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1. Videos of my music for solo voice
Ale Vasserlech (performance at Cross Street)
Ale Vasserlech (earlier performance)
Al Hanisim (voice, clarinet and strings)
Apres un reve
Après un rêve (arranged for alto and guitar)
As gleams the Rosebud (1984 video)
Be not afeard - (more recent recording)
Believe me if all those endearing young charms
La cigarette (alto and guitar)
Come into the Garden Maud (Balfe arr dwsolo)
Dawn in the room (alto and guitar)
Dawn in the room (alto and piano)
Dawn in the Room (alto and strings)
Early evening in Camden Town (Cross Street performance)
Early evening in Camden Town (1984 video)
Les Eléphants (spoken voice and ensemble)
Exprompt (an Armenian song of farewell)
L’Inconscient (The Unconcious) alto and guitar
Invitation to the journey (voice and guitar)
Invitation to the journey (voice and piano)
The Legend of the knight who got lost in the wood
Lookin’ just lookin’ at the personal ads (Cross St performance)
Lookin’ just lookin’ (earlier performance)
Ludhe sing tishu (Loud sing tishoo) (Cross St performance)
Ludhe Sing Tishu (earlier performance)
Mandoline and Colloque Sentimental
Motor Bus - or how not to be afraid of Latin Grammar
My Gentle words (alto voice and guitar)
Recital in 1984 at St Michael’s Cornhill
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
Sing oh daughter of Zion (alto and guitar)
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Two extracts from the sequence for Alun’s poetry:
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Ta Maman (alto voice, cello and guitar)
The chief Defect of Henry King
The end of art, Interrogation and Poetry ready
The Houses where we have lived
The quiet way you move me (guitar and voice)
The quiet way you move me (piano and voice)
To a bee with no sense of direction
To paint the portrait of a bird
Venus (or “Venus has left the building”)
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)
Colloque sentimental (three voices a cappella)
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)
The Legend of the Knight who got lost in the Wood
The Recipe (the three witches in Macbeth)
4. Videos of my instrumental music
8 Easter essays (2 movements) (guitar solo)
A la Recherche (cello and guitar)
Acacia (from Honey flowers for guitar duet)
Airhorse (airhorses and how they breed - a fractal presentation)
... And the wall came down (orchestral)
Air Apparent (recorder and string quartet - electronic preview)
Al Hanisim - clarinet, alto sax and piano
Bergamasca Variations for cello and guitar
Bergamasca Variations for clarinet and guitar
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)
Celebration (North American Native flute and Orchestra - electronic preview)
Chinese New Year Celebration (electronic preview)
Christmas Song (saxophone and guitar)
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)
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
Dorian Dance (guitar solo in 7/4 time)
Doric Victory (cello, recorder and guitar
Dorina (flute and guitar - electronic preview)
Dream On - (flute, clarinet, guitar, cello - electronic preview)
The Duchess’s Tune - a gay extravaganza (narrative video)
Exmas Carol (clarinet and guitar)
Extravaganza on Wagner’s Tristan Chord (electronic orchestra)
Fire Dash (piano - electronic preview)
First song for guitar (classical guitar solo)
Fourth Song for guitar (classical guitar solo)
Folksong Wedding (clarinet quartet):
Gilderoy - extended arrangement for flute and guitar
Gilderoy - extended arrangement for clarinet and guitar
Good night buona notte etc (recorder orchestra)
Hans Dampf in allen Possen (string trio - 2 violins and 1 cello)
Hoe Down in the Ash Grove - clarinet and guitar
Hoe Down in the Ash Grove - flute and guitar
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
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
Jellicle Catgut (string quartet - electronic preview)
Jewish Melodies arranged for flute and guitar
Klezmer del mar - flute, cello and guitar
La Folia Bossa Nova (electronic band)
Laid Back Bounce (clarinet and guitar)
Lament for a cherry tree (electronic impro)
Long ago and far away (arr for guitar solo)
Matmata De Profundis (guitar solo)
Meinau Rag (playlist of all 4 versions)
Morning has broken (guitar solo)
Nobody’s Jigg (duo version: oboe and guitar)
Nobody’s Jigg (trio version: recorder, violin and guitar)
Noel de Gautier (ocarina septet (electronic preview))
Not time to get up yet (string quartet - electronic preview)
Old Vienna (clarinet and guitar)
Paddywhack variations (guitar solo)
Peep Show - a spoof video with “Sexy Impro”
Petticoat Lane (clarinet 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
Rag in Seven - classical guitar
Reed 11 (for reed trio in eleven time)
Relax a bit (but not too much) (tuba quartet)
Second song for guitar (classical guitar solo)
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)
Songs of a little bear (string sextet)
Soliloquy (classical guitar solo)
String Quartet (live performance)
String Quartet (in octatonic mode) - with chainsaw sculptures
(electronic preview)
String quintet (sweet suite)
(electronic preview)
Strongaling the drunken giant - string orchestra
Sunday morning solitude (flute and guitar)
Sweet Kate variations (guitar solo)
Tants Fraylachs (Clarinet Quartet)
Thalia’s Rag - for wind quintet
The Frostbound Wood (electronic instrumental version)
The good-tempered guitars (guitar duet)
The grass is growing (2 flutes and guitar)
The Scottish banana - flute and guitar
The Scottish banana - clarinet and guitar
Third song for guitar (classical guitar solo)
Unbekanntes Volkslied (Viennese zither, violin, guitar and double bass - electronic preview)
Variations on Adon Olam - flute, cello and guitar
Variations on Frère Jacques (guitar solo)
Variations on Ke Arona (string quartet)
Virgo and Taurus (cello and guitar)
We wish you (a merry snowed-in Christmas) (string quartet)
Waiting in Woomera - string orchestra
Alleyways (a song for Christmas)
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)
Les Cloches (arrangement of the Debussy song)
Mass for men’s voices and organ
Siyahamba (multitrack with silly animation)
The twelve days of Christmas (a conductor’s nightmare)
While Shepherds watched their flocks (different from the traditional!)
Short Stories and other spoken works
Arip Otter and the Vole of Death
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)
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