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Soprano or mezzo (with piano unless otherwise indicated)
The Day of the Singing Birds (1991), 2½'
poem by Dennis Stoll, with pf or fl+pf
Range: d' to f"#
Two Shakespeare Songs (1992) 3½'
"When icicles hang by the wall"; "Where the bee sucks"
Range: d'# to g"#
Listen to no. 2 (Camille van Lunen, sop., Wendy Hiscocks, pf.)
Elegy (1993), poem anon. Range: c'# to a" 2½'
Bush Christmas (1994), poem by David Martin 3'
Range: c'# to f"#. Also printed in Frontier Press,
British Contemporary Music Anthology 1996
Two Poems of Nefra Canning (1994) 4'
"Winter"; "Friendship". Range: e' to e"-flat
The Twenty-ninth Bather (1995), 3½'
poem by Walt Whitman. Range: g# to b"-flat
The Last Invocation, tenor + fl/ ob/ vla/ vc (1996) 3'
poem by Walt Whitman; also available for tenor + pf
Two Bulgarian Songs (1996–7), with viola; 7' + 3'
poems by Elisaveta Bagryana, in Bulgarian
"Kladenetsut" (The Well); "Moe sartse" (My heart)
Range: g to f"
I look out and see... (1996–7), four songs for bass + pf., 12'
poems by David Martin, Walt Whitman & R. Tagore.
Also available for baritone + pf.
Libretto of the Eight Year Old (1997–9), cantata for 15'
sop. or m-sop. & string trio; see under Chamber Music
Mother and Child (1999–2000), poems by R. Tagore, 12'
4 songs for soprano, clarinet & strings, also
available for sop., clarinet & piano or soprano and piano
Publishers Choral Music Piano Music
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