Songs
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Song
(Memory, hither come) (1988) |
Words: Blake
Premièred by Liz Rugman |
Available from the composer
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They have Changed Eyes
(How sweet my love with flaxen hair) (1989) |
Words: Alastair Crammond
Premièred at the University of Bristol |
Available from the composer
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She had No Choice
(How dark and deep the verdant pond) (1989) |
Words: Alastair Crammond
Premièred at the University of Bristol |
Available from the composer
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Song of the Beloved
(My beloved is white and ruddy) (1990) |
Words: the Bible (Authorised Version)
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Available from the composer
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Night Song
(The heron passes homeward to the mere) (2000) |
Words: Oscar Wilde
Premièred by Chris Goodwin in St George's, Bloomsbury |
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To Mistress Margaret Hussey
(Merry Margaret as midsummer flower) (2005) |
Words: John Skelton
Premièred by Nick Grounds in St Mary's, Wimbledon |
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There is sweet music
(from Song of the Lotos Eaters) (2007) |
Words: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Premièred by Chris Goodwin in St George's, Bloomsbury Other performances include Roderick Williams (accompanied by Susie Allan) in the 2019 Gloucester Three Choirs Festival |
Formerly published by Recital Music
Now published on Score Exchange 
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Fear no more the Heat o’the Sun
(Dirge from Cymbeline) (2007) |
Words: William Shakespeare
Premièred in the 2008 Machynlleth Festival |
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The new house
(Now first, as I shut the door) (2011) |
Words: Edward Thomas
Premièred by Nick Grounds in St Mary's, Wimbledon |
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To sleep
(O soft embalmer of the still midnight) (2013) |
Words: John Keats
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Higgledy Piggledy
(2014) |
Songs for children (mostly) about animals
1 Higgledy Piggledy, my black hen (Anon.) 2 The Cat and the Mouse (adapted from Chaucer) 3 The Guinea-Pig (Beatrix Potter) 4 The Snail (William Cowper) 5 The Tortoise (Anon.) 6 Sea Shell (Amy Lowell) 7 The Mole (Beatrix Potter) 8 The Lady and the Tiger (attrib. to W. C. Monkhouse) 9 The Little Crocodile (Lewis Carroll) 10 Dr Swift's Riddle (Jonathan Swift) 11 Higgledy Piggledy, my black hen (Reprise) |
Two of the songs in this collection, Sea Shell and The Little Crocodile, were composed for the Recital Music 60-Second Songs competition. Both were placed among the six Winners in the competition (the categories were Winners, Highly Commended and Commended).
Published on Score Exchange |
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Ars Vitae
(2023) |
Song Cycle for two bass-baritones and piano
1 The character of a happy life (Sir Henry Wootton) 2 Merrythought's Song (John Fletcher) 3 Happy is the country life (Anon.) 4 The Epicure (Abraham Cowley) 5 Autumnus (Joshua Sylvester) |
Commissioned by Simon Scott Plummer
Published on Score Exchange |
