A list of my songs

I love lists of things (though I am very bad at keeping the lists up to date). The other day I was tidying my music cabinet and came across my settings of Michelangelo's sonnets, in translations by J.A.Symonds, and I wondered whether I had actually finished the songs. 

This led me to looking at all the songs and song cycles that I had produced. Some were written for specific events or people, whereas others were simply ideas that came to fruition (or didn't).  Below, I have listed all of the songs and song cycles that I am happy to be let out of their confinement in my music cabinet. If anyone is interested further, I am always happy to provide details.

Song Cycles

• Songs of Love and Loss: Song Cycle for mezzo-soprano, clarinet and piano
• Words by Lord Alfred Douglas, Helen Waddell, Robert Hugill and M.V. Lively
• Let this Harvest pass, O Love
• Twelve duets for alto and guitar, words by Carl Cook
• Quickening (1998) Song cycle to poems by Christina Rosetti
• Soprano, violin and piano (or mezzo-soprano, viola and piano)
• For David, on his birthday (2004) Seven songs setting poems by Carl Cook from 'Postscripts'
• Tenor (or Baritone) & Piano
• For David, on his birthday VII was a finalist in the English Poetry and Song Society's Diamond Songs competition
• Love Remembered (2007) Song cycle for tenor and piano to poems by Constantine Cavafy
• Four Songs to Texts by Ivor Gurney (2007), Baritone & Piano
• To his love came 3rd in the 2007 Ivor Gurney Competition organised by the English Poetry and Song Society
• Four Songs to Texts by A.E. Housman (2008) Tenor & Piano (version for baritone)
• He looked at me came 3rd in the 2008 A.E. Housman Competition organised by the English Poetry and Song Society
• Farewell Love (2011) Five songs to poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt
• Tenor (or Baritone) & Piano (version for baritone)
• He Wishes (2012) Four songs to poems by W.B. Yeats
• Winter Journey (2012) Song cycle setting Rowan Williams' "Winterreise: for Gillian Rose, 9 December 1995"
• Tenor (or Baritone) & Piano
• Gitanjali (2014) Three songs to texts by Rabindranath Tagore for Soprano & Piano
• Love's Lordship (2015) Four sonnets by Michelangelo Buonarroti, translated by J.A. Symonds
• Tenor (or Baritone or Soprano) & Piano
• Voyages (2015) Four songs for baritone and piano to poems by Hart Crane

Single Songs

• To His Coy Mistress (1997), Text: Andrew Marvell, Alto & Piano
• Kiss Thou, this Rose (2007), Text: Helen Waddell. Soprano & Piano
• The Sleep (2012), Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Soprano & Piano
• The Strand (2014), Text: Louis MacNeice,Medium voice & Piano
• When Summer's end is nighing (2016), Text: A.E. Housman, Baritone & Piano
• Fancy's Knell (2017), Text: A.E. Housman, Baritone & Piano