[Full programme note here]

What Shall I Sing? (1982) is a collection of short songs on various texts, mostly traditional nursery rhymes, for soprano and two clarinets. The work was commissioned by Karen Jackson for Ian Taylor and first performed at the 1983 Helmsley Festival.
 

1. Sing, sing (1)                                                0'39

2. Dame Trot & her cat                                    0'28

3. Round and round                                        1'28
4. The Common Cormorant
            (a patriotic allegory)                            1'18
5. Peas & Honey                                             0'25
6. Granfa' Grigg                                              0'21
7. Roman Wall Blues                                      2'34
8. Sing, sing (2)                                               0'43
9. Three young rats                                         1'20
10. Pig's Jig, or Pig of the Middleway            0'41
11. A man of words                                        3'15
12. Wind among the pines                              0'59
13. The more fool am I                                   1'21