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 This cycle received its first public performance by Sim on Scott Plummer and Richard Murray (accompanied by Chris Maxim) in the Blackheath Festival on 12 May 2024. 
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Songs of Loss and Longing
(2025) |
Song Cycle for baritone and piano
1 Demain, dès l'aube (Hugo) 2 Movesi il vecchierel (Petrach) 3 Wer zum ersten Male liebt (Heine) 4 When you are old and grey (Yeats) |
Commissioned by Simon Scott Plummer
Published on Score Exchange |
