo SacramentumVeneremur cernui:Et antiquum documentumNovo cedat ritui:Præstet fides supplementumSensuum defectui. Genitori, GenitoqueLaus et iubilatio,Salus, honor, virtus quoqueSit et…
Sing We To This Merry Company
Commissioned by St. James's Church, Sussex Gardens Text: Sing we to this merry company: Regina caeli, laetare! Holy Maid, blessed thou be;The Son of God is born of thee,The Father…
Missa Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Commissioned by Fr Paul Thomas for St James’s Church, Sussex Gardens. Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison. Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.…