Three Songs from "The Wind in the Willows"
Christopher Beardsley

Browse Works

Divertimento
Life's Pride and Cared-For Crown
String Quartet No.2
A Rock: consider It
Abstract
All Night the Fierce Wind Blew
All Night the Fierce Wind Blew (2nd version)
Beside the Rivering Waters
Between Heaven and Earth
Between Heaven and Earth (version 2)
Birthday Fragments
Broken Heart of Autumn
Child's Play
Come Bring With A Noise
Cotyledon
Divertimento No.2
First of several... (and the rest)
Harp Sonatina
Hodie
How Far Is It To Bethlehem?
I Have News For You
Introduction, Nocturne and Aubade
Carol of the Field Mice
Kyrie
Night
No Mushroom
Open Homage
Over the Cliff
River
...run softly till I end my song...
Septimal
Sir Christemas
Six Golden Haikus
So Travels the Moon
Mary's Song
The Stretched Metre of an Antique Songs
Striding Dales
String Quartet No.3
Tall Nettles
The Bee Carol
The Touch of Rain
Unfold! Take In His Light
Three Shakespeare Songs
Three Songs from "The Wind in the Willows"
The Lightener of the Stars
Stars in a Dark Night
Light Music
Jubilation
Brass Quintet
Aubade
A Christmas Lullaby
Impressions
Do Not Be Afraid
Piano Quartet
arco - pizzicato
Music for Strings
It sifts from leaden sieves
Phantasy Nocturne
Pentecost
Limericks
Spring Forth
The Star Song
Fo(u)r Horns
Of Phantoms and Kindling Frost-fires
Peace
Chasing...

Instrumentation

Choir
1
Piano
1

Additional Information

A setting of poems and text from Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows. 1. Duck's Ditty, 2. Music in the Reeds 3. Mr. Toad.

Commissioned and first performed by the Valley Singers, conducted by the composer, in St. Wilfrid's Church, Longridge, Lancashire on October 6 2018 as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations.

Details

Year
Score file
Three Songs from Wind In The Willows.pdf
Minutes
10