001 · ORATORIO · SOLO VOICES, CHORUS & ORCHESTRA

Job

Peter Maxwell Davies

An oratorio

Physical location

VA.D5

Call number — locally assigned

M2000 .D38 J63
Locally assigned LC-style call number; not verified against an LC catalog record for this copy.

Text

From Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the Book of Job, selected by David Lemon.

Publisher

Chester Music

Score format

Spiral-bound perusal score

Instrumentation

Cataloged from photographs of the cover and scoring page. Entry added 15 October 2026.

002 · SONG CYCLE · SOPRANO & ORCHESTRA

Chantefleurs et Chantefables

Witold Lutosławski

Song cycle for soprano and orchestra

Physical location

VA.D5

Copies held

2 copies

Call number — adapted from LC record

M1613 .L92 C4
Adapted from Library of Congress record 98705325 for the PWM 1996 edition. LC composer and work codes retained; edition year omitted for this Chester Music copy.

Poems

Robert Desnos, from the collection Chantefables et Chantefleurs

Publisher

Chester Music Limited

Duration

Approximately 16 minutes

Score format

Spiral-bound full score

Edition

Incorporating small corrections and revisions, April 1991 and March 1992; copyright 1991.

Instrumentation

Contents

1. La Belle-de-Nuit — p. 1
2. La Sauterelle — p. 5
3. La Véronique — p. 19
4. L’Églantine, l’Aubépine et la Glycine — p. 27
5. La Tortue — p. 37
6. La Rose — p. 45
7. L’Alligator — p. 51
8. L’Angélique — p. 59
9. Le Papillon — p. 67

First performance

8 August 1991, BBC Promenade Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer, with soprano Solveig Kringlebotn.

Cataloged from photographs of the title, contents, and instrumentation pages. Entry added 15 October 2026.

003 · VOCAL & ORCHESTRAL · BASS-BARITONE & SMALL ORCHESTRA

A Talisman

Brian Elias

For bass-baritone and small orchestra

Physical location

VA.D5

Call number — locally assigned, provisional

M2103 .E45 T35
Provisional locally assigned LC-style call number. Sacred-vocal classification awaits confirmation; not an LC-assigned number.

Publisher

Chester Music

Duration

Approximately 16½ minutes

Score format

Spiral-bound full score; score in C

Commission

Cheltenham International Festival of Music

Instrumentation

Score notation

Score in C. Piccolo sounds one octave higher than written; double bass sounds one octave lower. Natural string harmonics sound at written pitch, including those for double bass; harp harmonics sound one octave higher than written.

First performance

Cheltenham Festival, 18 July (year not stated on the photographed page). Paul Putnins, bass-baritone; National Youth Orchestra Sinfonietta; Geoffrey Patterson, conductor.

Cataloged from photographs of the title and instrumentation pages. Entry added 15 October 2026.

004 · ORCHESTRAL ANTHOLOGY · ISSUE 1

Оркестровые произведения советских композиторов

Various composers

Orchestra Compositions by Soviet Composers — for Symphony Orchestra

Physical location

VA.D5

Call number — locally assigned, provisional

M1000 .O75 1975 vyp.1
Provisional assignment under LC orchestral collections. Exact LC record not verified; classification awaits contents review.

Transliterated title

Orkestrovye proizvedeniia sovetskikh kompozitorov

Issue

Выпуск первый — First instalment (Issue 1)

Score format

Full score (партитура); bound volume

Publisher

Советский композитор — Sovetskii kompozitor (Soviet Composer)

Publication

Moscow, 1975

Copyright

© Издательство «Советский композитор», 1975

Contents & instrumentation

For symphony orchestra. Individual composers, works, and detailed instrumentation are awaiting photographs of the contents and scoring pages; no instrument counts or doublings have been inferred.

Cataloged from photographs of the cover, publisher imprint, and copyright page. Contents and detailed instrumentation pending. Entry added 15 October 2026.

005 · CHAMBER ORCHESTRA · 1992

Corrente

Magnus Lindberg

Per orchestra da camera — for chamber orchestra

Physical location

VA.D5

Call number — locally assigned

M1045 .L56 C67
Locally assigned using LC classification for chamber orchestra music. No matching LC score record located in the title/composer search; the LC score record for Corrente II concerns a different work.

Year of work

1992

Publisher

Chester Music

Duration

14 minutes (publisher listing)

Commission

Svenska Litteratursällskapet (Swedish Literary Society in Finland)

Score format

Spiral-bound full score; transposing score (“The score is not written in C.”)

Instrumentation

Scoring transcribed from the photographed instrumentation page. Duration and player complement checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

006 · CHORAL WORK · TREBLE VOICES & INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE

startled Grass

Simon Holt

Part five of “a ribbon of time”

Physical location

VA.D5

Call number — locally assigned

M1543.5 .H65 S73
Locally assigned under LC classification for secular treble chorus with instrumental ensemble. No matching record located in the LC composer/title search.

Text

Emily Dickinson: “Presentiment — is that long Shadow — on the Lawn —” (c. 1863); English

Year of work

2001 (publisher’s work record)

Publisher

Chester Music

Duration

Approximately 11 minutes

Commission

BBC

Score format

Full score

Instrumentation

Pitch names use scientific pitch notation (middle C = C4). Pitches transcribed from the close-up scoring photograph; the crotale’s two-octave transposition is stated separately.

First performance

29 November 2001, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. BBC Singers with Ulrich Heinen, cello; conducted by Stephen Cleobury (as printed in this score).

Cataloged from photographs of the title and scoring pages; composition year checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

007 · SACRED CHORAL MUSIC · MOTET

All the Ends of the Earth

Judith Weir

A choral motet for divided mixed chorus, harp and percussion, drawing on Pérotin’s Viderunt omnes.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

1999

Genre

Motet · sacred choral work

Publisher

Chester Music

Score format

Spiral-bound perusal score

Duration

Approximately 10 minutes, according to the photographed score; the publisher’s work listing gives 12 minutes.

Call number — locally assigned

M2021 .W45 A45

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M2021 (sacred mixed chorus with instrumental ensemble). Composer and work codes assigned locally. No matching printed-score record was located in the LC catalog search on 15 October 2026; recording records were found. This is not a verified LC-assigned call number.

About the work

Written for the EBU Millennium Day broadcast, this motet places Pérotin’s medieval cantus firmus in the tenor and bass voices, retaining its pitches, proportions and text. Weir surrounds it with newly composed upper voices setting the tenth-century Alleluyatic Sequence, based on Psalm 148. Harp and percussion illuminate and punctuate the vocal writing.

Instrumentation

Commission & first performance

Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Singers. First performed on 28 September 1999 at Westminster Cathedral, conducted by Stephen Cleobury, as part of Sounding the Millennium. Dedicated to Nicholas Kenyon.

Cataloged from the supplied title and introductory pages; supplemented by the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

008 · VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC · PIANO/VOCAL SCORE

TreeStone

Stephen Albert

For soprano, tenor and chamber ensemble; this copy contains the piano/vocal reduction.

Physical location

VA.D5

Genre

Song cycle · vocal chamber music

Text

James Joyce, from Finnegans Wake · English

Publisher

G. Schirmer, Inc.; distributed by Hal Leonard

Copy held

Piano/vocal score, as identified on the cover. The ensemble instrumentation below describes the original work.

Duration

Approximately 38 minutes, according to the supplied score.

Call number — from verified LC record

M1529 .A53 T74 1993

LC source & edition status

Library of Congress record 97702438: G. Schirmer / Hal Leonard piano/vocal score, [1993], 78 pages, ISBN 9780793529155. This is an actual LC-assigned call number for that edition. The photographed cover matches the publisher and format; the publication year, ISBN and pagination of this particular copy remain to be checked.

About the work

A vocal cycle for two soloists and chamber ensemble, setting James Joyce’s language from Finnegans Wake in a musical response to the Tristan legend.

Instrumentation of the original work

Contents

I am leafy speafing · A grand funferall · Seabirds · Tristopher Tristian · Fallen griefs · Anna Livia Plurabelle.

First performance

16 January 1985, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City: Lucy Shelton, soprano; David Gordon, tenor; Music Today Ensemble, conducted by Gerard Schwarz.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and instrumentation page, supplemented by the linked LC record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

009 · SACRED VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC

Iero Oniro (Sacred Dream)

John Tavener

For solo soprano and ensemble, with synthesizer or tape.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

1999

Genre

Sacred vocal chamber music · voice and ensemble with electronics

Publisher

Chester Music

Copy held

Bound perusal score

Duration

Approximately 15 minutes

Call number — locally assigned

M2103.3 .T38 I47

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M2103.3 (sacred solo voice with instrumental ensemble or other accompaniment). Composer and work codes are locally assigned. The LC catalog search on 15 October 2026 located a recording, but no matching printed score; this number is not LC-assigned.

About the work

Conceived during Holy Week in Greece in 1999, Iero Oniro draws on a Byzantine service text and Tavener’s recollection of hearing transformed sacred music in a dream. Its intimate ensemble evokes distance, stillness and quiet resonance.

Instrumentation

Performance character

The composer asks for an impression of distance, possibly with performers out of the audience’s sight and with subdued lighting.

Commission & first performance

Commissioned jointly by the Nash Ensemble and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. First performed on 30 January 2001 at Wigmore Hall, London, by Patricia Rozario, soprano, and the Nash Ensemble, conducted by Lionel Friend.

Cataloged from the supplied title and scoring pages. Entry added 15 October 2026.

010 · CANTATA · VOCAL SCORE

Voices of Exile

Richard Blackford

A cantata for mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, SATB chorus, children’s chorus, instrumental ensemble and tape.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

2001

Genre

Cantata · secular choral music

Publisher

Novello & Co.

Copy held

Vocal score · perusal copy. The resources below describe the original ensemble version, rather than the later orchestral version.

Duration

55 minutes

Call number — locally assigned

M1533 .B53 V65

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M1533 (vocal scores for secular mixed chorus with accompaniment reduced for keyboard). Composer and work codes assigned locally. LC catalog search on 15 October 2026 located a recording, but no matching printed-score record. This is not an LC-assigned call number.

About the work

A cantata tracing memories of home, journeys, imprisonment, exile and freedom through poetry, testimony and recorded voices from different countries. Vocal soloists and two choruses bring individual and collective experience into dialogue with instrumental music and tape.

Vocal and instrumental resources

Contents of this vocal score

Prelude: 1. Tenor solo and chorus, Tony Harrison’s Poetry After Auschwitz (p. 1).

Part I — Memories of Home: 2. Bengal, chorus with tape; traditional folksong sung by Kamla Chaudhuri (p. 9). 3. Tibet, baritone and children’s chorus; Tsering Gonpo (p. 12). 4. Zaire, chorus; Mabiala Molu (p. 20).

Part II — Journeys: 5. Somalia, tenor with tape; traditional folksong sung by Osman Dugleh, followed by Abdirahman Mirreh’s poem (p. 30). 6. Tibet, baritone; Tsering Gonpo (p. 32). 7. Austria, chorus and children’s chorus; Erich Fried (p. 36). 8. Somalia, chorus; Abdirahman Mirreh (p. 45).

Part III — Prison: 9. Chile, mezzo-soprano; Maria Eugenia Bravo Calderara (p. 54). 10. Nigeria, tenor; Ken Saro-Wiwa (p. 60). 11. Turkey, chorus; Oktay Rifat (p. 70).

Part IV — Exile: 12. Bosnia, baritone; Himzo Skorupan (p. 74). 13. Macedonia, chorus with tape; traditional folksong sung by Tanya Czarovska (p. 81). 14. Algeria, mezzo-soprano; Samia Dahnaan (p. 85).

Part V — Freedom: 15. Greece, chorus; Yannis Ritsos (p. 89). 16. Kurdistan, mezzo-soprano and tenor; Mohammad Khaki (p. 94). 17. Angola, all three soloists, chorus and children’s chorus; Antonio Joaquim Marques (p. 100).

Epilogue: 18. Tenor solo; Tony Harrison (p. 117). Names follow the photographed contents page.

Commission & first performance

Commissioned by the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Poole Arts Centre, with funding from Southern Arts, Poole Arts Trust and the John S Cohen Foundation. First performed on 17 November 2001 at Poole Arts Centre by the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Dorset Youth Choir and Kokoro Ensemble, conducted by Neville Creed; soloists Christine Botes, Robert Tear and Paul Whelan. Score preparation by Sara Loewenthal.

Cataloged from the supplied title, contents and resources pages; composition year checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

011 · SONG CYCLE · VOICE, PERCUSSION & STRINGS

Supernatural Songs

John Tavener

For solo mezzo-soprano (or baritone), percussion and strings.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

2003, according to the publisher’s catalog.

Genre

Song cycle · spiritual vocal music

Text

W. B. Yeats, with an opening Latin text by St Augustine. English and Latin.

Publisher

Chester Music

Copy held

Spiral-bound score; title page marked “rev. 8.04”.

Duration

Approximately 30 minutes

Call number — locally assigned

M2103.3 .T38 S87

Classification status

Provisional local shelf number using Library of Congress classification for sacred solo voice with ensemble accompaniment. Composer and work codes assigned locally. No matching record was found in the LC catalog search on 15 October 2026. This is not an LC-assigned call number.

About the work

Opening with St Augustine’s invocation of divine beauty, the cycle moves through Yeats’s poetry of love, myth, ecstasy and death. The solo voice is framed by strings and resonant percussion, reflecting Tavener’s exploration of spiritual traditions.

Instrumentation of this score

Instrumentation follows the photographed score. The publisher’s current work listing names a Hindu temple gong alongside the pow-wow drum; the supplied scoring page instead specifies a very large tam-tam.

Contents

1. St Augustine: “Sero te amavi”
2. O Do Not Love Too Long
3. From the ‘Antigone’
4. He and She
5. Ribh in Ecstasy
6. A Nativity
7. A Needle’s Eye
8. From ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’, followed by text from The Man and the Echo
9. Where there is Nothing

Notation & performance notes

The score uses microtones associated with the characteristic vocal inflections of Byzantine chant. Where three double basses divide into two parts, the third player should double the lower line.

Commission & first performance

Commissioned by the Kent Messenger Group and Sounds New Ltd. First performed on 24 September 2003 at Canterbury Cathedral by Patricia Rozario and the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Nicholas Cleobury.

Cataloged from the supplied title, scoring and text pages, with composition year checked against the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

012 · VOCAL CYCLE · SOPRANO & CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Mirror Suite · Сюита зеркал

Andrei Volkonsky

A vocal cycle for soprano and instrumental ensemble, to poems by Federico García Lorca.

Physical location

VA.D5

Alternative titles & composer names

Suite de los espejos · Suite of Mirrors · Siuita zerkal · А. Волконский · André Volkonsky · Andrey Volkonsky

Genre

Vocal cycle · song cycle · vocal chamber music

Composition date

Circa 1960; the current publisher’s score listing gives 1960, while its performance-material listing gives 1959.

Text

Federico García Lorca; translated from Spanish by V. Burich (Вл. Бурич), as credited in this copy.

Edition & publication

Russian/English title pages. The cover bears the Soviet Composer publisher emblem; full publication imprint and edition year remain to be checked. The current Belaieff edition is a separate publication.

Score format

Ensemble score

Duration

Approximately 17 minutes, according to the current publisher.

Call number — locally assigned

M1613.3 .V65 S58

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M1613.3 (solo voice with instrumental ensemble). Composer and work codes assigned locally. No matching LC record was verified in the search on 15 October 2026; this is not an LC-assigned call number.

About the work

Lorca’s imagery of mirrors and reflections is explored through an intimate ensemble of flute, violin, guitar, percussion and small organ. The soprano’s delivery includes passages of speech with approximate pitch as well as sung writing.

Instrumentation of this score

Notation notes

The supplied legend specifies spoken delivery with approximate intonation, weak and strong beats, colourless vocal tone, and a slight pause where a fermata appears over a bar line.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and instrumentation pages. Supplemental date and duration references: Belaieff score listing and performance-material listing. Entry added 15 October 2026.

013 · SONG CYCLE · BARITONE & CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Morning Songs

Aaron Jay Kernis

For baritone and chamber ensemble, to poems by Jon Anderson.

Physical location

VA.D5

Alternative title

Morningsongs

Date

1983, as printed on this copy and recorded in the matching LC entry. The current publisher’s work listing gives 1982.

Genre

Song cycle · vocal chamber music

Text

Jon Anderson · English

Publisher

Associated Music Publishers, Inc., New York

Score format

Ensemble score

Duration

Approximately 15 minutes

Call number — from verified LC record

M1613.3 .K34 M67 1983

LC source & edition status

Library of Congress record 94771416, Associated Music Publishers, ©1983: 1 score, 36 pages, 28 cm. Title, publisher, date, voice and detailed instrumentation agree with the supplied pages. This is an actual LC-assigned number; pagination and dimensions of this particular copy remain to be checked. LC’s location suffix “Case” is omitted from the local shelf label.

About the work

A three-part setting of Jon Anderson’s poems for baritone and ten instrumentalists. Flute doublings, mallet percussion, harp and a string trio provide a varied chamber palette around the solo voice.

Instrumentation

Contents

1. Paris
2. The Blue Animals
3. Walking Barefoot

Cataloged from the supplied title and instrumentation pages, supplemented by the linked LC record and the publisher’s work listing. Entry added 15 October 2026.

014 · SACRED CHORAL MUSIC · VOICE, CHORUS & WIND ENSEMBLE

Eichá (Lamentation) · אֵיכָה

Simon Bainbridge

For mezzo-soprano solo, SATB chorus and wind ensemble.

Physical location

VA.D5

Alternative title

Eicha

Year of composition

1997

Genre

Sacred choral work · lamentation

Text & language

Lamentations, Chapter 1, verses 1–2, in transliterated Hebrew, according to the composer’s program note.

Publisher

Novello

Score format

Full score · score in C

Duration

Approximately 20 minutes

Call number — locally assigned

M2021 .B35 E53

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M2021 (sacred mixed chorus with instrumental ensemble). Composer and work codes assigned locally. No matching record was located in the LC catalog search on 15 October 2026; this is not an LC-assigned call number.

About the work

Original Hebrew text · Lamentations 1:1–2

The original biblical Hebrew is supplied for reference; the score uses transliteration. Hebrew text reference.

A setting of the opening verses of Lamentations, inspired by Bainbridge’s study of Tallis. The mezzo-soprano’s unfolding line contrasts with the chorus’s shifting polyphony, supported by a distinctive ensemble of double reeds and brass.

Instrumentation

Commission & first performance

Commissioned by Oxford Contemporary Music Festival with funding from Southern Arts. First performed in Oxford on 19 April 1997 by the New London Chamber Choir, conducted by James Wood, as stated in the score.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and scoring page; text identification supplemented by the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

015 · SONG CYCLE · TENOR & STRING ORCHESTRA

A Vision

Geoffrey Burgon

Seven songs to poems by John Clare, for tenor and string orchestra.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

1991, according to the publisher.

Genre

Song cycle · voice and string orchestra

Text

John Clare · English

Publisher

Chester Music Limited, London

Copy held

Score in handwritten notation, in a Chester Music cover. The photographs do not establish whether this is an autograph manuscript or a reproduction.

Duration

20 minutes, handwritten in this copy; the publisher’s current work listing gives 25 minutes.

Call number — locally assigned

M1613.3 .B87 V57

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M1613.3 (solo voice with string orchestra or other instrumental ensemble). Composer and work codes assigned locally. LC catalog search on 15 October 2026 located a recording, but no matching printed-score record. This is not an LC-assigned call number.

About the work

A cycle of seven John Clare settings, written for Anthony Rolfe Johnson and commissioned by the London Mozart Players. The string writing includes a prominent solo violin part, reflecting Clare’s own interest in playing the violin.

Instrumentation

Contents visible in this copy

The handwritten contents page contains revisions. The clearly uncancelled entries are No. 2, The Daisy — Button Tipp’d wi Dew; No. 4, An Invite to Eternity; and No. 6, Song’s Eternity. The complete seven-song order remains to be checked against the music pages.

Commission & first performance

Commissioned by the London Mozart Players; first performed at the Gregynog Festival in June 1991, according to the publisher.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and handwritten title, duration and contents pages, supplemented by the publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

016 · VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC · TENOR & SEVEN INSTRUMENTALISTS

Fünf Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner

Edison Denisov

Five Stories of Mr Keuner, after texts by Bertolt Brecht, for tenor and seven instrumentalists.

Physical location

VA.D5

Composer name on this edition

Edison Denisow · Эдисон Денисов

Year of composition

1966

Genre

Vocal cycle · vocal chamber music

Text & language

Bertolt Brecht · German

Publisher & edition number

Universal Edition · UE 13 587. The title page also bears the Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg territorial copyright/distribution notice and the number 6890.

Score format

Full score (Partitur) · score in C

Duration

Approximately 14 minutes in the current publisher’s work record; the LC entry for the 1997 edition gives approximately 12 minutes.

Call number — adapted from verified LC record

M1613.3 .D35 G4

LC source & edition status

Library of Congress record 99390210 assigns M1613.3 .D35 G4 1997 to the Universal Edition score, ©1997, 50 pages, 30 cm. The work, publisher and instrumentation match the supplied pages; the year and pagination of this copy remain unverified, so the edition year is omitted from this local adaptation.

About the work

Five Brecht stories are set for tenor and an ensemble combining winds, brass, percussion, piano and double bass. The compact instrumentation gives the vocal narrative sharply contrasting colours.

Instrumentation

Contents

1. Weise am Weisen ist die Haltung
2. Der Zweckdiener
3. Form und Stoff
4. Das Wiedersehen
5. Wenn die Haifische Menschen wären

First performance

20 February 1968, Berlin; Horst Hiestermann, tenor; conducted by Joachim Freyer, according to the publisher’s chronological work list.

Cataloged from the supplied title, text and instrumentation pages, supplemented by the linked LC record and publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

017 · CHORAL MUSIC · TREBLE & WOMEN’S VOICES WITH ENSEMBLE

Storm

Judith Weir

For children’s treble chorus, women’s chorus and nine instrumentalists; words from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

Physical location

VA.D5

Year of composition

1997

Genre

Choral suite · concert work after The Tempest

Text & language

William Shakespeare · English

Publisher

Chester Music Limited

Copy held

Full score with handwritten title, synopsis and contents page; whether the handwritten pages are autograph or reproduced is not established.

Duration

Approximately 18 minutes in this score; the current publisher’s listing gives 20 minutes.

Call number — locally assigned

M1543.5 .W45 S76

Classification status

Local shelf number using Library of Congress classification M1543.5 (treble chorus with instrumental ensemble). Composer and work codes assigned locally. No matching printed-score record was verified in the LC catalog search on 15 October 2026; this is not an LC-assigned number.

About the work

A five-movement concert sequence drawn from The Tempest, following storm and shipwreck through charm, magic and spirit to mercy. Three flutes, three cellos and three percussionists accompany the contrasting choral groups.

Instrumentation

Contents in this copy

1. Storm (p. 1); 1a. Shipwreck (p. 31); 2. Charm (p. 36); 3. Magic (p. 55); 4. Spirit (p. 71); 5. Mercy (p. 87).

First performance & dedication

The supplied score dates the first performance to 18 November 1997 at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the CBSO Senior and Junior Youth Choruses and members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Simon Halsey. Movement 4 was originally written in memory of Stephen John Baldwin.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, contents and scoring pages. Supplemental reference: publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

018

L’amour et la mort · Έρως και θάνατος · Liebe und Tod

Mikis Theodorakis

Quatre poèmes pour Myrto / Vier Gesänge für Myrto — four songs for voice and string orchestra.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613.3 .T44 A5 1988 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Forces

Solo voice and string orchestra. Vocal register, individual string parts and player numbers are not specified on the supplied pages.

Texts

Mikis Theodorakis and Lorenzos Mavilis.

Score and edition

Full score (Partitur). Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1988. First edition (1. Auflage). Order number 1143; license number 418-515/B 7/88. Printed in the German Democratic Republic by Offizin Andersen Nexö, Leipzig. Cover design: Peter Zappe, Leipzig. The cover bears a Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg distribution label.

Contents

Απρίλης; Αν γυρεύεις απ’ τον ήλιο την χαρά; Έρως και θάνατος; Λήθη. Titles from the Greek music archive’s work record; contents pages of this copy have not yet been supplied.

Duration

Not yet confirmed.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title page and colophon. Supplemental reference: Greek music archive work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

019

Five Songs to Poems by Irina Ratushinskaya

Brian Elias

Song cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1989). Russian texts by Irina Ratushinskaya.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M1613 .E45 F58 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Orchestral full score, Chester Music Limited, London. Perusal copy. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Duration

Approximately 25 minutes, as printed in this copy; current publisher listing gives 28 minutes.

Soloist

Mezzo-soprano.

Woodwinds

4 flutes (1 and 2 doubling alto flute; 3 and 4 doubling piccolo); 2 oboes; cor anglais; 2 B-flat clarinets (2 doubling E-flat clarinet); bass clarinet; 2 bassoons; contrabassoon.

Brass

4 horns in F; 3 trumpets in C (1 doubling E-flat flugelhorn; the third-song solos may be played on B-flat flugelhorn if the E-flat instrument is unavailable); 2 trombones; bass trombone; tuba.

Other instruments

2 harps; celesta; timpani; 5 percussionists; strings.

Percussion

Player 1: vibraphone, 3 congas (high, medium, low), large gong.
Player 2: glockenspiel, large tam-tam, tenor drum, triangle.
Player 3: tubular bells (2 octaves, F–F), bass drum.
Player 4: crotales (2 octaves, C–C), side drum, 3 tam-tams (high, medium, low), one additional pair of crotales, bell plates.
Player 5: small tambourine (15–20 cm diameter), 3 triangles (high, medium, low), 3 suspended cymbals (high, medium, low), 4 Japanese temple bells, handbell, one pair of crotales, bell plates shared with Player 4. Individually notated pitches for the additional crotales, bell plates and handbell await verification from a clearer close-up.

Notation and language

Score in C, with octave transpositions explained in the score. Russian text in transliteration, credited to Grisha Gerenstein; the score advises consultation with a native Russian speaker for hard and soft consonants.

Contents

Five songs; complete individual titles have not yet been verified from this copy.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and orchestration pages. Supplemental reference: publisher’s work record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

020

A New Beginning

John Tavener

An Acclamation for the Millennium 2,000 A.D. (1999), for solo treble, children’s chorus, SATB chorus and orchestra.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M2020 .T38 N49 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Full score, Chester Music, London; spiral-bound perusal copy. Publication date and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed. The publisher’s full-score product code is CH61637; CH61638 identifies the separate vocal score and CH61639 the chorus part.

Duration

Approximately 7 minutes.

Voices

Solo treble; children’s chorus; SATB chorus.

Brass

3 trumpets in C; 2 tenor trombones; bass trombone.

Percussion and other instruments

3 percussionists: handbells, large Tibetan temple bowl, large gong, very large tam-tam. Timpani; organ; strings. The supplied scoring page does not assign individual percussion instruments to players or specify handbell pitches. The publisher also lists a string-quartet alternative and a two-percussionist option; this copy specifies three percussionists.

Text and language

English, with Greek Alleluia. Words copyright © 1999 New Start 2000.

Commission

Commissioned by the New Millennium Experience Company Limited; written for the closing minutes of 1999 to herald the new millennium.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and scoring pages. Supplemental references: publisher’s work record and full-score edition record. Entry added 15 October 2026.

021

A Song for St. Stephen, Op. 150

John Joubert

For SATB soloists, junior and senior youth choirs, adult mixed choir and orchestra (2003).

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M2020 .J68 S66 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Full score. Novello. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed. This is the orchestral full score; the separately published NOV078782 is a vocal score with organ reduction.

Voices

Soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists; junior youth choir; senior youth choir; adult mixed choir.

Orchestra

The publisher’s rental catalogue lists 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba; timpani, 2 percussionists; harp; organ; strings. Instrument doublings and individual percussion instruments await the scoring page of this copy.

Duration

Approximately 6 minutes, according to the publisher’s rental catalogue.

Text

English; Stephen Tunnicliffe.

Commission and first performance

Commissioned by the CBSO Chorus and Orchestra. First performed on 18 December 2003 by the CBSO Junior and Senior Youth Choirs, CBSO Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Simon Halsey, according to the British Music Collection.

Cataloged from the supplied cover and title page. Supplemental references: publisher’s rental catalogue and British Music Collection. Entry added 15 October 2026.

022

Mirror of Perfection

Richard Blackford

Cantata for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed choir and orchestra (1996), based on texts by St. Francis of Assisi.

Physical location

VA.D5

Shelf number

M2020 .B53 M57 — locally assigned using Library of Congress classification; not a verified LC call number.

Score and edition

Orchestral score, Novello, London; spiral-bound perusal copy. Publication date, edition number and pagination of this copy remain unconfirmed.

Voices

Soprano and baritone soloists; SATB chorus.

Instrumentation

3 horns in F; harp; strings; 1 percussionist playing timpani, tubular bell (low B) and triangle. No woodwinds are listed in the supplied instrumentation.

Duration

Approximately 40 minutes.

Text and structure

Texts by St. Francis of Assisi; Italian. Seven canticles; individual movement titles await the contents page of this copy.

Commission and first performance

Commissioned by the Royal Ballet School and first performed at the Royal College of Music in March 1996, according to the publisher.

Recording noted in the score

Sony Classical SK 60285: Ying Huang, soprano; Bo Skovhus, baritone; Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conducted by Richard Blackford.

Cataloged from the supplied cover, title and instrumentation pages. Supplemental references: publisher’s work record and British Music Collection. Entry added 15 October 2026.