ALLAN BEVAN, COMPOSER

The Souls of the Righteous

2/10/2015

 
1) Voicing: TTBB a cappella
Text: Wisdom 3: 1-3
Published by: Cypress Choral Music
Notes: This work was composed in 1999 and first performed by Chor Leoni, Vancouver. It is the second of three settings that I have done of this particular text. The recording to the right was submitted by the choir as an entry for the 2002 CBC Choral Competition. It is conducted by the legendary Diane Loomer.  The text is a famous passage from the Apocryphal Book of Wisdom.
Performed by: Chor Leoni, Diane Loomer, C.M. conductor.
The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,
There shall no torment touch them.
In the sight of the unwise, they seemed to die:
But they
are in peace.

Wisdom 3: 1, 2a, 3b
see the complete score at classica Music Publishers

2) Voicing: SATB a cappella
Published by: Cypress Choral Music, Vancouver CP 1075
Retail: J. W. Pepper; Foxes Music

Notes: This is an SATB scoring of the original TTBB version above. Text is identical but the ending is different. You may view this score at Cypress Choral Music.

Listen to Ensemble Phoebus of Montreal sing The Souls of the Righteous at CBC Music. This beautiful recording is from the 2015 CBC Choral Competition.
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The Garden

2/8/2015

 
Voicing: SSAA, flute, and piano
Text: Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
Published by: Canadian Music Centre
Notes: Composed in 2006 as a commissioned work for the National Youth Choir, which did the first performance at Podium 2006 in Victoria, B.C., Dr. Richard Sparks, conducting.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Come, my own,
   Into thy garden; thine be happy hours
   Among my fairest thoughts, my tallest flowers,
From root to crowning petal thine alone.

Thine is the place from where the seeds are sown
   Up to the sky enclosed, with all its showers.
   But ah, the birds, the birds! Who shall build bowers
To keep these thine? O friend, the birds have flown.

For as these come and go, and quit our pine
   To follow the sweet season, or, new-comers,
      Sing one song only from our alder-trees,

My heart has thoughts, which, though thine eyes hold mine,
   Flit to the silent world and other summers,
      With wings that dip beyond the silver seas
.
Performed by: Concerto Della Donna, Iwan Edwards, conductor, Pamela Reimer, piano, Josee Poirier, flute
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The Revival

2/6/2015

 
Voicing: SATB a cappella
Text: Henry Vaughan (1622 - 1695)
Published by: classica Music Publishers
Notes:

The first of the Three Motets on Texts of Henry Vaughan to be completed (1999) and the second number in the group (see elsewhere on this web-site for a discussion and review of the Three Motets). This piece sets a short poem by Vaughan of a decidedly Easter nature, although the text is a long way from any liturgy. The poem is based upon a portion of the Song of Solomon, (2: 11-17) the sensuously beautiful Old Testament chapters often attributed to King Solomon. One correction needs to be made to the published scores of the Motets where it is claimed that all of the three pieces are related to the Song of Solomon. Only The Revival is based upon the Song of Solomon. Apologies for any confusion.

The Revival

Unfold, unfold! take in his light,
Who makes thy Cares more short than night.
The joys, which with his Day-star rise,
He deals to all, but drowsy Eyes:
And what the men of this world miss,
Some drops and dews of future bliss.
Hark! how his winds have chang’d their note,
And with warm whispers call thee out.
The frosts are past, the storms are gone:
And backward life at last comes on.
The lofty groves in express Joyes
Reply unto the Turtles voice,
And here in dust and dirt, O here
The Lilies of his love appear!
                            

Performed by: The University of Alberta Madrigal Singers, Dr. Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor from their recording My Soul There is a Country (2001)
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