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'Creator of Stars': variations on 'Conditor alme siderum' for solo piano. Played by Nicholas.
'And I, Joseph' : winner of the Bach Choir Sir David Willcocks Carol Competition 2023. Performed by the Bach Choir, conducted by David Hill (recorded on phone).
'Vivre d'amour' for double choir a capella, text by Ste Thérèse de Lisieux. Performed by the St Stephen's Consort.
Opera Carina: Watch the final scene below or on youtube here
with Rachel Hynes (soprano) and Peter Van Hulle (tenor)
directed by Elaine Tyler Hall, English National Opera studio 2014. Libretto by Brigitta Kirschstein.
The story: in Romania under Ceauşescu, unmarried mothers were charged extra taxes. If they couldn’t pay, the children were taken away and put in an orphanage.
After ten years in Austria, Carina returns to Romania in 1990 to seek out her daughter, Liza, who was taken away from her when she was a baby. She meets again Anton, the man by whom she had the child, and finds she still loves him. She suspects and eventually finds that one of Anton’s daughters is indeed Liza, whom Anton has rescued from an orphanage. Liza, believing that she is the daughter of Anton’s deceased wife, is hostile to Carina, and Anton cannot speak of Liza’s parentage, knowing this will destroy his own relationship with his daughter. He asks Carina to marry him, and she has to choose between living with this lie and losing her daughter again.
In this final scene, Carina argues with her brother Serban, who wants her to marry Anton. Carina decides to return to Austria.
Narcissus for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp and strings, 2022
with Stephanie Marshall (mezzo) and Claire Wickes (flute)
Transformations of a chant for string orchestra and harp, 2022
Kyrie elegy for cello and piano, 2017
Leise Liebe for mezzo-soprano, cello and piano, 2020
with Josipa Bainac (mezzo), Rudolf Leopold (cello), David Hausknecht (piano)
Text by Elsa Asenijeff. Watch art film here or listen to audio below
Gloria from Mass for choir and wind (or organ), 2000
Credo from Mass for choir and wind (or organ), 2000
Transformations of a chant for solo piano, 2022
Fantasia for organ on ‘Christ ist erstanden’, 2001
'Creator of Stars': variations on 'Conditor alme siderum' for solo piano. Played by Nicholas.
'And I, Joseph' : winner of the Bach Choir Sir David Willcocks Carol Competition 2023. Performed by the Bach Choir, conducted by David Hill (recorded on phone).
'Vivre d'amour' for double choir a capella, text by Ste Thérèse de Lisieux. Performed by the St Stephen's Consort.
Opera Carina: Watch the final scene below or on youtube here
with Rachel Hynes (soprano) and Peter Van Hulle (tenor)
directed by Elaine Tyler Hall, English National Opera studio 2014. Libretto by Brigitta Kirschstein.
The story: in Romania under Ceauşescu, unmarried mothers were charged extra taxes. If they couldn’t pay, the children were taken away and put in an orphanage.
After ten years in Austria, Carina returns to Romania in 1990 to seek out her daughter, Liza, who was taken away from her when she was a baby. She meets again Anton, the man by whom she had the child, and finds she still loves him. She suspects and eventually finds that one of Anton’s daughters is indeed Liza, whom Anton has rescued from an orphanage. Liza, believing that she is the daughter of Anton’s deceased wife, is hostile to Carina, and Anton cannot speak of Liza’s parentage, knowing this will destroy his own relationship with his daughter. He asks Carina to marry him, and she has to choose between living with this lie and losing her daughter again.
In this final scene, Carina argues with her brother Serban, who wants her to marry Anton. Carina decides to return to Austria.
Narcissus for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp and strings, 2022
with Stephanie Marshall (mezzo) and Claire Wickes (flute)
Transformations of a chant for string orchestra and harp, 2022
Kyrie elegy for cello and piano, 2017
Kyrie elegy by Nicholas Ansdell-Evans, played by Hannah Sloane (cello) from Nicholas Ansdell-Evans on Vimeo.
Leise Liebe for mezzo-soprano, cello and piano, 2020
with Josipa Bainac (mezzo), Rudolf Leopold (cello), David Hausknecht (piano)
Text by Elsa Asenijeff. Watch art film here or listen to audio below
Gloria from Mass for choir and wind (or organ), 2000
Credo from Mass for choir and wind (or organ), 2000
Transformations of a chant for solo piano, 2022
Fantasia for organ on ‘Christ ist erstanden’, 2001