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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...

Now Comes Beauty was originally composed as a song for voice and piano (GM055), but I have since made versions of it for unaccompanied mixed voice choir (GM052) and for string orchestra (GMCO090). In...

A collection of five pieces by English composers, arranged for violin and piano by Philip Lane. Intermezzo from The Crown of India Suite - Edward Elgar Scene de Nuit from Suite de Ballet - Gustav Hols...

A tuneful piece for baroque string orchestra but with a modern sound' was the brief. The Chamber Ensemble of London first played the result at St Martin-in-the-Fields in 2005 and later recorded it. Ho...

Sonatina 'on the reburial of King Richard III' for solo violin. When Em Marshall-Luck of the English Music Festival asked me to write a work for solo violin on the subject of King Richard III I had no...

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,...

Three latter-day salon pieces: A Rapture of Roses; A Shimmer of Champagne; Rhapsody in Chocolate The third of my 'Three Valentines, Rhapsody in Chocolate' was composed in 2007, ever since when I had t...

Two easy pieces in French folk song style for violin and piano. 'Lucie' Lucie picks flowers in the meadow. 'Naughty boy!' He makes his mother cry, pulls his old grandfather's beard and empties the sal...

Chamerolles is a fairytale French renaissance chateau built by the romantically named Lancelot du Lac, (Lancelot of the Lake,) which has been restored and its ancient gardens replanted. It is bathed i...

A suite in one movement based on characters from G.W.Pabst's infamous 1929 silent film Pandora's Box, an updating to 1920s Berlin of Frank Wedekind's scandalous Lulu plays. The music is drawn from my...

Never was a king more greatly loved in his lifetime yet more grossly maligned after his death than Richard III. This is a fanfare to celebrate the discovery of Richard III under a Leicester car park i...

Whilst scoring a TV play starring actor Robert Hardy, I was asked by him to write a short organ piece in memory of his recently deceased mother-in-law, the famous star of stage and screen Gladys Coope...

A lovely arrangement for organ solo of Paul's unaccompanied choral setting of 'Drop, drop, slow tears' (see GM214). 'Duration 4 minutes'

Warlock's well-known 'Capriol', a six movement suite inspired by dances depicted in Arbeau's 'Orchesographie' of 1588 in a version newly arranged for organ by Malcolm Rudland. Includes detailed progra...

The American organist-composer Carson Cooman found old organ music by British composer Clive Jenkins in a second hand shop on a visit to London, liked it and later had it republished in the USA. Carso...

Four Pieces: Plaint, Tuba Tune, Refrains & Toccata-Rondo. Plaint (2013) was written for Murray Forbes Somerville in memory of his mother Brenda (1912-2013). It is a quiet, lyric meditation. Tuba Tune...

Gustav Holst started work on his second symphony on 30th July 1933. He decided to begin with a scherzo. He finished the first sketch on 18th August 1933. During the final eight months of his life, he...

This work is an arrangement and orchestration of Malcolm Arnold's Piano Sonata, which he wrote in 1942, produced for alto saxophone and strings by David Ellis in 1994 at the request of the composer. I...

Four short pieces in different styles, all with an American flavour, for Eb or Bb saxophone and piano. The four pieces are: Just for Starters; Chat Show Host; Late Night Ballad; Cheeky Little Charlest...

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....

In 2006 when I was living on the beautiful island of Mallorca I wrote an Oboe Concerto for Nicholas Daniel who gave the premiere in May 2008 at The English Music Festival. Nick also recorded the work...

Summer Music' was originally composed in 2017 during the month of August; not a particularly good summer in the UK with rather too many days of windy wet weather. Perhaps this influenced my mood at th...

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...