List of selected SONGS
by Christopher Maxim
Title
Genre
Instruments/ Voices
Date of Composition
Notes
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Song
(Memory, hither come)
Song/secular Soprano, piano
1988
Words: Blake

Level of challenge: Moderate
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They have Changed Eyes
(How sweet my love with flaxen hair)
Song/secular
Tenor, piano
1989
Words: Alastair Crammond

Level of challenge: Moderate
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She had No Choice
(How dark and deep the verdant pond)
Song/secular
Tenor, piano
1989
Words: Alastair Crammond

Level of challenge: Moderate
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Song of the Beloved
(My beloved is white and ruddy)
Song/sacred Tenor, piano
1991
Words: Song of Solomon (Authorized Version)

Level of challenge: Moderate
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Night Song
(The heron passes homeward to the mere)
Song/secular Baritone, piano
2000
Words: Wilde

Level of challenge: Moderate
Link to Sibelius
To Mistress Margaret Hussey
(Merry Margaret as midsummer flower)
Song/secular Tenor, piano
2005
Words: Skelton

Level of challenge: Moderate
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There is sweet music
(from Song of the Lotos Eaters)
Song/secular
Tenor, piano
2007
Words: Tennyson

Level of challenge: Moderate
Link to Sibelius

Fear no more the Heat o’the Sun
(Dirge from Cymbeline)

Song/secular

Soprano, lute

2007

Words: Shakespeare

Level of challenge: Moderate

 

Fear no more the Heat o’the Sun
(Dirge from Cymbeline)

Song/secular

Soprano, piano

2007

Words: Shakespeare

Level of challenge: Moderate

Link to Sibelius

Quatrefoil

Song  cycle/secular

Baritone, piano

2008

Arrangements of: There is Sweet Music

Night Song

To Mistress Margaret Hussey

Fear no more the Heat o’the Sun

Level of challenge: Moderate

The final song in the cycle, Fear no more the heat o'the sun, was premiered in the 2008 Machynlleth Festival by Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Nigel Foster (piano).

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