Preces and Responses [second set] (2012)

SATB

Commissioned by the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music 2012

Duration:
9′

First performance:
13 May 2012
St Pancras Church Choir, St Paul’s Cathedral, London, UK: Part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

US premiere:
05 November 2017
Douglasville First United Methodist Church Choir, Wayne Gilreath; Douglasville First United Methodist Church, Douglasville, Georgia, US


Score


Programme note

My second setting of the Preces and Responses treads a similar path to the first with the material all being based on the opening response. In many ways it is even more thematically strict than the first with the opening F# minor – F major colouring the rest of the material. Again, the Lord’s Prayer aims to bring together all the thematic material as well as introducing new material that is expanded upon in the subsequent responses. This set is a little more harmonically daring than the first though highlights a current preoccupation with using common tones to pivot to unfamiliar keys and chords.

PAC


Recording

Preces and Responses [Second Set] (2012) by Phillip Cooke, performed by the Choir of St Pancras Church, London, conducted by Christopher Bachelor.

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
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