Susanni (2015, rev. 2024)

SATB with Soprano and Tenor soli

Duration:
4′

First performance:
16 December 2017
St Anne’s Church, Manchester; Kantos Chamber Choir, Elspeth Slorach

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Score

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Programme note

Susanni is a simple setting of the anonymous fifteenth century text. My work keeps the unusual form of the text with its double refrain, using these sections as quasi-plainchant solo lines against held chords in the choir. The piece increases in intensity and texture until the final verse, where the solo and ensemble lines are swapped, leading to a distant and fragile ending.

PAC

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Recording