The guitar for Davies seems to be an updated lute and like his Elizabethan and Jacobean predecessors he finds the sound of plucked strings suited both to dancing and to contemplation. The outer movements of this short sonataare quick the first being in clear ABAB form with a short recitando introduction the finale being a kind of hobbledehoy galliard. In between comes a slow movement of counterpoint and ornament.Duration c. 11mins.

Farewell to Stromness is a piano interlude from The Yellow Cake Revue a sequence of cabaret-style numbers against uranium mining in the Orkney Islands. The Revue was first performed at the St Magnus Festival Orkney by Eleanor Bron with the composer at the piano in June 1980.This performance inspired Timothy Walker to transcribe Farewell to Stromness for solo Guitar. He performed it two days later in Kirkwall Cathedral as part of the same festival.

The story of how the spiders teach two children who have been tormenting the insects in the garden a salutary lesson during which they learn a great deal about these creatures and recognise the wonder of the insect world. Thesongs include simple recorder and percussion parts and guitar chords.