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Enquiries for the works listed
below should be addressed to this website (shaw@daviddrewmusic.co.uk)
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Cantatas:
Croagh Patrick (E.
Fawcett), alto, baritone, speaker, strings, timp, 1950
Peter and the
Lame Man(Acts of the Apostles, ch.3), tenor, baritone, chorus, orch, 1965-7
In memoriam Jan Palach (Jan Hus, Thomas à Kempis),
soprano, baritone, speaker, orch, 1974/85
In Praise of Gardens
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The Romance of the Rose (Guillaume de Lorris 13th C) - tenor
solo
Spring Song of the Birds (James I of Scotland) - chorus
The
Romance of the Rose (ditto)
The Lily-White Rose (anon, 16th C) - tenor and
chorus
I love a flower (att. Sir Thomas Phillips) - women's chorus
Sweet
Rose of Virtue (William Dunbar) - chorus a cappella
I have a new Garden
(anon, 15th C) - tenor solo
In Praise of Ivy (anon, 15th C) - women's
chorus
Holly against Ivy (anon, early 16th C) - women's
chorus
Ceremonies upon Candlemas Eve (Robert Herrick) - tenor solo,
chorus
Thoughts in a Garden (Andrew Marvell) - tenor and
chorus
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Choral
unaccompanied:
The Shepherd's Wonder (Godolphin),
SATB, org, 1956
The Year's Christmas (Edwin Muir), 8vv, 1956
No Room at
the Inn, SATB, pf, 1961
A Lesson from Ecclesiastes, SATB, org, 1962 3
Poems of D.G. Rossetti, SATB, 1963
Music, when soft voices die
(Shelley), SATB, 1972
To the Bandusian Spring (Horace) SATB, 1974
Vocal:
The Cherry Tree (Housman), lv, pf,
1944
Ode to Evening (William Collins), S, 2 cl, pf, 1948
4 Poems of
James Joyce, S, harp, str qt, 1951-3
Bright Star (Keats), T, cl, 1953
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Songs from Chios, low voice, pf,1958
Jubilate Deo, S, org, 1959
6 Greek
Folksongs, lv, pf, 1959
6 Songs from Scotland, lv, pf, 1963
The Isle of
Skye (Jacobite), S, B, pf, 1969
A Love-Song (William Cartwright 1611-43)
voice, guitar or lute, cello, 1984
Instrumental:
[Variations on a theme by
Bartók, pf, 1947 - destroyed]
[Suite, E, pf, 1948 - destroyed]
Sonata, cl, pf, 1948-9
[Trio, cl, va, pf, 1953-4, rev. 1973]
Variations on 'Le ranz des vaches', pf duet, 1971
Fantasia, pf, 1978-80
Canon, pf, 1971
Five Pieces for wind quintet (1985)
Piano Pieces
1989-95 - unfinished set; 6 pieces completed.
Incidental
music:
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 1951 -
(lost?)
Between Two Worlds, film ballet, 1951 - (lost?)
The Mitchell
Case, film score, 1955 - (lost?)
Editions and
arrangements:
Offenbach: La belle
Helène - the score edited from primary sources and arranged for an
ensemble of twelve players; English version by Jean and Christopher Shaw, 1995
Weill: Der Kuhhandel
- orchestrations of all the numbers Weill left in piano/vocal score, together
with arrangements and orchestrations of sections from the sketches and drafts,
including orchestral interludes. Undertaken in 1970 for a production in Germany
that never materialised. (click Kurt Weill, on this website)
Weill: "Lucys Aria" -
orchestration from the published piano/vocal score, commissioned for a
commercial recording but not used, and first performed in 1992 at the
Britten/Weill Weekend at Snape Maltings, England
BIBLIOGRAPHY
There is as yet no list of Shaw's
numerous articles and reviews.
To date the only published articles
about Shaw and his music are three by David Drew: 'Christopher Shaw',
Musical Times, vol 104 (1963), pp 479-481; 'Christopher Shaw',
Tempo (1995) pp 19-21; 'Christopher Shaw', in the revised New
Grove (2000)
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