Antiphon (2024)

7 Feb

A setting of George Herbert’s Antiphon (‘Let All the World in Every Corner Sing’)

Double Choir, SSAATTBB

Duration:
5′

First performance:
09 March 2024
Universities of Aberdeen & Edinburgh Chamber Choirs, Michael Bawtree, Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Edinburgh, UK

Swedish première:
19 June 2024
University of Edinburgh Chamber Choir, Michael Bawtree, Vasa Kyrkan, Gothenburg, Sweden

Score

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Programme note

Although I have written many pieces that utilise different choral groupings and spatial effects, I had until this point never written a piece for a tradition antiphonal double choir. Therefore it was nice to have the opportunity and the double challenge of setting this well known text. Although the ghosts of Vaughan Williams and Leighton were never far away, I hope to have created something new and of worth with these wonderful words.

PAC

Double ChoirSSAATTBB

Tobias Patrick Wolf

Tobias is an award-winning German conductor and composer based in North East Scotland. He is Music Director of the renowned King’s Studio Orchestra (Scotland), the Braeside Singers (Aberdeen) and Principal Guest Conductor of the German Winds. Tobias is PhD researcher at the University of Aberdeen, exploring hybrid composition and performance practice. Sought after as guest conductor for ensembles around the globe, he brings new music to life — for audiences in the concert hall, on radio and television, and across multi-platform online streaming services.

https://www.tpwolf.com