Alastair Stout - Motets (1998 - 2008)
Alastair Stout - Motets (1998 - 2008)








Motets
SATB
total: approx. 15 minutes
1) Lighten Our Darkness (1998)
Text: Collect from the Book of Common Prayer
Commissioned by John Scott and first performed
by the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.
2) Drop, Drop Slow Tears (2005)
Text: Phineas Fletcher
First performed by the Fair Isle Choir, Scotland, during Lent 2005
3) The Lord’s Prayer (2006)
First performed by the Pittsburgh Compline Choir, March 25th, 2007
4) Round me falls the night (2007)
Text: William Romanis
First performed by the Pittsburgh Compline Choir, November, 2007
5) Vigil (2008)
Text: Rabindranath Tagore
First performed by the Pittsburgh Compline Choir, March, 2010
6) Evening Processional (2008)
Text: Rabindranath Tagore
First performed by the Pittsburgh Compline Choir, November, 2007
Sound sample - No. 3 - performed by the Pittsburgh Compline Choir, directed by Andrew Scanlon.
Sound sample - No. 4 - same performers.
Motets nos. 3 & 4 available on the Pittsburgh Compline Choir’s latest CD, ‘Blessed, Heavenly Light’, directed by Andrew Scanlon.
Sound sample - from No. 5 - performed by the Pittsburgh Compline Choir, directed by Alastair Stout.