Alastair Stout - Darkening Skies (1998)

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Darkening Skies

SATB & organ

8 minutes


Text: Leslie Griffiths


Commissioned, first performed by the choir of Waltham Abbey, September 1998.

Winner of the FCOCA competition, 1999.


Available on the CD For the Fallen (Lammas Records: LAMM 113D)












“The choir perform very well indeed Alastair Stout's Darkening Skies

which was commissioned for the choir and explores the journey from the dark

battlefield into the light of God, transforming deathly grey to living red.”

Church Music Quarterly, 1998

Sound sample performed by

the choir of Waltham Abbey.

Shetland