Anne Hunter’s Song for Eve
Quatre Rondeaux de Charles d’Orléans:
The Distances Between (Louis MacNeice):
The Monk and his Cat
The Distances Between (Louis MacNeice):
Last of the Leaves;
Cantata Setting of Four Poems:
Winter Heavens (George Meredith)
A Gypsy Prayer (Traditional words from Transylvania in translation)
Anne Hunter’s Song for Eve
Bush Ballads 1st series (Australian Folk Verses):
Bush Ballads 2nd series (Australian Folk Verses):
Bush Ballads 3rd series (Australian Folk Verses):
Chanson de Croisade (Anon. 13th Century)
Daphne to Apollo – Soprano with Guitar
(Text by Matthew Prior)
Daphne to Apollo – Soprano with Baryton
(Text by Matthew Prior)
Five Eyes (Walter de la Mare)
Four Poems of John Clare:
Heaven-Haven (G.M. Hopkins)
Inversnaid (G.M. Hopkins)
Irishry; Four Songs (Joseph Campbell):
John Clare’s Wooing Songs:
Lachrymae (David Gascoyne)
Lammas Fair;
Operetta in One Act with Piano
Scenes:
London Lyrics:
Mrs. Hen (Nursery Rhyme)
Music’s Duel
(Text by Richard Crashaw)
Quatre Rondeaux de Charles d’Orléans:
Rags and Bones; No. 4 of ‘Irishry’
Slow, Slow Fresh Fount (Ben Johnson)
The Distances Between (Louis MacNeice):
The Dowie Houms O’ Yarrow
The Lamb (William Blake)
The Mower to the Glow-Worms
The Old Master;
Operetta in 3 Acts for Equal Voice & Piano
Characters (in order of appearance):
The Snail and the Butterfly (John Gay, Fables)
The Stone (Hal Summers)
The Sunflower (Peter Quenell)
The Tower (Robert Nichols)
Threadneedle Street;
Comic Opera in 1 Act
Three Songs to words of T. L. Beddoes:
Tideways; Four Poems of Ezra Pound:
Turn Ye to Me; Arrangement of Hebridean Air
Gipsy Songs (Ben Johnson):
Riley & Co.; Four Songs (Charles Causley):
Strong Drink;
Opera in Three Acts with Piano Duet (Libretto by David Reynolds)
The Monk and his Cat
Three Winter Songs:
Cadilly;
Entertainment based on a story from Tales from the Fens (Libretto by David Reynolds)
Eliza at the Temple (from verses by Anna Chamber)
Epigrams from a Garden;
Song Cycle (verses by Francis Daniel Pastorius 17C American):
Fancy Fair;
Sequence of three songs (Ralph Hodgson):
Hymnus de Sancto Stephano
Jove’s Nod (Congreve);
Cantata for Baritone, 2 Violins, Cello & Harpsichord
Last of the Leaves;
Cantata Setting of Four Poems:
Love’s Madness;
Cantata Setting of Five Mediaeval Quatrains
Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart;
Chamber Opera in Four Acts, Libretto by Ronald Fletcher (after the novel by Richard Cobbold)
Nancy the Waterman;
Chamber Opera in One Act, based on a Story from More Tales from the Fens (Libretto by Blanche McIntyre)
Venus to the Muses (Matthew Prior)
A Bag of Winds (for five string quartets and narrator):
NB: Quartet C consists of 4 violins and Quartet D of 2 violas and 2 cellos. Quartets A, B and E are normally constituted.
Flood
Entertainment with narration spoken by the Players
(Based on John Heath-Stubbs, The History of The Flood)
Never Trust a Spider; Entertainment for 7 Clarinets
The Old Cigarette Lighter; Entertainment for Children (Libretto by David Reynolds)
The Old Cigarette Lighter; Entertainment for Children (Libretto by David Reynolds)
Tinderbox; Entertainment with Narrator
The original version, entitled The Old Cigarette Lighter, is scored for flute, oboe and piano. A later version (1994), also with this title, is scored for wind quintet. This version allows the five musicians to share the narrative.
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