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1.  Videos of my music for solo voice


The 1993 tape


Adon Olam


A Hebridean fairy’s love song - (Tha min sgith)

(alto and guitar - in James Hogg’s Lowland Scots version)


Ale Vasserlech (performance at Cross Street)


Ale Vasserlech (earlier performance)


Al Hanisim (voice, clarinet and strings)


Amol is geven a Mayse


An Exmas Carol (1984 video)


An Tiger (To Tiger) - voice and guitar


anyone loved in a pretty how town - e e cummings - voice and guitar


Apres un reve


Après un rêve (arranged for alto and guitar)


April (1984 video improved)


April (later recording)


As gleams the Rosebud (1984 video)


Asexual Blues


Away in a Manger


Be not afeard


Be not afeard - (more recent recording)


Beetle’s Wings


Believe me if all those endearing young charms



The Birding Song



The Bringers of Beethoven


Christmas Haikus


Christmas Collaborations with Reinhold Behringer


Christmas Song


La cigarette (alto and guitar)



The cloned sheep song (Der Klonschafgesang) - both languages


The cloned sheep song (Der Klonschafgesang) - English only version


Come into the Garden Maud (Balfe arr dwsolo)


Cupid, shame yourself


Dawn in the room (alto and guitar)


Dawn in the room (alto and piano)


Dawn in the Room (alto and strings)


Drift


Early evening in Camden Town (Cross Street performance)


Early evening in Camden Town (1984 video)


Elégie de Marie Keyser


The Elephant (from Wildlife in the Nursery)


Les Eléphants - Leconte de Lisle (spoken voice and ensemble)


En Province


Exprompt (an Armenian song of farewell)


Falling is painless


Fragile Earth (improvisation)


Good Night


Greek Wassail


Haikus by Basho


Heureux qui comme Ulysse


Hickory Dickory Dock - from “Wildlife in the Nursery”

Hickory Dickory Dock - from “Wildlife in the Nursery” (with subtitles)


Hour Zero



Ikh bin a meidel in de yoren



Illusions (alto and guitar)



L’Inconscient (The Unconcious) alto and guitar



Invitation to the journey (voice and guitar)


Invitation to the journey (voice and piano)


Je Veux! (alto and guitar)


John Brown


Judas


The Legend of the knight who got lost in the wood


Little Bo Peep (vocal version)


Lookin’ just lookin’ at the personal ads (Cross St performance)


Lookin’ just lookin’ (earlier performance - improved video)


Ludhe sing tishu (Loud sing tishoo) (Cross St performance)


Ludhe Sing Tishu (earlier performance - improved video)


The Madness of a headmistress


Mandoline and Colloque Sentimental


McQuiddity (parody song)



Messe Miniature de Marie


Motor Bus - or how not to be afraid of Latin Grammar


Mrs Hooligan’s Christmas Cake


My belovèd is mine - from the Song of Solomon

(alto and guitar)


My Gentle words (alto voice and guitar)


Oyfn Yam



Recital in 1984 at St Michael’s Cornhill



Rune of hospitality (The Crofter’s Song - I saw a stranger yestreen)

  (alto, guitar)


Romance for Lissie


Rose (There is a rose in my garden)


Rossignol du bois sauvage (1984 video [improved sound])


Rossignol du Bois Sauvage (arranged for recorder, also and guitar)


Rupert the Chocolate Angel (an “antidote” to Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer)


Rupert the chocolate angel - 2 verse version


Sagesse


Sentimental Song


Sing oh daughter of Zion (alto and guitar)


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Two extracts from the sequence for Alun’s poetry:


Amidst grey working days


Doux Instrument


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Solstice Song


Song of the Childless


Street Song


Ta Maman (alto voice, cello and guitar)


The Capital 1980


The chief Defect of Henry King



The end of art, Interrogation and Poetry ready



The Face of Love


The Finding of St Anthony - my performance


The finding of St Anthony - performed by Carla Moraga and Michel Bert


The Flamingo


The Hebrew Class


The Houses where we have lived


The Illusion breaks


The learnèd hippopotamus



The Mending of Fuses


The quiet way you move me (guitar and voice)



The quiet way you move me (piano and voice)



The sorrows of Werther (voice and guitar)


Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (my translation of the original English version “The sorrows of Werther”) - voice and guitar


Les douleurs du jeune Werther (my translation of the original English version “The sorrows of Werther”) - voice and guitar


The Swallows


The Venerable Cat


The Willow Song (1984 video)



Tightrope walker and Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer



Tip of the flame


To a bee with no sense of direction


To Cassandra


“To my wife” - based on Silver threads among the gold - baritone and new (more florid) piano version


“To my  wife” - “An meine Frau” (based on Silver threads among the gold - sung versions in English and in German and karaoke versions (playlist of 5 videos))



To paint the portrait of a bird


Venus (or “Venus has left the building”)


Whimsy No 1 (2 cats)


Wine and Water


Wrong side of the door (improved version with Dolly the cat)


Wrong side of the door (1984 video)

2.  Videos of my music for vocal duet, trio or quartet


A charm against the toothache (3 voices a cappella)



Austria (3 voices and guitar - comic song)



The Carnival Song (2 groups of voices with guitar chords)



The centipede and the frog (2 equal voice)



Chanson des escargots qui vont à l’enterrement d’une feuille morte (2 unaccompanied voices)



Colloque sentimental (three voices a cappella)



Green grow the rushes oh! (three voices)



He makes men pure (from the Sequence for Alun’s poetry)



Here in Nomansland (duet with guitar)



Hair of the Doggerel (3 equal voices in canon)



Hiawatha (or how to make fur mittens)



Hickory Dickory Dock (from “Wildlife in the Nursery”)



The Hubbard Saga (an Old Mother Hubbard Cantata)



In the Deep Dark of the Night (alto, tenor and 4 trombones)



Le bouquet (original vocal version)



The Legend of the Knight who got lost in the Wood



My Love



Malgré Moi



Mister Sandman arranged for choir and midi file (live performance)



Nora Lee



Ode to a Nose



Ophelia’s Mad scene



Planet



Prayer to the Virgin



Quartier Libre



Rooftops



Rosa Divina



The grasshopper and the ant



The Feast of Lights



The Recipe (the three witches in Macbeth)



Three words too many (voice and guitar)


Whimsy No 1 (2 cats)

4. Videos of my instrumental music



8 Easter essays (2 movements) (guitar solo)



8 Jewish melodies for guitar trio - live performance in playlist of 8 separate videos - performed by the Aurora Guitar Trio


A la Recherche (cello and guitar)



A la Valse (solo guitar)



A time of change



A touch of the sniffles - for orchestra



Acacia (from Honey flowers for guitar duet)



Across a crowded room



Across the lake

  (flute, cor anglais, harp and cello)



Airhorse (airhorses and how they breed - a fractal presentation)



Along the path to Quintaquirk (strings, harpsichord and percussion)


A Modal Vision Drowns - flute and string quartet


Amol is geven a Mayse - cor anglais and 2 violins



... And the wall came down (orchestral)



Air Apparent (recorder and string quartet - electronic preview)



Al Hanisim - clarinet, alto sax and piano



Antonelli Rag (guitar solo)



A Tango already



Bergamasca Variations for cello and guitar



Bergamasca Variations for clarinet and guitar



Bifocal Rag (guitar duet)



Bluish Bunny (clarinet and guitar)



Bobby Shaftoe - extended arrangement for clarinet and guitar



Bobby Shaftoe - extended arrangement for flute and guitar



Bricklick Benji Rag (guitar and piano)



Brigitte (guitar solo)



Cantering (oboe, harp, vibraphone and plucked bass)



Catch that bee (tuba quartet)



Cats’ Cradle (Celtic harp)



Celebreight (or Celebrate or Celebr8) for string octet


Celebration (North American Native flute and Orchestra - electronic preview)



Chantefable



Chinese New Year Celebration (electronic preview)



Chinese New Year Quartet (string quartet)



Christmas Song (saxophone and guitar)



Cockles and mussels (arranged for wind quartet)



Coming out of the fog (guitar solo)



Consolation (flute, viola, guitar)



Cotillion (after Hotteterre) (recorder and guitar)



Crocodile Waltz (double bass and guitar)



Crocodile Waltz (double bass and guitar - new version)



Crumhorn 11



Danza



David of the White Rock (Dafydd y Gareg Wen) - flute and guitar



David of the White Rock (Dafydd y Gareg Wen) - clarinet and guitar



"Details" for violin and guitar



"Details" for wind quintet


Dinner time rag for solo guitar


Dorian Dance (guitar solo in 7/4 time)



Dorian Serendipity (guitar, glass harmonica, bass)



Doric Victory (cello, recorder and guitar



Dorina (flute and guitar - electronic preview)



Dreaming - narrated poem, solo guitar and orchestra



Dream On - (flute, clarinet, guitar, cello - electronic preview)



The Duchess’s Tune - a gay extravaganza (narrative video)



El Gecko (oboe and guitar)



Exmas Carol (clarinet and guitar)



Extravaganza on Wagner’s Tristan Chord (electronic orchestra)



Fernando Sor’s Study in D for classical guitar with added melody for flute



Feuer und Wasser (flute and guitar)



Fire Dash (piano - electronic preview)



First song for guitar (classical guitar solo)



Fourth Song for guitar (classical guitar solo)



Folksong Wedding (clarinet quartet):

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3




Gilderoy - extended arrangement for flute and guitar



Gilderoy - extended arrangement for clarinet and guitar



Good night buona notte etc (recorder orchestra)



Gentle Calypso (guitar solo)



Hans Dampf in allen Possen (string trio - 2 violins and 1 cello)



Henry’s Tune (tuba quartet)



Hoe Down in the Ash Grove - clarinet and guitar



Hoe Down in the Ash Grove - flute and guitar



Hoe down in the Ash Grove - clarinet and piano



Hoe down in the Ash Grove - violin and piano



Hora ha Kulmus (reed trio - oboe, clarinet and bassoon)



Hunting the Hare - extended arrangement for clarinet and guitar



Hunting the Hare - extended arrangement for flute and guitar



Hyde Park Extravaganza



I have a bonnet - extended arrangement for flute and guitar



I have a bonnet - extended arrangement for clarinet and guitar



Incantation for Pamela (2 altos and guitar)



Industrial Revolution (based on Intercity Intermezzo for guitar solo)



Japanese Song (for Seiji Kojima) guitar solo



Japanese Song - arranged for solo flute



Jellicle Catgut (string quartet)



Jewish Melodies arranged for flute and guitar



Kichijiro (cello and guitar - electronic preview)


Kichijiro (flute and guitar - electronic preview)


Kichijiro - flute and guitar - performed by Robert Billington and Rene Gonzalez


Letter to a distant lover - performed by Robert Billington and Rene Gonzalez


Little Laser Lady - performed by Robert Billington and Rene Gonzalez


Klezmer del mar - flute, cello and guitar



La Folia Bossa Nova (electronic band)



La Folia variations for string quartet



Laid Back Bounce (clarinet and guitar)



Lakeside Revels

   (flute, cor anglais, harp and cello)



Lament for a cherry tree (electronic impro)



Lament for a (laburnum) tree (electronic impro)



Le bouquet (flute, violin and guitar version)


Letter to a distant lover - flute and guitar


Letter to a distant lover - clarinet and guitar


Little Bo Peep (instrumental version)



A little ABC of the Renaissance (flute and guitar) - three movements)



Long ago and far away (arr for guitar solo)



Lull for flute and guitar



Lullaby (1982) - solo guitar



Mallow Fling Trio (flute, viola and cello)



Matmata De Profundis (guitar solo)



Meinau Rag (playlist of all 4 versions)



Mitherpot (violin and piano)



Modal Madness (brass quintet)



Morning has broken (guitar solo)



Mysterious Moment (oboe, violin, viola, cello)



Nobody’s Jigg (duo version: oboe and guitar)



Nobody’s Jigg (trio version: recorder, violin and guitar)



Noel de Gautier (ocarina septet (electronic preview))



Nokh amol mit Neshome (once more with soul) flute solo



Not time to get up yet (string quartet - electronic preview)



Octatonic rag (piano solo)



Octatonic rag (tuba quartet)



Octoboogy



Old Vienna (clarinet and guitar)



Orientations (violin and piano)



Orientations (flute and piano)



Ostinato 12 - string quartet



Paddywhack variations (guitar solo)



Paddy Asleep (guitar solo)



Passacaglia for flute or violin and guitar



Pax Eiscum (flute and guitar)



Peep Show - a spoof video with “Sexy Impro”



Pensieri su Klizemer (flute solo)



Pensieri su Klizemer (saxophone solo)



Un Petit Bouquet - violin duo



Petticoat Lane (clarinet and guitar)



The pipes are calling



Playtime - flute and guitar



Praising Creation - flute violin, cello



Prayer before the close of day (tuba quartet)



Prelude on Gelobt Sei Gott (Vulpius)



Prelude No 2 (1974) for guitar solo



The Princess’s Tune (tuba and euphonium quartet)



Purinjiti (electronic preview: digeridoo, flute, strings and euphonium) - with paintings by my mother



Rag in Seven - classical guitar



Reed 11 (for reed trio in eleven time)



Relax a bit (but not too much) (tuba quartet)



Rêvé-je by Bataille - arranged for flute and guitar



Romance for Pamela (guitar solo)



Rune of hospitality (The Crofter’s Song)

     (for recorder, guitar, piano and cello)


Rusty, the dog with 3 balls (with improvised music)



Second song for guitar (classical guitar solo)



Sentimental Trio (viola, flute and guitar)


The Scottish banana (flute and piano)



Simple Chinese Canon (guitar solo)



Sketch in B flat (cello and guitar)



Sketch in E Dorian (cello and guitar)



Something for luck (recorder trio)



Souvenir of St Valentine’s Day 1975 (guitar solo)



Sonata in Ripon (guitar solo)



Songs of a little bear (string sextet)



Soliloquy (classical guitar solo)



Spanish Extravaganza

  (oboe, clarinet, cor anglais, trumpet, trombone, 2 guitars, 2 pairs of castanets)



Spider’s Web (guitar solo)



String Quartet (live performance)


String Quartet (in octatonic mode) - with chainsaw sculptures

(electronic preview)

Mvt 1 (Tower)

Mvt 2 (Wizards)

Mvt 3 (Bones and Birds)

Mvt 4 (On the tree top)



String quintet (sweet suite)

(electronic preview)

Mvt 1 (Marie for shame)

Mvt 2 (Nocturne)

Mvt3 (Camp David)

Mvt 4 (Blue Boar Blue)



Strongaling the drunken giant - string orchestra



Suite for classical guitar in lute tuning



Sunday morning solitude (flute and guitar)



Superlocrian trio - for 3 harpsichords and assorted dinosaurs



Sweet Kate variations (guitar solo)



Sweet K-K-K-Kate (flute solo)



Sweet 4 Chamber Orchestra - 1 Meinau Rag



Sweet 4 Chamber Orchestra - 2 An Amble round Mercury



Sweet 4 Chamber Orchestra - 3 Pretty How Town


Sweet 4 Chamber Orchestra - 4 Landscape before sunrise


Sweet 4 Chamber Orchestra - 5 Little Laser Lady




Swing Door (jazz band)



Tants Fraylachs (Fell Clarinet Quartet)



Tants Fraylachs (Foothill High School Clarinet Quartet)



Tants Fraylachs - saxophone quartet version



Thalia’s Rag - for wind quintet



The bishop is forced to dance (clarinet quartet)


The Frostbound Wood (electronic instrumental version)



The good-tempered guitars (guitar duet)



The Good, the Bat and the Gaudy (clarinet quartet)


The grass is growing (2 flutes and guitar)



The King’s Jollity (Froh zu sein)

    (clarinet quartet)


The Scottish banana - flute and guitar



The Scottish banana - clarinet and guitar



Ein Strauss aus der Frühlingszeit (a bunch of flowers from Springtime - Violin and guitar



Third song for guitar (classical guitar solo)



Three words too many (horn and guitar)



To Marie (flute and guitar)



A Toy (for guitar)


Unbekanntes Volkslied (Viennese zither, violin, guitar and double bass - electronic preview)



Where am I? (String quartet and flute)



Variations on Adon Olam - flute, cello and guitar



Variations on Frère Jacques (guitar solo)



Variations on Ke Arona (string quartet)



Variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (guitar solo)



Virgo and Taurus (cello and guitar)



We wish you (a merry snowed-in Christmas) (string quartet)



Waiting in Woomera - string orchestra


When the boat comes in - flute, cello and guitar


Whimsy No 1 (2 cats)

3.  Videos of my choral music


A simple Communion service



Alleyways (a song for Christmas)



A Manchester Magnificat



Agnus Dei from the Modal Mass



Apolytikion tis pentikostis



Bring us in good ale



Dejeuner du matin



Ding Dong Merrily on High (different from the traditional!)



The Elves (after Leconte de Lisle)



Fine Knacks for Ladies (John Dowland - arr dwsolo)



Hear my prayer, O Lord (Purcell - arranged for men’s voices)



Heaven’s Dance - 3 part choir and piano



Hoc est enim corpus meum



How shall I sing that Majesty



Io! Saturnalia



It was a lover and his lass



Les Cloches (arrangement of the Debussy song)



Madrigal of Naivety



Mass for men’s voices and organ



Medley of British folksongs - singalong videos



Order of the Day



Past two o’clock



Psalm 23 (Lutheran version)



Rupert the chocolate angel - Ruprecht der SchokoEngel - SAB choir



Silent Gnat - a biting insect parody of Silent night



Siyahamba (multitrack with silly animation)



The Bell Ringing



The Choir in the Rain (my multitrack performance)



The Choir in the Rain (live performance)



The Frostbound wood



The Park on Sunday



The twelve days of Christmas (a conductor’s nightmare)



The Meeting of the Waters



Upon my bed by night - soloists, choir and guitar



Voyelles by Rimbaud



While Shepherds watched their flocks (different from the traditional!)



Whimsy No 1 (2 cats)

Solo voice

Vocal Duets, Trios and Quartets

Choral

Instrumental

Short Stories

Short Stories and other spoken works


Arip Otter and the Vole of Death


D’r Engländer (Fritz Stephan)


Für die Katze (Fier d’ Kotz) (Fritz Stephan)


Father of the Man - a sort of time travel tale


The Duchess’s Tune - a gay extravaganza


The case of the unemployed oil engineer


The Filling (poem by David Andrew)


Les Eléphants (poem by Leconte de Lisle)


The last Village on Earth (poem by David Andrew)


Bagpipe Music - after a poem by Louis MacNeice


Blue remembered cheese - Lymeswold please, Louise


Herbsttag (Autumn Day) by Rilke


Herbsttag (Autumn Day) in a Wolverhampton accent


Three little pigs (from “Wildlife in the Nursery”)


The bouncy castle of the Nibelungs


Un petit d’un petit (Humpty Dumpty in a heavy French accent)


Lidl mie se m’offert (Little Miss Muffet in a heavy French accent)


Six Ullmann (This old man in a heavy French accent)


Bananas are politically very sensitive and we must tread carefully when dealing with them


Christmas is coming in a heavy French accent


Mit dem Blick in die Ferne


Gazing into the distance


The Last Chord (an atom bomb disrupts a church service)


Bobby Shafto in a heavy French accent (Peter Steadman)


Der Froschkönig


The Frog Prince


The Grand old Duke of York - with a heavy German accent


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