• Chamber

• My Day In Hell

  (string quartet)

• The Ogre Lover

  (string trio)

• My Fleeting Angel

  (piano trio)

• The Glory Tree

  (Sop., fl., (picc.), cl., (bass), Vln, Vc, Pno)

• Kontakion

  (Double bass quartet)

• Three fragments

  (Double bass quartet)

• Vocalise

  (sop., fl., harp)

• Memoria

  (ob./Cor., vln., vla., vc., pno.)

• Melancholia

  (piano trio)

• Tread Softly

  (fl (picc., alto), clar (bass), vln, vla, vc, pno and perc.)

• Solo/Duo

• Bouleumata

  (solo clarinet)

• The Snow Woman

  (solo violin)

• Excelsus

  (solo 'cello)

• Stone Angel

  (Double Bass and Piano)

• The Prophecy

  ('Cello and Piano)

• Invocation

  (Double Bass and Piano)

• Orchestral

• Piano Concerto

  (Piano and Orchestra)

• Many Moons

  (Orchestra)

• The dreams that fly from me

  (String Orchestra and Solo Quartet)

• A Refusal to Mourn

  (Oboe and String Orchestra)

• Rhapsody on a Theme by Ralph Vaughan Williams

  (Symphony Orchestra)

• Concertino

  (Solo Vc., pno, perc., and orchestra)

• Opera/Vocal

• Psalm No.1

  (Choir)

• Family Matters

  (Sop., tenor, bar., bass, cl. (bass), perc.,pno., vc.)

• Broken Lines: sonata for opera

  (sop., tenor, Bass-Bar., etc)

• Nunc Dimittis

  (for 21-voice choir)

• There is no rose

  (SATB choir)

• Dance

• String Quartet No. 2

• Ballet Suite 1

  (String Orchestra)

Performance

Commissioned by Double Bass 2000, premiered at Wells Cathedral School by David Heyes and Mark Cracknell, October.

Invocation

In Invocation I wanted to explore the lyrical side of the double bass, using the whole range of the instrument in the long melody that runs throughout the piece. The accompaniment is homophonic for the most part: although the time span is brief I wanted the work to have a statuesque feel, and the wide spacing of the piano chords is intended to emphasise this.

Photos by Aidan Woodcock and Mark Roberts, Web design by Mark Roberts

Copyright © 2006 Cheryl Frances-Hoad