Vocal Works
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Song-Cycles

​Cotswold Songs - a cycle of seven songs for soprano and piano.
Poems by John Drinkwater

1.  Old Crow
2. II - Day
3. III - May Garden
4. IV - The Lechers
5. V - Plough
6. Cotswold Love
7. Venus in Arden

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Songs of Travel - song-cycle for tenor and piano. 
Poems by John Drinkwater

1. The Vagabond
2. Mad Tom Tatterman
3. Mamble
4. Two Ships
5. The Toll-Gate House

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Five Songs of England - song-cycle for tenor and piano
Poems by Rupert Brooke, A.E. Houseman, Charles Kingsley 
​and Edward Thomas

1. The Soldier 
2. Blue Evening
3. The Grenadier
4. The Three Fishers
5. Adlestrop 

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A Sabbath Day - song-cycle for mezzo soprano and classical guitar. Poems by John Drinkwater

1. Morning
2. Full Day
3. Dusk​
4. Evensong
5. Night

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​Five Character Songs 
​- song-cycle for high voice and piano
Poems by John Drinkwater,
Jill Nightingale, Colin Decio,
Anne Smith, Peggy Decio
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1. Elizabeth Ann
2. Unlucky Jack
3. The Spinning Wheel
4. Wearing a Happy Hat
5. I wandered along

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​Four Simple Songs
- song-cycle for high voice and piano
​Poems by the composer
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1. The Stones
2. The Journey
3. To Bed
4. Brightly​

John Drinkwater

Cotswold Songs

Songs of Travel

poems by Dymock poet John Drinkwater
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Rupert Brooke

4. Two Ships from Songs of Travel
​- sung by Matt Spillett
​dedicated to a dear friend who tragically took her own life

1. The Black Sun - from Three Songs

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​Three Songs 
- for high voice and piano
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1. The Black Sun - (Osip Mandelstam)
2. Flowers - (DH Lawrence)
3. ​Farewell - (Colin Decio)

Osip Mandelstam -The Black Sun

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Single Songs

The Lord's Prayer - high voice and piano
The Headless Bird - high voice and piano
Pie Jesu - high voice
The Dream-Chaser - mezzo and piano
The Crowning of Dreaming John - mezzo and piano
The Last Supper - bass and piano

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Ensemble Works

Luto Gratulante 
- setting of a Medieval poem about 'Rejoicing in the Mire'.  
 - for two sopranos and one contralto (a capella)

Of a Rose - setting medieval text
 - for mezzo-soprano, hand bells, piano, flute, clarinet in Bb and cello

Laudamus Te - duration 15 mins
 - for treble chorus, two treble soloists, harp and hand bells (two players)
  I - Kyrie
  II - Christe
  III - Gloria
  IV - The Lord's Prayer
  V - Sanctus
  VI - Benedictus
​  VII - Agnus Dei

"Here I Lie" - a comic song for four solo voices SATB a capella

 "Here Lie I and my four daughters killed by drinking Cheltenham's waters..."
   - anon

Choral Works

The Steps of Evermore 
 - for SATB choir and orchestra duration 20 mins

​The Lamentation of Jeremiah - duration 10 mins
 - for SATB choir and piano 

The Witches Spell
 - for  junior school choir & piano

Could it be true?
 - for junior school choir and piano

​Wenceslas - for soprano, mezzo-soprano, kinnor harp and crotales

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Organ Works

The Lamentation of Jeremiah

Could it be true?

Wenceslas - kinnor harp