Dorset composer - Rick Birley
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      • Compositions [orchestral]
        • Bishops & Clerks
          • Latin Primer
            • Maverick
              • Variations on a Plainsong
                • Movement for String Orchestra "magnas inter opes inops"
                  • Little English Folksong Suite
                    • Chansons de France
                      • Marat/Sade Suite>
                        • Marat/Sade notes
                        • Hebrew Songs of Love, Faith & Survival
                          • Call to Remembrance
                            • Sar-planina
                              • Nursery Rhymes Kaleidoscope
                                • Spanish Folksongs
                                  • Olympian Glories
                                    • Piano Concerto
                                      • A Dorset Rhapsody
                                        • Romney Facets
                                          • Lord of the Dance
                                            • the Cuckoo - 'cello & chamber orchestra
                                              • Greensleeves
                                                • Blaydon Races
                                                  • Pastiche>
                                                    • La Ronde
                                                      • Zartom: Symphony
                                                        • Hornby: Exultate Jubilate
                                                      • Compositions [Choral]
                                                        • Compositions [choral/orch] - SACRED>
                                                          • Advent Carol Succession>
                                                            • Advent Carol Succession notes
                                                            • Songs of Time
                                                            • Compositions [Choral/Orch] - SECULAR>
                                                              • Fern Hill
                                                                • Universal Truth
                                                                  • The Jackdaw of Rheims
                                                                    • Nine Welsh Folksong Arrangements
                                                                    • Choral [a capella SACRED]>
                                                                      • Three Motets
                                                                      • Choral [a capella SECULAR]>
                                                                        • The Cuckoo
                                                                          • Dance to your Daddy
                                                                            • Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill
                                                                              • The Willow Song
                                                                                • In Vernali Tempore
                                                                                  • My Love in her Attire
                                                                                • Compositions [vocal]
                                                                                  • Edges
                                                                                    • Seven Folksong Ballads
                                                                                      • Three Hardy Songs
                                                                                      • Compositions [chamber/instrumental]
                                                                                        • Austerity
                                                                                          • Quintet "magnas inter opes inops"
                                                                                            • Five Folksong Arrangements (for the Crucible)
                                                                                              • Latin Primer [Septet]
                                                                                                • Latin Primer [violin/piano]
                                                                                                  • Past Tense
                                                                                                    • in memoriam G B
                                                                                                      • Variations on a Plainsong - piano transcription
                                                                                                        • Variations on a Plainsong - original version for solo clarinet
                                                                                                          • March Wind
                                                                                                            • Preludes [piano]
                                                                                                              • Carol Preludes [piano]
                                                                                                                • Marat/Sade Suite [2-piano transcription]
                                                                                                                  • Piano Sonata
                                                                                                                    • Folksong Dance Suite for Cello & Piano
                                                                                                                      • Dance to Your Daddy
                                                                                                                        • Salutation Carol Prelude [piano]
                                                                                                                          • Grazioso (guitar solo)
                                                                                                                            • Dorset Suite
                                                                                                                              • Drink Old England Dry: a Folksong Frolic for Busy Fingers
                                                                                                                                • Sonatina for Violin & Piano [1979]
                                                                                                                                  • The Phoenix
                                                                                                                                  • Compositions [jazz/light]
                                                                                                                                    • Funked-up Bach
                                                                                                                                      • Basement Jazz
                                                                                                                                        • Music Hall for Westfield
                                                                                                                                        • ARTWORK
                                                                                                                                          • Pembrokeshire scenes i
                                                                                                                                            • Pembrokeshire scenes ii
                                                                                                                                              • Rogues gallery....
                                                                                                                                                • Durham 'prints'
                                                                                                                                                  • Picture Dorchester....
                                                                                                                                                    • Italy October 2010
                                                                                                                                                      • Paris
                                                                                                                                                        • Prague
                                                                                                                                                          • Miscellaneous
                                                                                                                                                          • Poems
                                                                                                                                                          • Maverick
                                                                                                                                                          • Hobie Adventure Island
                                                                                                                                                            • Maiden Voyage 12.iii.11

                                                                                                                                                            DURHAM 'PRINTS'

                                                                                                                                                            Palace Green
                                                                                                                                                            Morning Sun
                                                                                                                                                            Owengate
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                                                                                                                                                            I had visited Durham once before Anna went there to study PPE, on one of the annual motorbike outings with Richard Hall. Richard spent years here both as an undergraduate and after to gain his doctorate. The city is beautiful and I have responded to my  love of the place by producing several pictures, of which these four paper/card cuts are amongst my favourites. I am planning another five or six....  







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                                                                                                                                                            (c) 2009 Rick Birley