Two Recessionals (2024)
Organ
Duration:
9’
The Recessional on The St Edmund Antiphon was the runner up in the 2024 Fyfe Organ Prize
First Performance ‘The St Edmund Antiphon’:
19 November 2023
Matthew McVey, St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds, UK
First Performance ‘O lux beata Trinitas’:
26 May 2024
David Shingler, Carlisle Cathedral, Carlisle, UK
Score
Programme note
The Two Recessionals continue the exploration of plainchant in my recent work. The first is a short work based on the St Edmund Antiphon and was written for the Patronal Festival at St Edmundsbury Cathedral. It is in a firm ABA form and progressively builds to a huge climax. The second is a little more subdued and takes the plainchant O lux beata Trinitas as its source material. Again, it exhibits a strong ABA form, but here the B material is taken from my own choral setting of the O lux beata Trinitas text (from 2013) and provides a sonic contrast to the prevailing music.
PAC