Elizabeth Maconchy

Elizabeth Maconchy's The Sun, Moon and Stars consists of four settings of poems by Thomas Traherne, for Soprano And Piano. Commissioned by Jane Manning and Richard Rodney Bennett.

This work was commissioned by the Chester Summer Music Festival for Stephen Wilkinson and the BBC Northern Singers. The first performance was given as part of a concert at Chester Town Hall on 23 July...

In this choral nocturne, the composer has taken verses by three different poets which she felt to be linked very closely in the feeling as well as in subject. The phrase ''Will you come?'' links the f...

Elizabeth Maconchy's Prayer Before Birth for SSAA a cappella, with words by Louis MacNiece.

These settings were written to a commission from the Southern Cathedrals Festival and first performed in Salisbury Cathedral on 24 July 1976 by choirs of Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester Cathedral...

Elizabeth Maconchy's Propheta Mendax for SSA Chorus.

Maconchy 'There Is No Rose' arranged for SATTBB.

Written for SATB chorus and brass ensemble, with a piano reduction. Text by Dylan Thomas.

Vocal Score

The Quintet for Oboe and Strings was written in 1932. Soon afterwards, it won a prize in the Daily Telegraph's Chamber Music competition, and was recorded for HMV records. The full score is presented...

Score available: CH61209

This work was first performed on 23rd October 1972 at the Wigmore Hall, London, by Janet Craxton (oboe), Perry Hart (violin), Brian Hawkins (viola) and Kenneth Heath (cello).

This work was first performed on 23rd October 1972 at the Wigmore Hall, London, by Janet Craxton (oboe), Perry Hart (violin), Brian Hawkins (viola) and Kenneth Heath (cello).

Butterflies' scored for Voice and Harp.

Parts for the clarinet quintet. The score is available, SOS11145.

So we'll go no more a-roving (Byron) A Widow bird sate mourning (Shelley) The knot there's no un-tying (Thomas Campbell)

Two Carols by Elizabeth Maconchy comprises two songs for unaccompanied upper voices: I sing of a maiden and This day, both originally conceived in 1966, with words from fifteenth-century texts. While...

Solo part for Concertino for clarinet and string orchestra.

Three baritone songs taken from the composer's cantata 'Héloïse and Abelard', and the opera 'The Three Strangers'. Specially arranged for baritone and piano by the composer for Brian Raynor Cook.