Geoffrey Burgon

This quintet was written in September and October of 1981 and was commissioned using funds from the Harvard Musical Association.

Gending is a Balinese word meaning simply 'instrumental composition', and this work takes as its starting point the colours, textures, rhythmic pattens and formal procedures of Balinese music. Gending...

This work was commissioned by Pembroke College, Cambridge to celebrate the 600th anniversary of' their foundation. It was first performed at St. John's Smith Square, London on the 18th of March 1998 b...

For Flute, Clarinet, Harp and String Quartet. Commissioned by the Summer Music Society of Dorset 2009. Geoffrey Burgon's Minterne Dances was given its first performance by the Mobius Ensemble on 26t...

Cider With Rosie, composed by Geoffrey Burgon, arranged for piano solo.

Theme song from the TV serialisation of John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga, as sung by Bryn Terfel. Music by Geoffrey Burgon, with words by Jacqueline Kroft. Arranged for piano and voice. Piano score...

Composed in 1981, this work is a setting of a sequence from the Mass for the Feast of St Thomas, found in the missal of the Hereford use. The text is a conventional hymn of praise but it is distinguis...

Composed in 1972 for SATB chorus unaccompanied. Piano accompaniment for rehearsal only.

Work for six solo Voices or unaccompanied Choir. First performed by The Purcell Consort of Voices in 1974. Text: St John of the Cross.

SATB unaccompanied.

Taken from Songs Between The Soul And The Bridegroom. Canciones entre el alma y el esposo is a poem consisting of forty verses. Having previously set two sections of it as separate a cappella choruse...

Taken from Songs Between The Soul And The Bridegroom. Canciones entre el alma y el esposo is a poem consisting of forty verses. Having previously set two sections of it as separate a cappella choruse...

Taken from Songs Between The Soul And The Bridegroom. Canciones entre el alma y el esposo is a poem consisting of forty verses. Having previously set two sections of it as separate a cappella choruse...

This was written in 1980. Dedicated to and edited by Julian Lloyd Webber, who also gave the first performance of them in Portsmouth in 1980.

Geoffrey Burgon's Six Studies were originally composed for solo cello. This transcription, authorised by the composer, has involved some changes in register and notes due to the different timbres and...

Geoffrey Burgon's And There Was War In Heaven (For Upper Voices And Organ).

Discover "Lunar Beauty" published by Chester Music, an evocative and atmospheric song cycle arranged for tenor or medium voice and guitar. Originally commissioned by the prestigious Harrogate Internat...

A chamber opera in one act for soprano, tenor, baritone and bass soli, TTBB chorus and orchestra, commissioned for the Wells 800 Celebration in 1982. Libretto by Peter Porter. Vocal score with piano r...

Composed in 1977

A Vision was written for the tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson and commissioned by the London Mozart Players. The first performance was at the Gregynog Festival in June 1991. Geoffrey Burgon has set 7 poems...

Geoffrey Burgon's Trumpets is a work for two Trumpets and Organ, originally forming part of the ballet 'The Calm', written for The London Contemporary Dance Theatre and premiering in 1974. This arrang...