Gordon Crosse

Epitaph is a work for unaccompanied SSATBB chorus by Gordon Crosse. It is a setting of words by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Commissioned by Jeremy Huw Williams with support from the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Composers' Note: Written for Anthea Gifford who had visited Essex University (while I was a fellow there) and she has recorded them on a National Trust disk called 'A Classical Guitar Recital at Cough...

Composed at Papay in Orkney and Wenhaston in Suffolk, Oct 2015 to March 2016.

Composer's Note: The subtitle comes from a poem 'Exequy'' by Peter Porter which memorialises the death of his first wife. The symphony was written in 2010 while my wife Elizabeth was coping with a ter...

Composers Note: This Quartet takes its inspiration from Quaker sources and above all the 'Silent Worship' of Meetings. The music is retrained and simple and avoids violent rhetoric. Above all, it uses...