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...

Con la messa in scena di vivaci poesie di Kate Wakeling, quest'opera è una potente esplorazione del tema del ghiaccio. Il vivace primo movimento raffigura le animate fiere del gelo del 1684, con motiv...

Interessante e accessibile quintetto per fiati in tre movimenti. Il primo e l'ultimo, pieni di carattere e umorismo, racchiudono un movimento centrale riflessivo e struggente che trae ispirazione dall...

Interessante e accessibile quintetto per fiati in tre movimenti. Il primo e l'ultimo, pieni di carattere e umorismo, racchiudono un movimento centrale riflessivo e struggente che trae ispirazione dall...

White Fox Woman è una suggestiva mini-opera di nove minuti per voce medio-bassa. Commissionata dall'oboista Paul Goodey nel 2002. La scrittrice Christie Dickason si è ispirata a un mito orientale. McD...

White Fox Woman è una suggestiva mini-opera di nove minuti per voce medio-bassa accompagnata da sassofono soprano o oboe. Questo lavoro avvincente è stato commissionato dall'oboista Paul Goodey nel 20...

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 è un brano per organo ispirato a Prayer, un sonetto del poeta metafisico 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...

L'affascinante e vibrante melodia originale di questo attraente canto scivola su armonie quasi interamente diatoniche, ma la cui inventiva e le frequenti dissonanze di passaggio fanno sì che la preved...

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...

For SATB choir, soprano solo, and children's choir with piano or organ or chamber orchestra or brass. This accessible Christmas cantata presents a sequence of the five carols 'Personent hodie', 'Entre...