Geoffrey Burgon Compositions : Ordered by Type
Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: Cantata on Mediaeval Latin Texts
Composed: 1964
Duration: 7'
Instrumentation/Scoring: counter-tenor/flute/oboe/bassoon
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Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: Hymn to Venus
Composed: 1966
Duration: 15'
Instrumentation/Scoring: mezzo soprano and piano
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Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: Five Sonnets or John Donne
Composed: 1967
Duration: 21'
Instrumentation/Scoring: soprano/mezzo-soprano/flute/oboe/clarinet (d bass clarinet)/horn/piano/timpani/cello
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Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: Songs of Mary
Composed: 1970
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation/Scoring: mezzo-soprano/viola/piano
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Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners
Composed: 1971
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation/Scoring: soprano/trumpet(opt)/organ
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Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: Worldës Blissë
Composed: 1971
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation/Scoring: counter-tenor and oboe
First performance: 1971
By: Kevin Smith & Tamara Coates
Performance Place: Little Missenden Festival
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Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: Threnody
Composed: 1971
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation/Scoring: tenor/piano/harpsichord (amplified)
First performance By: Ian Partridge, Neil Saunders & Richard Drakeford
Performance Place: Little Missenden Festival
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Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: This Endris Night
Composed: 1972+
Duration: 30'
Instrumentation/Scoring: tenor/women's chorus/brass ensemble/timpani
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Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: This Ean Night
Composed: 1972
Duration: 3'
Instrumentation/Scoring: 2 counter-tenors
Revised for: an EMI record
Performed by: James Bowman and Charles Brett (counter-tenors)
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Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: Dira vi amores terror
Composed: 1973
Duration: 3'
Instrumentation/Scoring: counter-tenor solo
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Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: Lunar Beauty
Composed: 1986
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation/Scoring: medium voice and guitar (version for voice and lute available)
Commissioned by: Nigel Perrin
First performance: 9th August 1986
By: Nigel Perrin (counter-tenor) and David Parsons (lute)
Performance Place: Christ Church, Harrogate - Harrogate Festival
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Type: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH VOICES
Title: Nearing the Upper Air
Composed: 1988
Duration: 10'
Instrumentation/Scoring: counter-tenor, 2 recorders, cello and harpsichord
Commissioned by: The Stour Music Festival
Words extracted from: Cecil Day Lewis's
Translation of: Virgil's Georgics
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