Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1422868 By Mark Rowlinson (Baritone) and Peter Lawson (piano). By David Warin Solomons. Classical,Contemporary,Multicultural,World. Score. 2 pages. David Warin Solomons #1004222. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1422868). Poem by an unknown Kurdish poet going by the pseudonym of Iskan Acicka - this version for piano and bass-baritone is one of many settings I have made for the poem.There is a rose in my gardenA crimson rose opening in my heartRosy cheeks blossoming like a young pomegranate plantwhich loves the earth like springlike a rising sun in the skyboth weep both love from withinlike a rising a rising moon in the nightlike summer rain watering my rose gardenas if it were a life.It is you in my dreams at nightevery moment I see you in my mind..You are running through my soullike blood runs through my veins, with joy!

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1422862 By Mark Rowlinson (Baritone) and Peter Lawson (piano). By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 5 pages. David Warin Solomons #1004217. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1422862). The bereaved lover gains some brief consolation at dawn when the blond light penetrates his (or her) lonely room and reminds him (or her) of the hair of the loved one. The mode of this song is Dorian, my favourite mode. Poem by E M Solomons - mother of the composer. Poem by E M SolomonsThe pale gold lightcreeps into my silent roomtouching my faceI know that you are here.Softly contours formas the colourstake the place of greyTranslucent gold hits the mirrorand reaches my lonely bed.Dispels the grey mist which lingerson the window paneDeepens the image and I see you.Pale blond lightwhere your hair once shone.Lonely shadow of my former selfI languish here.But then your dear voice calls with comfort, loveand saysI have not left,while your fond memories remain.I think of you andyou are herebeside and withinYour image fadesbut you are still here in me.You must you must come backif only at dawn.See through the tears of gold,you are here once moreYour ghostly presencefills my poor heart,searching my mindonce more to be as one,here is your bodyso close to my ownin this spectral worldwe share our thoughts.My soul now quiet at lastmy yearnings on hold.The golden glow brings me peaceand I might face another day(c) E M Solomons.

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1422856 By Mark Rowlinson (Baritone) and Peter Lawson (piano). By David Warin Solomons. Christmas,Contemporary. Score. 4 pages. David Warin Solomons #1004211. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1422856). Haikus by Canon Albert Radcliffe (who was canon at Manchester Cathedral) and asked me to set them. The music is unusual for vocal works in that it uses the octatonic mode, but this seemed particularly appropriate for the unusual angle which Canon Albert takes on the Christmas story. I said to the snow, Show me what you know of God. Brightness blinded me. To the stars I said, Speak then from a gentler light. Their word was silence. I called to the wind, Whis-per the glory of God. Its breath took my breath. I asked the holly What do you know of his love? Her thorns drew my blood. ©Canon Albert E Radcliffe  (Manchester Cathedral, UK).