Five Armitage Songs
Alice Beckwith

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Instrumentation

Voice and piano

Additional Information

Five Armitage Songs is a song-cycle for high voice and piano celebrating the West Yorkshire heritage of Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and composer Alice Beckwith.

Commissioned by &Piano Festival 2024 with generous support from the Vaughan Williams Foundation, the first performance was given by Sarah Fox, Joe Shovelton and Christopher Pulleyn.

Tags

vocal
Simon Armitage
Yorkshire
Songs
voice and piano
contemporary classical

Details

Score file
Five Armitage Songs - Full Score, Alice Beckwith.pdf
Minutes
14

Recordings

Media link
Recording - Five Armitage Songs