While Robert Burns is celebrated today for his body of poetry the composer of Auld Lang Syne was also the composer or arranger of more than three hundred songs. A Rosebud by My Early Walk is set to the traditional tune The Shepherd’s Wife and it was a favourite of drawing room musicians for many years. According to at least one researcher the ‘rosebud’ was the daughter of a family with whom Burns lived while recovering from a broken leg. The girl was just twelve years old and as a young musician played Burns's songs to him on harpsichord. The sheet music includes a version in C and in D.

For Medium Voice and Piano. A red red rose (Robert Burns) was written in August 1967. So we'll go no more a-roving (Lord Byron) was written March 1971 and became the principal material for the Organ Concerto. Schubert in Blue is an arrangement of the three Shakespeare settings which Schubert made in July 1826 designed as an unusual tribute on the 150th anniversary of the composers death.