Music created, recorded, recovered and celebrated during the continuing pandemic in 2021
PERFORMERS
Frances M Lynch (soprano)
Margaret Cameron, Samantha Houston, Jenny Miller (Mezzos)
Laurence Panter, Julian Stocker (Tenors) Gwion Thomas (Baritone)
The music is mainly acapella with occasional keyboard played by Frances M Lynch
All of the music was recorded individually in the performer’s homes and assembled at Birnam Studios, London by Herbie Clarke and Frances M Lynch.
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“Azalea” (Dark Eyed Soldier)”
for Voice & Piano
“The Lacemaker’s (Weaver’s) Prayer”
for voice, 2 violins, viol and harpsichord
Sound File Coming Soon
“Hymn the 1st – for the New Year”
for 2 sopranos, chorus, strings and harpsichord
Mary Maxwell Campbell
(1812 – 1886)
“The Mole and the Bat”
A children’s song for voice and piano (1876)
“The March of the Women of Science“
adapted from “The March of the Cameron Men”
arr. for mixed voices and drums by
Frances M Lynch & Herbie Clarke
“The Rustling of Grass”
for solo voice and piano
Marie Dare
(1902–1976)
“A widow bird sate mourning”
for SATB Unaccompanied Choir
words by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The Three Cherry Trees”
for voice and piano
words by Walter de la Mare
“The Grey Geese”
for voice and piano
words by C. Ethel Evans
Eliza Flower
(1803 – 1846)
“Now Pray We For Our Country”
an anthem for SATB acapella chorus
“A Sweet Country Life”
for unaccompanied voices SATB
“May Day Carol: The hedges and fields”
for female voices
“Round”
One of two Four-part Rounds for equal voices
1926
Helen Hopekirk
(1856 – 1945)
“Slumber Song”
for 4 part chorus of women’s voices
“The Voice of the Mountains”
for voice and piano
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
(1857 – 1930)
“In Hebrid Seas”
noted from the Singing of Joan Stuart, Coll. Lewis
arranged for voice and piano
Nicola Lefanu
a selection of pieces from
“Rory’s Rounds”
thirteen rounds for young singers
published by Novello
“The Story of I Love You”
“Storm in C”
2017
for 6 female voices
written in collaboration with
Meteorologist, Marjory Roy
“On The Isle Of May”
2017
for 4 female voices
“My Mother”
2020
for 6 solo voices (SS,M,CT,T,Br)
Text by Lacemaker Eliza Westbury (1808 – 1828)
“Without Fungi”
2021
for 6 solo voices and chorus
in collaboration with
mycologist Professor Lynne Boddy
“Small Atomes” (2020)
a setting of 2 poems by Margaret Cavendish (1623 – 1673)
from “Poems and Fancies” (1653)
“The Grand Old Lady of Carcinology”
for acapella Vocal Quartet
limericks by the composer, Dr A.J. Bateman and Marine Biologist Dr Isabella Gordon (1901-1988)
“Oh We’ll Go This Day A-Rugglin'”
for Solo Voice
A mini potted history of The Queen of Slime Mould
Gulielma Lister (1860 – 1949)
“Epitaph for a Comet Hunter”
for solo voice
A celebration of the life of astronomer Caroline Herschel
“No Need To Knead”
for String quartet, speaker and 2 female singers
A recipe for the GRANT LOAF created by
Nutritionist Doris Grant (1905 – 2003)
“Swallowtail (Papilio machaon britannicus)”
for acapella vocal quartet
Recording from
“The Franklin Effect” CD 2016
First Hand Records
“VIRUS – in molecular mode”
In collaboration with Brian Sutton, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London.
Film by Shelley James
Inspired by the work of Dr Rosalind Franklin on Virus Structure
Constructed from Vocal Samples
BBC Radio 3 “NEW MUSIC SHOW”
BROADCAST July 2021
“Firmament”
for solo soprano & tenor viol
Words by Margaret Cavendish (1623 – 1673)
from Nature’s Pictures 1671
“The Superposition of State”
for pre-recorded speakers, male singers & electronics
Inspired by the work of Dr Isabelle Riou Teledyne e2v
Film by Jack Cornell
Kira Ramchaitar-Husbands (SUBSIS)
“Folding and Misfolding”
for sampled paper folding sounds and audio-visual electronics
“Subsurface”
Ethel Smyth
(1858-1944)
“The March of the Women”
1910
arranged for acapella SATB by Frances M Lynch
Text by Cicely Hamilton
“Miriam”
for solo voice and bass clarinet