Partituras para arpa solista

Scintillate the tintinnabulator' my maths master used to say when it was time to ring the school bell, adding his own take to Edgar Alan Poe's beautiful word 'tintinnabulations', devised to describe t...

These pieces are evocations of 16th and 17th century dance forms by a composer long fascinated by the period. The melodies are new and no genuine anticke (old English for antique) tunes are used. MONS...

Two pieces with the flavour of New York for harp solo - Streets and Avenues; A Walk in the Park. Edited for harp by Danielle Perrett, these are two of the 'Three Little Bites at the Big Apple', a set...

A collection of pieces evocative of an age of wandering minstrels, kings and castles, by a composer with a lifelong fascination for all things mediaeval. Having composed many works for pedal harp, Pau...

A collection of pieces from the contemplative to the downright silly, with a choice of local takeaway for added sustenance! Paul Lewis was inspired to write these pieces when his wife, Sharon Elizabet...

A photo of harpist Maia Darme, smiling beneath her umbrella in the Paris rain, inspired this Parisian-style waltz. 'S'il pleut a Paris, n'importe pas, c'est la pluie parisienne!' If it rains in Paris,...

Cradle Song & Music Box Polka' were commissioned by Graham and Jenny Pay as a gift for their daughter, harpist Camilla Pay, upon the birth of her second daughter, Claudia Poppy Knight, on November 17t...

The 'Trois Preludes' were composed in March 2006 to thank the dedicatees, guitarist Erik Marchelie and harpist Anne Mispelter, for their passionate performances of my music at the 'Journee avec le com...

In December 2018, browsing in an antique shop, I discovered a hand-coloured photographic print, dated 1900, of a loosely attired maiden with long wavy pre-Raphaelite hair bearing roses and gazing lang...

Unusually for a work of mine, the 'Sonatina' is neither pictorial nor programmatic, but is simply about the music itself and the instrument it is written for; it is in fact an attempt to contribute a...

Artist George Frederick Watts' famous personification of Hope (which appears on the cover) inspired mixed reactions when first exhibited in 1886 since it appeared to many to depict the exact opposite:...

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...

A gentle piece to induce reminiscence and memories of childhood, commissioned by harpist Margaret Watson for her mother Carol's eightieth birthday celebrations in November 2019. Using the English exte...

Rye Rambles' is a tone poem in three continuous sections written in 2019 and based on material from 'Rye Festival Suite', a work for string orchestra and harp composed for the 40th anniversary Rye Art...

Amboise is my favourite Loire Valley city. Though it was the historic architecture that first attracted me, the memories I celebrate here are of a personal nature and reflect the heartfelt hospitality...

Tranche for solo harp, composed in 1967, is dedicated to the harpist Francis Pierre who premiered the work the same year in Zagreb, Hungary.

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