David W Solomons’
Music Site
Tracks and Albums on iTunes:
Albums on iTunes
(with option for single tracks):
Alleyways - a Christmas song for choir
On itunes
Wine and Water
A satirical song based on a poem by G K Chesterton
On itunes
Mass for men’s voices and organ
(Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus)
On itunes
The 12 days of Christmas
-a conductor’s nightmare
On Itunes
Robin Adair
Arranged for choir
Sung by the dwsChorale
On itunes
And the wall came down
A Celebration of the fall of the Berlin wall
On itunes
He makes men pure from their sins
(Duet in evangelical style)
On itunes
Celebr8, or Celebreight, or Celebrate
For string octet
On itunes
Psalm 23
Der Herr ist mein Hirte
(Choral setting of the translation by Martin Luther)
On itunes
Modal Mass
(Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus Benedictus and Agnus)
On itunes
Amol is geven a Mayse
for cor anglais and 2 violins
On itunes
Cockles and Mussels - for wind quartet
On itunes
Rachmaninov anthem -
on itunes:
Tebye poyem (Tebje pojem)
To Thee o Lord
(being remixed)
Music for a while - Henry Purcell
Arranged for alto and guitar
On itunes
Be not afear’d
(Speech by Caliban in Shakespeare’s The Tempest - set for alto and guitar)
On itunes
So what would happen if…
on itunes
01 The twelve days of Christmas a conductor's nightmare
02 Mrs Hooligan's Christmas cake
03 Venerable Mother Toothache
04 Wenn der Pott aber nur ein Loch hat - the German origin of that old favourite
"There's a hole in my bucket".
05 Wine and water - a setting of G K Chesterton's satirical poem in which Noah's
predilection for wine is foremost in the mind, but the Bishops stick to water.
06 Motorbus - a setting of A D Godley's macaronic poem about the dangers of busses
in central Oxford, the word Motor Bus is forced through all the declensions in Latin
and the music, in whole tone scale follows the young Latin scholar in his attempts
to understand those declensions.
07 The mending of fuses - a setting of the poem by E O Parrott, which is in turn
a parody of "The naming of parts" by Henry Reed. The whole family gets down to the
horrors of dusty cobweb-strewn cupboards where fuse boxes are kept and attempts in
vain to find and mend the fuse that has blown.
08 To a bee with no sense of direction - a setting of the poem by Audrey Vaughan
- this bumble bee simply cannot find its way out despite the open window waiting
patiently for it.
09 Witches' recipe - a setting of the witches' chant in Shakespeare's Macbeth -
arranged for three altos in strangulated ("witch-like") voices and guitar ostinato
accompniment
10 The centipede - pity the poor centipede who suddenly finds she cannot walk once
she is asked which leg comes after which
11 Bring us in good ale - a jolly song from days past in which the singers ask
for no food but plenty of ale
12 Mit Lust tret ich an diesen Tanz - Senfl's madrigal about joining in the dance
13 Pucelete Domino Je Languis - a quodlibet mixing religious and secular themes
14 Thule the period of cosmography and the Andalusian merchant - madrigal in two
sections by Thomas Weelkes in which the complexities of his feelings seem to outweigh
all the wonders of the world.
Elegy
15 The Swallows - setting for alto and guitar of the poem by Gourgen Mahari - the
swallows represent the Armenian nation forced out of its land and unable to return
16 Up I arose - macaronic song from the early renaissance in which a girl, made
pregnant by a priest, bewails her fate and is considering whether or not to have
an abortion.
17 Being but men - setting of the poem by Dylan Thomas, if we were children we would
have no fear, but we have so many doubts when we are grown up
18 Apolytikion tis pentikostis - arrangement of an old Greek Orthodox chant - this
setting is considered not to be "authentic" because it becomes polyphonic, but I
think it works very well as a piece of meditative music
19 Sing o daughter of Zion - arrangement of words from the Book of Zephaniah, composed
in my old evangelical days
Six Renaissance lute songs, two in which I accompany myself on guitar followed by
four with the lute accompaniment performed by the late Bob Glover
20 Flow my tears by John Dowland
21 Come Away by John Dowland
22 Dont vient cela by Claudin de Sermisy
23 O Lusty May - anonymous Scottish song
24 To Music Bent by Thomas Campion (or Campian)
25 Tant que vivray by Claudin de Sermisy
