CHORAL MUSIC   All available for hire or purchase
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Large scale choral works

The Pied Piper (1985) (30 mins)
AB solos, Piano Duet, Flute & Percussion, SATB Choir & Children’s Chorus
A setting of Browning’s much loved poem including a simple part for children’s choir.

A Brand plucked from the Burning (1989) (40 mins)
ST solos, Organ & percussion, SATB Choir
Celebrating the life and mission of John Wesley.

Severn Meadows (2002)   (25 mins)

Bar Solo, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn & String Quartet, SATB Choir
Settings of Ivor Gurney tracing the events of his life from Gloucester, through the trenches of World War 1 to the asylum.

SATB Choir

Ave Maria (Oscar Wilde)   unacc   (1996)
Balulalow   & organ (1986)
Christ is the morning star (Bede) unacc   (1997)
Done is a battle (Dunbar)  & organ (or orch) (1984)
Evening Hymn of Charles 1 unacc   (1996)
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild unacc   (1984)
Jesus Christ the apple tree & organ (1985)
Marvel of marvels (C.Rossetti) & organ (1996)
Miserere   unacc  (2003)
Oration (Tennyson)   unacc   (1994)
Sing aloud (Ps 85)   & organ (1985)
Song of the Nuns of Chester & Organ  (1998)
Twas in the year that King Uzziah & organ  (1984)
Watts Cradle Song   unacc   (1985)
Whitsunday (Listen sweet Dove) & organ (2001)
Del Nacimiento (St John of the Cross) (2004)
Que se llamaba Maria (St John of the Cross) (2004)
The Breaking of Bread (2005)
 

Treble voices & accomp.

The Burning Babe (Southwell) & Organ (2002)
Three Poems of William Blake & Piano (1985)

Choral Arrangements

Blow, Gabriel, blow
Georgy Girl
I’ve got you under my skin
Rise up shepherd and follow
Sentimental Journey (Tuxedo Junction)
The Carnival is over

ORGAN MUSIC

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

Benedictus (Cello & Piano)  (1999)

Sonata for Solo Violin (Lyonesse)  (1996)

Sonata for Solo Piano    (1997)

Sonata for Recorder and Piano (2003)

String Quartet (‘The Music of Time’) (2003)

VOCAL MUSIC

SONGS & SONG CYCLES

A Chainless Soul (Emily Bronte) (1993)
Cycle for Soprano & Piano
Settings of Emily Bronte’s passionate, self-affirming poetry.

Blue remembered hills (A.E.Housman) (1997)
Cycle for Baritone & Piano
Inspired by the Shropshire countryside much loved by the poet.

Poems of 1912/13 (Thomas Hardy) (1981)
Cycle for Baritone & Piano
Settings of Hardy’s poetry inspired by the death of his first wife, Emma, tracing their courtship and lost opportunities.

The Wild Swans at Coole (Yeats) (2003)
A setting of Yeat’s haunting poem about the passing of time.

The Voice from the Well (Elizabethan Poets) (1986)
Cycle for Counter-Tenor or Baritone & Lute or Piano
Settings of poems of the Elizabethan era celebrating love and life.

Through a glass darkly (various) (2002)
Cycle for Baritone and instrumental ensemble
Poems inspired by love and self-knowledge.

This same Jesus    (2003)
Baritone & Organ
Solo Cantata for the Ascension

A Divine Mystery (2004)
Solo Cantata for Alto and Organ for Advent

A Land I did not know (2004)
Cycle for Tenor and Piano
Settings of the First World War Poet C.H.Sorley

A Garden Songbook (2005)
A celebration of the garden in poetry and letters
 

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