Julian Philips Voice & Piano Works
VOICES & ENSEMBLE
Looking West (2022)
Duration: 75 minutes
Text: Rebecca Hurst
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
SOPRANO & PIANO
Love Songs of Amy Lowell (2011)
(commissioned by the 2011 Presteigne Festival)
Duration: 16 minutes
Text: Amy Lowell
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
An Amherst Bestiary (1997)
Duration: 1-25 minutes
Text: Emily Dickinson
For purchase: ‘Amherst Bestiary’, Wise Music
SOPRANO, BARITONE, CHILDREN’S VOICES & PIANO
Autumn Songs (2021)
(Commissioned by the Little Missenden Festival)
Duration: 25 minutes
Text: Ted Hughes
For purchase: Wise Music
MEZZO-SOPRANO & PIANO
An American Songbook (2004)
(commissioned by the Ludlow English Song Weekend)
Duration: 16 minutes
Text: Langston Hughes
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
Life Lessens (2002)
(commissioned by Nick & Sue Nightingale)
Duration: 25 minutes
Text: Simon Christmas
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
TENOR, HORN & PIANO
The Country of Larks (2021)
(Commissioned by Oxford Lieder)
Duration: 9 minutes
Text: Robert Louis Stevenson
For purchase: ‘The Country of Larks’ – Wise Music
TENOR & PIANO
Love Songs for Mary Joyce (2016)
(commissioned by the Wigmore Hall)
Duration: 20 minutes
Text: John Clare
For purchase: ‘Love Songs for Mary Joyce’, Wise Music
An Amherst Bestiary (1997)
Duration: 1-25 minutes
Text: Emily Dickinson
For purchase: ‘Amherst Bestiary’, Wise Music
Der Jungling und der Tod (1997)
(commissioned by BBC Radio Three)
Duration: 6 minutes
Text: Josef von Spaun
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
Dread of Starry Majesties (1995)
(commissioned by the Lichfield Festival)
Duration: 20 minutes
Text: Ivor Gurney
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
now i lay me down to dream of spring (1991)
Duration: 25 minutes
Text: e e cummings
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
BARITONE & PIANO
Four Sonnets of John Clare (2002, rev. 2015)
(commissioned by the Wigmore Hall)
Duration: 10 minutes
Text: John Clare
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
There is a morn by men unseen (2003)
(commissioned by the Wigmore Hall)
Duration: 3.5 minutes
Text: Emily Dickinson
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
Blist’s Hill (2009)
(commissioned by NMC Recordings)
Duration: 3.5 minutes
Text: Simon Christmas
For purchase: ‘Blist’s Hill’, Wise Music
Swift Partitions (1998)
(commissioned by baritone Jeremy Huw Williams)
Duration: 13 minutes
Text: Emily Dickinson
Contact: ‘Swift Partitions’ – Julian Philips
Eclogue (1996)
(commissioned by the Housman Society & Finzi Trust)
Duration: 9.5 minutes
Text: A E Housman
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
Fern Hill (1996)
(commissioned by baritone Jeremy Huw Williams)
Duration: 15 minutes
Text: Dylan Thomas
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
Julian Philips Works for voice with instrument(s)
SOPRANO, TENOR & PIANO TRIO
Cantos de Sonho (2013) for soprano, tenor & piano trio
Poems by Alexander Search
(commissioned by the Ludlow English Song Weekend)
Duration: 35 minutes
For hire/purchase: “Cantos de Sonho’, Wise Music
EXPLORE
SOPRANO, TRUMPET & ORGAN
Love is more thicker than forget (1997) for soprano, tenor & organ
Poem: Emily Dickinson
Duration: 3 minutes
For purchase: ‘Love is more thicker than forget’, Wise Music
MEZZO_SOPRANO & VIOLA
Coronach (1995) for mezzo-soprano & viola
Poem: Olive Fraser
Duration: 9 minutes
For purchase: ‘Coronach’, Wise Music
BARITONE, CELLO & HARP
Turning Fifty (2019)
BARITONE & ENSEMBLE
Swift Partitions (1998/2003)
(commissioned by baritone Jeremy Huw Williams)
Ensemble: fl/ob/clar/bsn, hn, string quartet & piano
Duration: 13 minutes
Text: Emily Dickinson
Contact: ‘Swift Partitions’ – Julian Philips
BARITONE & STRING QUARTET
Sweet Love Remembered (Goodison Quartet no. 2) (2005)
(commissioned by the Wigmore Hall)
Duration: 25 minutes
Texts: Amy Lowell, Amy Levy, Byron, May Swenson, James Merrill, Muriel Rukeyser
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips
EXPLORE
Score for Sweet Love Remembered
Julian Philips Works for voice & orchestra
BARITONE & CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Masque for Caliban (2006)
(commissioned by the Orchestra of the Swan for the Three Choirs Festival)
Orchestration: fl/ob/clar/bsn, hn/tpt/tbn, 2 perc, strings
Duration: 22 minutes
Text: Kamau Brathwaite
Contact: Wise Music – Julian Philips