“ Interestingly, the work that tried to please the least was the most compelling. Hayes Biggs’ piece Ave Formosissima harkens back to the dance-mad, melismatic and slightly raucous music of the Middle Ages. But the score, with its zig-zagging lines and pungent dissonances, is genuinely contemporary.”
—New York Times
“ A Consuming Fire, a short, zesty trio by Hayes Biggs, led off the evening. The piece is framed by some engagingly angular rhythmic writing, with a lyrical nougat at the center.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“ [The] most convincing and coherent performance [was] Hayes Biggs’ homage to his composer/pianist colleague Eric Moe, E.M. am Flügel, a short piece with romantic gestures and echoes of Berg and Stravinsky.”
—Aufbau
“ The Mass for All Saints would be an exciting challenge for those choirs skilled in precise intonation and rhythmic agility. Biggs writes with knowledge of and respect for the expressive capabilities of the human voice.”
—Choral Journal
“ Hayes Biggs’s wedding motet Tota Pulchra Es, here being sung for the first time, impressed by its quiet solemnity and neat working of its expressive opening motif: not empty fanfares but a reminder of the seriousness and privacy of love.”
—New York Times
“ Mass for All Saints by composer Hayes Biggs releases shadows transformed into tendrils of light by the arabesque of the vocal line. Contrapuntal procedures are used to their utmost expressive effect. [It] is a work of a melodist of talent in the manner of Puccini, or better yet, Respighi.”
—La Liberté
“ The Biggs song, Northeast Reservation Lines, is a real party piece... the sneakiness of the changes, the liveliness of the music and the verve of the performance worked handily... a potential recital hit in the vein of Bernstein’s I Hate Music cycle.”
—The Village Voice
“ All the works tried a return to tonality typical of the decade; the most successful made the return oblique and ambiguous. Hayes Biggs’ O Sacrum Convivium took off from the motet of Tallis, yet it handsomely reconfigured early modes in a modernistic scheme of free tonality.”
—New York Times
“ Hayes Biggs’ To Becalme His Fever... is a vivid evocation of anxiety, fits and repose. The language embraces pointillistic colors, romantic lines and prickly episodes when the demons hover. Biggs claims a forceful and subtle dramatic hand, along with a keen command of instrumental resources.”
—The Plain Dealer
31'
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Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano soli, Violoncello
8'
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Narrator, Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano Soli, B♭ Cl (doubling B♭Bcl, E♭A Sax (doubling E♭Bari Sax), B♭T Sax (doubling B♭S Sax, Perc (1), Pf
8'
C. F. Peters, Edition Peters 67577 (score and viola part—order from alfred.com)
Tenor, Va, Pf
15'
C. F. Peters, Edition Peters 67485
Soprano, Flute/A Fl (G)/Picc, Cl (A)/Bcl (B♭), Vn, Vc, Pf
5'
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Soprano Solo, SSSAATTBB, Finger Snapping, Vibra-Slap, Chinese Opera Gong (poem by Jane Shore)
2'
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SSAATTBB
Oboe d’amore
(or English horn)
5'30''
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SSAATTBB, Fl (Picc), Cl in B♭, Pf
12'
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Soprano (2), Mezzo-Soprano, Alto (2), Tenor and Bass soli, SSAATTBB, Pf, four hands, and Finger Cymbals
3'
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SSAATTBB, oboe, English horn
in F, violoncello and congas
15'
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Alto or Countertenor Solo, SSAATTBB, Fl (Picc, A Fl in G), English horn in F, B♭Cl, B♭Bcl, Bsn, C Trp (B♭Flhn), Perc (1), Hp, Pf, Vc, Cb
14'
C. F. Peters Corporation, Edition Peters 67947 (score and horn part)
Soprano and Alto Soli, SSAATTBB, Horn in F, and Organ
3'
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Baritone Solo, SA Chorus (with divisi), Hp
2'30'
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Baritone or Bass Solo, Chorus of Sopranos (two parts), A Fl, Oboe d’amore (A), Vc
4'30
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SATB
5'30"
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SSAATTBB
2'30''
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2'
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SAATTBB
5'
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SSAATTBB
3'
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Baritone Solo, SA Chorus (with divisi), Hp
2'
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SATB (with divisi)
2'
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Two Sopranos (Soli or Chorus), Flute
1'
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TTBarB (with divisi), Vc, Hp
2'30''
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SSAA unaccompanied
2'
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SSAATTBB
Oboe d’amore
(or English horn)
2'30'
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Baritone or Bass Solo, Chorus of Sopranos (two parts), A Fl, Oboe d’amore (A), Vc
2'
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Mezzo-Soprano solo, SSA, 2 flutes, 2 oboe d’amore (A) and finger cymbals (or triangle)
3'
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SSAATTBB, oboe, English horn
in F, violoncello and congas
15''
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Soprano Solo, SSAATTBB
10'30''
C. F. Peters Corporation, Edition Peters 67678
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SSAATTBB
1. Quem vidistis, pastores? (Motet for Christmas) (with Soprano Solo)
2. O Sapientia (Motet for Advent)
3. Videntes stellam (Motet for Epiphany) (with Soprano Solo)
4. Verbum caro factum est (Motet for Christmas)
1'30''
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2'30''
C. F. Peters Corporation, from Four Christmas Motets, Edition Peters 67678
Soprano Solo, SSAATTBB
2'30''
C. F. Peters Corporation, from Four Christmas Motets, Edition Peters 67678 (order from https://www.alfred.com)
SSAATTBB
2'
C. F. Peters, Edition Peters 67946
SSAA Unaccompanied
Text: Liturgical (Latin)
Duration: ca. 2 minutes
Publisher: C. F. Peters Corporation, Edition Peters 67946
10'30"
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SSAA with divisi (up to 8 parts)
12"
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Saxophone Orchestra: 2B♭S,
4E♭A, 2B♭T, 2E♭Bari, 1B♭Bass
15'30''
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02(EH)12 2200 Timp Strings
3'
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2Picc, 2B♭Cl (Bcl), E♭ASax (E♭BarSax), B♭TSax, Tpt, Trb, Tba, Pf; 2perc: Perc. 1: (Steel Pan (Soprano), Pedal Bass Drum, Tambourine with Foot Pedal, Vibraslap (shared w. Perc. 2); Perc. 2: Bongos, Congas, Vibraslap (shared w. Perc. 1), Chinese Opera Gong (upward bending), Marimba (4.5 octave)
15'
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1(Picc)1(EH)1(Bcl)1 1110 Timp, 2 Perc, Strings (solo or sections)
2'40"
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4'30"
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5'30"
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3'
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7'
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4'
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1'30''
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10'
C. F. Peters, Edition Peters 67811 (order from https://www.alfred.com)
Ob (EH in F), B♭Cl (B♭ Bcl), Hn (F), Vn, Va, Vc, Cb)
9'
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Flute (doubling Piccolo and Alto Flute in G), Oboe (doubling English Horn in F) and Piano
4'30
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SATB
5'30"
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SSAATTBB
2'
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SAATTBB
5'
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SSAATTBB
2'
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SATB (with divisi)
15'
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Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Baritone soli, or Chamber Choir
15''
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Soprano Solo, SSAATTBB
10'30''
C. F. Peters Corporation, Edition Peters 67678
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SSAATTBB
1. Quem vidistis, pastores? (Motet for Christmas) (with Soprano Solo)
2. O Sapientia (Motet for Advent)
3. Videntes stellam (Motet for Epiphany) (with Soprano Solo)
4. Verbum caro factum est (Motet for Christmas)
1'30''
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7'
C. F. Peters Corporation, Edition Peters 67949
Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Baritone soli, SSSAATTBB
10'
C. F. Peters, Edition Peters 67612
Soprano,Tenor soli, SSAATTBB
Kyrie eleison, Gloria in excelsis, Sanctus and Benedictus, Agnus Dei
4'
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SAATB
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