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Michael Head

voc, p, 1900-1976 GB
Singer / Musician / Composer of Classical
A.k.a. Michael Dewar Head

Michael Head (28 January 1900 – 24 August 1976) was a British composer, pianist, organist and singer who left some enduring works still popular today. He was noted for his association with the Royal Academy of Music. His compositional oeuvre mainly consists of songs, as well as choral works and few larger-scale pieces such as a piano concerto.

     
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • Piano
Popular Tracks   
The Little Road To Bethlehem on Christmas Carols From Tewkesbury Abbey by Tewkesbury Abbey Choir
The Little Road to Bethlehem on Christmas with Malakai by Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Malakai Bayoh, Scott Price & Belgravia Chamber Orchestra
Candlelight Carol on Christmas with Malakai by Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Malakai Bayoh, Scott Price & Belgravia Chamber Orchestra
Money, O! on Silent Noon by Bryn Terfel & Malcolm Martineau
Sweet Chance That Led My Steps Abroad (Arr. for Voice & Piano) on The Sublime Voice of Lynda Barrett by Lynda Barrett & Philip Stopford
B:3 The Quiet Wood on Piano Exam Pieces 2023 & 2024, ABRSM Grade 1 by ABRSM
The Three Mummers on The Christmas Album by Benjamin Appl, Regensburger Domspatzen, Munich Radio Orchestra & Florian Helgath
6 Sea Songs: No. 2, Limehouse Reach on Michael Head: Songs by Michael Head, Ailish Tynan, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn
The Singer on Fairy Songs by Charlotte de Rothschild
A Green Cornfield on This Other Eden: A Landscape of English Poetry and Song by Kitty Whately, Joseph Middleton & Kevin Whatley

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Discography
Title Artist Year Type
Songs Of EnglandGraham Trew, Roger Vignoles - Charles Hubert Hastings Parry / Charles Villiers Stanford / Frank Bridge / Frederick Delius / Roger Quilter / Sir Arthur Somervell / William Denis Browne / Michael Head / Peter Warlock / Armstrong Gibbs / Patrick Hadley1984Album
Jacqueline DelmanJacqueline Delman, Emil Dekov, Åke Olofsson, Gunilla von Bahr, Lucia Negro / Dmitri Shostakovich, Olivier Messiaen, Moses Pergament, Frank Martin, Michael Head1976Album
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