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Orchestration: 2 Flutes (2nd db. Piccolo), 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba Timpani, Percussion [3 or 4 players: Suspended Cymbal, Snare Drum,S...

32 songs by Anglo-Irish composer Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (1882-1957) setting the text of James Joyce's 'Chamber Music'. The cycle is a kind of Irish Winterreise that adds significantly to the history...

Since my teenage years the music of French composer Michel Legrand has been a source of joy and inspiration. When I heard of his death in January 2019 I went straight to the piano and found this melod...

This is a version (rather than a reduction) for four hands on one piano, of the Variations on ‘Happy Birthday To You' for orchestra (Goodmusic GMCO140). It is intended for two players of a Grade 7 sta...

The solo part may be played either by harmonica or violin or flute (doubling piccolo). Whilst walking 'twixt castle and coast on Pevensey Levels one sunny winter's day a melody played incessantly in m...

A memorable piece in slow swing style. 4, 7, 11 - Counting the number of bars in the introduction, the main theme and the episodes reminded the composer of Germany's best-known house number, 4711 in G...

SSA choir with accompanmiment of piano or orchestra.Conservation! is an adaptation of the 'show-stopper' from my children's opera, Nessie. Set on the banks of Scotland's Loch Ness, the opera is the st...

Of all of Ivor Novello's hugely-successful musicals, "Perchance to Dream" received the longest run of performances, 1020 in all, at the London Hippodrome, starting in April 1945. The smash hit was "We...

A traditional French carol text set to new music by Tom Cunningham for two part (SA) upper voice choir and piano accompaniment. Duration c.3 minutes

SA+Men choir with accompanmiment of piano or orchestra.Conservation! is an adaptation of the 'show-stopper' from my children's opera, Nessie. Set on the banks of Scotland's Loch Ness, the opera is the...

SATB choir with accompanmiment of piano or orchestra.Conservation! is an adaptation of the 'show-stopper' from my children's opera, Nessie. Set on the banks of Scotland's Loch Ness, the opera is the s...

A superb new setting by Paul Carr of 'Go, Lovely Rose' by Edmund Waller (1606-1687) for SATB choir and piano. Duration 5 minutes

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways........ A new setting of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem for SATB choir and piano by Paul Carr. Duration about 4 minutes

In 2019, I attended a concert given in Bath, in which the opening work was Handel's Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne. Having never heard this work before, I was totally transfixed by the simplicity...

Ivor Novello was born David Ivor Davies, the son of David Davies and Clara Novello Davies in Cardiff in 1893. His father worked for the rent-collecting department of Cardiff City Council, while his mo...

Ivor Novello was born David Ivor Davies, the son of David Davies and Clara Novello Davies in Cardiff in 1893. His father worked for the rent-collecting department of Cardiff City Council, while his mo...

Of all of Ivor Novello's hugely-successful musicals, "Perchance to Dream" received the longest run of performances, 1020 in all, at the London Hippodrome, starting in April 1945. The smash hit was "We...

Text by Emily Bronte: Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom...

A setting of Christina Rossetti's words for SATB with orchestra or piano accompaniment. This is an arrangement taken from the "Winter" section of Paul's Four New Seasons for choir. It differs from the...

Scored for 3 Trumpets in Bb, Timpani, Organ, Strings, Mezzo-Soprano & Baritone Soloists and Mixed Voice Choir (SATB). Three movements lasting in total about 16 minutes, this lovely work uses poems by...

The Light of Love - A Requiem Mass for mixed voice choir with soprano saxophone, violoncello, harp and organ.Commissioned by Ken & Stella Palmer to celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary, this secon...