Three Meditations (2023)
Organ (or String Ensemble)
Duration:
12′
First Performance (‘Jesu Dulcis Memoria’ & ‘Christus Vincit’):
20 August 2023
Matthew McVey, Haddo House Chapel, Aberdeenshire, UK
First Performance (‘Salve Regina’):
27 August 2023
Matthew McVey, St Mary’s Carden Place, Aberdeen, UK
First Performance [Organ - full performance]:
17 May 2024
Martyn Noble, St Pancras Church, London, UK
First Performance [String Ensemble]:
20 April 2024
Kammerphilharmonie Europe, Inverurie Town Hall, UK
Score
Programme note
Three Meditations takes three diverse plainchant themes and recolours them in my own harmonic language, each seeking to bring out different aspects of these beautiful, transcendent pieces of music. The suite works as a broad ABA, with the outer meditations being more thoughtful and discursive and the middle piece being a more concise exploration of one phrase from ‘Christus Vincit’.
PAC