Watch Music for Solo Voice 

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Films by Paula Downes:
Songs from Spoon River (Soprano/Mezzo & Piano)
Songs of Love 
  (Soprano & Piano)
Lost Love
(Soprano, Flute (or recorder), Cello (or Viola da Gamba), Piano (or harpsichord))
Finished Fields
(Soprano or Baritone & Piano)
Old Love's Domain (Soprano or Tenor & Piano)
Dreamland (soprano, soprano saxophone and piano)
Sacred Mass for Solo Voice
Celtic Rhapsody for Soprano & Symphony Orchestra
Songs of Persephone (Soprano & Piano)
Fours Songs of Bluebeard's Wife (Soprano, Violin, Piano)
The Door of Winter (Soprano, Violin, Viola, Piano)
Five Holy Songs (counter-tenor, mezzo-soprano, soprano or baritone with 3 violins, 2 violas, 2 'cellos and double bass)


Live performances
Dreamland
Sacred Mass for Solo Voice
Canopy of Crows (Voice, Viola, Viola, Piano)
Canopy of Crows (Voice and Piano version)
My friend the heron (Voice and Piano version)

Two Songs of William Shakespeare



Also listen (on Soundcloud) to:
Casterbridge Fair (Baritone & Piano)
Old Love's Domain (Tenor & Piano)
Five Holy Songs (Baritone, Countertenor, Mezzo or Soprano with Strings)



Read about other works for solo voice by Andrew Downes:
Vocal Solo and Song Cycles
Cantatas and Oratorios 


Films by Paula Downes

In 2008, Paula Downes embarked on a long-term project of combining film images with songs by Andrew Downes.  Five song cycles can be seen on her DVD entitled, 'Songs of Love and War'.  Here is the trailer:

Songs from Spoon River
Five short films by Paula Downes, completed in April 2009, with music by Andrew Downes & poetry by Edgar Lee Masters. Each film is narrated by a different ghost who tells of her former life as if reciting her own epitaph from the grave. This set of five films was showcased at the 2014 American Online Film Awards, and was voted for by the public as one of the top ten films of the foreign music video category before being chosen as one of three nominees. Songs from Spoon River is included in Paula's recent DVD of all her films, Songs of Love & War

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View each song separately (these links swill open new browsers):

Ollie McGee
Russian Sonia
Rebecca Wasson
Dora Williams
Sarah Brown


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Songs of Love
Four short films by Paula Downes, completed in August 2011, with music by Andrew Downes & poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson and Eliza Acton. Songs of Love is included in Paula's recent DVD of all her films, Songs of Love & War

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View each song separately (these links swill open new browsers):

How Do I Love Thee
To My Dear And Loving Husband
One Blessing Had I
I Love Thee


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Lost Love
Four short films by Paula Downes, completed in July 2012, with music by Andrew Downes & poetry by Thomas Hardy. Lost Love is included in Paula's recent DVD of all her films, Songs of Love & War

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View each song separately (these links swill open new browsers):

The Walk
Lost Love
A Night in November
Last Love Word


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Finished Fields
Four short films by Paula Downes, released in November 2012 for Remembrance Day, with music by Andrew Downes, poetry by Wilfred Owen and original First World War footage. Finished Fields is included in Paula's recent DVD of all her films, Songs of Love & War

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View each song separately (these links swill open new browsers):

1914
Futility
Asleep
Happiness


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Old Love's Domain
Five short films by Paula Downes, released in January 2013, with music by Andrew Downes & poetry by Thomas Hardy. Old Love's Domain is included in Paula's recent DVD of all her films, Songs of Love & War. (This song cycle was originally composed for tenor.)

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View each song separately (these links swill open new browsers):

The Division
Something Tapped
Where The Picnic Was
At Castle Boterel
The Curtains Now Are Drawn


View the films on Paula Downes' Website (this will open a new browser)


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A film by Soprano Paula Downes released in September 2017 with music by Andrew Downes and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe. Piano - David Trippett, Soprano Saxophone - Sally MacTaggart


Live performance:

Paula Downes (soprano), Anna Downes (violin), David Trippett (piano)

Part 1



Part 2

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SACRED MASS FOR SOLO VOICE 
A film by Paula Downes released in 2018. Music by Andrew Downes, Soprano Paula Downes
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Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei

Live performance by Paula Downes at Keats House, Hampstead, London, May 2016.

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CELTIC RHAPSODY FOR SOPRANO & SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 
A film by Paula Downes released in 2019. Poetry by Anon., Thomas Moore, William Butler Yeats. Music by Andrew Downes, Soprano Paula Downes
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View each movement separately (these links will open in new browsers):
1. The Land Oversea
2. The Meeting of the Waters
3. Celtic Twilight


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FOUR SONGS OF BLUEBEARD'S WIFE
Soprano, Violin and Piano
Poems by Julie Boden, Music by Andrew Downes.
Multitrack recording and video by Soprano and Violinist Paula Downes
Pianist: David Trippett
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1. Dawn
2. Noon
3. Evening
4. Night


LIVE PERFORMANCE:
The Himley Trio
Paula Downes Soprano
Anna Downes Violin
Tony Bridgewater Piano

Downing Place, Cambridge, 21/07/2021

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CANOPY OF CROWS - from the Song Cycle, THE DOOR OF WINTER  - Soprano, Violin, Viola and Piano
Poems by Bernard Davis, Music by Andrew Downes
Live performance at Wednesbury Art Gallery, 12th April 2017
Soprano Paula Downes, Violin Anna Downes, Viola Cynthia Downes, Piano Tony Bridgewater
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CANOPY OF CROWS - from the Song Cycle, THE DOOR OF WINTER
  - Soprano and Piano version (originally for Soprano, Violin, Viola and Piano)
Poems by Bernard Davis, Music by Andrew Downes
Live performance at East Finchley Methodist Church, 14th April 2019
Soprano Paula Downes, Piano Richard Black
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MY FRIEND THE HERON - from the Song Cycle, THE DOOR OF WINTER  - Soprano and Piano version (originally for Soprano, Violin, Viola and Piano)
Poems by Bernard Davis, Music by Andrew Downes
Live performance at East Finchley Methodist Church, 14th April 2019
Soprano Paula Downes, Piano Richard Black
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TWO SONGS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
for soprano and piano
1. Madrigal
2. Blind Love
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Soprano Paula Downes and Piano David Trippett for #andrewdownes70, August 2020

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SONGS OF PERSEPHONE - soprano and piano
Poems by the composer's granddaughter. Video by soprano Paula Downes, performing with pianist David Trippett.
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View each movement separately (these links will open in new browsers):
1. Happy Clouds
2. Rainbows
3. The Majestic Sun

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THE DOOR OF WINTER - soprano, violin, viola, piano
Poetry by Bernard Davis. Music video by soprano/violinist/violist Paula Downes, with pianist David Trippett
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View each movement separately (these links will open in new browsers):
1. Man you are dust
2. Let go
3. A Canopy of Crows
4. My Friend the Heron
5. All Souls Night


FIVE HOLY SONGS
A setting of 5 poems by John Donne for counter-tenor, mezzo-soprano, soprano or baritone with 3 violins, 2 violas, 2 'cellos and double bass. Music video by soprano/violinist/violist Paula Downes.
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View each movement separately (these links will open in new browsers):
1. I Sing the Progress of a Deathless Soul
2. Spit in my Face Ye Jews
3. The Virgins
4. When Senses, Which They Soldiers Are
5. Hear us, O Hear us, Lord.


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