Howard Skempton (Composer)
Born: 31st October 1947, Chester, England
Nationality: English
Howard While Skempton is an English composer, pianist, and accordionist.
Since the late 1960s, when he helped to organise the Scratch Orchestra, he has been associated with the English school of experimental music. Skempton's work is characterised by stripped-down, essentials-only choice of materials, absence of formal development and a strong emphasis on melody.
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Recording of the Week,
Roderick Williams sings a new work by Howard Skempton: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
21st April 2017
Katherine very much enjoys baritone Roderick Williams in a new work by Howard Skempton: a setting of Coleridge's poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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Popular Works: Skempton
- Adam lay y-bounden (9)
- Air Melody (3)
- Ave Virgo sanctissima (5)
- Beguine (2)
- Chamber Concerto (2)
- Chorale (2)
- Emerson Songs (2)
- Even Tenor (2)
- Five Poems of Mary Webb (2)
- He wishes for the cloths of Heaven (2)
- How fair is thy love (2)
- Images (3)
- Invention (3)
- June '77 (2)
- Kettle's Yard Canon (2)
- Lento (5)
- My beloved is gone down (2)
- Nocturnes (3) (3)
- passing fancy (3)
- Piano Piece (1969) (2)
- Prelude 1 (3)
- Random Girl (2)
- Recessional for organ (2)
- Reminiscence (2)
- Rise up, my Love (6)
- Rose-Berries (2)
- Rumba (2)
- Saltaire Melody (2)
- Senza licenza (3)
- Starlight (2)
- Swedish Caprice (3)
- Sweet Chariot (3)
- The Bridge of Fire (2)
- The Durham Strike (3)
- There is no rose (2)
- To Bethlem did they go (2)
- Toccata (2)
- Trace (3)
- Two Poems of Edward Thomas (2)
- Well, well, Cornelius (6)
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