Research Catalog

Title

Ben somewhen : choral and chamber music / Howard Skempton.

Author

Skempton, Howard, 1947-

Publication

London : NMC Recordings, [2007], ℗2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tattersdill, John
• Weeks, James
• Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
• Exaudi (Choral ensemble), performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Description

1 audio disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Instrumental ensembles
• Quintets (Clarinet, violins (2), viola, cello)
• Choruses (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
• Ballets > Excerpts
• Double bass with instrumental ensemble

Note

• The 1st work for 15 instruments; the 2nd work for clarinet, 2 violins, viola, and violoncello; the 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 7th works for choir (SATB); the 5th work a suite extracted from dance music for Delicate, for 2 violoncellos and percussion; the 8th work for double bass with flute, clarinet, harp, violin, viola, and 2 violoncellos.
• Title from container.
• Texts by Percy Bysshe Shelley (3rd work), James Elroy Flecker (4th work), John Drinkwater (6th work), and from the Song of Solomon (7th work).
• Compact disc.
• Includes texts with program notes by Howard Skempton and James Weeks (23 p. : ill., ports.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

• Recorded Jan. 16-17, 2007 at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London (3rd-4th, 6th-7th works) and Apr. 14-15, 2007 at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham (remaining works).

Language (note)

• Sung in English.

Contents

Chamber concerto (5:30) -- Clarinet quintet (8:43) -- The voice of the spirits (7:30) -- The bridge of fire (7:04) -- Delicate. Suite (18:12) -- Roundels of the year (7:15) -- Rise up, my love (8:35) -- Ben somewhen (12:16).

LCCN

5023363013529

OCLC

• ocn181163375
• 181163375
• SCSB-14027286

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries