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Emily Howard: The Anvil

Kate Royal, Claire Booth (sopranos), Hugh Cutting (countertenor), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone), BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers, Hallé Choir, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni

it’s an immersive and emotional experience...Visceral and brilliant. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…
  • Release Date: 13th Oct 2023
  • Catalogue No: DCD34285
  • Label: Delphian
  • Length: 60 minutes

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Contents

Howard, Emily: The Anvil 'An Elegy for Peterloo'

Work length36:22
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  • Kate Royal (soprano), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone)
  • Hallé Choir, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers, Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé Ancoats Community Choir
  • Ben Gernon

I. Heavy stone harvest

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II. Pelt of rough turf

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III. Battered shuttles

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IV. The Commissioner for Paving

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V. Fife drums love command liberty

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VI. A lake of hats

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VII. We walk in communion

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VIII. We ask for sustenance and suffrage

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IX. The order comes

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X. Were we quickened from brick-dust

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XI. Sabred and stabbed

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XII. The field turns inside out

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XIII.Some of our cry is their cry

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XIV. Now, when you see a blush

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XV. Ghosts conjured from cotton smoke

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XVI. Our shibboleth

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Howard, Emily: Elliptics

Work length24:15
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  • Claire Booth (soprano), Hugh Cutting (countertenor)
  • BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers, Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir
  • Vimbayi Kaziboni

I. Like a bird that has hit glass

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II. Be quiet, you say

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III. On the way, I reckoned up trios of street-lamps

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IV. Rooks wake, warn and clatter

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V. The long-gone and the not-yet-here

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VI. Full-tilt towards infinity

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VII. Night-long drive

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VIII. Houses dark and steep, oblivious

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IX. Love alone brooks resurrection

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X. Under our feet, below the sewers

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XI. Seven swans in grief

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XII. Wildfires on the bare hills

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XIII.Like a bird that has hit glass

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XIV. Beyond these walls is so much silence

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XV. Dusk that never blossoms. Endless vespers

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