Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1114067

By Budapest Scoring String Quartet. By David Warin Solomons. Classical,Comedy,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 136. David Warin Solomons #715968. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1114067).

Instrumental quartet based on my choral piece The Choir in the Rain which is a sequence of limericks written and set to music by the composer imagining the scene if a choir were made to sing in the rain, complete with colds, coughs, sneezes and fever. Original limericks: (Introductory words: pitter patter pom etc) Our conductor was trying to train our choir to sing in the rain the music got wet and to our great regret we finally had to refrain So all of us went back indoors and we sang from our poor dripping scores but the audience cheered as we persevered and demanded sev'ral encores It was then that we all started sneezing the basses were coughing and wheezing The altos in harm'ny sniffed not very calmly but the audience thought we were teasing The Sopranos then noticed their dresses were shrinking and causing distresses the buttons they popped and the tenors they hopped as those buttons shot right past their faces It seemed that the choir was dissolving and the room started slowly revolving we'd all caught a cough it near carried us off as the fever we'd got was evolving We finally reached the last ditty in that chilly and rain sodden city oh we're told that in Spain it just rains on the plain but here it soaks both plain and pretty Performed by Violin 1: Csongor Veér Violin 2: Anna Fehér Viola: Péter Kondor Cello: Mátyás Ölveti of Budapest Scoring.

Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1114060

By Budapest Scoring String Quartet. By David Warin Solomons. Classical,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 265. David Warin Solomons #715961. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1114060).

Many years ago I set the following poem by Kenneth MacLeod to a melody for voice and guitar. This is a string quartet version of my setting, enhancing the mystery of the poem. I saw a stranger yestreen. I put food in the eating place, drink in the drinking place, music in the listening place, and in the sacred name of the Triune He blessed myself and my house, my cattle and my dear ones, and the lark said in her song often, often, often, goes Christ in the stranger’s guise. Performed by Violin 1: Csongor Veér Violin 2: Anna Fehér Viola: Péter Kondor Cello: Mátyás Ölveti of Budapest Scoring.

Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1114025

By Budapest Scoring String Quartet. By David Warin Solomons. Classical,Contemporary,Ragtime. Full Performance. Duration 214. David Warin Solomons #715929. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1114025).

Jolly ragtime inspired by a mealtime. Originally written for guitar solo, now arranged for string quartet. Performed by Violin 1: Csongor Veér Violin 2: Anna Fehér Viola: Péter Kondor Cello: Mátyás Ölveti of Budapest Scoring.

Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1114063

By Budapest Scoring String Quartet. By David Warin Solomons. Christmas,Classical,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 172. David Warin Solomons #715964. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1114063).

Instrumental quartet based on my Comic song parodying the old Christmas carol Past three o'clock. The choir is having a party into the early hours of the morning and annoying the neighbour - the neighbour takes his revenge by pulling the fuses, but the choir continues a cappella. Original words: Past two o'clock, all singin' and all dancing Past two o'clock the party's in full flow ... Pity the neighbour, do him a favour: give him some earplugs for good behaviour! his ears are ringin' : stones he'll start flingin' he doesn't like the songs we are singin' Sing to him gentle or he'll go mental he's started shouting words non-parental (Goodness!) He's pulled the fuse now, we'll have to choose now whether to stop and admit that we lose now Despite that fellah we're feelin' mellah and since we're unplugged we'll sing acappella! Performed by Violin 1: Csongor Veér Violin 2: Anna Fehér Viola: Péter Kondor Cello: Mátyás Ölveti of Budapest Scoring.

Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1114062

By Budapest Scoring String Quartet. By David Warin Solomons. Classical,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 455. David Warin Solomons #715963. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1114062).

Modaliter (an invented Latin word meant to signify by way of modes or modally) is based on my setting of the Communion Service - The Modal Mass - using mainly the Mixolydian and Dorian modes and with short excursions into Lydian and Aeolian and occasionally jazzy modes. Performed by Violin 1: Csongor Veér Violin 2: Anna Fehér Viola: Péter Kondor Cello: Mátyás Ölveti of Budapest Scoring.

Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1114065

By Budapest Scoring String Quartet. By David Warin Solomons. Christian,Classical,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 372. David Warin Solomons #715966. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1114065).

This meditation piece was originally written for a tuba and euphonium quartet commissioned and recorded by the group Tubalate. This is a new version for string quartet. The underlying themes are a sequence of shifting chords representing going to sleep and the ancient chant Te lucis ante terminum (To Thee before the close of day...) (quoted in various parts from bar 20 onwards). Te lucis ante terminum, rerum Creator, poscimus, ut solita clementia sis præsul ad custodiam. Procul recedant somnia et noctium phantasmata; hostemque nostrum comprime, ne polluantur corpora. Præsta, Pater omnípotens, per Iesum Christum Dominum, qui tecum in perpetuum regnat cum Sancto Spíritu. Amen. To Thee before the close of day, Creator of the world, we pray That, with Thy wonted favour, Thou Wouldst be our guard and keeper now. From all ill dreams defend our sight, From fears and terrors of the night; Withhold from us our ghostly foe, That spot of sin we may not know. O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, Thine only Son, Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee, Doth live and reign eternally. Amen. Performed by Violin 1: Csongor Veér Violin 2: Anna Fehér Viola: Péter Kondor Cello: Mátyás Ölveti of Budapest Scoring.

Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1114053

By Budapest Scoring String Quartet. By David Warin Solomons. Classical,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 139. David Warin Solomons #715958. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1114053).

This serenade in Dorian mode is based on my setting of the 23rd Psalm, using the rhythms of the translation by Martin Luther Der Herr ist mein Hirte (The Lord is my shepherd). Performed by Violin 1: Csongor Veér Violin 2: Anna Fehér Viola: Péter Kondor Cello: Mátyás Ölveti of Budapest Scoring.