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Choral – unaccompanied

A Girl for the Blue
SATB/soprano solo (7'20")
Possibly Patrick Larley’s most spiritually moving work for a cappella choir. An evocative setting of words from Michael Ffinch’s poem Annunciation. A wonderful, soaring soprano solo hovering dramatically over clustered choral writing.
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available on the CDs The Rose of Peace and A Girl for the Blue

On the Edge of Glory
A meditation on the life of St. Columba
SATB/soprano and tenor solo (10'50")
This short cantata-like work was commissioned by St. Columba’s Church in Chester as part of their celebrations to mark two very significant events in the history of the Christian Church – the 1400th anniversary of the death of St. Columba, and the arrival in Britain of St. Augustine in 597AD. Patrick Larley fuses together the Gregorian plainchant style with the folk-like idiom of the Celtic tradition to reflect these two different strands of Christianity.
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available on the CD The Rose of Peace

Crucifying and Resurrection
from ‘Divine Poems’ – John Donne
SATB (5'40")
These two pieces contrast the anguish of the death of Christ with the joy and energy of His rising from the dead.
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Available on the CD The Rose of Peace

The Dreame
John Donne
SSAATTBB (8'0")
Written for the BBC Northern Singers
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To His Beloved
Four poems by WB Yeats
(16'0")
Descriptive and truly atmospheric settings…“perfect musical pictures of Yeats’ texts”

i) The Lake Isle of Innisfree
SATB (4'18")

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ii) The Rose of Peace
SATB/solo quartet SATB (4'20")

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iii) He wishes for the cloths of heaven
SATB/alto solo (3'15")

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iv) When you are old and grey and full of sleep
SATB

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available on the CD The Rose of Peace

Songs of the Cosmos
i) The Song of the Stars
ii) The Song of the Sky Loom
SATB with optional drones (5'00")
Written for the ensemble Voice, these two beautiful prayer-songs are from the spiritual legacy of the North American native peoples – a rich and varied culture which inspires love and tolerance between all peoples.
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Heaven (echo poem)
George Herbert
SATB/SA solo (2'30")
This setting is an exact musical replica of the text, in the manner of a plainchant psalm. The final syllables of each line are echoed at a distance by the soprano and alto soloists.
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A Glasse of Blessings
George Herbert
SATB (3'30")
One of Patrick Larley’s most exquisite short choral pieces, this plainchant inspired setting of Herbert’s The Pulley is rich in harmony and musical imagery.
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Antiphon
George Herbert
ATTBarB (2'30")
Written for Opus Anglicanum, Antiphon had its first performance in Wells Cathedral in 2000. Angels and men question and answer each other around a central cantus firmus.
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Two Medieval Carols
i)Hayle, flowre of al vyrgynyte
SATB/ST solo (4'10")
In the style of an English medieval carol, with its pattern of verses and refrains. The Burden undergoes various treatments such as canon and organum whilst the verse is an exact mirror image of itself – rising to its central point then falling away in retrograde, thus forming a visual effect on the printed page as well as an aural one.

ii)Wolcum Yole!
SATB
A jaunty carol, playing on the natural rhythm of the 14th Century words.

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Good Friday Night
SATB/Mez solo (12'0")
An anguished procession through Christ’s passion, ending in the peace of the Resurrection eve.
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Wake now my love, for it is time
SATB (2'00")
A joyful Wedding anthem written for the composer’s marriage, setting words from Edmund Spencer’s Epithalamion. (See also Choral works – organ)
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Responses for Treble Voices
SA
Written for the choristers of St James Church, Great Grimsby.
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Arrangements

Drink to me only
SATB (2'10")

Linden Lea
SATB/soprano solo (3'25")

The Lark in the Clear Air
SATB/tenor solo (2'30")

Vespers
SATB (4'10")

The Owl and the Pussycat
Written for Christopher and Victoria, on their Wedding.
SATB (3'30")