Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1268782

By András Csáki and Balázs Rumy. By Franz Schubert. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. 19th Century. Full Performance. Duration 246. David Warin Solomons #861313. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268782).

Theobald Böhm (1794-1881) made a brilliant arrangement of Schubert's Serenade (Ständchen - Leise flehen meine Lieder) for concert flute and piano based on the piano version by Liszt. 
This version for clarinet and guitar is based on my original version extended in line with the Böhm arrangement, allowing the melody instrument to blossom into lyrical variations of the melody.

It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet
András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1265869

By Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar. By Claude Gervaise. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 79. David Warin Solomons #858633. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1265869).

This Tourdion ( a lively dance in 3 time) in Dorian mode is based on a madrigal by Claude Gervaise and gives the effect of swaying together with glasses in hand while the room spins round ...

The words of the orignal madrigal are:

Quand je bois du vin clairet, ami, tout tourne tourne tourne
aussi desormais je bois Anjou ou Arbois
Chantons et buvons, a ce flacon faisons la guerre
Chantons et buvons mes amis
buvons donc


When I drink light red wine
Everything goes round and round
So from now on I'll drink Anjou and Arbois
Let's sing and drink and wage war on this bottle
Come on friends, let's drink then.


It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1268813

By András Csáki, Balázs Rumy, and a genuine flamingo cry. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Comedy,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 78. David Warin Solomons #861344. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268813).

This was originally a setting of a satirical poem by Gavin Ewart. 
The flamingo thinks he's ever so cultured, 
but he doesn't know which country his hero (Placido Domingo) was born in: 

Mi mi mi mi miiii
The flamingo is very highbrow
It scorns pop music, football and bingo
It would like to be an Italian tenor
Called Flacido Flamingo
Mi mi mi mi miiii



It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet
András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1268839

By András Csáki and Balázs Rumy. By Traditional. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. 19th Century,Folk. Full Performance. Duration 307. David Warin Solomons #861370. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268839).

A sequence for clarinet and guitar based on three Viennese songs from the 1840s and 1850s
interspersed with three original yodels.


The melodies of the old songs, originally taken from the book Wiener Lieder und Tänze and then expanded, are:
1. O Theures Erbsien - a moralistic song about avoiding crime and thus prison (it appears that the old Viennese prison was called Erbsien after the principal diet of the prisoners there: Erbsen = peas)

2. Servicerl 
A celebration of drinking and courting.

3. Mein Nachbarin und I 
A song about getting on well with the widow next door....

The original yodels were initially inspired by some of the sections marked Jodel in the same book.


It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet
András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1268805

By András Csáki and Balázs Rumy. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 144. David Warin Solomons #861337. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268805).

A simple and gentle duo, mainly in the Dorian mode (D Dorian) and, in the final short envoi, it modulates to the relative major (C major).
It is based on an old song that I wrote for a friend in Italy (Song for Jenny). In the aforementioned envoi the singer questions himself :Amore mio, dove sono, dove siamo? (My love, where am I, where are we?)

It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet
András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1265862

By Balázs Rumy clarinet András Csáki guitar. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 143. David Warin Solomons #858627. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1265862).

A quirky piece for clarinet and guitar involving rhythmical bounces (especially 4/4 time mixed with 3-3-2 time) and bluesy chords. 
The piece was originally intended as a setting for Prévert's poem Pour toi mon amour but the melody took on a life of its own and the bunny won the race...



It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1268790

By András Csáki and Balázs Rumy. By Traditional. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. Contemporary,Early Music. Full Performance. Duration 188. David Warin Solomons #861322. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268790).

From a series of duets for clarinet and guitar called The poem is the song.
This one is based on the mediæval song about Aucassin and Nicolette: Qui vauroit bons vers oïr del deport du viel antif. 

Translation by A S Kline:
Who would like to hear a song,
of a tale of ancient times,
of two little children, fair,
Nicolette and Aucassin,
of the great pains they endured,
of the deeds that he achieved,
for his love and her bright face,
gentle the song, sweet to speak
well founded, and of courtesy.
There is no one so dismayed,
so sad, or in such evil state,
ill with illnesses so deep,
who’ll not be healed if they hear,
and be renewed again by joy,
it is so sweet.

It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet
András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1268814

By András Csáki and Balázs Rumy. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,21st Century,Blues,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 416. David Warin Solomons #861345. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268814).

This is a instrumental duo based on a song that I composed just before my umpteenth appearance at the New Troubadour Club at Follies Wine Bar Manchester back in 1991.
Writer's block was threatening to take over, so I wrote about writer's block, in a sort of mock blues style...


The original words are:
Woke up Sunday mornin' and notes went spinnin' round. (rpt)
What can I sing for the New Troubadours - Troubadours?
Woke up wake up woke up wake up.
What can I sing for the New Troubadours?
Oh! I just godda sing the Blues the New Troubadour Blues
'cos there's nothing they like better than the Blues.

I got those New Troubadour Blues.
'cos there's not a single chord these Blues refuse;
not a single note I cannot choose.

Then it was Monday evenin' with no more words in mind;
notes they still kept spinnin'
but no cause could they find.
What can I sing for the New Troubadours?

So, here's a sad Blues with a walkin' bass.
it'll walk all over you,
leavin' muddy footprints
So here's a sad Blues, Blues, Blues
So here is a walkin' bass.
oh! why am I walkin'
with a muddy walkin' bass
waitin' for words to come?
Blues Blues Blues Blues Blues Blues
waitin' for words to come
Oh those sad Blues
I got those New Troubadour Blues.
New Troubadour Blues 'cos there's not a single chord these Blues refuse!


It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet
András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1265866

By Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 145. David Warin Solomons #858630. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1265866).

I was originally going to call this tune Mellow Spring but it turns out that that's a childcare company (creche) somewhere in the USA! 
Oh well, maybe Laid back Bounce works better as a title.
It is a laid back tune, with several variations accompanied by bluesy chords and a bouncy rhythm, which nevertheless keeps to 4/4 throughout. 
The key modulates occasionally from an E minor/major centre to a G major centre.

It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guiro - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1265868

By Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar. By Traditional. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 191. David Warin Solomons #858632. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1265868).

Originally a Latin hymn (O Sanctissima) to the Virgin Mary on her feast days and also on Christmas day, also sung in other languages on similar occasions.

Arranged here for clarinet and guitar.

O sanctissima, o piissima,
dulcis Virgo Maria!
Mater amata, intemerata,
ora, ora pro nobis.

Tu solatium et refugium,
Virgo Mater Maria.
Quidquid optamus, per te speramus;
ora, ora pro nobis.

[O most holy, o most loving,
sweet Virgin Mary!
Beloved Mother, undefiled,
pray, pray for us.

You are solace and refuge,
Virgin Mother Mary.
Whatever we wish, we hope it through you;
pray, pray for us.


It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guiro - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1265870

By Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar. By Claudin de Sermisy. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 178. David Warin Solomons #858634. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1265870).

Original song by Clément Marot (words) and Claudin de Sermisy (music)
with Variations by David Warin Solomons

(Note: the guitar plays with capo on fret 3)

The original words of this song (with my translations) :

Tant que vivray en aage florissant
As long as I am in the prime of life
Je serviray d'amour le dieu puissant,
I shall serve the powerful god of love
En faictz, en ditz, en chansons et accordz;
In all I do and say and in my songs and harmony
Par plusieurs jours m'a tenu languissant,
For many days he made me languish
Et puis apres ma fait resjoyssant,
But afterwards he made me rejoice,


Car j'ay l'amour de la belle au gent corps;
Because I have the love of the fair lady
Son alliance, c'est ma fiance,
Her betrothal is pledged to me
Son coeur est mien, le mien est sien,
Her heart is mine, my heart is hers
Fy de tristesse, vive liesse,
Away with sadness, welcome gladness
Puisqu'en amours j'ay tant de biens.
Because I have such riches in love

It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar.

A Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1268821

By András Csáki and Balázs Rumy. By Traditional. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. Contemporary,Renaissance. Full Performance. Duration 275. David Warin Solomons #861352. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268821).

The bergamasca was a lusty 16th-century dance depicting the allegedly awkward manners of the inhabitants of Bergamo, in northern Italy, where the dance supposedly originated. 

 
These variations for clarinet and guitar are an arrangement of the cello and guitar version (also on YouTube), based on one of the original bergamasca tunes.


It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy Clarinet in A
András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1268819

By András Csáki and Balázs Rumy. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 140. David Warin Solomons #861350. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268819).

This is part of a project composed for a group based on the Old Kent Road in London.
They provided some lyrics which I set to music for them (around 1982), but the project never took off.
I never met the person to whom the letter was addressed (called Howard Nicholls apparently...)
but I got the impression that he did exist and meant a great deal to the group.
The words (now lost) certainly brought out a romantic theme within the project.
I decided recently that this particular theme would work nicely for a simple clarinet and guitar combination

It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet
András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1268811

By András Csáki and Balázs Rumy. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 187. David Warin Solomons #861343. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1268811).

Romance originally written as a vocalise for my flatmate Lissie back in 1985, arranged now for clarinet and guitar

It is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet
András Csáki guitar.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1265863

By Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 94. David Warin Solomons #858628. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1265863).

Danza from the 5 part suite: Times of Change


Movements
1. A time of change
2. Serenamente
3. An echo from the past
4. Danza 
5. April


Danza is performed here by
Balázs Rumy clarinet and András Csáki guitar.