The Songbook: recordings & scores
Watch and listen to our four new commissioned songs and new works by A level music students at BHASVIC in Brighton & Hove and East Sussex Academy of Music in Lewes, East Sussex
Recordings by Classical Media.
Explore new notated scores by our professional composers as pdfs:
Rowland Sutherland: Modes of the Downs
How do our professional composers put their music together?
Discover sketches by Evelyn Ficarra and Ed Hughes in our FREE Pack
Coming soon:
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new scores and recordings by GCSE music student composers from Hastings Academy
Upload your new song!
If you've written a new song inspired by this project, send us an mp3 or a video and we'll upload it here!
South Downs Songbook Tour June 2022
ACCA: Monday 20 June 2022
Watch and listen to our first four commissions by Evelyn Ficarra, Ed Hughes, Rowland Sutherland and Shirley J Thompson. This video also includes (at 26:00) a discussion chaired by Trevor Beattie, Chief Executive of the South Downs National Park, featuring all four composers and our Education Consultant, Duncan Mackrill.
Event programme including programme notes, song texts here.
BHASVIC: Friday 24 June 2022
Watch and listen to new songs by A level music students at BHASVIC, written to the South Downs Songbook brief. You can skip to each piece by clicking on the chapters under the film in Youtube.
Event programme including programme notes for every song here.
East Sussex Academy of Music:
Thursday 29 June 2022
Watch and listen to new songs by A level music students at ESAM, written to the South Downs Songbook brief.
You can skip to each piece by clicking on the chapters under the film in Youtube.
Event programme here.