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Opus# | Title | Publisher | Year | Duration |
158 | Northern
Landscapes Soprano saxophone and organ CD: A Mari Usque ad Mar: Canadian Landscapes Claudia Tesorino (soprano sax.), Jonathan Oldengarm (organ) | Klanglogo KL1417 | 2020 | 18'49" |
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Meet
the Composer, Derek Healey An Interview with Derek Healey by
Mark Hopkins
Journal of the Canadian Band
Association, June issue of Canadian Winds, Spring 2009, Vol. 7,
No. 2.
Email: Canadian winds@sasktel.net
New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2001 Edition
The Oxford Dictionary of Music 1994 Second Edition
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada 1981 Edition
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians 1978
Edition
Opus#
Title
Year Duration
8 Concerto for
organ, strings & timpani
conducted by John Avison with Derek
Healey, organist.
CBC/Radio Canada (LP) SM-143 stereo
(also
includes works by Healey Willan, Murray Adaskin & Bruce Mather) 1970
13' 40 Arctic
Images (orchestral suite)
Contemporary Canadian Compositions for Orchestra
CBC/Radio
Canada (LP) SM-265 stereo
(also includes music by Robert Turner)
1973 16'
41b Six
Canadian Folk Songs
with Ruth Henderson
piano
Canadian Landscapes I CBC Radio Canada
Broadcast Recording (LP) SM-274 stereo
(also includes works by
Thomas Baker, Murray Schafer & Violet Archer) 1973 25'
45 Primrose
in Paradise (orchestral fantasy)
CBC/SRC (LP) SM331
(also includes music by Robert Turner & Bruce
Mather) 1977
8' 40 Arctic
Images (orchestral suite)
The Louisville Orchestra First Edition Records (LP) LS-769
stereo
(also includes music by Jacques Hetu)
1980 16'
30a Cookham
Notebook (suite for organ)
(also includes
works by Healey Willan, Barrie Cabena, Bengt Hambraeus, etc) 1977 21'
As I was
a-walking (carol)
Winter Green: Songs for
Christmas - Arktos
96013CD
(also includes works by Gustav Holst, Kenneth
Leighton, Elizabeth Poston, etc)
1996 4' Salish Song
(folk song arrangement)
The Maple Leaf
Forever - Opening Day
Records ODR 9314
(also includes works by John Beckwith,
Howard Cable, Harry Freedman, etc)
1998
82 One
Midsummer's Morning (folksong suite for band)
An Artist's Neighbourhood - Chestnut Hall Music CHM
02003
(also includes works by Glenn Buhr, Peter Hatch,
Boyd McDonald & Michael Purves-Smith) 2002 20' 89 Four
Preludes on Latino Religious Songs (violin & organ)
All American
Raven Recordings
OAR-650 2003
(also includes works by John Corigliano, Leo
Sowerby, John Weaver, etc) 2003
16' 82 One Midsummer's
Morning (mvts 1-5) (folksong suite for band)
the
gathering Amadeus AMSCD069
(also includes works by John
Maxwell Geddes, Stephen Dodgson, etc). 2004 18' 45" 41b
86 The
Banks of Loch Erin (from 6 Canadian Folk Songs: Set 1)
Harbour Grace Diddling (from 6 Canadian Folk Songs: Set 2)
(also includes works by M. McGlynn,
A. Stephen, E. Whitacre, King Henry VIII, etc)
2007 6' 03" 86 The Jovial
Young Sailor, Get to Bed and The Banks of Loch
Erin
(from 6 Canadian Folk
Songs: Set II -- SATB & piano ad lib)
(also includes works by Leonard Bernstein, Philipp Nicolai, Antonio
Lotti, Thomas Dorsey & others) 2007
107 The Silvered
Lute (soprano solo and piano)
(includes music by Derek
Healey, Hau Lin, Judith Cloud, Joaquin Turina, & Eleanor Trawick)
2009 17' 55" Awake, and Join
the Cheerful Choir (SATB & organ)
The
Virgin (soprano solo, or instrument, and SATB)
The World's Desire: Christmas at
Loretto Pro Organo CD 7229 www.proorgan.com
(also included: music of Tavener, Rutter, Locklair, Sargent,and more)
2010 1' 50"
2' 35" 41b Salish
Song for chorus from 'Six Canadian Folk Songs: Set 1'
Inuit Hunting Song for chorus from 'Six Canadian Folk
Songs: Set 1'
(also includes works by Imant Raminsh, R. Murray Schafer, Robert Lang,
Claude Viver, etc)
2010 3' 33"
3' 07"
The Lowly Child (SSA and keyboard)
CD: 'Verbum Caro' --
Choral Music for Advent, Lessons and Carols
by Oregon Catholic
Press; OCP #30101355. www.ocp.org
(also includes works by J.S. Bach,
R. Proulx, C. Mawby, C. Willcock, etc) 2010 41b Inuit Hunting
Song for chorus from 'Six Canadian Folk Songs: Set 1'
musica intima, Lane Price
(soloist) CD: Music Intima 20 - ATMA 32010 - UPC code
722056301022 - www.atmaclassique.com 2012 3'
07" 93 Solemn
Music for Wind Ensemble
University of Manitoba Wind Ensemble, Fraser Linklater, conductor
CD: North Winds IV: Canadian Wind Band Music
University of Manitoba, Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music www.umanitoba.ca/music
2013 7' 37" 41 Inuit Hunting
Song from Six Canadian Folk Songs: Set 1 (SATB and optional
piano)
Elmer Iseler
Singers; Lydia Adams, conductor
Soloists: Nelson Lohnes, Cathy
Robinson and Alison Roy,
CD: ELMER ISELER SINGERS Greatest
Hits, Vol 1 www.elmeriselersingers.com 2013 3' 07" 93 Solemn
Music for Wind Ensemble
University of Manitoba Wind Ensemble, Fraser Linklater, conductor
CD: North Winds IV: Canadian Wind Band Music
University of Manitoba, Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Musicwww.umanitoba.ca/music
2013 7' 37" 158 Northern
Landscapes Soprano saxophone and organ
Claudia Tesorino (soprano sax.), Jonathan
Oldengarm (organ), CD: A Mari Usque ad Mar: Canadian
Landscapes Klanglogo KL1417,
(klanglogo is
a shared brand of TYE trust your ears www.klanglogo.de )
Rondeau Production www.rondeau.de
2020 18'49"
Opus#
Title
Year
Duration
164
Motets
Movements:
1) Ave maris stella (Hail, O star that pointest)
2) Jesu nostra redemption (O Christ our Hope)
3) Jesu dulcis memoria (Jesu – the very thought is sweet)
4) Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day)
5) Christe qui lux et dies (O Christ, who art the light and day)
6) Splendor paternae gloriae (O splendour of God’s glory bright)
2022
23’
145 Requiem
Movements:
1) Requiem aeternam
2) Dies irae
3) Recordare
4) Domine Jesu (Offertorium)
5) Sanctus - Benedictus
6) Agnes Dei
7) Lux aeterna
8) Libera me
9) In Paradisum
1999/2016/2021
44' 00" 162 Souvenirs of Berlin – Set 1
Movements:
1) Steamer ride on the Spree
2) Mommsen-Eck – Hindemith Platz
3) Expressionism at Die Brucke
4) The Berliner Ensemble
5) Gossiping on the Ku’damm
2021
10’ 23”
163 Souvenirs of Berlin – Set 2
Movements:
1) Casper David Friedrich at the Alte Nationalgalerie
2) A Busy day at Einstein’s
3) Nefertiti at the Neuen Museum (The Beautiful One has arrived)
4) The Berliner Dom
5) Envoi
2021
11' 41"
161 Sonata
Movements:
1) Fantasia
2) Canzone pensieroso
3) Danza
2020
13' 25"
160 Souvenirs of Frankfurt
Movements:
1) The River Main
2) Füssli in Goethe-Haus
3) Homemade Frankfurt Green Sauce
4) A busy day at the Römerberg
5) The Kaiserdom (Magnificat)
6) Sachsenhausen Flea Market
7) Cranach in the Städel Museum
8) The Eschenheimer Tower
2020
14' 51" 159 NOVA: 12 Variations on a Scotian Song
Theme (1'54" ) 1) The Riders (1'42")
2) Scherzo Gioviale (1'29") 3) Flugel
(1'23")
4) A Sigh (1'39") 5) Scales (1'17")
6) Echo Scherzo (1'19" ) 7) Strathspey
(1'33")
8) Western Wind (1'25") 9) Oboe & Timps (1'13")
10) Arietta Triste (1'40") 11) Trumpets
Flourishing (1'57")
12) Waulking Song (2'38")
2019
20'49" 158 Magnificat for Saint Martins
Glockenspiel,Piano, Choir & Organ
2019 14'35"
157 Seabird Island revisited: six excerpts
1) Night fall
2) I know where Seabird Island is
3) Travel Song
4) The Maid's Song
5) The Shaman's Canoe Song
6) All beasts and men will bow before
me
2019
11'09" 156 Five Preludes on Lutheran Chorales
1) Christ lag in Todesbanden
2) Herzhiebster Jesu
3) Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
4) Jesus, meine Zuversicht
5) Christ ist erstanden
2019 8'53" 155 Three Whitman
Songs
a) Cavalry Crossing at Ford (4 '30")
b) Bivouac on a Mountain Side (4'20")
c) Sing on, Sing on, you Gray-Brown
Bird (5'30")
2018
Total Duration:
14'20"
154
Choralvorspiele: 52 Preludes on Lutheran Hymns
2018 1 hour 45 mins (complete set)
2 min. (average duration, single prelude) 153a Weihnachten
'16
2017
5' 15" 153b Weihnachten
'16
2017
5' 15" 153c Weihnachten
'16
2017
5' 15" 152 Nunc Dimittis for
Canterbury
2017 4' 20"
151 Magnificat for
Canterbury
2017 8' 10"
All scores
available through
Canadian Music Centre
Chalmers House, 20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1J9,
Canada
Contact Information:
Tel: (718) 852-0123
Email: Drderekhealey@aol.com
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