[3] Through his role as conductor and artistic director, Corp programmes and aims to bring to life repertoire written in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries which is rarely heard in concert.
The Choir is one of the busiest and most successful children's ensembles in the country and has commissioned more than 40 new pieces and premiered numerous other works by composers including its patrons Louis Andriessen and Michael Nyman.
[17] The Queen's Diamond Jubilee was celebrated by a special concert given at the Barbican by Highgate Choral Society and the NLO on Saturday 9 June 2012, to include the première of This Sceptr'd Isle by Corp, a stirring seven-minute setting of text from Shakespeare's Richard II, the orchestra replete with surging sea-imagery and fanfares for four trumpets.
An interest in Buddhist literature is reflected in his setting of parts of the Dhammapada (2010) for eight solo singers (or SATB choir) interspersed with recordings of bells at temples sacred to the Buddha; and the cycle Songs of the Elder Sisters (from the Therigatha) for mezzo-soprano, baritone, alto flute, clarinet and viola.
"[19] The music critic Michael Church reviewed the recording thus: "...Set for small choir, it becomes a beguiling work, full of scrunchy dissonances but graceful to the ear", designating it 'Album of the Week' in The Independent, 29 January 2011.
In these, the Maggini String Quartet are joined by Andrew Marriner (clarinet), Rebecca de Pont Davies (mezzo-soprano) and John Tattersdill (double bass).
Regarding the subtitle of 'Crawhall' for the Quintet, Ronald Corp states: Joseph Crawhall (1821–1896) was an engraver, writer, businessman, patron of arts, book designer, collector of antiquities, campaigner for the perseveration of architecture and a significant character in the life of Newcastle.
His colourful life and wonderful woodblock illustrations have inspired this clarinet quintet which I hope gives some flavour of this most remarkable and likeable man.
The Yellow Wallpaper is a dramatic scena with text by Francis Booth adapted from the short story of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
This work continues the current trend for chamber compositions and unconventional instrumental/vocal groupings: Lullaby for a Lost Soul features a setting for counter-tenor, vibraphone, flute and cello with re-imaginings of the melancholy music of John Dowland.
In January 2013, three of these works, The Yellow Wallpaper, Songs of the Elder Sisters and Lullaby for a Lost Soul were performed at the event 'Corp de Ballet'[21] in collaboration with The Chantry Dance Company for a CD launch at the Village Underground, Shoreditch, London.
(Arthur Bliss) Live For Ever, Glorious Lord (George Dyson) The Voice Out Of The Whirlwind (Ralph Vaughan Williams) 'betwixt Heaven And Charing Cross (Anthony Payne) cond.
August 2004 Verbum Patris Give to my Eyes, Lord (Colin Coppen) 'May the Lord Bless You and Keep You' (from Adonai Echad) Dover Beach (Arnold) 'Weep You no more, Sad Fountains' (from Cornucopia) Two Partsongs ('Heraclitus' and 'I Strove with None') Missa San Marco Four Elizabethan Lyrics Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun (Shakespeare) Lute-Book Lullaby (Sweet was the Song) Requiem (R. L. Stevenson) cond.
by Ronald Corp 5060192780055[32] Jan. 2011 children's voices and small ensemble or piano, libretto by Emma Hill based on an old Swiss legend 'Die alte Frau and did Toten') Members of New London Orchestra cond.
by Ronald Corp 5060192780185[34] 2012 The Yellow Wallpaper (for mezzo-soprano and string quintet) Clarinet Quintet 'Crawhall' (mezzo-soprano) Andrew Marriner (clarinet) John Tattersdill (double bass) Maggini String Quartet 5060192780246[35] Jan. 2013 (cycle of songs and interludes for mezzo-soprano, baritone, alto flute, clarinet and viola, to texts translated from the Pali by Francis Booth) Samuel Evans (baritone) Jill Carter (alto flute) Sarah Thurlow (clarinet) Rachel Bolt (viola) 5060192780369[36] 2013 (cycle for counter-tenor, flute, vibraphone and cello to poems by Francis Booth, with "re-imaginings" of the music of John Dowland as Interludes) Jill Carter (flute) Matthew Turner (vibraphone) Julia Desbrulais (cello) 5060192780413[37] 2014 The music of Ronald Corp is published by Boosey and Hawkes (BH), Chester Music (C), Colla Voce (CV), Faber Music (F), Novello (N), Oxford University Press (OUP), Royal Society of Church Music (RSCM), Stainer and Bell (SB), Trinity Guildhall (TG) and the Ronald Corp website (RC).
Programme notes, music excerpts and links to publishers and score purchasing facilities can be found on the Ronald Corp website.