Dorset composer - Rick Birley
  • HOME
    • Contact
      • Rick Birley biography
      • 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

                                                                                                                                                            no.1 Homage to Marat; Wreath-crowning ceremony; March

                                                                                                                                                            no.2 Corday

                                                                                                                                                            no.3[a] Charlotte Corday Came to our Town
                                                                                                                                                            no.3[b] Tumbrel Driver's Song

                                                                                                                                                            no.4 The People's Reaction

                                                                                                                                                            no.5 Poor Old Marat

                                                                                                                                                            no.6 Slow Carmagnole

                                                                                                                                                            no.7 Fifteen Glorious Years

                                                                                                                                                            no.8 The Final March


                                                                                                                                                            The Marat/Sade
                                                                                                                                                            - Suite for two pianos

                                                                                                                                                            I transcribed the music for two pianos in 1996 [the original music was composed in 1989/90] and it has been played by Duncan Honeybourne and Geoffrey Buckley - discreetly in the Adrian Boult Hall one Sunday morning! Duncan had managed to get access and it was one of the only places we could think of that had two Steinwey Grand Pianos.... I cannot, sadly, find the recording I made, but it is in the mess of my basement/study, so will eventually surface.

                                                                                                                                                            This, therefore, is a 'virtual' performance:
                                                                                                                                                            (c) 2009 Rick Birley