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A poem by Eva Cassidy, adapted by Deborah Rose and Dan Cassidy. 
Set to music by Ian C King.
With thanks to Hugh and Barbara Cassidy for permission to use Eva's words.
This track has been released on the album 'Song Be My soul' by Deborah Rose.

Music/Piano - Ian C King - www.iankingmusic.co.uk
Words - Eva Cassidy - www.evacassidy.org
Vocals - Deborah Rose - www.deborahrose.co.uk
Cello - Catherine Harper

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SPRINGTIME

Isn't it a miracle, crocuses bloom
Butterflies in April and rainbows in June
Daffodils and children have the same kind of smile
And you can take your shoes off and splash in water for a while

And you can hear angels singing in the cooing of a dove
Or give a person something simply out of love
and God will paint the colours on the clouds for us to see

And we can watch together, we can can watch together
You standing next to me.

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Springtime

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This track has been released on the album 'Song Be My Soul' by Deborah Rose. 

Words/Music - Ian C King - www.iankingmusic.co.uk
Vocals - Deborah Rose - www.deborahrose.co.uk
Flute - Praful Mystik - www.prafulmusic.com

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LITTLE BOAT

Little boat, lies uneasy, on the dark waves tonight
Do you feel safe within your harbour anchor tide?

Or do you long to break away, throw off your chain;
And sail beyond the rim of your horizon?

Little boat, are you afraid to go where life is still unknown?
D’you feel the world out there is far too big to face alone?

Well there are many other boats lying here with you
Together you can sail to oceans new

Little boat, o my timid soul, are you afraid to live?
The world can treat you right and you have much to give
The island lights across the bay shine like stars at night
Be ready for the dawn and sail towards the light
Sail towards the light, sail towards the light
Sail towards the light, towards the light.


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Little Boat

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Written for the angels to dance to in the local church Nativity play. 
Little girls in white angel wings, a candlelit church at Christmas time.


Music/Piano - Ian King  www.iankingmusic.co.uk
Recording engineers - James & David King

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Angel Dance

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This track has been released on the album 'from Root to Sky' 
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In the main tune, the violin swirls constantly around the same melody, with small variations each time, like a watery kaleidoscope. 
I was thinking of the whirlpools in the sea at Corryvreckan in Scotland when I wrote this piece.

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Music/Piano - Ian King - www.iankingmusic.co.uk
Violins - Amanda Bilson
Engineered by Scott Lannie at www.musicchamber.co.uk

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Whirlpools

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This track has been released on the album 'Song Be My Soul' by Deborah Rose.

Words - from the Victorian ballad 'The Lady of Shalott' 
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) - adapted by Ian King and Deborah Rose

Music/Piano - Ian C King - www.iankingmusic.co.uk
Vocals - Deborah Rose - www.deborahrose.co.uk
Violin - Dan Cassidy
Cello -  Catherine Harper  

Recorded by Andy Bell at the Hatch Studios
Mixed by Gavin Monaghan at Magic Garden Studios


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THE LADY OF SHALOTT                          

She weaves throughout the night and day
A magic web with colours gay
A curse is on her, so they say 
If she look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be
And so she weaveth steadily
And little other care hath she
The Lady of Shalott.

She lives inside the four gray towers               
Which overlook a space of flowers
The island holds her in its powers.

And moving thro’ a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year
She sees the world and highway near 
Wind on its way to Camelot.
And sometimes thro’ the mirror blue
The knights come riding two by two
She hath no loyal knight and true
The Lady of Shalott.

She lives inside the four gray towers               
Which overlook a space of flowers
The island holds her in its powers.

And when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed;
“I am half-sick of shadows” said
The Lady of Shalott.
Then from the bank and from the river
He flashed into the crystal mirror,
“Tirra lira” by the river
Sang the brave Sir Lancelot.

She lives inside the four gray towers               
Which overlook a space of flowers
The island holds her in its powers.

She left the web, she left the room
She saw the water-lily bloom
She saw the helmet and the plume
She looked down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide
And the mirror crack’d from side to side
“The curse is come upon me,” cried
The Lady of Shalott.

Then down she came at close of day,
She loosed a boat and down she lay,
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott.
And ere she reach’d upon the tide
The first house by the water-side,
Singing in her song she died,
The Lady of Shalott.

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Lady Of Shalott

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A tenor song from 'A Worcestershire Song Cycle', commissioned for the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, August 2011.

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Music/Piano - Ian C King 
Words - Chris Jaeger
Tenor - Wilhelm Theunissen - www.wilhelmtheunissen.com
Violin - Shulah Oliver - www.shulaholiver.co.uk



Reflections Of A Malvern Love Lost

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A mezzo-soprano song from 'A Worcestershire Song Cycle', commissioned for the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, August 2011.

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Music/Piano - Ian C King
Words - Chris Jaeger
Soprano - Hannah Atherton
Violin - Shulah Oliver - www.shulaholiver.co.uk
                   



The Bewdley Grenadier

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A tenor song from 'A Worcestershire Song Cycle' -commissioned for the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, August 2011.

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Music/Piano- Ian C King 
Words - Chris Jaeger
Tenor - Wilhelm Theunissen - www.wilhelmtheunissen.com
Violin - Shulah Oliver - www.shulaholiver.co.uk
Background Soprano - Claire Worboys



The Cathedral At Dusk

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This track is from the album 'from Root to Sky'
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Music/Piano - Ian King 
Violins - Claire King

Fire Dance

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Music co-written by Ian King and Steve Crawford
Recorded by Steve Crawford
Vocals - Laura Kirby

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Love in Winter

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Music/Words/Piano - Ian King  -  www.iankingmusic.co.uk
Vocals - Colette Todd  -  www.colette-todd.com
Backing Vocals - Helen Izod
Violins - Claire King 

Violin parts recorded by Andy Bell at the Hatch Studios, provided courtesy of Deborah Rose
Engineered by James King

Photo - Howard Willson

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THE DARK TRAVELLER

I heard you calling me across the wild wind
I heard you calling thru' the forest deep
I heard you calling on the city’s highways
I heard you calling in my darkest sleep.

I want you here to put your arms around me
And share the love that we had once before
I want you here to keep the fire burning
When winter’s icy fingers shake the door, shake the door.

I know you have a long road still to travel
And many countries you must journey thru'
But when you have the answers to your questions
The homeward path is waiting here for you.

I want you here to put your arms around me
And share the love that we had once before
I want you here to keep the fire burning
When winter’s icy fingers shake the door, shake the door.

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The Dark Traveller

First performance and radio broadcast of Ian's final choral commission - a new version of 'Away in A Manger', sung in Worcester Cathedral two days after he died on Wednesday, 16th December 2020.

Thank you to Kate Justice at BBC Hereford and Worcester, and Anne Renshaw from the Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir for the interview and such kind words.

Away In A Manger - BBC Radio Hereford And Worcester

Classical, Folk and Pop Music

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Ian C King

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