Ronald Corp – Composer

2011 Overview

'Ronald Corp – A Life-long Composer'

Biographies

List of Works and Sales Pages

Music by Ronald Corp
on CD includes:

A Christmas Mass (on the EMI disc, Hark! Chantage at Christmas)

Five Flower Songs and other children’s choir works (with the New London Children's Choir on the Naxos disc, Pigs Could Fly)

Forever Child and other choral music (with Voces Cantablles on Dutton Epoch) – which was released to great critical acclaim in 2006

Symphony No. 1, Piano Concerto No. 1, Guernsey Postcards (with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on Dutton Epoch)

The Songs of Ronald Corp (song-cycles and individual songs in première recordings on Stone Records)

Dhammapada sung by Apsara on Stone Records

String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 played by the Maggini Quartet coupled with the song-cycle, Country Matters (Naxos)

The Ice Mountain sung by the New London Children's Chorus with members of the New London Orchestra (Naxos)

And All the Trumpets Sounded sung by The London Chorus (with members of Highgate Choral Society) and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Dutton Epoch)

Forthcoming in 2012: Choral works including five anthems with organ, such as We Will Remember Them and The Pilgrim, plus Three Shakespeare Songs and other a cappella works recorded by Apsara (Stone Records)

Listen to excerpts:

Dhammapada

Guernsey Postcards

The Music of Whitman

Piano Concerto No. 1

String Quartet No. 1

Symphony No. 1

Music by Ronald Corp is published by:

Novello

Faber Music

Oxford University Press

Stainer and Bell

www.ronaldcorp.com

Choral Music representation
and promotion:

Choral Connections

Ronald Corp is particularly well-known as a choral composer and is becoming increasingly established as a composer of orchestral and instrumental music. He has received numerous commissions, and had many acclaimed performances. Recent ones in 2011 include:

And All the Trumpets Sounded (1988) was recorded by The London Chorus and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in June; Ron states, 'My piece focuses on war, the dead and the trumpets of the last judgement.' The work is now available on the Dutton Epoch label.

A selection of choral works was recorded in October 2011 for release by Stone Records this spring. These include five anthems with organ, The Pilgrim, The Revival (The Lilies of His Love), We Will Remember Them, Psalm 150 and The Bells of Paradise.

The substantial work on the disc is Things I didn't say for a cappella choir: with text by Stephen Mainwaring, this explores the relationship of an elderly woman with dementia and her son. The disc includes the new Advent anthem Never weather-beaten Sail, Three Medieval Carols, Three Shakespeare Songs, Ave verum and Ave Maria.

The Clarinet Quintet for Andrew Marriner (inspired by the engravings of Joseph Crawhall) is due to be recorded in May 2012 together with String Quartet No. 3 and The Yellow Wallpaper, a dramatic solo cantata with text by Francis Booth based on the short story of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Buddhist-inspired work, Songs of the Elder Sisters is also due to be recorded this March.

This Sceptr'd Isle for chorus and orchestra will be performed on June 9th at the Barbican. See What's On.

2011 saw four releases on CD: Dhammapada sung by Apsara (Stone Records), String Quartets 1 and 2 and the song-cycle Country Matters with the Maggini Quartet and tenor, Mark Wilde (Naxos), The Ice Mountain with the New London Children's Choir (Naxos) and And All the Trumpets Sounded sung by the London Chorus (with members of Highgate Choral Society) and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Dutton Epoch).

String Quartet No. 3  première by the Wihan Quartet
 
The Wayfarer (In homage to Mahler) and And All the Trumpets Sounded at a 60th Birthday Concert at the Royal Festival Hall

Live première by Mark Stone and Stephen Barlow of the song-cycle, The Music of Whitman

Ambapali's Song sung by Cantamus Girls' Choir

Première by Robert Presley and Andrew Robinson of The Music of Browning

Laudate Dominum (a commission of The Musicians Benevolent Fund) performed at the St. Cecilia Service