Music

Richard Moult: Songs

Ripley Songs Book 1

Songs to poems by William Ripley (2000)

the clown and the jackal • the boy of infinities • a stone, a flower, a chinese vase • italy • the French Windows • Harlech • wanderer’s night song

Ripley Songs Book 2

Songs to poems by William Ripley (2000–2001)

monopoly • The Lizard • Willy • ‘the exile’ • Distant Roar • all those lights • Space

Note: both books are currently (2006) being revised

The Companions

Songs to poems by Ivor Gurney (originally composed 2001; revised 2004)

Midnight • Lovely Playthings • Now are the Hills Born New in Sparkling Light • The Companions 

Note: original volume also contained: The Ship • Iliadian • April Gale • Brave Carpets (2001) (rejected on revising the collection)]

The Clee Songbook

Songs for soprano and baritone (2001–2002)

Musings (William Barnes) • Your Deep Blue Eyes (Jo Woolley) • My Dear Lily (Steve Dibb) • Love’s Emblems (John Fletcher) • Unforgotten (Robert Service) • Wolfram’s Dirge (Thomas Lovell Beddoes) • The Visionary (Emily Brontë)

Presences

Songs to poems by Mary Webb (2002)

Presences • A Hawthorn Berry • Foxgloves • A Summer Day • A Night Sky • To a Poet in April • The Ancient Gods

The Secret Joy

Songs to poems by Mary Webb (2003)

Rose-Berries • A Rainy Day • Be Still, You Little Leaves • The Secret Joy

In Dark Weather

Songs to poems by Mary Webb (2003)

In Dark Weather • Winter Sunrise • Like a Poppy on a Tower • Christmas Song • The Snowdrop • Spirit of Earth • The Wood

The Garden

Words by Thomas Moult [originally 'For Bessie, Seated by Me in the Garden' for tenor and piano (2002); revised for high voice and piano, 2004]

The Sounding Circle

Songs to poems by Gladys Mary Coles (for voice, piano, guitar and cello) (2003–2004)

Prelude • Hour Glass • Snow Bird • The Sounding Circle

Three Songs

On Receiving a Box of Spring Flowers in London • A Farewell • Swallows (Mary Webb) for voice, piano and string quartet (2003)

Four Songs

(for soprano, mezzo-soprano, piano and oboe) (2003/2006)

The Bramble Patch (words by Ivor Gurney) • February • Loss • Spring in the West (last three songs words by Mary Webb)

Four songs to poems by Ivor Gurney

Soft Rain Falls Upon my Window • Water Colours • Late September • The Songs I Had [manuscript lost shortly after completion] (2001)

Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still

Words by David Tibet

(for voice, piano and string ensemble) (2004–2005)

[details to be included on release of the album]

The Shell

(Mary Webb) duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano (2002, revised 2003/2005)

Dawn

(words by Mary Webb) (2005)

The Sedge-Warbler

(words by Mary Webb) duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano (2005)

Green Rain

(words by Mary Webb) (2005)

Snowdrop Time

(words by Mary Webb) (2005)

The Shepherd’s Song

(words by Mary Webb) (2006)

Logion 77

(words ‘Gospel of Thomas’; translated by Hugh McGregor Ross). For tenor solo; oboe, vocal quartet

The Golden Air

For soprano, mezzo, oboe and piano:

i) The Birds Will Sing • ii) To the World • iii) Quick Swallows • iv) Et In Arcadia Est • v) Late Summer • vi) To a Blackbird Singing in London

i, ii, iii, vi words by Mary Webb; iv words by David Tibet; v instrumental for oboe and piano

Richard Moult: Music

Works for solo piano

• Two Sapphic Fragments (1992)
• Fates (I, II, III) (1994)
• Maquette I (1994)
• Maquette II (1994)
• Aubade (1995)
• Five Etudes (1995)
• Auretone Suite (1995)
• Ragged Kingdom (1996)
• The Faint Stars Said (1996)
• The Realms (1997)
• A Place (1997)
• White Anthony (1998)
• The Worthings (1998)
• Covia (2000)
• Red Wood (2000)
• Laburnum (2003)

Works for ensembles

• We Cannot Walk the Waves they Tread—for piano and percussion (1995)
• Homesteads—for piano and two cellos (1996)
• String Trio No 1 (‘Anglia planctus itera’) (1997)
• String Trio No 2 (1997)
• String Trio No 3 (1997)
• Long Dead Now, Tom Forrest—for piano and chamber orchestra (1998–1999)
• Symphony (unfinished) (2000–)
• Somerset—for viola and piano (2003)

Regarding works written before 1998: most of these scores are now lost or were destroyed by the composer, although some remain in private collections.

Paintings on this page: ‘May Eve’ and ‘Approaching Rain’ © Richard Moult