Michael Stimpson

1 (Robben Island), composed after the breakdown of apartheid, was premiered in October 2000 by the Allegri Quartet at St. John's Smith Square, London.

[6] The Allegri's commission, A Walk Into War, for tenor and piano quintet and based on the writings of Laurie Lee, was premiered at the Salisbury International Arts Festival in 2002.

[9] Since completing his four-act opera Jesse Owens in 2011, Stimpson has concentrated on solo and chamber works, although Silvered Night (2019) for piano and orchestra marks a return to composing for larger forces.

There are five CDs of Stimpson's works to date: Journeymen (Allegri Quartet, Paul Agnew and Daniel Tong, Riverrun Records); Dylan and The Drowning of Capel Celyn (Roderick Williams and Sioned Williams, Stone Records); Incidental Music and Songs from the opera Jesse Owens and Preludes In Our Time (Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Stuart Stratford, Abigail Kelly, Jonny Herford, Megumi Fujita, Stone Records); Age of Wonders (Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Stuart Stratford, Stone Records); and The Angry Garden/Silvered Night (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Hilary Davan Wetton, City of London Choir, Mark Bebbington).

[12] Age of Wonders - An Entangled Bank (string orchestra) Age of Wonders - Transmutations (orchestra) Clouds of War (choir, soli and orchestra) Concerto for Oboe Jesse Owens - opera Silvered Night (piano and orchestra) Songs of Innocence and Experience (a cappella choir, soli and spoken word) The Angry Garden (choir, soli and orchestra) The Ninth Hour: Four Latin Motets (a cappella choir) Age of Wonders - String Quartet No.2 (The Beagle) And Then The Mist Rose (Piano Trio No.2) A Walk Into War (tenor and piano quintet) Illusive Years (Piano Trio No.1) Songs from the opera Jesse Owens (soprano, baritone, piano) Suite Gromignana (brass quintet) The Sun and the Moon (clarinet quintet)