Geoffrey Burgon

Composer's Notes: Heavenly Things is my fourteenth song-cycle, but the first with piano accompaniment. I mention this because, when I was asked to write this piece my first reaction was 'what can I ma...

This work was commissioned by Geoffrey Herdman for the 2006 Paxos Festival and first performed on August 31st 2006.

Work for Countertenor Solo composed in 1973.

Acquainted with Night', is a cycle of six songs, for alto and strings, harp and timpani. The texts are all concerned with different aspects of night. The first song, 'Lullaby' to a poem by Beaumont an...

Psychologists agree that dreaming is essential to our mental well-being. Artists have always been intuitively aware of this, and the above lines are one illustration of this awareness. Composers, as w...

This work was commissioned by the 1976 Three Choirs Festival and first performed in Hereford Cathedral on 26 August 1976.

Version for Voice and Organ with optional Trumpet.

Veni Spiritus' was commissioned by the Royal Choral Society in memory of Linda Shirley Neuse. Written for soprano and baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra, this arrangement is for all vocal parts a...

This was composed in 1979 and is scored for SATTB and Organ. This work is a setting of a sixteenth-century poem which is a plea for death to come and bring an end to suffering, thereby affording peace...

Composed in 1980

Burgon composed this in 1983.

Includes piano accompaniment for rehearsal only.

For SATB Chorus and Organ.

Written for SATB choir, organ and optional solo trumpet. Words by John Donne.

Written for SATB choir, organ and optional trumpet.

Written for SATB choir, organ and trumpet. Words by John Donne.

This setting for Ave Verum Corpus is the well-known theme from Brideshead Revisited, and whose words are a Eucharistic hymn dating from the 14th century. Twentieth century British composerGeoffreyBur...

The Fall of Lucifer was commissioned for the Silver Jubilee of the Tilford Bach Festival with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. The first performance was given on 13 May 1977. This...

Quoting Burgon: My first thought on receiving this commission was what sort of text would suit. Something on the general idea of growth - starting very small and blossoming was the obvious way to go,...

This work was commissioned by the 1976 Three Choirs Festival and first performed in Hereford Cathedral on 26 August 1976.