• Virga Jesse | Puer NatusNesciens Mater | Gaudete Omnes
    • Duration: 12 minutes
    • Chorus: unaccompanied SATB
    A setting of four motets with a fresh and dramatic approach to the well-known ancient texts.  Perfect to be sung as a complete set or as individual items within a carol service or other liturgical setting.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Instrumentation: woodwind, horns, timpani, percussion, harp, guitar and strings
    This piece which features on Patrick's album Fair Albion uses the orchestra to convey a panoramic pastoral scene.
  • Duration: 4 minutes Soloist(s): Soprano Instrumentation: Piano
    The piano depicts the gentle flowing of the fountain which the poet, Ben Johnson (1572-1637) sees as a mirroring of grief and sorrow.  The solo soprano voice conveys the deeper nuances of the text with broken, 'sighing' phrases and, at points of climax, with more expansive sweeping statements.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Soloist(s): Soprano
    • Instrumentation: Piano OR String quartet, Harp / Piano
    The eighth piece from the song-cycle The Call written in Autumn 1997 in the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana and uses poems which seemed to echo the public’s need for answers to eternal questions.  This piece for soprano and piano is a setting of the beautiful poem by Christina Rossetti describing the sadness and deep pain of the poet for a deceased lover.
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    Duration: 20 minutes Chorus: SATB Instrumentation: Two pianos Written for the Tynemouth Choral Society, this work depicts the people and two main industries in that area of mining and fishing.
    • Duration: 5 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    A setting of some of the last sentences of the Bible from the Book of Revelation, perfect for Advent.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB unaccompanied
    The call of Christ to "Come To Me" is represented by gentle vocal phrases and an overall sense of yearning.  There is an atmosphere of weightlessness and calm to reflect the sentiment that Christ’s yoke is easy and his burden is light.
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    Duration: 4 minutes Soloist(s): Baritone Instrumentation: Strings
    • Duration: 21 minutes
    • Soloist: Clarinet
    • Instrumentation: Strings, Harp
    Patrick Hawes's Clarinet Concerto [is] musically nourishing...a fine work....gorgeous..." GRAMOPHONE (Aug 2016) A three-movement work for clarinet, strings and harp written especially for clarinetist Emma Johnson.  The three contrasting movements are rooted in the English pastoral tradition but with a definite 21st-century gloss.  Melodic, fresh and immediately appealing.
    • Duration: 21 minutes
    • Soloist: Clarinet
    • Instrumentation: Strings, Harp
    Patrick Hawes's Clarinet Concerto [is] musically nourishing...a fine work....gorgeous..." GRAMOPHONE (Aug 2016) A three-movement work for clarinet, strings and harp written especially for clarinetist Emma Johnson.  The three contrasting movements are rooted in the English pastoral tradition but with a definite 21st-century gloss.  Melodic, fresh and immediately appealing.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB choir
    • Instrumentation: Orchestra or Piano
    Christian Soldiers, based on the well-known hymn tune, originally appeared as part of the first movement of The Great War Symphony written to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB choir
    • Instrumentation: Orchestra or Piano
    Christian Soldiers, based on the well-known hymn tune, originally appeared as part of the first movement of The Great War Symphony written to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.
    • Duration: 5 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    A piece full of unbridled majesty and victory through its colourful registrations and insistent rhythmic patterns.  Perfect for Christmas or the great Feast of Christ the King.
    • Duration: 2 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Piano OR Organ
    A setting of the well-known phrase from Psalm 46 "Be still, and know that I am God" for choir and piano.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: unaccompanied SATB
    This setting of the well-known text creates a warm and intimate sound world, written to reflect the prayerful and devotional feast of The Assumption of Our Lady.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB choir
    • Instrumentation: Orchestra or Piano
    Anthem for Doomed Youth, based on the well-known poem by Wilfred Owen, originally appeared as part of the third movement of The Great War Symphony written to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.
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