Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506742 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 278. David Warin Solomons #1082113. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506742). Arrangement for clarinet and guitar of my setting of the poem Illusions by Bluma Finkelstein for her husband.The original words are:La nuità l`heure où l`obscure tranche du tempscouvre le jourEt appelle le sommeilLa nuit je m`en vais sur les mornes chemins de ma vieA la recherche des illusionsJe voudrais t`emmener hors de la terret`emporter loin sur l`océan paisible du rêvebarque solitaire s`arrachant à la pesanteursouffle mystérieuxperçant la nappe immobile du cielje voudrais t`emmener hors des âgeste lancer dans le ciel fuyantincessant effort de dépassementje voudrais t`emmener hors de l`espacesentir ton corps nutrembler doucement contre mon corpsdeux rayons de soleildeux caresses éternelles volées à Dieuje voudrais t`emmener hors du tempset mesurer mon amour en années lumière(c) Bluma Finkelstein[my English translation:]At night,when the dark slice of timecovers the dayand calls for slumberAt night I go down the gloomy paths of my lifein search of illusionI would like to take you away from the earthcarry you far away on the peaceful ocean of dreamssolitary boat breaking free from heavinessmysterious breath of windpiercing the motionless cloth of the skyI would like to take you away from the agescast you into the fleeing heavensceaseless endeavour to outdo myselfI would like to take you away from spacefeel your naked bodytrembling gently against minetwo sun-beamstwo eternal caresses stolen from GodI would like to take you away from timeand measure my love in light-years.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506749 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 221. David Warin Solomons #1082120. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506749). This is the first movement of the suite Times of ChangeIt is based on my setting for voice and guitar of the poem A time of change by Mark Haviland:Survivors of some strange social shipwreck we swim seperately to shore There to sit with heads in hands not speaking to each other any more We were a group a single body united in our purpose Now isolated helpless communication contact lost the fragments of some past mosaic whole now each a single coloured splinter without guidance or control The kaleidoscope is shaken the pattern disappears the fragments rearranging A new design appears we take on new identities abandonning the past Memories of our former ties are all that's left at last.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506755 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 178. David Warin Solomons #1082126. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506755). Arrangement of Ariette Oubliée No 4 originally written for alto and guitar (also available on this site). The song is based on a poem by Paul Verlaine in which he imagines himself and his boyfriend Rimbaud as two innocent little girls.Original poem:Il faut, voyez-vous, nous pardonner les choses:De cette façon nous serons bien heureusesEt si notre vie a des instants moroses,Du moins nous serons, n`est-ce pas? deux pleureuses.Ô que nous mêlions, âmes soeurs que nous sommes,A nos voeux confus la douceur puérileDe cheminer loin des femmes et des hommes,Dans le frais oubli de ce qui nous exile !Soyons deux enfants, soyons deux jeunes fillesÉprises de rien et de tout étonnéesQui s`en vont pâlir sous les chastes charmillesSans même savoir qu`elles sont pardonnées.Paul Verlaine[literal translation into English]You see, you`ll have to forgive us a few thingsThen we`ll be two happy little girlsAnd if our life is a bit sad at timesat least there will be two of us sobbing together, won`t there?Oh sister souls that we are, wouldn`t we just mingleChildish sweetness with our embarassed vowsTo wander far from the world of adultsAnd forget our banishment in all our fresh innocenceLet`s be two children, two little girlsIn love with nought and astonished by allGoing pale-faced down innocent tree-lined pathsNot even aware that they`ve been forgiven.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506766 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 187. David Warin Solomons #1082137. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506766). This instrumental duo is based on my song by the same title, inspired by a poem by Audrey Vaughan.Love for the Deity is found all round in nature.The guitar part reflects some of the flitting fleeting moments of insect wings and other joys of nature.Words of the original song:My love for you grows beetle's wingsBlack pearls sparking firedropsUnder the low’ring September sunMy love for you sends a winter flashOf radiant blueBetween frost silver banksIn the sunset time of January’s afternoonMy love for you blows heather scent upon the windAnd tosses the cries of flying grouseAnd wings to beat a moorland skyMy love finds wind-flowers by a Cranham laneAnd black bright eyessafe and wideunder frets of golden fernMy love for you paints God across the earthIn clouds like flowersAnd rain like fishes’ scalesIn waters blue of skyAnd birds like flakes of snowMy love sings anthems with the moonAnd writes symphonies with rainbowsMy love is life and breathAnd breath is praise…© Audrey Vaughan.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506746 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 181. David Warin Solomons #1082117. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506746). This jaunty number in swing time was originally a satirical song for alto and piano or alto and guitar (Looking just looking at the personal ads) - which is also available on this site. I decided that the music on its own without words (but with a few variations) would also work well... so here is Springtime jaunt.The words of the original song are:Young man, twenty four,lookin' for a soul mate:slim dark handsome versatile.Who will answer?Will it be the man of my dreams?Will he be the one,will he write to me,will he like my style,will we get on?Looking, just lookingat the personal ads,can we find true love?Are they the peoplewaiting only for us?Waiting for a letter,waiting for a letter,looking, looking.Kindly lady, thirty eight,cuddly butch and lively,likes a laugh and country walks.Who will answer?Will it be the girl of my dreams?Will she be the one,will she write to me,will she like my style,will we get on?[Chorus]Leather wearing, fifty four,into whips and bondage:genuine answers only, please!Who will answer,will it be the whip of my dreams?Will he be the one,will he write to me,will he like my style,will we get on?[Chorus]Grey panther ninety two,into older women,cuddle to my Zimmerframe,Who will answer,will it be the crutch of my dreams?Will she be the one,will she write to me,will she like my style,will we get on?[Chorus].

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506782 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 119. David Warin Solomons #1082153. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506782). In this piece the guitar is tuned with the third string down a semitone - ie the equivalent on guitar of the intervals between lute strings. This allows for certain harmonic effects between strings which would otherwise not be available on the instrument.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506779 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary,Multicultural,World. Full Performance. Duration 193. David Warin Solomons #1082150. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506779). This music was inspired by the book ?? (Chinmoku - Silence) by Shusaku Endo (a historical novel based on events in Japan in the 17th century - the title refers to the silence of God in the face of suffering)Some say that Kichijiro (?????) is an equivalent of Judas, but his way of thinking is quite different:He simply cannot accept that the Japanese Christian minority of his time should sufferjust because they have adopted the foreign religion of Christianity.He gives up his faith and betrays the main character, the missionary Rodrigues.The thoughts of Kichijiro are reflected in the music especially in the Japanese pentatonic equivalent of the old carol Oh come all ye faithful which is repeated in a somewhat wistful and yet sardonic way by the two instruments. It also reflects Shusaku Endo's own views onChristianity, in which he was brought up but with whichhe never felt comfortable.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506758 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 166. David Warin Solomons #1082129. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506758). From a series of duets for clarinet and guitar called The poem is the song.  It was originally for voice and guitar with the following words by Dylan Thomas:Being but men, we walked into the treesAfraid, letting our syllables be softFor fear of waking the rooks,For fear of comingNoiselessly into a world of wings and cries.If we were children we might climb,Catch the rooks sleeping, and break no twig,And, after the soft ascent,Thrust out our heads above the branchesTo wonder at the unfailing stars.Out of confusion, as the way is,And the wonder, that man knows,Out of the chaos would come bliss.That, then, is loveliness, we said,Children in wonder watching the stars,Is the aim and the end.Being but men, we walked into the trees.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506753 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 102. David Warin Solomons #1082124. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506753). This is the fifth movement of the suite Times of Change. It is based on my setting of my father's translation of a poem about the month of April by Rémi BelleauApril, the grace and smileThat all beguile,The tang and the sweet breath:Perfume of Gods on high,Who from the skyRelish the scent of earth.April, courteous and gentleWho from exileSummons the wanderers,The forkèd swifts that skimTheir way and seemOf Spring the messengers.May-flower and eglantine,And verdant thyme,Lilies and roses redAt this so beauteous tide,Growing in prideWith lovely raiment spread.(c) S N Solomons.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506784 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 134. David Warin Solomons #1082155. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506784). A passacaglia is a gentle stroll in triple time with a basso ostinato, which can vary. The Italian word actually comes from the Spanish words pasar and calle, indicating a walk down a street.The guitar provides the basso ostinato with its harmonic progressions and the clarinet dreams along with it on their gentle walk.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506786 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 136. David Warin Solomons #1082157. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506786). From a series of duets for clarinet and guitar called The poem is the songThe original song is based on a poem by Hilaire Belloc:The Chief Defect of Henry KingWas chewing little bits of String.At last he swallowed some which tiedItself in ugly Knots inside.Physicians of the Utmost FameWere called at once; but when they cameThey answered, as they took their Fees,There is no Cure for this Disease.Henry will very soon be dead.''His Parents stood about his BedLamenting his Untimely Death,When Henry, with his Latest Breath,Cried, Oh, my Friends, be warned by me,That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, and TeaAre all the Human Frame requires...''With that, the Wretched Child expires.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506763 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 142. David Warin Solomons #1082134. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506763). A syncopated dance splitting the 4/4 bar into 3-3-2 at many points.The melody and accompaniment call to mind the pealing of bells.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506775 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary,Multicultural,World. Full Performance. Duration 176. David Warin Solomons #1082146. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506775). A habanera with a Jewish/Klezmer twist.

Clarinet,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1506750 By András Csáki (guitar) and Péter Balázs (clarinet). By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 146. David Warin Solomons #1082121. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1506750). This is the third movement of the suite Times of Change - a longing for nostalgia or a nostalgic longing, that is the question!?