Solo Voice

Come live with me
A setting of Christopher Marlowe's text for high voice and piano.
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A Birthday
soprano or tenor/piano (1'45")
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Song
soprano or tenor, /piano (2'30")
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These two exquisite settings of Christina Rossetti’s poetry are evidence of Patrick Larley’s complete mastery of the art of the solo song. Ideal for any recital programme.

Available on the CD recording ‘On a Fine Morning’

On a Fine Morning
song cycle for tenor solo and piano (13'0")
i) On a fine morning
ii) A church romance
iii) If it’s ever Spring again
iv) The darkling thrush
v) Great things
Patrick Larley has captured the true essence of the text in these five poems by Thomas Hardy. The song-cycle, originally four poems, was composed for his son, Christopher, in 1994. A Church Romance was composed as a gift for the golden wedding of John and Kathleen Slater and added to the song-cycle at a later date.
£7.00 – order this piece

Available on the CD recording ‘On a Fine Morning’

Folksong arrangements
voice/piano
Barbara Allen
Jock O’Hazeldene
She moves through the fair
The Lincolnshire poacher
The sweet nightingale
The beauty and purity of the folk melodies float over inventive and idiomatic piano accompaniments in these five settings of British folksongs.
£1.50 each – order this piece

Available on the CD recording ‘On a Fine Morning’

My True Love
voice/piano or harpsichord
i) Now is the time at hand – a lute song
ii) Some there are as fair – a madrigal
iii) My true love hath my heart
Three simple settings in which the spirit of the 16th Century lute song is evoked through a contemporary idiom.
£3.50 – order this piece

Available on the CD recording ‘On a Fine Morning’