Elizabeth Maconchy

In this choral nocturne, the composer has taken verses by three different poets which she felt to be linked very closely in the feeling as well as in subject. The phrase ''Will you come?'' links the f...

Elizabeth Maconchy's Prayer Before Birth for SSAA a cappella, with words by Louis MacNiece.

These settings were written to a commission from the Southern Cathedrals Festival and first performed in Salisbury Cathedral on 24 July 1976 by choirs of Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester Cathedral...

Elizabeth Maconchy's Propheta Mendax for SSA Chorus.

Written for SATB chorus and brass ensemble, with a piano reduction. Text by Dylan Thomas.

Vocal Score

The Quintet for Oboe and Strings was written in 1932. Soon afterwards, it won a prize in the Daily Telegraph's Chamber Music competition, and was recorded for HMV records. The full score is presented...

Score available: CH61209

This work was first performed on 23rd October 1972 at the Wigmore Hall, London, by Janet Craxton (oboe), Perry Hart (violin), Brian Hawkins (viola) and Kenneth Heath (cello).

This work was first performed on 23rd October 1972 at the Wigmore Hall, London, by Janet Craxton (oboe), Perry Hart (violin), Brian Hawkins (viola) and Kenneth Heath (cello).

Butterflies' scored for Voice and Harp.

So we'll go no more a-roving (Byron) A Widow bird sate mourning (Shelley) The knot there's no un-tying (Thomas Campbell)

A Harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed. The instrument was widely used in Renaissance and Baroque music. Duri...

Instrumentation: 2 Flutes (Flute 2 doubling Piccolo), 2 Oboes (Oboe 2 doubling English Horn), 2 Bassoons, 2 B-flat Soprano Clarinets, 3 Trumpets (Trumpet 1 + 2 in C, Trumpet 3 in Bb), 4 Horns in F, 2...

Two Carols by Elizabeth Maconchy comprises two songs for unaccompanied upper voices: I sing of a maiden and This day, both originally conceived in 1966, with words from fifteenth-century texts. While...

Three baritone songs taken from the composer's cantata 'Héloïse and Abelard', and the opera 'The Three Strangers'. Specially arranged for baritone and piano by the composer for Brian Raynor Cook.

Solo part for Concertino for clarinet and string orchestra.

Piccola Musica is written for string trio and is in five short movements, independent of each other, apart from the 'tie-up' between numbers I and V. The texture is in the main contrapuntal, though le...

Maconchy String Quartet No. 11 was commissioned by the City Music Society 1976. Duration 16 minutes. Study score edition. Separate parts are also available on sale.