vocal music

Flos florum is a piece for double choir with solo flute, juxtaposing the chaste purity of the choral writing with the sultry exoticism of the flute’s arabesques: listen to the beginning here. 

Of noblest cities is a carol for choir and organ, setting a meditative poem by Prudentius about the three wise men, in a beautiful Victorian translation.  Each verse is based on the same melody, but set in increasingly elaborate polyphony, in a modern evocation of the wonderful choral music of Tudor times: Tallis, Shepherd, Byrd and so on.  Between the verses there is stillness and space.   Listen to an excerpt here. 

Coming soon: clips from my new video opera A Sudden Cartography of Song, premiered at the Spitalfields Festival earlier this summer.

Music by Jeremy Thurlow.