Natalie Curtis

Dance Suite was written at the Christmas vacation of 1955-56 for the pianist Adolph Hallis. No attempt is made at evoking the stylised courtly dances of the Baroque suite: the dance element here is an...

Sonata No. 1 Op. 24. Composed in 1957, duration 12 minutes. Suitable for advanced pianists.

The second sonata is on a much larger scale than the first, and has three movements which develop in intensity, reaching a climax in the last movement which is a passacaglia. It is a stormy work, in t...

Song cycle for soprano and recorder, op. 101The texts of the five songs which make up this cycle are all taken from the collection Time for Sale by Edward Lowbury, and, as the title indicates, are all...

Tristia is a song-cycle to words by Osip Mandelstam, one of the founding members of the so-called Acmeist school of Russian poetry - a movement which has much in common with both Symbolism and Imagism...

From Five Songs Of Incarnation.

These three motets, Pro Pace, though written at different times, form a triptych on the subject of peace. The first to be composed was Libera Plebem, composed for and first performed at the Attingham...

Sleep Canticle was writtenin 1974 for the Conference of the National Federation of Gramophone Societies in Norwich. The texts are drawn from the two famous Norwich writers, the lady Julian (1343-1443)...

The Lines from 'The Youth of Man' is dedicated to the University of Birmingham Motet Choir. Crafted with the composer's usual skill in choral writing, it uses the technique whereby two voice parts oft...

This piece written for SATB contains solos for the soprano and tenor. Commissioned by the Rev. Dr P. C. Moore for the choir of Pershore Abbey and first performed at the Festival there in 1964, this an...