20th / 21st Century Song Collections

This song is from a projected musical film created by director/writer Margaret Constantas. On the Wentloog Levels near Cardiff, two artisan shoemakers, husband and wife, have fallen on hard times. Their

A metaphysical paradox for medium voice, timpani & strings. The works sets words by French poet and philosopher Jean Bies, and from Islamic and Hindu sources. Commissioned for the Chamber Orchestra of

Thomas Traherne's text from Poems of Felicity was set as a commission by Sasha Cooke and premiered on January 30, 2022 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. 

Natural History is a work by Judith Weir for Soprano and Orchestra. The work sets four brief texts taken from Chuang Tzu, a classical collection of Taoist writings from the 4th, 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.

John Tavener's 1984 work A Mini Song-Cycle for Gina was written for Gina Cowen, who gave the first performance along with Judith Ginsburg at St John's Church, Ladbroke Grove, London, on April 3, 1986. Text

Inspired by Clara Schumann's setting of Heinrich Heine's text in Sie liebten sich beide (Op. 13, No. 2), this modern original setting seeks to maintain the simplicity, structure, clarity and

On a text by Tim Hopkins, this song was commissioned in 2014 by the Welsh National Opera, Ffilm Cymru Wales and The Space as part of WNO's Occupation: Five Songs That Shook the World. It was first