This showcases some of my music as performed by the Ravel Virtual Studio - the closest yet to a live professional performance for these pieces.

The String quintet is written for 2 violins 1 viola and 2 cellos (Boccherini style) and comprises four movements:

1st movement: "Marie for shame" is based on my setting of a Ronsard poem addressed to a young lady who will not get up in the morning.
He encourages her to bestir herself and to "gather rosebuds while she may", while she is still young.

2nd movement: Nocturne The young lady of the first movement returns to her pillow for another snooze!

3rd movement: Camp David A change of scene as the Yiddish folksong Ikh bin e meidel in de yoren (I am a maiden come of age) takes over and skips in a lovely camp quasi-Jewish dance

4th movement: Blue Boar Blue - a complete change here as the inspiration comes from the words of a love-lorn poet who has to spend his time studying, while his thoughts are on
punting down the river with his girlfriend in a "menthol flavou