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THIRTY FINGERS is a series of books of various standards for three players on one piano. This work is for players of around Grades 6 to 8 standard. This is the first movement from Beethoven's fifth sy...

THIRTY FINGERS is a series of books of various standards for three players on one piano. This work is for players of around Grades 6 to 8 standard. This is the last movement from Tchaikovsky's sixth s...

Orchestration Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) Harp Mixed voice chorus (SATB) First performed in July 2005, this short work is a setting of two poems by Siegfried Sassoon: 'Everyone Sa...

Arrangiert für Violine (oder Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette) und Klavier.

A march by Weber, No.5 from his 'Six little pieces for piano duet' Op.3, arranged for either violin and piano, viola and piano or cello and piano by Watson Forbes.

O little one sweet.... - 17th century text set to music in a Caribbean style by Phlip Lane, for two part upper voice choir (SA) and piano with optional flutes or recorders. Duration 3 minutes

Russian Scenes are pictures of the old Russia my forbears would have known. The melodies are simple and folk-like, the middle movement being a lament, something which the possession of Russian blood e...

'Mermaids and Muses' is the generic term for my closest friends and colleagues: those whose talent, beauty and friendship are a source of continual joy and inspiration to me. One such is Hispano-Frenc...

A Flirtation of Flutes (scored for three flutes plus alto flute) is a jazzy, fun work written as an antidote to all that beautiful, florid and impressionistic French flute music that I love! Flirtatio...

It started very modestly; years ago I composed a few pieces for two violins for students at Trinity College of Music in London. They enjoyed playing them and because my duets were very well received,...

Paul Lewis writes 'The two Sentimental Songs were originally written for bassoon and piano following lunches in the beautiful cathedral city of Chichester with the original dedicatee, bassoonist Aliso...

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....

The theme on which 'In Retrospect' is based comes from a work written in my teens and first performed in the early 1940s by the strings of Cape Town Municipal Orchestra. Since both my children have gr...

As in my earlier Miniature String Quartets the objective has been to write music that stems from the kinds of passage-work that will be familiar to players of an intermediate technical standard. This...