Melissanthi Songs
David W. Solomons

Browse Works

Coming Out Of The Fog
Dawn In The Room
Heaven's Dance
Kindlein mein (lullaby)
Litany To The Holy Spirit
Ludhe Sing Tishoo
Chinese New Year String Quartet
Planet (for 2 altos and guitar)
Quiet Way You Move Me, The
Rooftops
She Of The Pipes
Wine And Water
Octatonic Rag (saxophone quartet)
Octatonic Rag (piano)
Te Deum
Details (wind quintet)
Suite for recorder and piano
Wine And Water
Planet
Malgre Moi
Recipe, The
My Love (2 versions)
String Quartet no. 1
Rosa Divina
The Grass is growing (flute quartet)
My Gentle Words
Scallywag's Kickwalk
Ein Strauss aus der Fruhlingszeit
Prayer to the Virgin
Rose (voice + piano or guitar)
Something for Luck
Thalia's Rag
Orientations
Upon my bed by Night
Virgo and Taurus
Bergamasca Variations
Pale Blue
Not quite French suite
Sentimental Song
Good-Tempered Guitars, The
Dusk
Soliloquy
Calypso
Romance for Pamela
Variations on Sweet Kate
The Grass is growing (2 flutes + guitar)
Japanese Song (guitar solo)
Alleyways
Pieces of Eight
Habirandosan no Haiku
Greek Wassail
Swallows, The
Invitation to the Journey
Christmas Haikus
Looking, Just Looking
Japanese Song (flute trio)
Wine and water for 3 voices
Japanese Song (solo flute)
Spanish Extravaganza
Eos
8 Jewish melodies
Railway Song
Melissanthi Songs
Ding Dong Merrily (mixed choir)
Ding Dong merrily on high (men's voices)
Ding Dong Merrily (brass sextet)
Manchester Magnificat
Freilach for flute trio
My Lord Willoughby's Welcome home for wind, brass and timpani
Mass for choir and orchestra

Instrumentation

Alto
1
Counter tenor
1
Guitar
1

Additional Information

5 songs for alto voice and guitar based on English translations of poems by the Greek poet Melissanthi

(The Capital 1980, The houses where we have lived, We have cast anchor at midnight, The Outside and the inside, Hour Zero)

All songs: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/8121298?aff_id=175705

Further details including the words (in Greek and English), mp3s and sample pages of  scores, can be found at: 

http://www.dwsolo.com/serif/melissanthi.html

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Details

Year
Publisher
Classical Music Now (Musik Fabrik Publishing)

Recordings

Performers
composer
Title
Hour Zero from Melissanthi Songs
Media link
Hour Zero - poem by Melissanthi, tr Diana Maynard, music by D W Solomons alto a…