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      • The Phagotus of Afranio – a capriccio
      • A Starlit Dome *
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      • Three Chicken Studies
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      • Ozymandias **
      • Three Latin Motets
      • Ave Maris Stella
      • A Better Time than Ours – A Carol
      • Agamemnon’s Tomb (A Requiem)
      • Songs of Rain and Sea
      • O Magnum Mysterium – motet
      • Mass in Troubled Times for 18 Unaccompanied voices
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      • The Phoenix
      • The Borders of Sleep – Nine Poems by Edward Thomas
      • The Burning of the Leaves
      • Binyon Songs for Baritone and Piano
      • Verlaine Songs
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      • A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning for Voice and Piano
    • Chamber
      • Serenata Concertata
      • Trio **
      • String Quartet No.1
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      • String Quartet No.3 **
      • String Quartet No.4 **
      • Snowbound
      • String Quartet No. 5
      • String Quartet No. 6
      • Stronghold
      • Night-Spells
    • Brass
      • A Madrigal for Thomas Morley
      • Wildfire **
      • Men of Stone (Symphonic Suite) **
      • Invocation
      • Tsunami **
      • Black Castles **
      • Aurora **
      • Gaia Symphony **
      • Eden **
      • Rain, Steam and Speed
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    • Bridal Lullaby (Percy Grainger)
    • The Battle Song (Havergal Brian)
    • Toccata (Monteverdi)
    • Mazurka in A minor Op.17 No.4 (Chopin)
    • The Vision of Cleopatra – Tragic Poem by Havergal Brian
    • 6 Maeterlinck-Lieder by Alexander von Zemlinsky
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Major new choral work completed

John has completed a large-scale choral piece commissioned by Huddersfield Choral Society. Agamemnon’s Tomb sets part of a poem by Sacheverell Sitwell. It was composed between 2005 and 2007 and its first performance will take place on 9 May 2008 in Huddersfield Town Hall, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Read a programme note for Agamemnon’s Tomb

Published 19 July, 2007By John
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