... A PLAGUE O' YOUR HOUSES
A secular cantata for SSAATTBB, Piano, String Quartet, and Percussion (2 players – Timp [3], Mark-tree, Temple Blocks, Wood Blocks, Glockenspiel & Xylophone)
- 2021
- 13 Minutes 15 seconds
- Read the lyrics by George Szirtes
LISTEN
The CD – Choral Music: Sacred and Secular – is available from Toccata Classics and can be purchased through their website using this link.
See the score and listen to the Accordare Choir. Director: Karolina Csathy. Accompanist: Dominika Mak.
reviews
“…The most ambitious work on the album is …a plague o’ your houses. I’ve not heard anything quite like it. Lambert composed the work during the Covid lockdown. A narrator, personifying different plagues, sets the stage. The choir articulates the feelings and impressions of those living in a plague zone. Lambert augments the sound with a string quartet and percussion.
This work has a disorienting quality to it. The mood it sets is somber, yet restless. Oppressive, and yet unsettled. I think …a plague is worth the price of admission (or download). Consider the other selections bonus material…”
WTJU radio station 91.1FM University of Virginia, Charlottesville – Ralph Graves
“…Scored for eight-part choir, string quartet, percussion, [piano (sic)] and narrator, this is one of the better works I have heard to have been written as a response to the global COVID-19 pandemic…it is highly effective in its scoring and effect…”
Fanfare Magazine (Issue 47:6 July/Aug) – William Kempster
PUBLISHED BY
…a plague o’ your houses is published by UMP.
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