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The Song of the Bird's-Nest Orchid was written in 1982 for Reiko Isobe. It was the fifth to be written in a series of musical portraits of the 48 species of wild orchids in Britain and Ireland. The B...

The Song of the Lizard Orchid , written in 2012 for the double piano duet team Piano 40 for a Purcell Room concert, is the 29th to be written of a projected cycle of musical portraits of the 48 wild o...

My Piano Sonata Op.1 was begun in 1988 and completed in its original form in 1995. Further work on the piece was carried out subsequently at various times until the Sonata was finally finished in 2009...

The Three Sonatinas Op.2 were originally written in the mid to late 1980s. Some of these pieces are more or less unchanged from this time, having received the mildest of editorial handling. Other move...

The Three Sonatinas Op.2 were originally written in the mid to late 1980s. Some of these pieces are more or less unchanged from this time, having received the mildest of editorial handling. Other move...

This is strikingly different in style to all my other piano music to date. Employing twelve-note procedures throughout, it is to some degree a response to newer musical influences encountered at unive...

1. Prelude: Allegro con brio 2. Air: Largo tranquillo 3. Invention: Allegro moderato 4. Romance: Adagio ma con moto 5. Fugue: Allegro con brio This suite was written in 2010. Squeezing five brief move...

1. Stags in Knole Park: Andante con moto 2. Aira Force: Andante con moto 3. The Haunted Abbey:Presto con moto 4. Harvest Moon:Largo 5. Harlech Castle: Andante maestoso 6. Innisfallen Lake: Andante sos...

Eight pieces for piano solo. Private Detective; Scene d'Amour; The' 'eavy Mob; Happy Solitaire; Suburban Sunday; The Flapper; Solitude; Anaiis. The first six pieces in this collection were originally...

Eleven short pieces for piano solo. Victorian Lady; Mr. Punch; Ceremonial; Toy Soliders; Pagoda Garden; Circus Clowns; 'Rag' Doll; Cakewalk; Lazy Old Joe; Flapper Girl; Cabbage White. All of these pie...

The Song of the Fen Orchid, was written for James Kirby in 1985-6 and revised in 1990 and again in 2012-3. It was the ninth to be written in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the 48 wild orchi...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes (2nd db.Piccolo & Alto Flute), 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons, 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (3 players: Snare Drum, Triangle,...

The Song of the Early Spider Orchid, for piano duet, was planned in 1988 as the 23rd to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the 48 wild orchids of Britain and Ireland, but remained very much...

This work was written for the pianist Yuki Matsuzawa in November 2015. It is the thirty-second to be composed in a projected series of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britai...

Berceuse; Scherzo; Intermezzo; Finale These Four Piano Pieces were composed for the Italian pianist Giorgio Vercillo following a 2004 recital at St James's Piccadilly with the violinist Peter Fisher w...

Three light and tuneful pieces for solo piano - around grade 4 standard. For Nina Marie; For Rowena; For Mike - Three musical gifts to my granddaughter, daughter and son-in-law. 'For Nina Marie' was m...

The Lady's Slipper Orchid, 'Cypripedium calceolus', is immediately recognisable by its large, yellow lip, resembling a slipper. It attracts small burrowing bees, who fall into it. The slipper's walls...

A sequence of six short movements composed for Peter Thorogood's own scenario, 'Harlequin at the Fair.' 'Overture:' Pantaloon is chasing Columbine in the hope of a kiss but the ugly Brighella spoils h...

Halcyon Days' recalls the pleasures of youth and is an earlier suite revised in 1949 while Peter Thorogood was studying at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. It consists of five pieces: 'By t...

The 'Piano Sonata - A Portrait of the Monkey Orchid', with optional narrator, is the final piece to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britain and Irel...

Edited by Peter Lawson, who has also done an orchestral arrangement of these three marches (Goodmusic GMCL213 and GMCL214), here is a new clear edition of these favourite pieces. Schubert's 'Trois Mar...

The 'Song of the Fly Orchid' is the thirty-ninth to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britain and Ireland. The Fly Orchid, 'Ophrys insectifera', is ar...

Though scored for 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and 3 percussion (snare drum, tambourine, cymbals), the fanfare can be performed by trumpets or trombones without one another and with or without percussion....

These 'fun variations' on the famous Paganini Caprice No.24 were commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival and first performed on August 21st 1989 by the London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble in St.Catherine...

A piece for brass quintet (2 Trumpets in Bb, Horn in F, Trombone and Tuba) which features the trombone. Score and parts included. The first four notes of the trombone solo came to me out of the air. Y...