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Original works 
for solo voice
and ensemble

Al Hanisim

 (alto voice, clarinet, strings and optional percussion)



Barbara Allen (alto or baritone and orchestra)



Dawn in the Room (with strings)

 (alto (or baritone), string orchestra)




Dreaming

 (narrated poem, guitar and orchestra)




The Elves (after Leconte de Lisle)

 (alto/baritone solos, A/T chorus, A/T recorders, guitar, cello(s))




En Province (Georges Rodenbach / S N Solomons

 (alto solo, guitar and optional bass instrument and bells)





Les Eléphants (The Elephants)

(poem by Leconte de Lisle)

 (spoken voice (or choir or solo voice), clarinet, flute and string quartet)





Letter to Lydia (modernised version)

 (soprano, electric guitar, keyboard and bass)





Letter to Lydia (original version)

 (alto, flute, classical guitar, cello)





Madness of a headmistress

(a mock children’s song poem by Gavin Ewart)

  (alto, recorder, guitar)





My Gentle Words

 (soprano, flute, piano)





Three Nursery rhyme arrangements

 (alto voice,  recorder and guitar)




Ophelia’s Mad scene

 (alto, guitar, alto recorder, great bass recorder, bassoon and contrabassoon)





Rose (after a poem by Iskan Acikca)

 (alto (or bass), strings)

 (tenor (or soprano), strings)

 (tenor (or soprano), piano)





Rupert The Chocolate Angel

  (An antidote to “Rudolph the red nosed reindeer”)

 (Unison choir (or solo alto) with jazz ensemble)





Saturnalia Song

 (voices, percussion, wind, brass)





Sleep wayward thoughts (after John Dowland)

 (alto voice, guitar, with optional added alto recorder part)




Solstice Song

 (flute, alto voice, alto recorder, harp)





Ta  Maman

(poem by Paul Maertens)

 (alto, cello and guitar)





The Grasshopper and the ant

 (flute (or recorder or clarinet),

   alto voice, guitar)





The learnèd hippopotamus

  (voice (alto or tenor), recorder and guitar)





The quiet way you move me

 (alto, chorus and guitar)





The Stripper

(based on “Their aid I thus disclaim” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida)

 (alto, piano and excitable chorus)




Upon my bed by night

 (alto and baritone solos with SATB chorus and guitar)



The Venerable Cat

  (alto voice, guitar and optional additional instrument)

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