In September 2019 there was an excellent recording session for 8 and for 5 cellos.
Audio CD on Bandcamp:
Consorting with Cellos – audio
Videos:
Consorting with Cellos
Our Father at Compline
On 2nd August 2019 the music for Compline at St James Episcopal Church Lancaster, Pennsylvania, included my setting of the Lord’s Prayer under William Wright.
Esprit de Cor
Here is the CD of “Esprit de Cor” 19 pieces for cor anglais and classical guitar performed by Ágnes Jakab & András Csáki
Esprit de Cor – downloadable CD
Videos:
Bluish Bunny
Dawn in the Room
A Forever kind of love
Exprompt
A Christmas Song
Harlequin (Arlecchino)
Ariette Oubliée No 4
Feuer und Wasser (Fire and Water)
Rosebuds
Sentimental song
Serenade in the summer residence (Serenata nella residenza estiva)
Unending Bound
In your dreams (L’inconscient)
Street Song
Ein Strauss aus der Frühlingszeit (A bunch of flowers from Springtime)
Dance in Seven Four
The Swallows
Memorial for a child
Cupid, shame yourself!
Concert at Church of the Holy Trinity
The Philadelphia Flute Quartet will be performing my “Robin Hood Forces the Bishop of Hereford to Dance” on Wednesday August 7th at 12:30 – Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square, 1904 Walnut St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Works by Ernesto Kohler, Gary Schocker, Pierre Max Dubois, Davis W. Solomons, Gunther Zabernigg, Daniel Dorff, Sarah Bassingthwaight, Catherine McMichael and Anatole Liadov will be performed.
Wind Quintets in Budapest
On 29 April 2019 the Budapest Scoring Wind Quintet recorded several of my wind quintets.
Here is a playlist of all of the videos (including a couple performed earlier in the year)
And here are audio links of the CD
Capellidiluna
Capellidiluna (Barbara Dellavalle, clarinet and Manuela Capelli, pianoforte)
performed the concert
CELTIC LINES concert on Tuesday 30 April 2019
at Padiglione Ex 18, Viale Giuseppe Garibaldi, 96, 13100 Vercelli VC, Italy
which included four of my “Folksong Snapshots”
They write:
“Celtic lines è pensiero armonico in movimento espresso attraverso brani musicali dal sapore celtico.
Il progetto si propone di accendere un faro per riportare alla luce armonie, scorci, dettagli ed emozioni legati all’epoca e al fascino dell’Abbazia di S. Andrea avvicinando la cultura musicale medioevale celtica al linguaggio esecutivo contemporaneo.”
[Celtic lines is harmonic thinking in movement expressed through musical pieces with a Celtic flavor.
The project aims to light a lighthouse to bring to light harmonies, views, details and emotions linked to the era and the charm of the Abbey of St. Andrea, bringing Celtic medieval musical culture closer to the contemporary language of performance.]
The programme was:
David Warin Solomons – Four Folksong Snapshots
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Six studies in English folk-songs
Armando Ghidoni – Jazzy-Celtic Suite
and selections of traditional Celtic pieces reviewed in contemporary style.
Upcoming performances with Tom Meany (flute) and friends
On Sunday May 19th 2019 at 2 pm – in the St William Sunday Concert Series
(6200 Rising Sun Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19111-5621, USA)
– the Meany/Simmons Flute and Classical Guitar Duo will play my “Details”
On Friday June 7th 2019 at 6:30 pm – at the Calliope Music Store
(4 E Lancaster Ave, Ardmore, PA 19003, USA)
Members of The Philadelphia Flute Quartet will play my “Japanese Song Flute Trio”
Reb Itzikel’s Niggun
The concert in Kalsdorf, Austria, at Raiffeisen Saal Kalsdorf, on 17 May 2019, includes my arrangement of Reb Itzikel’s Niggun, performed by 3 student guitarists of the Musikschule under Petra Schwarzl.
Flow my tears by John Dowland for saxophone and guitar
Performance by Jess Gillam and Miloš Karadaglić of my arrangement of Dowland’s Flow my tears for saxophone and classical guitar
Flow my tears fall from your springs,
Exil’d for ever: let me mourn
Where night’s black bird her sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorn.
Down vain lights shine you no more,
No nights are dark enough for those
That in despair their last fortunes deplore,
Light doth but shame disclose.
Never may my woes be relieved,
Since pity is fled,
And tears, and sighs, and groans my weary days
Of all joys have deprived.
From the highest spire of contentment,
My fortune is thrown,
And fear, and grief, and pain for my deserts
Are my hopes since hope is gone.
Hark you shadows that in darkness dwell,
Learn to contemn light,
Happy, happy they that in hell
Feel not the world´s despite.
Enchantress of the North for Flute Choir
The New England Flute Orchestra of Indian Hill
their site
Performed my “The Enchantress of the North” on 16 December 2018
