Instrumentation

2 vla.2 vlc.db (or string section of each instrument)

Availability

Score on special sale from the Hire Library, and parts for hire

Reviews

Using a quintet of double-bass, cellos and violas, the work started in warm, rhythmically amorphous phrases that occasionally rose to moments of forward-moving impulse, only for them to be halted with ruminative uncertainty.

Sydney Morning Herald (Peter McCallum) 23 April 2026

Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe)

Town Hall (Wollongong, NSW, Australia)

Genevieve Lacey/Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe)

City Recital Hall, Angel Place (Sydney, NSW, Australia)

Genevieve Lacey/Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe)

V&A Dundee (Dundee, United Kingdom)

Scottish Ensemble

Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe)

National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Scottish Ensemble

Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe)

Centre Hall, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)

Scottish Ensemble

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Genevieve Lacey and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra premiere Illean’s Swellsong

New work for recorder, strings and pre-recorded sounds appears alongside works by Coult and Adès

Coult’s O Ecclesia at the GAIA Festival

Reworking of chant by Hildegard von Bingen in Switzerland

Scottish Ensemble tour Coult and Illean

Music for strings after Saint-Colombe and Binchois features in Concerts for a Summer's Night

12 Ensemble give UK premiere of Coult’s Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe) at Wigmore Hall

Reworking of viol prelude for lower strings makes UK debut
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