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SKU: A0.1114021

By Budapest Scoring String Quartet. By David Warin Solomons. Classical,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 232. David Warin Solomons #715925. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1114021).

Antonelli Rag was originally composed as a guitar solo in 1977 while I was staying with a friend in Piazza Antonelli in Ghemme, Northern Italy. I have now created this string quartet version. Performed by Violin 1: Csongor Veér Violin 2: Anna Fehér Viola: Péter Kondor Cello: Mátyás Ölveti of Budapest Scoring.

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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.

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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.

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SKU: A0.1114017

By Budapest Scoring String Quartet. By David Warin Solomons. Classical,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 328. David Warin Solomons #715917. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1114017).

A cheeky quartet in (mainly) 3 time with the occasional 5/4 and pause to allow the dancers to get their breath back. Performed by Violin 1: Csongor Veér Violin 2: Anna Fehér Viola: Péter Kondor Cello: Mátyás Ölveti of Budapest Scoring.

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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.

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SKU: A0.1114014

By Budapest Scoring String Quartet. By David Warin Solomons. Classical,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 258. David Warin Solomons #715913. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1114014).

A fairly advanced instrumental quartet in major pentatonic scale Performed by Violin 1: Csongor Veér Violin 2: Anna Fehér Viola: Péter Kondor Cello: Mátyás Ölveti of Budapest Scoring.

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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.

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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: A0.1114067

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.

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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.

B-Flat Bass Clarinet,B-Flat Clarinet - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1326635

By Budapest Scoring Clarinet Ensemble. By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 288. David Warin Solomons #914776. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1326635).

A cheeky quartet in (mainly) 3 time for 3 clarinets and 1 bass clarinet.

Performed by The Budapest Scoring Clarinet Ensemble.

B-Flat Bass Clarinet,B-Flat Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1326654

By Budapest Scoring Clarinet Ensemble. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 188. David Warin Solomons #914796. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1326654).

Quartet based on my old guitar composition (from 1974) using two main melodies and three-time and five-time ideas (hence the title quin-tra).

Performed by The Budapest Scoring Clarinet Ensemble.

B-Flat Clarinet - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1326639

By Budapest Scoring Clarinet Ensemble. By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 119. David Warin Solomons #914781. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1326639).

(This new mode is based on my Modal Madness for brass quintet in which one part (originally intended for the horn player Delphine Gauthier-Guiche) invents a new mode - initially a-a#-b-c-c#-f-f#-g but transposed here for the clarinet version)

Performed by The Budapest Scoring Clarinet Ensemble.

B-Flat Bass Clarinet,B-Flat Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1330458

By Budapest Scoring Clarinet Ensemble. By Josquin des Prez. Arranged by David Warin Solomons. Renaissance. Full Performance. Duration 115. David Warin Solomons #918326. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1330458).

There is a theory that El grillo refers to Carlo Frillo, a singer who worked for the same patron as Josquin, Cardinal Galeazzo Sforza, and that it was intended to remind the prelate that his musicians’ salaries were overdue. The Sforzas were apparently notoriously mean to their employees, in spite of (or possibly because of) the fact that one of them was happy to pay a large sum of money for a parrot that could recite the Creed. Certainly the words of this little piece, with their reference to the cricket who sings for love, seem to have a good deal more impact in this sardonic light. Although the piece is similar in form to many other frottole, it is really quite unlike most such works, especially the way the repeated notes are used for comic effect.  

In this instrumental arrangement I have add several decorations and divisions, to illustrate the words behind it, and also just for fun.

El grillo è buon cantore
che tiene lungo verso.
Dalle beve grillo canta.
Ma non fa come gli altri uccelli,
come li han cantato un poco
van' de fatto in altro loco,  
sempre el grillo sta pur saldo
Quando la maggior è l' caldo
alhor canta sol per amore.

[suggested English paraphrase]
The cricket is a good singer
and he sings for a long time
Give him a drink so he can go on singing
But he doesn't do what the other birds do
Who after singing a little
Just go elsewhere.  
The cricket is always steadfast
When the weather is hottest,    
then he sings just for love

Performed by The Budapest Scoring Clarinet Ensemble.

B-Flat Bass Clarinet,B-Flat Clarinet - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1331907

By Budapest Scoring Clarinet Ensemble. By David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Full Performance. Duration 135. David Warin Solomons #918679. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1331907).

Written in minor pentatonic mode with a few quotes at the end from the famous Sakura melody.
This was written for Takashi Miyatake who died some years ago. He was very kind helping me to contact a clarinet quartet in Japan, who have since performed various pieces of mine.

Performed here by The Budapest Scoring Clarinet Ensemble.