Cecilia McDowall

This is an uplifting setting of a fun text by Christie Dickason that characterizes the sky in an imaginative way. The compelling melodies are underpinned by a dynamic piano part, and a contrasting mid...

This delicate, spring-like poem, by Kevin Crossley-Holland, is an affectionate salutation to a newborn babe. After a hushed introduction of whispered welcomes, the voices burst into a dance-like song...

The Shipping Forecast is in 3 movements: 'Donegal', 'They that go down to the sea in ships', and 'Naming'. The first and last movement are settings of poems by the poet, broadcaster, and academic, Sea...

'As Each Leaf Dances' is a setting of a powerful text by Kevin Crossley-Holland about the cruelty of child abuse being overcome by love and kindness. Reflecting this, the first section features a rele...

This exciting work for choir and solo violin draws its title from Edward Winslow's 1624 chronicles, Good Newes from New England, in which he describes the Mayflower Pilgrims' settlement in the New Wor...

Music of the Stars offers an enlightening commentary on the power of music to console and uplift in challenging times. Characterful string writing accompanies the engaging vocal lines, with McDowall a...

Cette œuvre, qui met en scène de vifs poèmes de Kate Wakeling, est une puissante exploration du thème de la glace. Le premier mouvement, plein d'entrain, dépeint l'effervescence des foires de gel de 1...

Subject to the Weather s'inspire de la chanson folklorique galloise The Blackbird, mais fait également référence à l'hymne de Wesley Aurelia : The Church's one Foundation. La musique évoque la vie à l...

Quintette à vent en trois mouvements, attrayant et accessible. Le premier et le dernier, pleins de caractère et d'humour, englobent un mouvement central réfléchi et poignant qui s'inspire du Winterrei...

Quintette à vent en trois mouvements, attrayant et accessible. Le premier et le dernier, pleins de caractère et d'humour, englobent un mouvement central réfléchi et poignant qui s'inspire du Winterrei...

White Fox Woman est un mini-opéra saisissant de neuf minutes pour voix moyenne à basse. Commandé par le hautboïste Paul Goodey en 2002. La romancière Christie Dickason s'est inspirée d'un mythe orient...

White Fox Woman est un mini-opéra saisissant de neuf minutes pour voix moyenne à basse, accompagné par un saxophone soprano ou un hautbois. Cette œuvre fascinante a été commandée par le hautboïste Pau...

Écrite comme pièce d'essai pour le concours intercollégial de quatuor à cordes CAVATINA organisé au Conservatoire Trinity Laban, cette courte pièce donne aux ensembles l'occasion de déployer leur créa...

This inventive work, composed in 2019, owes its title to that year's two great anniversaries connected to manned flight: the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and the 500th anniversary of the...

Sounding heaven and earth est une pièce d'orgue inspirée par Prayer, un sonnet du poète métaphysique George Herbert.

This inventive work, composed in 2019, owes its title to that year's two great anniversaries connected to manned flight: the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and the 500th anniversary of the...

This jubilant carol sets an evocative fourteenth-century text celebrating the birth of Christ. With a lilting, medieval feel and changing metres, Of A Rose has been recorded by The Sixteen on their al...

This tender carol sets an affecting text by Christina Rossetti that tells the story of Jesus's birth. In classic McDowall style, the setting explores a variety of choral textures and is interspersed w...

Through luminous choral harmonies, images of a winter night, and echoes of scripture, Advent Moon evokes deep human longing and the promise of the coming of light. The delicate organ accompaniment and...

This engaging carol cantata combines several popular carols to create a performance full of Christmas spirit. Through creative re-harmonization, rhythmic variation, and imaginative linking passages, M...

Written for the 2018 BBC Advent broadcast from St John's College, Cambridge, A Prayer to St John the Baptist sets an artfully crafted text that combines Guido d'Arezzo's Ut queant laxis (itself a Hymn...

Written for the 2018 BBC Advent broadcast from St John's College, Cambridge, A Prayer to St John the Baptist sets an artfully crafted text that combines Guido d'Arezzo's Ut queant laxis (itself a Hymn...

This setting of the evocative poem by Chesterton is atmospheric and powerful. Showcasing McDowall's distinctive style, its minor tonality, subtle chromaticisms, and whole-tone scales portray the contr...

This setting of the evocative poem by Chesterton is atmospheric and powerful. Showcasing McDowall's distinctive style, its minor tonality, subtle chromaticisms, and whole-tone scales portray the contr...

The charming and vibrant melody of this attractive carol for choir and organ glides above harmonies that are almost entirely diatonic, but whose originality and frequent passing dissonances mean that...