56pp. illus. 27.0 x 19.0 cm.

The first performance of David Goode's Eight Sonnets by Francis Warner was given in the hall of King's College, Cambridge, 14 June 2015, on the occasion of the retirement of the College Chaplain, Richard Lloyd Morgan, and sung by him with David Goode at the piano.

The Sonnets

'Sometimes a summer's day begins in mist'
'I did not see the bombs fall on the Thames'
'Was it mere chance that brought the mating hare'
'Should we preserve intensity alone'
'Night wins. The realizing dark'
'Just now is dawn, and I am out of doors'
'Twenty-eight fighter bombers overhead'
'The held cascade of vaulting stone unites'

With a free CD recording, which can be bought separately at http://www.oxrecs.comeightsonnets.html

278pp. 27.0 x 19.0 cm.

This book is the outcome of over a decade's collaboration between three friends: David Goode as composer, Francis Warner as librettist, and Stephen Cleobury as choirmaster.

Contents

David Goode, words by Francis Warner

Anthem for All Saints' Day
Anthem for St Catharine's Day
Anthem for St Cecilia's Day
Anthem for St Peter's Day
Anthem for the Visitation
Anthem for Christ the King

David Goode
Variations on a Theme by Francis Warner

With a CD of these works sung by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conducted by Stephen Cleobury during Choral services

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Conductor's score: xiv, 105 pp. cloth 35.0 x 23.7 cm. ISBN: 978-0-86140-490-2  £100.00 ltd to 40 signed copies
Vocal score: xiv, 82 pp. pbk 26.8 x 19.0 cm.             ISBN: 978-0-86140-491-9   £10.00
Full score: xiv, 105 pp. pbk 30.8 x 20.8cm                 ISBN: 978-0-86140-492-6   £15.00

The first performance of David Goode's one-hour Blitz Requiem, with words by Francis Warner, took place at St Paul's Cathedral, London, on 23 September 2013. The soloists were Emma Tring, Suzanna Spicer, Matthew Long and Robert Davies, with the Bach Choir and the Royal Philharmoic Orchestra (Leader Clio Gould) conducted by David Hill, and was broadcast on Classic FM. It was generously sponsored by the Murphy Foundation, with additional support from Victoria Sharp and Simon Yates.

Reviews

'From the darkest days of the Blitz comes new music of sublime beauty by world-renowned organist David Goode.' Mail on Sunday

'. . . Francis Warner who at the centre of it endured through the Nazi five-year onslaught on London, has given the country's ordeal its lasting spiritual articulation. His poetry speaks for his nation: indeed for all of us.' Temenos

'Its music and words are certainly memorable. Goode's Blitz Requiem owns the dramatic qualities, melodic eloquence and inventive richness required for repeat performances, and perhaps to establish a lasting place in the contemporary choral repertoire mainstream.' Classical Music Magazine

'This work is exemplary: it has a warmly conceived, well-mapped score, and a profoundly evocative text by Francis Warner. His imagery hits the nail on the head, and melts the heart. It takes quite some music to match and convey this. The range, rich variety and huge intelligence of Goode's music is wholly up to the task. This is a major work from an exciting composer.' Church Times

With a recording of the performance on CD

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Vocal Score: 27.0 x 19.0 cm. 72 pages. Paper covers (978-0-86140-498-8) £10.00
Full score: 30.8 x 20.8 cm. 88 pages. Paper covers (987-0-86140-497-1)  £15.00

With 11 colour illustrations from the 16th-century windows of King's College Chapel, Cambridge

Score of David Goode's setting of Francis Warner's 1962 Nativity poem, "A Legend's Carol", with a Note on the Poem by Glyn Pursglove.

With a free CD recording, which can be bought separately at https://www.oxrecs.com/ALegendsCarol.html

Vocal Score: 27.0 x 19.0 cm. 64 pages. Paper covers £10.00 (978-0-86140-500-8)
Full score: 30.8 x 20.8 cm. 104 pages, Paper covers £15.00  (978-0-86140-501-5)

With colour illustrations of details of works by Sandro Botticelli and John Piper

Song Cycle. David Goode's setting for soprano and baritone, and piano of four extracts from Francis Warner's poems, the sections titled Fire, Earth, Water and Air. Fire reflects his schoolboy desire to become a blacksmith, during the extremely cold winter of 1946-47; Earth - ‘Amabile’ - is the speech of Simonetta as Primavera from Living Creation, his play on Botticelli and Medici Florence; Water, Summer, recalls the June Concert on the river Cam by Clare Bridge sung by the Cambridge University Madrigal Choir; and Air, the climax of his 1961 poem Perennia, a duet.

With a free CD recording, which can be bought separately at https://www.oxrecs.com/FourSongs.html

48pp.  27.00 × 19.00 cm.

In 2019, Sir Stephen Cleobury retired after half a century of greatly distinguished service to church music.A little part of that, happily, involved conducting and recording the collection of anthems by Francis and myself - and so it seemed fitting to write one more piece for him before his retirement. This piece is the Anthem for Easter Day. (as it happens, Easter remained unmarked in the collection, unless one counts the Anthem for Christ the King.)  Francis' text focused on a more personal, less overtly triumphant, quality to the Resurrection story, seen from the view of Mary Magdalen, and my setting tried to reflect that, from the somewhat sombre F minor opening of the first eight lines evoking shades of black and white to the anthem's gentle conclusion in colour and scents of that new sprint dawn.      David Goode

With a free CD which may be purchased from OxRecs

‘Questions: A Lullaby Carol’ was first performed during the Eton College Carol Service 2011 by the Chapel Choir. Director of Music: Tim Johnson. The recording was made by the choir on 15 January 2017.

The première of ‘Anthem for Easter Day’ was performed by the choir of King’s College in chapel on 12 May 2019. Director of Music: Stephen Cleobury, Organist Henry Websdale.

Issued in 2019 by OxRecs DIGITAL OXCD-148.