Stephen Goss

composer

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The Vine-fruit Carol

2018 | 4 mins | for SATB choir and 2 guitars

text by Fiona Sampson

Score

Commissioned by the Worshipful Company of Musicians for their annual carol service. First performance, 12th December 2018, St Michael’s, Cornhill, London. Published by Doberman-Yppan © 2019. ISBN 978-2-89796-027-8

Songs of the Solar System

2012 | 18 mins | for SSA choir and harp (or piano)

text by Robert Isaacs

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

Score

Commissioned by The National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. First performance, Coventry Cathedral, August 30th 2012, given by the National Youth Girls’ Choir with Louise Wiggins – harp, conducted by Esther Jones. Published by Doberman-Yppan DO1302 © 2020.

The Shard

2011 | 5 mins | for large orchestra

(3+picc.3+ca.3+bcl.3+cbn/4.3.3.1/T+3P.hp.cel/16.14.12.10.6)

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Cottleston Pie

2001 | 9 mins | for SSAATTBB choir

text by A.A. Milne

Buzzing-noise
The Eeyore Blues
Tiddely-pom
Cottleston Pie
Tigger Tango

Notes

First performed by the St Bride’s Singers, St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London on March 14th, 2002. Commissioned by the John Armitage Memorial Fund

Arcadia

1996 | 22 mins | for nineteen solo strings

(9 vln, 4 vla, 4 vlc 2 cb)

First Voice
Insect
Song of Ithaca
Dances from a Green Bay

Notes

First performed by the Surrey Sinfonietta in the Charles Cryer Theatre Carshalton, Surrey, 25th April, 1999. Awarded first prize in the 1999 Surrey Sinfonietta National Composition Competition. Recorded on SSCD01

Dreamchild

1995 | 35 mins | for soprano and large ensemble

text by Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Rene Chalupt, Wallace Stevens, Grace Slick, Philip Larkin

(fl, cl, sop sax, alto sax, 2 tpt, tb, 5 perc, hp, pno, and b gtr)

A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
Passacaglia – Collage 1
Le Chapelier – Scherzo 1
A Games of Chess – Collage 2
White Rabbit – Scherzo 2
Chorale with Variations – Collage 3
If, My Darling

Notes

First performed by Jane Manning and The Dreamchild Ensemble conducted by Roger Redgate, 10th June 1997, Goldsmiths College Hall, London.

Saviour of the World

1992 | 6 mins | for SATB choir and organ

Commissioned by the Ashtead Singers. First performed 13th September 1992

Hymnen an die Nacht

1985 | 17 mins | for soprano solo, baritone solo and orchestra

text by Klopstock, Novalis, Nietzsche, and Dehmel

Die frühen Gräber
Hinüber wall ich
Der Wanderer und sein Schatten
Gleichnis

Commissioned by the Iaspis Chamber Orchestra. First performed at St John’s, Smith Square, London, 17th December 1985 conducted by Nikolas Mikolakis

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