Vocal Music
Shakespeare Sonnets , composed for Miriam Brickman. Reciter and piano.
Duration 16’. (1982). Cabaret for Willard White: settings of W. H.
Auden’s “Popular Songs”: Baritone or Soprano with piano accompaniment.
Duration 15’. (1989). A Poet to his Beloved , a song-cycle for Soprano
and piano, settings of W. B. Yeats. Duration 16’. (1984). Sunday Soon is
Past , for unaccompanied voices, a collaboration with the poet W. H.
Auden, a BBC commission. Duration 14’. (1969). Sun’s in the East ,
settings of classical Chinese lyrics translated by Ezra Pound: Soprano
with string orchestra: arrangement also for Soprano with chamber group
of piano, flute, guitar and percussion. Duration 17’. (1979). Greenwood
and Paradise , translation of mediaeval French love lyrics (translated
by Ursula Vaughan Willliams] for a Duet of Soprano voices with piano
accompaniment. Duration 15’. (1985). Lift Up Your Head. 3 settings of
Teilhard de Chardin. Baritone, piano. Duration 13’. (1978). Communal
Mass. Choir, congregation and organ. Commissioned for Westminster
Cathedral. Duration 15’. (1977). Regina Caeli , for Brompton Oratory
(1979). My Animals . Text Peter Porter. Fantasia for voices, strings,
piano & percussion. Duration 27’. (1984). London Scenes . Text
Eleanor Farjeon. Children’s voices, pitched & unpitched percussion.
Duration 24’. (1970). Basket of Eggs . Nursery Rhymes. Children’s
voices, pitched & unpitched percussion. Duration 20’. (1969). Autumn
& Lovesong. Baritone and piano acompaniment. Settings of four Rilke
poems. (1999) Seven Sacred Songs. Tenor and piano accompaniment.
Settings of Auden, Blake, Kathleen Raine, Mark Strand, Roethke, Magee,
E.E.Cummings. (2000).
Obtainable from www.amazon.com , or directly from publishers (e.g. Alfred Lengnick & Co: www.complete-music.co.uk , www.boosey.com , www.elkinmusic.com: , www.stainer.co.uk .)
