University of York Music Press

The four works on the CD were commissioned between 2013 and 2020. Robert Saxton's song cycle ’Time and the Seasons’ with baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Andrew West premiered in the Oxford Lieder Festival in 2013 and toured the UK; ‘Fantasy Pieces’ with the Fidelio Trio featured in the Trio’s online Winter Chamber Music Festival in Dublin in 2020 and subsequently at Conway Hall, London; his Suite, written for violinist Madeleine Mitchell and pianist Clare Hammond was premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in 2019; and ‘A Hymn to the Thames’ was finally recorded in January 2022 following numerous Covid delays. 

Robert is working with organist Dr Jonathan Clinch at the Royal Academy of Music on a major project to record and publish all of his organ music; the launch date is Saturday 8 October 2022, followed by a public seminar on Friday 14 October. Jonathan Clinch will premiere Robert’s ’Tombeau for HB’ in memoriam Harrison Birtwistle in St Michael’s, Cornhill, City of London, on 17 October. 

Robert is delighted that the Temple Singers directed by Thomas Allery will be reviving his ‘At the Round Earth’s Corners’ at Temple Church, City of London, on Tuesday 20 September. He is currently working on a major new orchestral work for the English Symphony Orchestra.