Lewes-based composer, Ed Hughes, whose 2013 CD\/DVD When The Flame Dies was reviewed in\u00a0 Classical CD Choice on 11.11.13, was in London last night to receive a British Composers Award for his liturgical piece \u2018Chaconne for Jonathan Harvey\u2019. This solo work for organ was commissioned by Christopher Batchelor as part of the 2013 London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, with funds from the PRS for Music Foundation. The work is in memory of Jonathan Harvey whom Hughes assisted as amanuensis on his final choral composition in summer 2012, \u2018Plainsongs for Peace and Light\u2019. Hughes\u2019 work refers to a couple of Harvey pieces \u2013 quoting a plainsong in ‘Plainsongs for Peace and Light’ and a chord pattern from ‘The Angels’ (choral work from 1995). The work was first performed by Michael Waldron on 15 April 2013 in St Pancras Church, London, as part of choral evensong, and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.<\/p>\n
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Lewes-based composer, Ed Hughes, whose 2013 CD\/DVD When The Flame Dies was reviewed in\u00a0 Classical CD Choice on 11.11.13, was in London last night to receive a British Composers Award for his liturgical piece \u2018Chaconne for Jonathan Harvey\u2019. This solo … Continue reading