Stef Conner's The Shipwrecked Ghost for Mezzo-Soprano Flute Clarinet Percussion Violin and Cello. Composed 2014. Duration: 9 minutes. Commissioned by Dark Inventions for their Firewheel project part of the Sound and Music ‘Composer Curator Scheme’. Premiered by Dark Inventions at The Engine House Manchester 8th May 2014. This piece is based on the traditional melody ‘The Lover’s Ghost’ (also known as ‘The Grey Cock’) JEFDSS 1953 as sung by Mrs Costello (Birmingham 1951); recorded by the BBC; transcribed by Patrick Shuldham Shaw. The lyrics of ‘TheShipwreck't Ghost’ were written down and probably written by the poet John Clare (1793-1864). Transcribed from Peterborough MS. A7 p.33a and set to the traditional melody ‘The Lover's Ghost’ (also known as ‘The Grey Cock’) by George Deacon published in John Clare and the Folk Tradition by Francis Boutle © George Deacon London 2002 & 1983. Reproduced by kind permission of the author and edited and arranged by Stef Conner. More information on John Clare can be found through the John Clare Society: https://www.johnclaresociety.blogspot.co.uk
