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These recordings are not on professional CD, but they are available (at cost price) on amateur CD on request.

I met the cellist and recorder player Chris Benson and performed many duets with him during our college days in the mid 1970s. These recordings were made on a fairly basic cassette recorder, and are somewhat noisy at times. Much of what we played was sight-read from our pencilled manuscripts. Nevertheless, I consider these recordings to be well worth keeping, both for the originality of the performances and, more particularly, by way of a memorial to Chris Benson, who died too soon.

Some of the pieces are  written by Chris, and I do not have the original manuscripts now. Some are also lost compositions of mine. Where the original manuscripts are available, they have now been transcribed and published and can be obtained at the links given.

Disk 1                                                 

Mp3                                                         Publication details

                                                           

With violoncello:

1. Variations on Bergamasca (dws)                                Score

(Video on YouTube)

With recorder:

2. Cotillion (Hotteterre arr dws)                                   Score

3. Kiriboshi kiriuta (trad)

4. Nikko warakyu odori (trad)

With violoncello

5. Non je n'irai plus au bois (trad arr dws)

With recorder

6. Obaba doku yukiyari (trad)

With violoncello

7. Quien tu viese tal poder (Diego Pisador)

8. Madonna mia fa (Diego Pisador)

9. Si la noche hace oscura (Diego Pisador arr dws)

With recorder

10 Yagi bushi (trad)

11. Harlequin (dws)                                                       Score

With violoncello

12. E Dorian sketch (dws)                                              Score

13. A La Recherche (dws)                                              Score

(Note: this used to be called Variations on “Allegro Drammatico”)

14. 3 D Dorian sketches (dws)                                      Score   

15*. Summertime Rag (Chris Benson)                            Score

      Stuecke uessm Elsass (Alsacien folksong variations)

(dws)

16. Der Hans im Schnokeloch                      

17. Das Elsass unser Laendel                                                 

18. Mutter ich will e ding

19. Das Maisel pfifft di Zit isch do

Video: Variations on folk songs from Alsace

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20/21. 2 unnamed pieces by Chris Benson  

22. Sketch in B flat (dws)                                             Score

23. Sketch in lute tuning (dws)                                     Score

Disk 2

1. Australian folksong variations  (dws)                          Musik Fabrik

                      Folksong sonatina (dws)

2. Mvt 1 – I had a song to sing to you

3. Mvt 2 - Gethsemane

4. Mvt 3 – (guitar bridge and then)

Oh Come on Out

5. Mvt 4 – The Song I sang you

6. Virgo and Taurus (dws)                                             Score

    (Video)

7. Ta Maman (after a poem

by Paul Maertens)  

(cello, alto voice and guitar) (dws)                               Score

8. The Message of Christmas (dws)                               Score

9. Isiah 12 (and in that day thou shalt say…)

(dws)

10. Doric Victory (Nike! - νίκη!)

(cello, recorder and guitar) (dws)                                 Score

11. Now and Then Again

(recorder and guitar) (dws)                                           Score

12. Duo for cello and guitar 1973                                        Score

13. Meinau Rag                                                              Score

    Meinau Rag (video)

*Summer time

The “Summertime Rag” Duet by Chris Benson has now finally been transcribed and will be released shortly

A choral version of the piece, “In the Summer Time”, for which I wrote the lyrics and choral parts on top of Chris’ original duet, will also be available soon…

All being well, Worthing Choral Society will perform it in 2012.

Pperformances by

Chris Benson and

David Warin Solomons