Geoffrey Burgon

These variations are based on some of the musical material which Geoffrey Burgon composed for the Granada Television adaption of Evelyn Waugh's 'Brideshead Revisited. '

Gending is a Balinese word meaning simply 'instrumental composition', and this work takes as its starting point the colours, textures, rhythmic pattens and formal procedures of Balinese music. Gending...

Theme song from the TV serialisation of John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga, as sung by Bryn Terfel. Music by Geoffrey Burgon, with words by Jacqueline Kroft. Arranged for piano and voice. Piano score...

Composed in 1981, this work is a setting of a sequence from the Mass for the Feast of St Thomas, found in the missal of the Hereford use. The text is a conventional hymn of praise but it is distinguis...

Composed in 1972 for SATB chorus unaccompanied. Piano accompaniment for rehearsal only.

Work for six solo Voices or unaccompanied Choir. First performed by The Purcell Consort of Voices in 1974. Text: St John of the Cross.

Composed in 1985

SATB unaccompanied.

Taken from Songs Between The Soul And The Bridegroom. Canciones entre el alma y el esposo is a poem consisting of forty verses. Having previously set two sections of it as separate a cappella choruse...

Taken from Songs Between The Soul And The Bridegroom. Canciones entre el alma y el esposo is a poem consisting of forty verses. Having previously set two sections of it as separate a cappella choruse...

Taken from Songs Between The Soul And The Bridegroom. Canciones entre el alma y el esposo is a poem consisting of forty verses. Having previously set two sections of it as separate a cappella choruse...

Features five songs, also known as St John Of The Cross (Canciones Entre El Alma Y El Esposo). > Where can your hiding be > But have been found again > Of flowers and emeralds sheen > Now, as she lon...

This was written in 1980. Dedicated to and edited by Julian Lloyd Webber, who also gave the first performance of them in Portsmouth in 1980.

Geoffrey Burgon's Six Studies were originally composed for solo cello. This transcription, authorised by the composer, has involved some changes in register and notes due to the different timbres and...

Burgon's Nunc Dimittis is the theme music to the popular TV series Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy.

De Algunos Canciones de Juan de la Cruz. This work was commissioned by the BBC for the 10th anniversary of the BBC Northern Singers in 1975. 'Dos Coros is a setting for voices of two poems by the 16th...

Geoffrey Burgon's And There Was War In Heaven (For Upper Voices And Organ).

The song cycle 'Lunar Beauty' was commissioned by the Harrogate International Festival. First performed on 9th August 1986. Arranged for tenor or medium voice and guitar. Duration 12 minutes.

A chamber opera in one act for soprano, tenor, baritone and bass soli, TTBB chorus and orchestra, commissioned for the Wells 800 Celebration in 1982. Libretto by Peter Porter. Vocal score with piano r...

Composed in 1977

A Vision was written for the tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson and commissioned by the London Mozart Players. The first performance was at the Gregynog Festival in June 1991. Geoffrey Burgon has set 7 poems...

Geoffrey Burgon's Trumpets is a work for two Trumpets and Organ, originally forming part of the ballet 'The Calm', written for The London Contemporary Dance Theatre and premiering in 1974. This arrang...