New Music

Blossom Street is committed to new music making and to promoting young and emerging composers. The group's recordings contain a number of premiere recordings, from established British stalwarts such as Finzi, Warlock and Holst to rising stars like Kerry Andrew and Alexander Campkin.

New folk songs

Premieres:

Alexander Campkin A Lover and his Lass

Judith Bingham The Orphan Girl

Hilary Campbell Blow the Wind Southerly

John Duggan Over the Moon

Kerry Andrew All Things are Quite Silent

Paul Burke Fare Thee Well

Gustav Holst Awake, Awake

Stuart Murray Turnbull Skye

Warlock choral works

Premieres:

Warlock choral works

Premieres:

Peter Warlock The Night

Peter Warlock My Own Country

Peter Warlock Call for the Robin Redbreast and the Wren

Peter Warlock One More River

Peter Warlock Ha'nacker Mill

Peter Warlock The Bayley Berith the Bell Away

New lullabies

Premieres:

Daniel Burges Coventry Carol

Gerald Finzi A Lullaby

Jonathan Rathbone Sing Lullaby

Anthony Mudge O magnum mysterium

Alexander Campkin Sleep, Holy Babe

Trevor Ling Magnificat

Hilary Campbell Sleep, my dreaming one

Pierre de Manchicourt O Emanuel

New works by women

Premieres:

Cecilia McDowall Come Home, Little Sister

Roxanna Panufnik The Sweet Spring

Judith Weir Holy Innocents

Jane Joseph A Little Childe There is Ibore

Hilary Campbell Song of the Dane Women

Imogen Holst As I Sat Under a Holly Tree

Alison Willis Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep

Judith Bingham The Ghost of Combermere Abbey

Stef Conner O Splendidissima Gemma

Kerry Andrew Night Time Songs

In addition to recording projects, the group undertakes an annual project with the Royal Academy of Music. Over several months, postgraduate composers are involved in demonstration sessions, workshops and rehearsals, and ultimately six composers are chosen to write for the group, culminating in a public performance of their creations. The project is overseen and led by composer Judith Weir.

As well as this education project, Blossom Street programmes new music regularly, and is dedicated to showcasing new talent. If you are a composer and would like to discuss a potential collaboration, please get in touch.