Geoffrey Burgon Compositions : Ordered by Type

Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Three Elegies
Composed: 1964+
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Short Mass
Composed: 1965+
Duration: 9'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SSATB
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Farewell Earth's Bliss
Composed: 1966+
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation/Scoring: six solo voices
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Three Carols ( I Sing of a Maiden; Welcome our Messiah; The Coventry Carol)
Composed: 1967+
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Two Hymns to Mary
Composed: 1967,1969+
Duration: 3'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: And There was War in Heaven
Composed: 1970
Duration: 3'
Instrumentation/Scoring: boys' voices or sopranos/organ
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Five Alleluias
Composed: 1970
Duration: 10'
Instrumentation/Scoring: six solo voices (or brass)
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Golden Eternity
Composed: 1970
Duration: 17'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB/harp/piano
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Mai Hamama
Composed: 1970
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation/Scoring: six solo voices
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: A Prayer to the Trinity
Composed: 1972
Duration: 4'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Sleep
Composed: 1973
Duration: 9'
Instrumentation/Scoring: five solo voices
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: The Fire of Heaven
Composed: 1973+
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation/Scoring: triple chorus
First performance: 1973
Performance Place: Three Choirs Festival
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Noche Oscura
Composed: 1974
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation/Scoring: six solo voices
First performance: 1974
Performance Place: Cheltenham Festival
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Dos Coros
Composed: 1975
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation/Scoring: twelve solo voices
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: This World From
Composed: 1979
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB/organ
First performance: 1979
By: Chichester Cathedral Choir and Alan Thurlow
Performance Place: Chichester Festival
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Laudate Dominum
Composed: 1980
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB/organ
First performance: 1980
Performance Place: Worcester Cathedral
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: But Have Been Found Again
Composed: 1983
Duration: 7'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SAATTBB
First performance: 1983
By: combibned cathedral choirs
Conducted by: David Willcocks
Performance Place: Southern Cathedrals Festival
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: A God and Yet a Man
Composed: 1984
Duration: 2'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SSAATTBB
Written for: The Chester Music Carol Book
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: The Names of the Hare
Composed: 1985
Duration: 4'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB
Commissioned by: The Milton Keynes Chorale
First performance: 14th June 1986
By: Milton Keynes Chorale
Conducted by: Neville Creed
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: The Song of the Creatures
Composed: 1987
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB/organ
Commissioned by: St. Matthew's Church Northampton
First performance: 21st September 1987
By: Choir of St. Matthew's Church
Conducted by: Andrew Shenton
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Prayer to St. Richard
Composed: 1989
Duration: 2'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB choir
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Songs of the Creation
Composed: 1989
Duration: 25'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB chorus and organ
Commissioned by: The Southern Cathedrals Festival
First performance: 1989
Performance Place: Chichester Cathedral
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Five Love Songs
Composed: 1992
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB
Text by: WH Auden
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: In a Dark Time
Composed: 1992
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB
Text by: Theodore Roetke
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: The First World
Composed: 1992
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Christ's Love
Composed: 2000
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation/Scoring: four pieces to Middle English texts for mixed chorus
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC 
Title: Magic Words
Composed: 2000
Duration: 15'
Instrumentation/Scoring: six pieces to Inuitt texts for mixed chorus, percussion (played by chorus)
First performance: 2000
Performance Place: Little Missenden Festival 2000 Joyful Company of Singers
Conducted by: Peter Broadbent
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC
Title: Te Deum
Composed: 2002
Duration: 7'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB & Organ.
First performance: 2006
Conducted by: Matthew Owens
Performance Place: premiere Wells Cathedral 2006
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC
Title: Of Flowers and Emeralds Sheen
Composed: 2004
Duration: 4'
Instrumentation/Scoring: Anthem for mixed chorus to a poem by St John of the Cross,
First performance: 2004
Performance Place: St Paul’s Cathedral
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC
Title: Becket Mass
Composed: 2005
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB & Organ
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC
Title: Death be not Proud
Composed: 2005
Duration: 4'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB, organ & trumpet (optional)
First performance: 2006
Conducted by: Matthew Owens
Performance Place: premiere Wells Cathedral
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Type: CHORAL MUSIC
Title: Come let us pity Death
Composed: 2005
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation/Scoring: SATB, organ & trumpet (optional)
First performance: 2006
Conducted by: Matthew Owens
Performance Place: premiere Wells Cathedral
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