Anne Hunter’s Song for Eve

Quatre Rondeaux de Charles d’Orléans:

1. Le Temps a Laissié son Manteau
2. Quant j’ai ouy le Tabourin
3. En Regardant ces Belles Fleurs
4. Allez vous en, Allez, Allez!

The Distances Between (Louis MacNeice):

1. Prologue
2. April Fool
3. Dreams in Middle Age
4. Invocation
5. Visitation

The Monk and his Cat

The Distances Between (Louis MacNeice):

1. Prologue
2. April Fool
3. Dreams in Middle Age
4. Invocation
5. Visitation

Last of the Leaves;
Cantata Setting of Four Poems:

1. The Rose and the Gardener (Austin Dobson)
2. The Leaf Burners (Ernest Rhys)
3. The Donkey (GK Chesterton)
4. At a Country Dance in Provence (Harold Monro)

Winter Heavens  (George Meredith)

A Gypsy Prayer (Traditional words from Transylvania in translation)

Anne Hunter’s Song for Eve

Bush Ballads 1st series (Australian Folk Verses):

1. The Bushranger (Kenneth Slessor)
2. Christmas (David Martin)
3. Woman at the Washtub (Victor Daley)

Bush Ballads 2nd series (Australian Folk Verses):

1. Meet Me in Botany Bay (anon late 19c)
2. The Sick Stock Rider (Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-1870)
3. Holy Dan (anon circa 1900)
4. The Style in Which it’s Done (anon late 19c)
5. Old Harry (David Campbell b. 1915)
6. The Parson and the Prelate (Victor J Daley 1858-1905)

Bush Ballads 3rd series (Australian Folk Verses):

1. All Got a Mate (anon)
2. Song of the Squatters (AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson 1864-1941)
3. Waitin’-a-While (JW Gordon ‘Jim Grahame’ 1874-1949)

Chanson de Croisade (Anon. 13th Century)

Daphne to Apollo – Soprano with Guitar
(Text by Matthew Prior)

Daphne to Apollo – Soprano with Baryton
(Text by Matthew Prior)

Five Eyes (Walter de la Mare)

Four Poems of John Clare:

1. Trotty Wagtail
2. The Peasant Poet
3. Turkeys
4. The Fox

Heaven-Haven (G.M. Hopkins)

Inversnaid (G.M. Hopkins)

Irishry; Four Songs (Joseph Campbell):

1. Tinkers
2. The Midwife
3. The Mill Girl
4. Rags and Bones

John Clare’s Wooing Songs:

1. Nobody Cometh to Woo
2. Peggy
3. Farewell

Lachrymae (David Gascoyne)

Lammas Fair;
Operetta in One Act with Piano

Scenes:

1. Introduction and Opening Chorus
2. Madame Zarna and Chorus
3. Molly and Alec
4. Alec and Chorus
5. Dr Garbo
6. Peter, Molly and Chorus

London Lyrics:

1. London is a Milder Curse (Pierre Motteux)
2. Shadwell Stair (Wilfrid Owen)
3. From a Ship Tossing (A.H. Clough)
4. Margaret, Maud and Mary Blake (Rostrevor Hamilton)
5. River Music (Cecil Day Lewis)

Mrs. Hen (Nursery Rhyme)

Music’s Duel
(Text by Richard Crashaw)

Quatre Rondeaux de Charles d’Orléans:

1. Le Temps a Laissié son Manteau
2. Quant j’ai ouy le Tabourin
3. En Regardant ces Belles Fleurs
4. Allez vous en, Allez, Allez!

Rags and Bones; No. 4 of ‘Irishry’

Slow, Slow Fresh Fount (Ben Johnson)

The Distances Between (Louis MacNeice):

1. Prologue
2. April Fool
3. Dreams in Middle Age
4. Invocation
5. Visitation

The Dowie Houms O’ Yarrow

The Lamb (William Blake)

The Mower to the Glow-Worms

The Old Master;
Operetta in 3 Acts for Equal Voice & Piano

Characters (in order of appearance):

• Auctioneer (Frank Seller)
• Jack Morland – assistant to Mr Polnacchi
• Jane – niece of Lady Smithers
• Lady Smithers – rich patroness of the Arts
• Mr Polnacchi – picture-dealer of Bond St, London
• Sir Zenith Lark – art expert, Director of the National Gallery
• Footman to Lady Smithers
• Chorus (crowd at sale in Act 1; guests at Lady Smithers’ reception in Act 3)

The Snail and the Butterfly (John Gay, Fables)

The Stone (Hal Summers)

The Sunflower (Peter Quenell)

The Tower (Robert Nichols)

Threadneedle Street;

Comic Opera in 1 Act

Three Songs to words of T. L. Beddoes:

1. Tandaradei
2. Dirge
3. The Old Crow of Cairo

Tideways; Four Poems of Ezra Pound:

1. Psyche
2. The Needle
3. The Gypsy
4. Doria

Turn Ye to Me; Arrangement of Hebridean Air

Gipsy Songs (Ben Johnson):

1. A Tattered Nation
2. Ptolemy’s Bells
3. The Lord Treasurer’s Fortune is Told
4. The Faery Beam Upon You

Riley & Co.; Four Songs (Charles Causley):

1. Riley
2. Timothy Winters
3. Bamboo Dance
4. Rocco

Strong Drink;
Opera in Three Acts with Piano Duet (Libretto by David Reynolds)

The Monk and his Cat

Three Winter Songs:

1. Birds in Winter (George Crabbe)
2. Winter the Huntsman (Osbert Sitwell)
3. February (Hilaire Belloc)

Cadilly;
Entertainment based on a story from Tales from the Fens (Libretto by David Reynolds)

Eliza at the Temple  (from verses by Anna Chamber)

Epigrams from a Garden;
Song Cycle (verses by Francis Daniel Pastorius 17C American):

1. Rules for Watering my Garden
2. Weeds
3. Camomile and Cowslips
4. Waste and Wisdom
5. Envoi

Fancy Fair;
Sequence of three songs (Ralph Hodgson):

1. In Fancy Fair
2. Time, You Old Gipsy Man
3. The Song of Honour

Hymnus de Sancto Stephano

Jove’s Nod (Congreve);
Cantata for Baritone, 2 Violins, Cello & Harpsichord

Last of the Leaves;
Cantata Setting of Four Poems:

1. The Rose and the Gardener (Austin Dobson)
2. The Leaf Burners (Ernest Rhys)
3. The Donkey (GK Chesterton)
4. At a Country Dance in Provence (Harold Monro)

Love’s Madness;
Cantata Setting of Five Mediaeval Quatrains

Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart;
Chamber Opera in Four Acts, Libretto by Ronald Fletcher (after the novel by Richard Cobbold)

Nancy the Waterman;
Chamber Opera in One Act, based on a Story from More Tales from the Fens  (Libretto by Blanche McIntyre)

Venus to the Muses (Matthew Prior)

A Bag of Winds (for five string quartets and narrator):

1. Prelude: The Ancient Empire of the Winds (Tutti)
2. Boreas (Quartet A)
3. Zephyrus (Quartet B)
4. Eurus and Notus (Quartets C & D)
5. Odysseus (Quartet E and tutti)
6. Odysseus Again (Quartet E)
7. Odysseus and his Companions on their Best Behaviour (tutti)
8. The Good Life at Aeolia (tutti)
9. The Winds Imprisoned (Quartets A, B C and D)
10. Homeward Bound (Quartet B and tutti)
11. The Fateful Sleep (Quartet E and tutti)
12. Back at Aeolia (tutti)
13. The Dismissal (tutti)
14. Find Assembly of the Winds (tutti)

NB: Quartet C consists of 4 violins and Quartet D of 2 violas and 2 cellos. Quartets A, B and E are normally constituted.

Flood
Entertainment with narration spoken by the Players
(Based on John Heath-Stubbs, The History of The Flood)

Never Trust a Spider; Entertainment for 7 Clarinets

The Old Cigarette Lighter; Entertainment for Children (Libretto by David Reynolds)

1. The Soldier
2. The Old Woman and the Cave
3. The Money
4. High-Life
5. The Princess
6. The Dog
7. The Sleeping Princess
8. Nanny to the Rescue
9. Taken into Custody
10. The Trial
11. Pandemonium in Court
12. Off to the Palace
13. The Farewell

The Old Cigarette Lighter; Entertainment for Children (Libretto by David Reynolds)

1. The Soldier
2. The Old Woman and the Cave
3. The Money
4. High-Life
5. The Princess
6. The Dog
7. The Sleeping Princess
8. Nanny to the Rescue
9. Taken into Custody
10. The Trial
11. Pandemonium in Court
12. Off to the Palace
13. The Farewell

Tinderbox; Entertainment with Narrator

The original version, entitled The Old Cigarette Lighter, is scored for flute, oboe and piano. A later version (1994), also with this title, is scored for wind quintet. This version allows the five musicians to share the narrative.