As You Like It

Composed: 2006
Voices and jazz ensemble
Texts: William Shakespeare

  1. Under the Greenwood Tree
  2. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
  3. What Shall He Have That Killed The Deer
  4. It Was A Lover And His Lass
  5. Hymen's Song

Duration 14 minutes
Commissioned by North Staffordshire Operatic Society
First performance: cond. Chris Brammeld, Trentham Estate, Staffordshire, 10.7.07

Sweet Lovers Love The Swing

Composed: 2006
Tenor and piano
Texts: William Shakespeare

  1. Under the Greenwood Tree
  2. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
  3. It Was A Lover And His Lass

Duration 9 minutes
First performance: Greg Hallam (baritone) and Gemma Beeson (piano), Penkhull Festival, 18.9.21

Four British Folksongs

Composed: 2008
Medium voice and piano
Texts: Traditional
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  1. Cockles and Mussels
  2. Danny Boy
  3. The Ash Grove
  4. Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron

Duration 14 minutes

Sounds, And Sweet Airs (Four Songs)

Composed: 2009-11
Baritone, clarinet, horn, cello and piano
Texts: William Shakespeare

  1. While You Here Do Snoring Lie
  2. That When I Waked...
  3. I Shall No More To Sea
  4. Full Fathom Five

Duration 14 minutes
First performance: Matt Palmer (baritone), University of Sheffield New Music Ensemble, dir. George Nicholson, Firth Hall, Sheffield, 5.4.11

Three Shakespeare Songs

Composed: 2009-12
Medium voice and piano
Texts: William Shakespeare

  1. O Mistress Mine
  2. Come Away Death
  3. Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred

Duration 8½ minutes
First performance: Greg Hallam (baritone) and Robert Thompson (piano), Hertfordshire Chamber Music Series, Rickmansworth, Herts, 10.5.14
Performance credit: Greg Hallam, Robert Thompson

At Last He Sleeps

Composed: 2011-12
Baritone and piano
Texts: Edward Thomas

  1. The Cherry Trees
  2. In Memoriam
  3. A Private

Duration 7 minutes
First performance: Greg Hallam (baritone) and Robert Thompson (piano), Hertfordshire Chamber Music Series, Rickmansworth, Herts, 10.5.14
Performance credit: Greg Hallam, Robert Thompson

Winter Pass

Composed: 2015; revised 2020
High voice and piano
Texts: Edward Thomas
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  1. Snow
  2. Rain
  3. Thaw

Duration 13 minutes

At Last He Sleeps

Composed: 2015
Version for voice and orchestra
Texts: Edward Thomas
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  1. The Cherry Trees
  2. In Memoriam
  3. A Private

Duration 8 minutes

Three Berry Poems

Composed: 2015
Speaker and piano
​Texts: Arthur Berry

  1. The Blackbird
  2. Hill Farm
  3. Here

Duration 10 minutes
​Commissioned by Penkhull Festival
First performance: Peter Foggitt (piano) and Ray Johnson (reader), Penkhull Festival, Staffordshire, 17.9.15

"The dominant mood of the poems ... was enhanced by Brammeld's melodic modernism." - Dr Catherine Burgass, Arnold Bennett Society newsletter, Winter 2015-16

Sounds, And Sweet Airs (Be Not Afeard)

Composed: 2016
Soprano and clarinet
Text: William Shakespeare (The Tempest)
​Duration 4 minutes
First performance: Donna Lennard (soprano) and Benjamin Graves (clarinet), Clare Hall, Cambridge, 18.2.17
Performance credit: Donna Lennard, Benjamin Graves

In Memoriam - five songs

Composed: 2018
Soprano, flute, clarinet in A, violin, cello
Texts (respectively): A. E. Housman, Edward Thomas, Leslie Coulson, Richard Aldington, Willoughby Weaving

  1. Here we lie dead
  2. In Memoriam
  3. War
  4. Sunsets
  5. Flanders

Duration 14 minutes
First performance: Mimi Doulton (soprano) and Cambridge University New Music Ensemble: Catriona Bourne (flute), Ben Graves (clarinet), Leo Appel (violin), Dan Gilchrist (cello), cond. Patrick Bailey, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 22.11.18
Performance credit: Mimi Doulton, Catriona Bourne, Ben Graves, Leo Appel, Dan Gilchrist, Patrick Bailey

Marvellous Sweet Music (Songs from The Tempest)

Composed: 2016-20
2 sopranos, 2 clarinets, 2 cellos
​Texts: William Shakespeare
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  1. Come unto these yellow sands
  2. Interlude: Be not afeard (part 1)
  3. Full fathom five
  4. Interlude: Be not afeard (part 2)
  5. While you here do snoring lie
  6. Interlude: Be not afeard (part 3)
  7. I shall no more to sea
  8. Epilogue: Be not afeard (part 4)

Duration 22 minutes

Three Folksongs

Composed: 2022
Medium voice and piano
Texts: Traditional
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  1. Scarborough Fair
  2. Cold Blows The Wind
  3. The Trees They Do Grow High

​Duration 14 minutes
First performance: Julien Van Mellaerts (baritone) and Jocelyn Freeman (piano), Penkhull Festival, 16.9.22

Five Emily Dickinson Poems

Composed: 2022
Soprano and piano
Texts: Emily Dickinson
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  1. The Everlasting Clocks
  2. A Snowflake
  3. Trinkets
  4. The Bobolink
  5. Sunsets

Duration 10 minutes