Peter Lawson

Orchestration: Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass Burlesque in the Burren started life as the third movement of the composer's 'The Grand Design Quartet', subtitled 'Song of the Common Spotted Orc...

The Song of the Irish Lady's Tresses Orchid, written in 1987 for Maura and David Presly and Simon Desorgher, was the twelfth to be written in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight...

The 'Song of the Heath Spotted Orchid' is the thirty-sixth to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britain and Ireland - for various instrumental and orc...

The Song of the Creeping Lady's Tresses Orchid for violin and piano was written in 1990 and was extensively re-written in 2015. It is the eighteenth in a projected series of musical portraits of the f...

The Song of the Slender-Lipped Helleborine, for violin and guitar, was written in 1983 for the violinist Stephen Bentley-Klein, who took part in its first performance. It was the third to be written i...

The Song of the Young's Helleborine is associated with a cycle of musical portraits of the 48 wild orchids of Britain and Ireland. It is not so much a portrait of one of the numbered separate species,...

The Sword-leaved (or Narrow-leaved) Helleborine, 'Cephalanthera longifolia,' is a fairly substantial orchid, growing up to 60 cms in height. It can easily be distinguished from its nearest relative, t...

The Lady Orchid, 'Orchis purpurea,' grows up to a metre high with broad oblong-to-lanceolate, bright-green, fleshy, shiny leaves up to 15 cms long with up to fifty inflorescences on the flower spike....

The 'Song of the Broad-Leaved Marsh Orchid' is the thirty-seventh to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britain and Ireland - for various instrumental...

IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER [5 minutes], PERSONENT HODIE [3 minutes], LULLAY MY LIKING [3 minutes], MASTERS IN THIS HALL [3 1/2 minutes]. These four carols, written or originally arranged by Gustav Holst,...

Chorales at Christmas' is, in essence, three Chorale Preludes based on well-known carols arranged for choir and orchestra. There is a Mixed Voice Choir (SATB) Vocal Score with Piano (or organ) accompa...

The Entertainer was one of the most original of many piano rags written by the American composer-pianist Scott Joplin (1868-1917). It was published in 1902, and is subtitled "A Rag Time Two Step", whi...

This is another addendum to the musical portraits of the 48 wild orchids of Britain and Ireland. This fiftieth portrait is for a newcomer, probably due to climate change. The Greater Tongue Orchid Ser...

Written in 2002-4, The Grand Design Quartet is dedicated to Paul and Charlotte Houlton by way of thanks for a holiday in France. The title takes its name from their Graphic Design company in Croydon....

Orchestration: Solo Treble Recorder, Harp, Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass). The Lesser Twayblade is a type of orchid, a miniature plant, found in Britain almost exculsively in Scotlan...

The Song of the Green-Winged Orchid was written in 1986 for Simon Desorgher who gave the first performance in Putney Parish Church later that year. It was the eleventh to be written in a projected ser...