DORSET COMPOSER - RICK BIRLEY
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Rick Birley biography
Compositions [Orchestral works]
Peterloo
Symphony ["little bird"]
Bishops & Clerks
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The Flow
These Distracted Times
The Rechabite
Sunset Island
Latin Primer
Maverick
Christmas Exultation
Chamber Symphony in Five Movements
Variations on a Plainsong
Movement for String Orchestra "magnas inter opes inops"
A Little English Folksong Suite/ The Ploughboy
English Folksong Suite No.2
Chansons de France
Marat/Sade Suite
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Marat/Sade notes
Hebrew Songs of Love, Faith & Survival
Call to Remembrance - a meditation on The Last Post
Sar-planina - a Macedonian folksong
Nursery Rhymes Kaleidoscope
Spanish Folksongs
Olympian Glories
Piano Concerto
Symphonic Suite for Piano & Orchestra
the Cuckoo - 'cello & chamber orchestra
A Dorset Rhapsody
Eight Orchestral Studies
Romney Facets
Lord of the Dance
Sea Song
Greensleeves
Blaydon Races
Compositions [Choral]
Compositions [choral/orch] - SACRED
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Advent Carol Succession
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Advent Carol Succession notes
Songs of Time
Compositions [Choral/Orch] - SECULAR
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Fern Hill
Universal Truth
Nine Welsh Folksong Arrangements
The Jackdaw of Rheims
Compositions [Choral a capella SACRED]
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Carol: I Sing of a Maiden
Gaudete, gaudete!
Compositions [Choral a capella SECULAR]
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The Birds’ Mass
Three Hardy Settings for unaccompanied choir
The Cuckoo
Dance to your Daddy
Three Motets
Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill
The Willow Song
My Love in her Attire
In Vernali Tempore
Compositions [Vocal]
Compositions [Vocal] SECULAR
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Edges
Seven Folksong Ballads
Hardy Songs
Compositions [vocal] SACRED
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The Virgin's Song
Compositions [chamber/instrumental]
Toccata: "On the Edge"
Butterfly in the Breeze
Austerity
Your Presence [piano/violin]
Quintet "magnas inter opes inops"
Minimalism
"Conversing with a Silent Marsh Harrier" for string quintet
Five Folksong Arrangements (for the Crucible)
Latin Primer [Septet]
Latin Primer [violin/piano]
Past Tense
in memoriam G B
String Quartet No.1
String Quartet No.2
Variations on a Plainsong - piano transcription
Variations on a Plainsong - original version for solo clarinet
March Wind
Papillons
Ten Preludes for Piano
Carol Preludes [piano]
Preludes [piano]
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3 Preludes for Piano
Marat/Sade Suite [2-piano transcription]
Piano Sonata
Folksong Dance Suite for Cello & Piano
Dance to Your Daddy
Salutation Carol Prelude [piano]
Spanish Folksongs [2 piano version]
Grazioso (guitar solo)
Dorset Suite (guitar duo)
Drink Old England Dry: a Folksong Frolic for Busy Fingers
Sonatina for Violin & Piano [1979]
Donegal - a choral fantasy transcribed for piano
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
Gallery - Room 2
Gallery - Room 3 [flowers]
Rogues gallery....
Pembrokeshire scenes i
Pembrokeshire scenes ii
Durham 'prints'
Picture Dorchester....
Italy October 2010
Paris
Prague
Miscellaneous
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
Miscellaneous
Maverick
Hobie Adventure Island
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Maiden Voyage 12.iii.11
Compositions [Miscellaneous]
Music Hall for Westfield
60th birthday concert: May 24th 2014 Orchestral Concert
The Willow Song - SATB a capella
This arrangement is of a beautiful Elizabethan folksong, sung here by the
Occasional Singers
for their CD "A Dorset Affair".
HOME [and contact form]
Rick Birley biography
Compositions [Orchestral works]
Peterloo
Symphony ["little bird"]
Bishops & Clerks
>
The Flow
These Distracted Times
The Rechabite
Sunset Island
Latin Primer
Maverick
Christmas Exultation
Chamber Symphony in Five Movements
Variations on a Plainsong
Movement for String Orchestra "magnas inter opes inops"
A Little English Folksong Suite/ The Ploughboy
English Folksong Suite No.2
Chansons de France
Marat/Sade Suite
>
Marat/Sade notes
Hebrew Songs of Love, Faith & Survival
Call to Remembrance - a meditation on The Last Post
Sar-planina - a Macedonian folksong
Nursery Rhymes Kaleidoscope
Spanish Folksongs
Olympian Glories
Piano Concerto
Symphonic Suite for Piano & Orchestra
the Cuckoo - 'cello & chamber orchestra
A Dorset Rhapsody
Eight Orchestral Studies
Romney Facets
Lord of the Dance
Sea Song
Greensleeves
Blaydon Races
Compositions [Choral]
Compositions [choral/orch] - SACRED
>
Advent Carol Succession
>
Advent Carol Succession notes
Songs of Time
Compositions [Choral/Orch] - SECULAR
>
Fern Hill
Universal Truth
Nine Welsh Folksong Arrangements
The Jackdaw of Rheims
Compositions [Choral a capella SACRED]
>
Carol: I Sing of a Maiden
Gaudete, gaudete!
Compositions [Choral a capella SECULAR]
>
The Birds’ Mass
Three Hardy Settings for unaccompanied choir
The Cuckoo
Dance to your Daddy
Three Motets
Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill
The Willow Song
My Love in her Attire
In Vernali Tempore
Compositions [Vocal]
Compositions [Vocal] SECULAR
>
Edges
Seven Folksong Ballads
Hardy Songs
Compositions [vocal] SACRED
>
The Virgin's Song
Compositions [chamber/instrumental]
Toccata: "On the Edge"
Butterfly in the Breeze
Austerity
Your Presence [piano/violin]
Quintet "magnas inter opes inops"
Minimalism
"Conversing with a Silent Marsh Harrier" for string quintet
Five Folksong Arrangements (for the Crucible)
Latin Primer [Septet]
Latin Primer [violin/piano]
Past Tense
in memoriam G B
String Quartet No.1
String Quartet No.2
Variations on a Plainsong - piano transcription
Variations on a Plainsong - original version for solo clarinet
March Wind
Papillons
Ten Preludes for Piano
Carol Preludes [piano]
Preludes [piano]
>
3 Preludes for Piano
Marat/Sade Suite [2-piano transcription]
Piano Sonata
Folksong Dance Suite for Cello & Piano
Dance to Your Daddy
Salutation Carol Prelude [piano]
Spanish Folksongs [2 piano version]
Grazioso (guitar solo)
Dorset Suite (guitar duo)
Drink Old England Dry: a Folksong Frolic for Busy Fingers
Sonatina for Violin & Piano [1979]
Donegal - a choral fantasy transcribed for piano
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
Gallery - Room 2
Gallery - Room 3 [flowers]
Rogues gallery....
Pembrokeshire scenes i
Pembrokeshire scenes ii
Durham 'prints'
Picture Dorchester....
Italy October 2010
Paris
Prague
Miscellaneous
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
Miscellaneous
Maverick
Hobie Adventure Island
>
Maiden Voyage 12.iii.11
Compositions [Miscellaneous]
Music Hall for Westfield
60th birthday concert: May 24th 2014 Orchestral Concert