Donald Swann (Composer)
Born: 30th September 1923, Llanelli, Wales
Died: 23rd March 1994, London, England
Nationality: Welsh
Donald Ibrahim Swann was a Welsh-born composer, musician, singer and entertainer. He was one half of Flanders and Swann, writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Swann
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Interview,
Christopher Glynn on the songs of Donald Swann
19th July 2017
Katherine talks to the British pianist about the prolific song-writing career of a composer best known for his comical collaborations with Michael Flanders.
All Works: Swann, D
- A collection of songs (1)
- Four lyrics from In memoriam (1)
- Six songs to poems by William Blake (1)
- Two sonnets by Edna St Vincent Millay (1)
- A Happy Song (1)
- A red, red rose (1)
- A Song of the Weather (1)
- A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) (2)
- A word on my ear (3)
- An invite to eternity (1)
- Arcades (1)
- Bilbo's Last Song (3)
- Dark rose of my heart (1)
- Design for Living (1)
- Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson (1)
- Greensleeves (1)
- He wishes for the cloths of heaven (1)
- I'm a Gnu (1)
- Ill Wind (2)
- In the mist (1)
- It was a lover, and his lass (1)
- Je Suis le Ténébreux (1)
- Joyful Noise (1)
- Kokoraki - A Greek Song (1)
- Longing (1)
- Madeira, M'Dear? (2)
- Marguerite (1)
- Misalliance (2)
- Moods (2) (1)
- Oh, why are the roses so pale? (1)
- Old songs of lost love (1)
- Philological Waltz (1)
- Raiders' dawn (1)
- Satellite Moon (1)
- See, dearest, how the rose (1)
- She is all harmony, all wonder (1)
- Some people's dreams (1)
- Song Of Reproduction (1)
- Stopping by woods (1)
- The Armadillo (2)
- The Elephant Song (1)
- The harlot’s house (1)
- The Hippopotamus Song (Mud, mud, glorious mud) (3)
- The Isles of Greece (1)
- The Reluctant Cannibal (1)
- The Rhinoceros Song (1)
- The Sloth (1)
- The Slow Train (1)
- The Spider (1)
- The Wart Hog (3)
- The Wild Boar (1)
- The youth of the heart (1)
- Too Many Cookers (1)
- Two poems by Christina Rossetti (1)
- Two poems by Thomas Hardy (1)
- Vanessa (1)
- We'll go no more a-roving (1)
- Ya vas lyubil 'I loved you once' (1)