Recordings

My podcast, The Voice of the Bard, is devoted to song and wisdom. A taste:

Songs

• Secret Love
• The Leaving of Liverpool
• Wayfaring Stranger
• The Splendour Falls
• Lonesome Valley Medley
• Nature Boy
• Heimweh
• Edward
• Geordie
• The Unquiet Grave
• Searching for Lambs
• I’ll Overcome Someday
• Motherless Child
• Loch Lomond

Original Compositions

Original Songs

• Dream-Pedlary
• Baby
• A Song of Sherwood
• Under the Greenwood Tree
• Pippa’s Song
• “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”

Original Piano Pieces

• In the Dark Mirror
• Andante
• Pipers
• A Full Heart
• Forward!
• Into the Light
• By the Grave
• Lifting Up the Banner
• Sugar Cane
• Coming Home
• Persephone
• At Dusk
• A Keepsake
• To _
• March of the Frogs
• Warm Heart Polka
• Epitaph
• Ballade
• Forget Me Not
• From the Garden
• Old Saying
• Country Dance
• Carnations
• Song of the Fellowship
• Bittersweet
• East Coker
• Waving Goodbye
• Spring Breeze
• Flower
• A Voice From Long Ago
• Arrows of the Dawn
• Garland
• Happy End
• Beau Ideal
• Dewdrop
• Gemütlich
• Wild Flower
• Striking Root
• Chiaroscuro
• Golden Days

Songs

Secret Love

“Heimliche Liebe”, a traditional German song in my own arrangement:

“No coal, no fire can burn so hot
As secret love, known to none.

No rose, no carnation, so beautifully blooms
As two lovers when they are together…

As the forest bird sings at the first breath of Spring,
So your lovely discourse enters my heart.

Two stars in the sky, two roses in the hedge:
My heart and your heart beat as one.”

(translation by Ishmael Wallace)

The Leaving of Liverpool

Traditional English, arr. Wallace

Wayfaring Stranger

Traditional, arr. Wallace

The Splendour Falls

Words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; music by R. H. Walthew

Lonesome Valley Medley

Traditional, arr. Wallace

Nature Boy

By eden ahbez, arr. Wallace

Heimweh

Words by F.G. Wetzel; music by Luise Reichardt

Edward

Traditional Scottish, arr. Wallace

Geordie

Traditional English, arr. Wallace

The Unquiet Grave

Traditional, arr. Wallace

Searching for Lambs

Traditional English, arr. Wallace

I’ll Overcome Someday

Hymn by Charles Albert Tindley, arr. Wallace

Motherless Child

Traditional African American, arr. Wallace

Loch Lomond

Traditional Scottish, arr. Wallace

Original Compositions

Dream-Pedlary

For tenor and piano; a setting of the poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 — 1849)

Baby

For tenor and piano; a setting of verses from a poem by George MacDonald (1824 — 1905)

A Song of Sherwood

For tenor and piano; a setting of verses from “A Song of Sherwood” by Alfred Noyes (1880 — 1958)

Under the Greenwood Tree

For tenor and piano; a setting of the song from “As You Like It”, by William Shakespeare

Pippa’s Song

For tenor and piano; a setting of Pippa’s morning song from the drama “Pippa Passes” (1841), by Robert Browning

“She dwelt among the untrodden ways”

For tenor and piano; a setting of the poem by Wordsworth

In the dark mirror

For piano solo

Andante

For piano solo

Pipers

For piano solo

A Full Heart

For piano solo

Forward!

March for piano solo

Into the Light

March for piano solo

By the Grave

For piano solo

Lifting Up the Banner

March for piano solo

Sugar Cane

Vals Venezolano for piano solo

Coming Home

Waltz for piano solo

Persephone

Waltz for piano solo

At Dusk

March for piano solo

A Keepsake

For piano solo

To _

Waltz for piano solo

March of the Frogs

For piano solo

Warm Heart Polka

For piano solo

Epitaph

For piano solo

Ballade

For piano solo

Forget Me Not

Ländler for piano solo

From the Garden

For piano solo

Old Saying

For piano solo

Country Dance

For piano solo

Carnations

Tango for piano solo

Song of the Fellowship

For piano solo

Bittersweet

For piano solo

East Coker

Country Dance for piano solo

Waving Goodbye

March for piano solo

Spring Breeze

For piano solo

Flower

For piano solo

A Voice From Long Ago

For piano solo

Arrows of the Dawn

For piano solo

Garland

For piano solo

Happy End

For piano solo

Beau Ideal

March for piano solo

Dewdrop

For piano solo

Gemütlich

For piano solo

Wild Flower

For piano solo

Striking Root

For piano solo.

“Yea, there is strength in striking root and good in growing old”. G. K. Chesterton

Chiaroscuro

For piano solo

Golden Days

Idyll for piano solo