So Gently Darkness Falls (2014)

So gently darkness falls (2014)
for solo treble, choir, strings and trumpet 

So gently darkness falls was commissioned to celebrate the 110th Anniversary of Warwick School in 2014, but also mark the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War. 

Scored for solo treble, choir, strings and trumpet, So gntly darkness falls sets John Masefield’s poem, Autumn 1914, which explores the uncanny serenity of an English evening landscape on the eve of world conflict.

Julian Philips, 2023