Extracts from a rough mix of the second song in the Gutenberg sequence, based on Mendelssohn's "Festgesang" of 1840.  Here Lyrian interpret "Vaterland in deinen gauen" in four movements (the extract consist of movements 1, part of 2 and 4). The image shows nineteenth-century portraits of Gutenberg (phoney, of course, as no true likeness survives) and Mendelssohn. To these two gentlemen belong the credit ...

Hail Gutenberg (extract)

A progressive rock symphony by Lyrian, written to mark the fiftieth birthday of David Richard Nash (an elderly entomologist). It is a tale of chivalric mystery, of battle, dragons and the magic of a curious enchanter who holds the knights of Evagor in thrall ...

Evagor

This is the song I sang at the farewell party for the Bodleian Bibliography Room at the Story Museum on 21 August. The sound quality is not great, I am afraid ....

Let's drink to the chases ...

A choir and orchestra of Bodleian Libraries' librarians sing and play at the Carol Concert, held in the Bodleian's Divinity School on 17 December 2015. Conducted by Diane Bergman and Alice Stainer. With Ruth Arstall at the Piano.

Bodleian Carol Concert, 17 December 2015

A draft of a song from Lyrian's forthcoming concept album "The Jester's Quest in the City of Glass".  This song tells a small part of the Jester's story, and also pays tribute to the early work of another progressive rock band, the style of which Lyrian are here attempting to copy ...

I Trespass in the Kingdom of the Black Doll

Track 6 from the 2008 album Nightingale Hall. The music and lyrics were written many years ago (around 1978), but were only revised and recorded in 2007/2008.

Unknown Album (20/01/2008 22:24:43)

The lovers under the tree

A musical interpretation of Oscar Wilde's fairy-tale "The nightingale and the rose". All music and lyrics by Paul W. Nash (the lyrics after Wilde).

The Nightingale and the Rose

A simple song, recorded for St Valentine's Day. When I sang the vocals I had a cold, so they are a little more nasal than usual ...

Lyrian - Fabula Mirandae

A musical description of the birth, life and death of a mighty oak.

The Mighty Oak

A draft (very unfinished) of a song for Side Project ...

A Little Girl Lost / A Little Girl Reborn

BIHY

I am a songwriter and musician, working with two bands Lyrian (progressive rock) and The Blossom (progressive folk). I play many instruments (all badly), and also run Medieval Records. In my other life I am a librarian, bibliographer, printer, teacher, editor, printing historian, typographical designer and lounger.
 

PaulWNash

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