See also [Compositions]($url{/Music/Scores})

## A cappella arrangements

Some original songs, some classic numbers in a [YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0bdjcLsFH-UDq6e0AQQfesXRsSQrDB8D).

## Purcell  _O, Sing unto the Lord_

=_Declare his honour_ $audiofile{declare.mp3,MP3}=
    From the album [_The English Orpheus: Choral & Instrumental Music by Henry Purcell_](http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Priory/PRCD1182) (2016, Priory Records), with Orpheus Britannicus directed by Andrew Arthur.

## Duruflé Messe _Cum jubilo_

=_Domine, fili unigenite_ $audiofile{cumjubilo.mp3,MP3}=
    From a performance with the Académie Vocale de Paris, directed by Iain Simcock, in November 2008.

## Bach St John Passion

=_Betrachte, meine Seel_ $audiofile{betrachte.mp3,MP3}=
    From a performance of the Bach St John Passion by La Chapelle du Hainault directed by the amiable Bruno Deletré on 13th March 2005, near Valenciennes.

## Is you is?

=_Is you is or is you ain’t my baby?_ $audiofile{isyouis.mp3,MP3}=
    From the Gentlemen of St John’s album _Gently Does It_.

## Songs of Travel

These tracks are from a recital at the American Cathedral, Paris, on 22nd April 2005, with Iain Simcock at the piano, of Vaughan Williams’s _Songs of Travel_, poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, and Donald Swann’s _The Road Goes Ever On_, songs from J. R. R. Tolkien’s _The Lord of the Rings_.

=_The Vagabond_ $audiofile{/Music/Recitals/TheRoadGoesEverOn_April2005/1 The Vagabond.mp3,MP3}=
    The first of the _Songs of Travel_.
=_Let Beauty Awake_ $audiofile{/Music/Recitals/TheRoadGoesEverOn_April2005/2 Let Beauty Awake.mp3,MP3}=
    The second of the _Songs of Travel_.
=_In the Willow-Meads of Tasarinan_ $audiofile{/Music/Recitals/TheRoadGoesEverOn_April2005/14 In the Willow-Meads of Tasarinan.mp3,MP3}=
    A song sung by Treebeard the Ent.
=Éowyn and the Nazgûl Lord $audiofile{/Music/Recitals/TheRoadGoesEverOn_April2005/17 Eowyn.mp3,MP3}=
    A reading.

## Debussy

On 9th June 2003 I did a recital of Debussy songs and piano music with Christopher Weston in the chapel of Clare College, Cambridge.

<dl>
<dt><em>Sarabande</em> $audiofile{/Music/Recitals/DebussyRecitalJune2003/01 - Sarabande.mp3,MP3}</dt>
<dt><em>C’est l’extase</em> $audiofile{/Music/Recitals/DebussyRecitalJune2003/05 - C'est l'extase.mp3,MP3}<dt>
<dd>The first of the <em>Ariettes Oubliées</em>, words by Verlaine.</dd>
</dl>

## Chanson d’Amiens

I learnt the spoons to record this antidote to the _Chanson d’Avignon_.

=_Chanson d’Amiens_ $audiofile{Chanson d'Amiens.mp3,MP3}=
    A full instrumental arrangement was [recorded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnCatH9ub0) by a group at the University of Calgary.