Geoffrey Burgon Compositions : Ordered by Type
Type: VOICES(S) PLUS ENSEMBLE/ORCHESTA
Title: First Was The World
Composed: 1994
Duration: 10'
Text: Andrew Marvell
Instrumentation/Scoring: counter-tenor(or mezzo), SATB chorus plus 2fl(pic),2ob(ca),2cl,2bsn/4.2.3(btbn).1/T+2/hp/str
First performance: 8 June 1994
By: Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus/D Willcocks
Commissioned by: The Bank of England
Performance Place: Barbican Hall
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Type: VOICES(S) PLUS ENSEMBLE/ORCHESTA
Title: Almost Peace ( Three Songs to Poems by Emily Dickinson )
Composed: 1995
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation/Scoring: soprano plus cl(bcl)/tpt.tmb/perc (vib, 3 tomtoms - small or medium small bass drum, small suspended cymbal)/vla.db
Commissioned by: BBC Radio 3 for "Fairest Isle Songbook"
First broadcast: 1 October 1995, BBC Radio 3
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Type: VOICES(S) PLUS ENSEMBLE/ORCHESTA
Title: Merciless Beauty
Composed: 1996
Duration: 20'
Instrumentation/Scoring: counter tenor solo plus 1(pic)1(ca)1(bcl).sopsax.1/2100/P/hp/str
Song Cycle to poems by: Kit Wright, Blake, Anon and Chaucer
Commissioned by: Michael Estorick and James Bowman
Premiere: 18 October 1997
By: James Bowman (counter-tenor) with the City of London Sinfonia/Burgon
Performance Place: Wooburn Festival
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Type: VOICES PLUS ENSEMBLE/ORCHESTRA
Title: The Road of Love
Composed: 2006
Duration: 18'
Instrumentation/Scoring: Soprano & string quartet
First performance: 2006
Conducted by: Rebecca van den Berg Guildhall String Quartet
Performance Place: premiere Paxos Festival Greece 2006
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