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Christopher Brown

 

composer

conductor

editor

music typesetter

“One of Britain’s most accomplished composers of the post
Leighton-Howells-Britten generation”  (Musical Opinion)

unaccompanied choral works

“There is something arresting about these boldly contemporary settings ... challenging, but worthwhile songs.”
(Music and Musicians on “Three Shakespeare Songs”).

First performance:

Robert Herrick, William Davenant, Edmund Spenser

Text:

Aubade  op. 17     
Elizabethan Singers, cond. Herrick Bunney
Publisher:  Chester Music
15.5.68: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
13 mins.
SSAATTBB with soli

First performance:

The Angelic Salutation

Text:

Ave Maria       
New Cambridge Singers, cond. Christopher Brown
Publisher:  Musography
24.6.06: Horningsea Parish Church
3 mins.
SATB

First performance:

Rosslyn Missal

Text:

Benedicite Omnes Angeli  op. 80     
Eton Choral Course, cond. Ralph Allwood
Publisher:  Musography
20.7.92: Eton College Chapel, Eton
7 mins.
SSSAATTBB

First performance:

William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, Anon

Text:

Elegy  op. 14     
Purcell Consort of Voices, director Grayston Burgess
Publisher:  Anglo-American
4.10.67: Purcell Room, London
13 mins.
SSATBarB

First performance:

Sir Walter Raleigh

Text:

Even such is time       
Choir of St. Peter-ad-Vincula, cond. John Williams
Publisher:  Chester Music
4.10.77: Chapel of St. Peter-ad-Vincula, Tower of London
4 mins.
SSAATTBB

First performance:

1: "Call for the robin-redbreast" (Webster)  2: "Merry Margaret" (Skelton)   3:" With how sad steps, O Moon" (Sidney)  4: "Sound the Flute" (Blake)

Text:

Four Madrigals  op. 29     
Choir of Tiffin's School, cond. Bruce Pullan
Publisher:  Oxford Music Archive
8.5.71: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
12 mins.
SSAATTBB with soli

First performance:

1: "Song to the Mountains" (Pawnee)  2: "Song of the Rain-Chant" (Navaho)  3: "Song for Fine Weather" (Haida)  4: "Korosta Katzina Song" (Hopi)

Text:

From the Doorways of the Dawn  op. 64     
The Scholars
Publisher:  Chester Music
19.1.86: Tokyo
12 mins.
SATB

First performance:

1: "Music, thou Queen of Heaven"  2: "Begin to charm"  3: "Charms, that call down the moon"  4: Welcome maids of honour" (Robert Herrick)

Text:

Herrick Songs  op. 31     
The Scholars
Publisher:  Roberton Publications
13.8.71: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
10 mins.
SATBarB

First performance:

The Bible, Anon

Text:

Hodie Salvator Apparuit  op. 28     
Salterello Choir, cond. Christopher Seaman
Publisher:  Chester Music
9.12.70: St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, London
17 mins.
SSAATTBB with soli

First performance:

Rowan Williams

Text:

Like a Child       
Clare College Choir, cond. Timothy Brown
Publisher:  Musography
1.12.02: Clare College Chapel, Cambridge
6 mins.
SSSAATTBB

First performance:

Latin Mass

Text:

Mass for Four Voices  op. 76     
Clare College Choir, cond. Timothy Brown
Publisher:  Musography
14.5.92: Clare College Chapel, Cambridge
18 mins.
SATB with soli

First performance:

1: "Atlantic Beach"  2: "Corncrake"  3: "Spring in South Uist"  4: "Evening at Gearraidh Bhailtas" (Henry Marsh)

Text:

Sunlight on a pale green ocean  op. 96     
New Cambridge Singers, cond. Christopher Brown
Publisher:  Musography
17.5.08: Horningseas Parish Church, Cambridgeshire
13 mins.
SSSAATTBBB

First performance:

1: "Adam lay ybounden"  2: "Lullay, my liking"  3: "Sir Christemas" (Anon)

Text:

Three Early English Carols       
New Cambridge Singers, cond. Christopher Brown
Publisher:  Musography
1 - 9.12.06: Linton  2 - 1.12.07: Braughing  3 - 11.12.10: Balsham
9 mins.
SSAATTBB

First performance:

1: "Out of your sleep"  2: "Maid, Mother, Mary"  3: "Welcome! Our Messias" (Anon)

Text:

Three Medieval Carols  op. 37a     
Baccholian Singers
Publisher:  Musography
15.6.73: Carlisle
12 mins.
TTBarBarB

First performance:

1: "Tell me where is fancy bred"  2: "Come away, death"  3: "Come unto these yellow sands" (William Shakespeare)

Text:

Three Shakespeare Songs  op. 7     
King's College Choir, cond. David Willcocks
Publisher:  Oxford University Press
14.6.65: King's College, Cambridge
10 mins.
SSAATBarB

First performance:

Thomas Traherne, Robert Herrick, Sir John Davies, William Barnes, Anon

Text:

To Musick, Sing!  op. 82     
Clare College Choir, cond. Timothy Brown
Publisher:  Musography
17.3.93: Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset
9 mins.
SSAATTBB with soli