| op 0 | Birgitta 1984/85 boogie woogie babe (Avery) voice and piano |
| op 0 | As her pen floated over the papers 1987 (Byrom) voice and piano |
| op 2 | And death shall have no dominion (tenor, horn and piano) This is a setting of the famous poem by Dylan Thomas. |
| op 8 | Cantata Salvia and hibiscus flowers (D H Lawrence), tenor and bass soloists, treble choir, six wind soloists, strings, percussion |
| op 23 | The Hand of Time 1970 6 medieval Irish poems, for tenor and piano. The texts were a by-product of Isobel Rathbone's Anglo-Saxon and Celtic studies tripos, and these songs were written long before CBR became aware of Samuel Barber's 'Hermit Songs' which set versions of some of the same poems. |
| op 25 | The Dream of the Rood 1972 This cantata for chorus, piano duet and baritone solo sets the words of the famous Anglo-saxon poem, which imagines the crucifixion from the point of view of the wooden cross (or 'Rood') itself. |
| op 34 | Bagpipe Music - Six songs for tenor and clarinet 1979 TThese songs were written for Terry Busby and the composer to perform; they set poems by Eliot, MMacNeice, Auden and Betjeman and were written in June 1979. 11: Bagpipe Music (Louis MacNeice) 22: Epitaph on a tyrant (W.H.Auden) 33: Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden (John Betjeman) 44: Prelude (T.S.Eliot) 55: Burbank with a Baedeker (Eliot) 66: Prayer before Birth (MacNeice - tenor alone) and epilogue (clarinet alone, offstage) TThis song cycle with clarinet accompaniment was written for the late Terry Busby in June 1979 and frfrequently performed by the composer (tenor) with Terry. (Pub. Typeset) |
| op 37 | Four Nasty Children 1981 This work consists of four short songs for children’s choir and piano. The poems are by John Ciardi, Lord Dunsany, anon (the cruel naughty boy), and Shelley Silverstein. |
| op 41 | Songs for Toad These settings of some of the songs for the play by A.A.Milne, 'Toad of Toad Hall',(an adaptation of 'Wind in the Willows'), were written for a production of the play at Marlborough College in 1979, and use the words by arrangement with the A.A.Milne estate. The five songs, for children's voices and piano, make an enjoyable 10 minute item, assembled and published by BJM in 1981. The last 2 songs divide into 2 voice parts, but the first three numbers are suitable for solo treble/mezzo/baritone as a group of solo songs. The first song, 'Wind in the williows is whispering low' has become one of the composer's signature pieces! At their Golden Wedding party in Summer 2019 Christopher and Isobel played a specially arranged version of it for piano duet, and Polly (daughter) sang it. (Pub. BJM) |
| op 41 | Songs from 'Toad of Toad Hall' The best of these songs were arranged as Songs for Toad and published by BJM. They were written for a junior house production at Marlborough College in 1979, which began with the recorded voices of the Marlborough Children's Choir led by Jean Burrow singing 'Wind in the willows is whispering low...' (Pub. BJM) |
| op 45 | The Turning Year (Song Cycle) - 1983 This is a cantata for voice(s) and piano (16 songs) (recorded by Victoria Sharp, Sally Daley and David Owen-Lewis on Amphion PH1CD 504). It traces the course of the seasons in setting several poems by James Thomson and Robert Bridges, and others by Spender, de la Mare, Edward Thomas, Auden, Breton, Plath, Shakespeare, Macneice and Ruthven Todd. Several of the Winter/Spring songs were performed recently by Edward Thornton and Christopher at St Margaret's Ilkley. Prologue: New Year (Spender) Winter (Thomson) |