• Judith Weir
  • Arise! Arise! You Slumbering Sleepers (1999)

  • Chester Music Ltd (World)

Commissioned by Judy Mowschenson in memory of her sister, Rosalind Hunter, and by the Schubert Ensemble Trust, Chamber Music 2000

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  • 3 min

Programme Note

Arise! Arise! , for piano quartet, was written for the Schubert Ensemble/Chamber Music 2000 in 1999. It is based on an English/American folksong called 'Arise! Arise! you slumbering sleepers'., which is heard in fragments against a bell-like ostinato. I have dedicated the piece to Margaret Semple, who taught me music, in the most inspiring way, when I was at school.

© Judith Weir

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Discography

A White Room

A White Room
  • Label
    NMC
  • Catalogue Number
    NMCD075
  • Ensemble
    Schubert Ensemble
  • Released
    2012

A White Room

A White Room
  • Label
    NMC
  • Catalogue Number
    D075
  • Ensemble
    Schubert Ensemble
  • Released
    2001
Title Unavailable
  • Label
    NMC
  • Catalogue Number
    NMC D090
  • Ensemble
    Schubert Ensemble
  • Soloist
    William Howard, Susan Tomes, Petra

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