Songs With Piano Accompaniment

Songs With Piano Accompaniment

Malcolm wrote 63 songs, mostly folk arrangements and settings of poetry. Many are not for the faint-hearted, with challenging scoring for both singer and accompanist. We’ve featured a few of the more accessible ones below.

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Around Christmas (1964)

A Bohemian Carol (voices and piano) Patapan (voices, recorders, chime bars, percussion, piano) A Babe Is Born (unison voices and piano) Bells (unison voices and piano) Rise Up, Shepherd (solo voice and piano)

A Sowp o’ Sangs (1988)

Malcolm taught in several Primary and Secondary Schools and found the accompaniments in the school songbooks a bit dull. In 1988 he gathered up 12 of his arrangements and called the collection A Sowp O’ Sangs, dedicating it to his Scottish sister-in-law who had just died from cancer aged 39. Hush thee, my Bairnie Soldier, […]

Four Yeats Songs (1966/67)

The Sorrow of Love A Coat To a Child Dancing in the Wind The Cold Heaven These songs were originally written for voice and piano, but when they were submitted to the BBC New Music committee for acceptance for broadcast, it was suggested that they would more likely get a performance if they were orchestrated. […]

Common Chords (1962/3)

Sassoon Release The Unproven Euphrasy An Example At Max Gate The Message An Absentee The Hardened Heart In Time of Decivilization A 1940 Memory A Post-mortem Elsewhere Man and Dog To my Mother Praise Persistent An Asking Resurrection Redemption  

Lirici Greci (1962/3)

Transl Salvatore Quasimodo Dormono le cime dei Monti A un Giovane Morto per la Patria Per I Morti alle Termopili  

Tres Gacelas (1961)

Lorca Gacela de la Terrible Presencia Gacela de la Huida Gacela de la Muerte Oscura  

Four Songs (1959)

John Anderson (Burns) My True Love (Sydney) The Last Invocation (Whitman) Here a Pretty Baby Lies

Three Songs (1955)

The Widow Bird (Shelly) Will o’ the Wisp (de la Mare) The Winter Boy (de la Mare)

Sonata II (1970)

Scherzo Berceuse Intermission At Long Last Coda Voice in movement 4.