COMPOSITIONS INSPIRED BY THE WRITER JOHN COWPER POWYS
(1872 - 1963)
3 ORGAN PIECES: “Aubade”; “Ghosta and Lilith”; “Cortege” from “The Brazen Head” (1987/9)
“WHITENESS” (poem by JCP) for soprano, baritone and piano (1988)
“SHILLY SHALLY”- a children’s opera based on the late short story for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1989/1992)
“FOR MYSHKIN” JCP’s dramatisation of “The Idiot” by Dostoievsky: for actors, solo piano and chamber ensemble (1991)
“WOLF SOLENT SUITE” for 2 flutes/ clarinets and strings (1992):
1. Christie must wait; 2. Mr Malakite’s Disorder; 3.An Ounce of Civet Good Master Jason*;
4. The Iniquity of Oblivion;* 5.Elegy for Jimmy Redfern*
THREE POWYS VIGNETTES *for alto and strings: based on “Weymouth Sands”;
“Maiden Castle” and “A Glastonbury Romance” (1992)
“JOURNEY TO LOST TOWERS ” (The Brazen Head- 1992) for 5 viols (also for chamber orchestra)
“OUT OF NEVILTON”* + “LACRIMA FOR TRAFFIO”* for 2 clarinets or descant recorder and viols from “Wood and Stone” (1994)
TWO ORCHESTRAL PIECES : “ The Stone Circle”+ “Sir Mort Abyssum, His Ritual”: from “The Brazen Head” (1994)
“POWYS IN AMERICA I” for cornet and piano (1999)*
“POWYS IN AMERICA II” for 2 clarinets, cornet and piano (1999)*
“EIDOLON VULGARIS” for lute, mandolin and 3 viols from “After My Fashion” (2010)
“MR POWYS HIS DELIGHT” for solo bass viol from “Autobiography “(2010)
“WALKING MUSIC FOR JCP” for 2 bass viols from “Autobiography” (2010)
“DITCHLING ROAD” (unpublished poem) for soprano and chamber ensemble (2010)
*unperformed
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