David Lancaster - Publications and papers
Selected List of Works
Vanitas
For mezzo-soprano, clarinet and cello to texts by Ausonius and
Georg Trakl (1984)
First performed by Katrina Makepiece-Lott and ensemble, Selwyn
College, Cambridge, 1984
Echoes from a Phantom City
For flute, viola and harp (1985)
First performed by the Parke Ensemble, St James, Piccadilly
Steps Out of Time
For string orchestra and harp (1986)
First performed by the Parke Ensemble (Stuart Dunlop), St Martin in
the Fields, London
Still Life with Angels
For soprano, mezzo soprano and string quartet (winner of the
Michael Tippett award 1986)
First performed by Judith Rees, Linda Hirst and the Kronos Quartet,
Dartington Hall, August 1986
Tower of Babel
For orchestra (1987)
First performed by the Salamon Orchestra (Nicholas Braithwaite),
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Angel Still Silent
For mezzo soprano and chamber orchestra, setting poems by Trakl
(1987)
First performed by the Parke Ensemble (Stuart Dunlop) in the
October Gallery, London
Between 1988 and 1994 David Lancaster composed incidental music
for professional repertory productions at the Redgrave Theatre,
Farnham. Performances included scores for Glass Menagerie,
Macbeth, Richard II and adaptations of Jamaica Inn and Lady
Chatterley’s Lover; all Graham Watkins productions.
Lulu
Chamber opera for voices and electronics (1994)
First performed Edinburgh Fringe Festival, (Michelle Johnson,
soprano) August 1994
On the Rocks
Music for dance, for live voices and electronic tape, choreography
by Stuart Martin, design by Derek Hyatt (1997)
First performed Ripon Dance Studio (1997)
Bliss
For SATB chorus, based on the medieval English poem ‘Grant us the
bliss to see thy face’ (1999)
First performed by massed choirs of the Church Colleges (Marilynne
Davies) York Minster
Cuba!
For brass band (Winner of the Leeds University/Black Dyke award for
composition) (2002)
First performed by the Black Dyke Band (Nicholas Childs), Leeds
University
The Field
For SSA chorus, based on a text by Rumi (2007)
First performed by Laudamus (Deborah Catterall), Holy Trinity
Church, Ripon
In Darkness…
Three songs for soprano and piano on texts from Dowland lute songs
(2008)
First performed by Sarah Bowe and Keiran White, YSJU, May 2009
Mosquito
For recorded brass ensemble, in collaboration with artist Rory
Macbeth (2009)
First performed at Leeds Art Gallery, February 2009
Hammer and Tongues
For small Concert Band (2008)
First performed by YSJU Concert Band (David Lancaster), YSJU, June
2009
Northern Line
For brass band (2009)
First performed by York Railway Institute Band (Derek Warley), York
Theatre Royal, October 2009
Memories of Place
For baritone voice and piano, on poems by Daniela Nunnari
(2009)
First performed by Paul Carey Jones, York Late Music Festival,
December 2009