Balulalow

Instrumentation

Soprano solo, SATB with divisi

Other Information

The carol Balulalow, written in 1983 as a companion piece to Mary Laid Her Child as it is the same key and with a similar melodic fragment, has a prominent soprano solo dedicated to Jacquelyn Parker [later a singer at Glyndebourne Opera] with an increasingly important choral accompaniment. It has been recorded for CD in 2010 by Sally Nicholls & Kingfisher Chorale directed by the composer. It also exists in a version for Soprano solo with SSAA arranged for the Wiener Sängerknaben in 1983.

The image is of the first page of the published score.