My podcast, The Voice of the Bard, is devoted to song and wisdom. A taste:
Songs
- Secret Love
- There’s nae lark
- I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
- 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)
There’s nae lark
A song by Samuel Barber, on verses of Swinburne
I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
By Ira F. Stanphill
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