DORSET COMPOSER - RICK BIRLEY
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Rick Birley biography
Compositions [Orchestral works]
Peterloo
Bishops & Clerks
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The Flow
These Distracted Times
The Rechabite
Sunset Island
Chamber Symphony [No.1] in Five Movements
Symphony No.2 ["little bird"]
Hebrew Songs of Love, Faith & Survival
Piano Concerto
Symphonic Suite for Piano & Orchestra
Tanquam Sponsus [piano & orchestra]
Spanish Folksongs
Chansons de France
A Dorset Rhapsody
Call to Remembrance - a meditation on The Last Post
Nursery Rhymes Kaleidoscope
Latin Primer
Olympian Glories
Sar-planina - a Macedonian folksong
Marat/Sade Suite
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Marat/Sade notes
Maverick
Variations on a Plainsong
Eight Orchestral Studies
Christmas Exultation
Romney Facets
A Little English Folksong Suite/ The Ploughboy
English Folksong Suite No.2
Movement for String Orchestra "magnas inter opes inops"
Lord of the Dance
Sea Song
Greensleeves
Piano Music (solo & 2-piano)
Piano Sonata
Toccata: "On the Edge"
March Wind
Donegal - a choral fantasy transcribed for piano
Butterfly in the Breeze
Variations on a Plainsong - piano transcription
Ten Preludes for Piano
Carol Preludes [piano]
Salutation Carol Prelude [piano]
Preludes [piano]
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3 Preludes for Piano
Papillons
Spanish Folksongs [2 piano version]
Marat/Sade Suite [2-piano transcription]
Drink Old England Dry: a Folksong Frolic for Busy Fingers
Nursery Rhymes Kaleidoscope [2-piano transcription]
Minimalism
Compositions [Vocal]
Edges
Seven Folksong Ballads
Hardy Songs
Choral Music
Advent Carol Succession
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Advent Carol Succession notes
Songs of Time
Fern Hill
Universal Truth
The Virgin's Song
Nine Welsh Folksong Arrangements
The Jackdaw of Rheims
The Birds’ Mass
Three Motets
My Love in her Attire
Gaudete, gaudete!
Three Hardy Settings for unaccompanied choir
The Cuckoo
In Vernali Tempore
The Willow Song
Dance to your Daddy
Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill
Carol: I Sing of a Maiden
Compositions [chamber/instrumental]
Quintet "magnas inter opes inops"
String Quartet No.1
String Quartet No.2
Austerity
Your Presence [piano/violin]
in memoriam G B
Past Tense
"Conversing with a Silent Marsh Harrier" for string quintet
Five Folksong Arrangements (for the Crucible)
Latin Primer [Septet]
Latin Primer [violin/piano]
Variations on a Plainsong - original version for solo clarinet
Blaydon Races
Folksong Dance Suite for Cello & Piano
Dance to Your Daddy [piano]
Grazioso (guitar solo)
Dorset Suite (guitar duo)
Sonatina for Violin & Piano [1979]
the Cuckoo - 'cello & chamber orchestra
The Phoenix
Compositions [jazz/light]
Funked-up Bach
Basement Jazz
Too Darn Hot
A Dorset Affair
Compositions [Pastiche]
La Ronde
Zartom: Symphony
Hornby: Exultate Jubilate
The case for a National Rehearsal Orchestra for New Music
ARTWORK
Gallery - Room 1 Life Underwater
Gallery - Room 2 Life around us
Gallery - Room 3 [flowers]
Gallery - Room 4 [SEASCAPES & LANDSCAPE]S + Mika]
Rogues gallery....
Pembrokeshire scenes i
Pembrokeshire scenes ii
Durham 'prints'
Picture Dorchester....
Italy October 2010
Paris
Prague
Miscellaneous art works
Poems
We English - a historical rhyme
Touching His Face
Commanded Time
Master of my Fate?
Alas, poor Ludo!
New Co-op Party Anthem
Rick Birley Blog
Hobie Adventure Island
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Maiden Voyage 12.iii.11
Miscellaneous
Maverick
Compositions [Miscellaneous]
Music Hall for Westfield
60th birthday concert: May 24th 2014 Orchestral Concert
Index
Regeneration
The trunk is felled
we branches thrown to earth
are now the root.
The man that I once held
like as he held me from my birth
was resolute.
I saw him go
and heard the last drawn breath:
I bid farewell.
My fragile embryo
is now enfeebled by his death
his cell my cell.
My once child form
held strongly in his arms
in case I fell
was sheltered from the storm.
He was full watered with love's charms
from holy well.
I watched him die
and felt his wounded life
come grasp my soul.
I would it were some lie
that now confounded death's midwife
and left him whole,
but hope in vain.
This breathing is his last,
his frame now still.
I mould my burning pain
into the stillness of his cast
whose dream I fill.
Rick Birley
24.2.12
HOME [and contact form]
CONCERT
Rick Birley biography
Compositions [Orchestral works]
Peterloo
Bishops & Clerks
>
The Flow
These Distracted Times
The Rechabite
Sunset Island
Chamber Symphony [No.1] in Five Movements
Symphony No.2 ["little bird"]
Hebrew Songs of Love, Faith & Survival
Piano Concerto
Symphonic Suite for Piano & Orchestra
Tanquam Sponsus [piano & orchestra]
Spanish Folksongs
Chansons de France
A Dorset Rhapsody
Call to Remembrance - a meditation on The Last Post
Nursery Rhymes Kaleidoscope
Latin Primer
Olympian Glories
Sar-planina - a Macedonian folksong
Marat/Sade Suite
>
Marat/Sade notes
Maverick
Variations on a Plainsong
Eight Orchestral Studies
Christmas Exultation
Romney Facets
A Little English Folksong Suite/ The Ploughboy
English Folksong Suite No.2
Movement for String Orchestra "magnas inter opes inops"
Lord of the Dance
Sea Song
Greensleeves
Piano Music (solo & 2-piano)
Piano Sonata
Toccata: "On the Edge"
March Wind
Donegal - a choral fantasy transcribed for piano
Butterfly in the Breeze
Variations on a Plainsong - piano transcription
Ten Preludes for Piano
Carol Preludes [piano]
Salutation Carol Prelude [piano]
Preludes [piano]
>
3 Preludes for Piano
Papillons
Spanish Folksongs [2 piano version]
Marat/Sade Suite [2-piano transcription]
Drink Old England Dry: a Folksong Frolic for Busy Fingers
Nursery Rhymes Kaleidoscope [2-piano transcription]
Minimalism
Compositions [Vocal]
Edges
Seven Folksong Ballads
Hardy Songs
Choral Music
Advent Carol Succession
>
Advent Carol Succession notes
Songs of Time
Fern Hill
Universal Truth
The Virgin's Song
Nine Welsh Folksong Arrangements
The Jackdaw of Rheims
The Birds’ Mass
Three Motets
My Love in her Attire
Gaudete, gaudete!
Three Hardy Settings for unaccompanied choir
The Cuckoo
In Vernali Tempore
The Willow Song
Dance to your Daddy
Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill
Carol: I Sing of a Maiden
Compositions [chamber/instrumental]
Quintet "magnas inter opes inops"
String Quartet No.1
String Quartet No.2
Austerity
Your Presence [piano/violin]
in memoriam G B
Past Tense
"Conversing with a Silent Marsh Harrier" for string quintet
Five Folksong Arrangements (for the Crucible)
Latin Primer [Septet]
Latin Primer [violin/piano]
Variations on a Plainsong - original version for solo clarinet
Blaydon Races
Folksong Dance Suite for Cello & Piano
Dance to Your Daddy [piano]
Grazioso (guitar solo)
Dorset Suite (guitar duo)
Sonatina for Violin & Piano [1979]
the Cuckoo - 'cello & chamber orchestra
The Phoenix
Compositions [jazz/light]
Funked-up Bach
Basement Jazz
Too Darn Hot
A Dorset Affair
Compositions [Pastiche]
La Ronde
Zartom: Symphony
Hornby: Exultate Jubilate
The case for a National Rehearsal Orchestra for New Music
ARTWORK
Gallery - Room 1 Life Underwater
Gallery - Room 2 Life around us
Gallery - Room 3 [flowers]
Gallery - Room 4 [SEASCAPES & LANDSCAPE]S + Mika]
Rogues gallery....
Pembrokeshire scenes i
Pembrokeshire scenes ii
Durham 'prints'
Picture Dorchester....
Italy October 2010
Paris
Prague
Miscellaneous art works
Poems
We English - a historical rhyme
Touching His Face
Commanded Time
Master of my Fate?
Alas, poor Ludo!
New Co-op Party Anthem
Rick Birley Blog
Hobie Adventure Island
>
Maiden Voyage 12.iii.11
Miscellaneous
Maverick
Compositions [Miscellaneous]
Music Hall for Westfield
60th birthday concert: May 24th 2014 Orchestral Concert