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Lux et Ombra: light and shadow - for brass quintet of two trumpets in Bb (or Cornet and Flugelhorn), Horn in F, Trombone and Tuba. The music suggests an interplay between the forces of light and darkn...

The Song of the Small White Orchid, written in 2013 for John Turner in celebration of his seventieth birthday, is the thirtieth to be written in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eig...

The 'Song of the Lesser Butterfly Orchid,' for the tiny (and remarkably agile!) Sopranino Recorder (or alternatively, Piccolo) and piano, is the forty-third to be written in a cycle of musical portrai...

Imogen Holst, the daughter of Gustav Holst, wrote this suite for viola in 1930, though the exact date is unknown. It was first performed on 14th December 1931 at the Ballet Club Theatre, 2a Ladbroke R...

This work was dedicated by John Barbirolli (1899-1970) to the Scottish born virtuoso violist and teacher William Primrose (1904-1982) who provided the fingering and bowing in the viola part. This tran...

This piece, with string orchestra accompaniment, was composed in 1987 for Jonathan Mallalieu, now artistic director of Beauville Arts in France, then a gifted viola player at Plymouth College, where C...

A lament in rondo form for solo 'cello During the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina, on May 27th 1992, a bakery in the pedestrian precinct Vase Miskina in Sarajevo, happened to have a supply of flour and...

This work, a cello concerto in all but name, was inspired by an old black and white photograph taken on Sheerness beach with a very young Philip Henderson huddling up to Alice, his mother, at the wate...

This work was commissioned by Isabel Young in May 1999 and written in June of that year. She had commissioned a piece for 'cello and piano for her 75th birthday. The composer's first thoughts were to...

This is the thirty-eighth to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britain and Ireland for various instrumental and orchestral combinations. The White Hel...

A Paris & Tango Erotique' - The two 'Etudes Amicales', or 'Friendly Studies', were written for two pairs of friends and are spontaneous gestures of appreciation for their musicianship and friendship....

An arrangement of Paul's beautiful setting of 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal', one of the 'Old-Fashioned Love Songs' originally composed for solo voice. (Goodmusic GM262) 'Duration 3 minutes'

The Song of the Military Orchid, for five flutes, was written in 1982 for Simon Desorgher, who subsequently broadcast it on Radio 3, playing the first flute against the other four flutes, which he had...

The Pink and White Terraces near Rotorua, with their thermal pools, were known as the eighth wonder of the world and were New Zealand's most famous beauty spot and tourist attraction in the nineteenth...

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...

Norfolk Idyll' is based on my score for the celebrated 1972 BBC TV documentary 'The Vanishing Hedgerows', presented by author and naturalist Henry Williamson. The film was Williamson's reaction to mod...

Lyric Suite is dedicated to Sharon my wife and is inspired by the happiness of married life in our Tudor home near the South Downs. Sharon grew up north of the Downs within sight of Chanctonbury Ring...

These four pieces were all recorded for light music sessions in the early days of BBC Radio London. 1. Autumn Gold: The tune came to me when walking in Ashridge Forest one autumn. 2. Blue Flute: My ve...

Here is Beethoven's most famous piano piece, the first movement of his Moonlight Sonata, in an arrangement for choir with a soloist. The piece can be accompanied by piano or by an orchestra. For full...

For choir and orchestra or concert band, or choir and piano. A non-stop medley of tunes from World War One from recruiting through to the Last Post. This arrangement can be performed by a choir with e...

The Fantasia on British Sea Songs was arranged by Sir Henry Wood in 1905 to mark the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar. It is a medley of British sea songs and for many years has been seen as an in...

This is an arrangement for female voice choir (SSAA) and piano of one of the movements from Paul Carr's 'Requiem for an Angel'. The words are by Jack Larson (1928-2015) 'Do I love you more than a day?...

An original light-hearted song of celebration. Although suitable for any birthday with a zero on the end, it would perhaps be most appropriate for birthdays in the range 40-100 of a person, organisati...

Probably the best-known song from The Merry Widow arranged for choir and piano by Peter Lawson. The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar with libretto by Viktor Leon...