DANIEL BASFORD - COMPOSER & ARRANGER

Out of Your Sleep

2012. Duration 3' approx.

 

 

 

First performance - December 2012, St. Mark's Church, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

St. Mark's Choir, cond. Naomi Morris; Andrew Parr (organ)

 

 

Scoring

SATB Chorus

Organ

 

Programme Note

A Christmas text, set by many composers including Richard Rodney Bennett. The main melodic line appears at the start of each verse, a perfect fifth higher than before, before leading to a majestic close.