2008:
April
Våren [Spring] by E Grieg, arranged for flute or alto recorder and classical guitar
Panis Angelicus - for choir, organ, clarinet and guitar - written for Lorenzo Magro and the Duo Musaikon
The Fallow Deer at the lonely house (tenor and alto a-cappella)
Lull - for alto and classical guitar: score available here
(a lullaby for anyone at any age....)
Song to Idleness - my first ever choral piece - recently revised, published and performed. Score and new recording available here
Just back from an excellent time in Treviso (extremely well fed with traditional home cooking :-)) - plans are well advanced for further collaboration with Alessandro Balsimini, following rehearsals in the hotel room there - which at least one guest said she enjoyed (!). We are just completing revised more accurate editions of various songs, incorporating detailed fingering and tempo variations. These new editions will be online once we have completed our recordings, but if anyone wants to acquire advance copies of the revised editions of "Songs of Solomons" and of the Yiddish songs, please email me.
My music published with Da Capo Music Ltd is now available direct from the publisher in paper copy or from MyScoreStore in downloadable pdf format.
Scores of my arrangements for guitar and voice and other combinations with guitar (including arrangements of Händel's flute sonatas and Fauré's Après un Rêve)
Winter 2007-8:
New compositions (as from 30 December 2007) by D W Solomons:
Modal Mass for men's voices (ATTB)
(performed by the dwsChorale)
Instrumental compositions created in Finale 2008 with Garritan sounds
including: Ballade for clarinet and guitar
Not time to get up yet for string quartet
Comin' through the Rye (arranged for choir, clarinet and guitar) Serenamente - for clarinet and guitar - written for Duo Musaikon
Care Home poem by S N Solomons - music by D W Solomons (very dark!)
New performances by the dwsChorale of works by other composers:
Rachmaninoff - To Thee, O Lord (Tebye Poyem) (Russian and English versions)
Le Rossignol - composed by Jean Chatillon, after a poem by Ronsard
Carol in thanks by Stuart Scott
As of 12 December 2007 I have retired from staff translator work and will be operating mainly as a composer and occasional performer, but I shall also be providing translations when required in the fields of customs, tax and music, on a freelance basis: my Proz (professional translator) profile
Meanwhile I have been busy composing for various combinations, concentrating mainly on guitar and clarinet duos - the fruits of which will become evident quite soon.
For those in the north-east of Italy there were opportunities to hear "Duo Musaikòn" (Alessandro Balsimini [guitar] and Davide Compostella [clarinet]) performing this December:
Friday 7 December 2007 - 21.00 hours
Venue: Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena - Rampazzo di Camisano Vicentino (Vicenza)
The concert will include the following works of mine
The Quiet Way you move me
Christmas Song
Duetto della Natività
(The rest of the programme will be performed by the choir
"Coro della Basilica dei SS. Felice e Fortunato di Vicenza"
Choir director: Maestro Lorenzo Magro
and other instruments)
Wednesday 19 December 2007 - 21.00 hours
"Concerto di Natale e omaggio poetico a Ebe Cicogni"
Venue - Nove (Vicenza) Centro Parrocchiale Don Luigi Panarotto - Sala Polivalente
The concert will include the following works of mine:
Petticoat Lane
An “Exmas” Carol
The Quiet Way you move me
Duetto della natività
Christmas Song
Bell Dance
(interspersed with Christmas poetry recitations).
Thursday 20 December 2007 - 21.00 hours Venue: Basilica dei Santi Felice e Fortunato - Vicenza
The concert will include the following works of mine: The Quiet Way you move me
Christmas Song
Duetto della Natività
(The rest of the programme will be performed by the choir
"Coro della Basilica dei SS. Felice e Fortunato di Vicenza"
Choir director: Maestro Lorenzo Magro and other instruments)
Spring and Summer 2007:
The very latest updates don't include recordings (yet) but they are full of Italian promise:
Following a trip to Montecchio in Umbria (Italy),where Alessandro Balsimini (guitar) and Davide Compostella (clarinet) did some wonderful performances of my Petticoat Lane, Bell Dance and three of the Jewish Dances, during a concert of choral pieces performed by Duncan Saunderson's choir the Summertown Choral Society (in which I sang with the altos), I have been busy writing more works for the guitar (for Alberto Mesirca) and for guitar and clarinet (for Alessandro and Davide).
The results of these endeavours (including some Jewish music for Pesach 2008) will be revealed in due course.... watch this space!
Heraclitus (C V Stanford)
The Laughter of the Lesser Lynx
Il bianco e dolce cigno (Arcadelt)
A whimsy on 2 cats (a very silly modern madrigal)
The Choir in the rain (another modern madrigal)
Rooftops (for two unaccompanied altos)
Als e gitarr (song for narrator and alto with guitar, based on a poem by André Weckmann)
dwsChorale - the new site for my one-man choir
Mister Sandman (my choral arrangement)
Robin Adair (arr DWS)
The three Gates from Dante - Hell, Purgatory and Heaven - composed by Joe Dillon Ford
Surrender - composed by Joe Dillon Ford
Agnus Dei from the Messe des Délaissés (Michel R Edward)
Big collaboration for the Spring, including works by Caicedo, Firestone, Dillon Ford, Graham, Gold, Marshall, Mauldin, Spalding and me
My Mass for men's voices - new recording with dwsChorale and Gavin Underhill
Sir Walter enjoying his damsel one night (Henry Purcell)
J'attends secours (Claudin de Sermisy)
Ronde (N'allez pas au bois d'Ormonde) (Maurice Ravel)
Nicolette (Maurice Ravel)
Tango Affettolato (Colin Bayliss)
Mike Robert's orchestral arrangement of my Scallywag's Kickwalk
It was a lover and his lass (A modern madrigal)
Apolytikion (polyphonic arrangement based on the Byzantine chant)
Introit (Make a joyful noise) (Steve Fraser)
Lost in microtones (microtonal improvisation)
Winter 2006/7:
If Ye Love Me (Thomas Tallis)
The Hebrew Class - based on the poem by Carol Rumens
Elégie de Marie
What shall I do to show how much I love her (Henry Purcell) (with Duncan Saunderson, countertenor)
Innsbruck I now must leave you (Heinrich Isaac) (with Duncan Saunderson, countertenor)
Love's God is a boy (Robert Jones) (with Duncan Saunderson, countertenor)
I saw my lady weep (John Dowland)
The Swallows (after the poem by Gourgen Mahari)
The meeting of the waters (Irish folksong)
What if I never speed - by John Dowland
Song of the Childless
Cupid, shame yourself
Ariette Oubliée No 4 (poem by Paul Verlaine)
Illusions - poem by Bluma Finkelstein, music by D W Solomons
Come into the garden, Maud - Balfe - arranged for alto and guitar by D W Solomons
Après un rêve - Fauré
Lotti - Crucifixus (settings in 6 parts and in 8 parts)
Sweet Suffolk Owl (Thomas Vautor)
Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis (I sing all 40 parts!)
Past 2 o'clock - a satirical song based on Past 3 o'clock
Carols and Canticles (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) arranged by Duncan Saunderson from various part songs and piano pieces
Video of my performance of my
"Coming out of the Fog":
Au joli bois (Claudin de Sermisy)
Se j'ay parlé (Loyset Compère
Autumn 2006:
New: Digital Distribution of high quality mp3s from my CDs
From eMusic:
David W Solomons: Songs performed by Stephen Taylor and Jonathan Leonard:
Songs of Solomons
From i-Tunes:
These link directly to the selection when you have the i-Pod software installed
David W Solomons: Songs performed by Stephen Taylor and Jonathan Leonard:
Songs of Solomons
The Singing Animals: works produced and performed by David W Solomons and Lorin Swelk:
Wildlife in the Nursery
Other recent recordings and compositions:
Upon my bed by night (from the Song of Songs)
Twinkle Pluto, planet no more (atonal string quartet)
Set me as a Seal - Kenneth Bayliss
A Christmas Lullaby - Colin Bayliss
Simple Communion Service (new recording and pdf files)
Various chansons by Claudin de Sermisy
including Vignon vignette, Pilons l'orge, Hari Bouriquet and Tant que vivray
Nous sommes de l'ordre de Saint Babouin (Loyset Compère)
New -
for all my music published by Musik Fabrik - please visit my Sheetmusicplus page
New:Independent Artists Playlist
Greek Folksongs
Two movements from the Divine Service by Vasylaki-Vozhakivskyj
Now every tree (Weelkes)
Lamento di Arianna (Ariadne's Lament), by Monteverdi
Sanctus and Agnus Dei (Bernard Hughes)
Rejoice in the Lord alway (Purcell)
Early, bright, transient . . . (Joanna Treasure)
Quand je bois du vin clairet (Attaignant)
Rejoice in the Lord alway (anon)
The Quiet Way you Move Me (choral version)
Verbum caro factum est - Hans Leo Hassler
Dal Lecto mi levava - Pesenti
Trios for recorder , violin and guitar (recordings and scores)
The Angel Gabriel - arr Otto Wanke
Alle Psallite cum luia - arr P Legge and DWS
Pearsall - Lay a Garland
Lassus - Hodie completi sunt dies Pentecostes
My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (choral arrangement)
Mozart C Minor Mass- Kyrie
Two versions of: Chi la Gagliarda
Cat processor (sound experiments)
Vivaldi's Gloria
Feuer und Wasser (my first ever song)
Poema, by Carlos Caicedo
Salga el torillo hosquillo, by Salazar
A Madrigal of Naivety, by D W Solomons
Jorge Moreira
Um Olhar, by Jorge Moreiro
Antoine de Févin:
Il fait bon aimer l'oiselet, by Antoine de Févin
Song from the West End show "Robin Prince of Sherwood" by RIck Fenn and Pete Howarth:
The lights grow dim
Pezel's cantata for three soloists and strings Des Abends, Morgens und Mittags
Two new, very different, recordings on TopTempo:
Les Voyelles by Rimbaud
for male voice choir and two alto solos
The Ghostly Friars - a glee by Ed Gold
for alto, tenor and bass with string quartet
Reinstated:
Be not afeard (alto and guitar)
Videos page!
including Old Time Music Hall, Boogie Woogie and some of my alto and guitar performances
My performance of my mass for men's voices and organ
and
some new choral arrangements by Andrew Emmet, including:
By the Light of the Silvery moon
and The Goddess is dancing,
which I have performed here
Spring 2006
Complete redesign of the website - using Andreas Viklund's open-source template.
Do please contact me: email David if you find any errors or if you would like me to reinstate particular compositions, performances or features that I have deleted.
and also:
a survey page, if you like answering surveys . . . .
New Year 2006
Heureux qui comme Ulysse (alto and guitar)[old recording, new page with translation]
April (alto and guitar)
now also available in a little video
My perfomance of Ray Friendly's setting of Psalm 23 with flute and choir:
Prelude to Silence
Performances of two of my guitar duets by Bruce Paine and Rex Button:
The Good-tempered guitars
Bifocal Rag
Performance by "Spectrum":
Three Three Two - for bass saxophone and cor anglais
Other recent multivocal performances:
Since first I saw your face (Thomas Ford)
Heaven's Dance
2006 Comedy Project
My CDs (click here for details)
New developments regarding the DC comics collection