Setting for reciter and solo violin of the first three paragraph's of Wilfred Owen's poem 'The Little Mermaid' (after Hans Christian Anderson) as might be depicted in a stained glass window as a homage to the poet.

Music in Stained Glass 1:  Pink Shimmering Streams of Light (Electro acoustic version 2022)

Inspired by the red kites flying over the South Oxfordshire landscape

RED KITE For Violin and Piano (Rev. 2023 demo)

Music for solo flute or alto flute with an eastern flavour.

Sheherazade

Sheherazade II (for solo flute)

Text by Simon Armitage
Music by David Breeze

Police are hunting high and low
for the thief who nicked the winter snow.
Who got their mitts on those glittery days?
The Arctic fox, the motorway says.
But the star of the north is the star of truth.

Majors and ministers want to know
what on earth became of the British snow.
December went AWOL - who’s to blame?
The Arctic hare, said the aeroplane.
But the star of the north is the star of truth.

Bishops are wondering… where did it go,
the magical heavenly Christmassy snow?
There isn’t a flake of the stuff in the air
and the chimney points at the polar bear.
But the star of the north is the star of truth.
The star of truth is the star of the north

Polaris  (BBC Radio 3 carol competition entry 2023)

Written in 2023 in memory of my mother. This arrangement is for string quartet.

D.M.B for String Quartet 2024 (demo)

For piano keyboard (with sustaining pedal), voice and amplification

Inspired by the astronomical charts found inside the tombs of ancient Egyptian mummies.
Betty Hill drew a star map whilst undergoing regression hypnosis following the apparent abduction of Betty and her husband Barney  by extra terrestrial beings, interrupting their drive home late one night in New Hampshire USA in 1961.


Five Improvisations:  No 5  Star Map (for Betty Hill)

For piano (keyboard and internal piano strings) with sustaining pedal, claves, desk bell and wine glasses, and amplification

Inspired by the presentation of gifts to the Gods in the tombs of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt

Five Improvisations :   No 4  The Presentation of Gifts

For piano (inside strings and sustaining pedal), voice, maracas and amplification.

Inspired by pictures of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II

Five Improvisations:  No 3 The Chant of Ramesses

For piano (keyboard and inside strings) with sustaining pedal and amplification

Inspired by a picture of an open sarcophagus (stone coffin) from ancient Egypt



Five Improvisations :   No 2  Opening the Sarcophagus

For piano (inside strings and keyboard) with sustaining pedal and amplification

Walking into the unknown

Five Improvisations:  No 1  Walk into the Wild Space

A piano arrangement of Mantovani's version of André Previn's music for the 1962 film 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'

Mr Previn, Mantovani and me...theme from The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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