Judith Weir (Composer)
Born: 11th May 1954, Cambridge, England
Nationality: English
Judith Weir CBE is a British composer and the first female Master of the Queen's Music. She studied with Sir John Tavener whilst at school and subsequently with Robin Holloway at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1976. Her music often draws on sources from medieval history, as well as the traditional stories and music of her parents' homeland, Scotland. Although she has achieved international recognition for her orchestral and chamber works, Weir is best known for her operas and theatrical works.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Weir
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Recording of the Week,
New choral music from Iceland and England
4th February 2022
A double-bill of contemporary works for choir - Icelandic splendour from Graham Ross and the choir of Clare College, and Westminster commissions from Dove, Weir and Martin.
Interview,
Judith Weir on Airs from Another Planet
30th October 2019
David talks to the composer about the new album of her vocal and instrumental works, just released on Delphian and encompassing a wide range of styles and influences.
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Popular Works: Weir
- a blue true dream of sky (2)
- A Night at the Chinese Opera (2)
- Airs from Another Planet (3)
- All the Ends of the Earth (2)
- Arise! Arise! You slumbering sleepers (2)
- Ascending Into Heaven (7)
- Atlantic Drift (1)
- Ave Regina caelorum (3)
- Chorale, for Steve (1)
- Don't let that horse (2)
- Drop down, ye heavens, from above (6)
- Ettrick Banks (3)
- Forest (2)
- fragile (1)
- Holy Innocents (1)
- Human Hymns (2) (4)
- Illuminare, Jerusalem (20)
- King Harald's Saga (2)
- Love Bade Me Welcome (2)
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (2011) (1)
- Michael's Strathspey (2)
- Missa del Cid (1)
- Mountain Airs (1)
- My Guardian Angel (3)
- Piano Concerto (3)
- Scotch Minstrelsy (3)
- Several Concertos (1)
- Sketches from a Bagpiper's Album (2)
- Songs from the Exotic (3)
- Storm (1)
- String Quartet (3)
- The Bagpiper's String Trio (2)
- The Consolations of Scholarship (1)
- The Romance of Count Arnaldos (2)
- The Song Sung True (1)
- The Vanishing Bridegroom (1)
- Three Chorales for cello and piano (2)
- To Judith, from Judith (1)
- Vertue (2)
- Wild Mossy Mountains (3)
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