Musical scores are available for items marked [SM]; items marked [CD] are available on CD. Further information is available from the composer.
[Settings of seven poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Osbert Sitwell, Walter de la Mere, Siegfried Sassoon, and Robert Herrick. Some of these songs might be suitable for a children's choir]
[Three 'modernist' pieces each consisting of two interlinked so-called 'Fugues'. Technically difficult]
[Composed for the old Anglican rite of Holy Communion where the Gloria occurs at the end of the service]
[A three-movement work with the fastest, scherzo-like movement occurring second. The first and third movements both have sections during which the players proceed independently of each other, slightly in the manner of Elliot Carter]
[Settings of Hardy's 'If it's ever spring again', 'An autumn rain-scene', and 'The phantom horsewoman']
[A one-movement piece in which the main middle section is flanked by a slow introduction and epilogue. The most often performed of the composer's work, it creates considerable rhythmic divergence between the parts for the two players. One performer told the composer he thought it showed the influence of Charles Ives, though the composer was unaware of any such connection when writing the piece]
[Settings of three of Yeats' best-known poems: 'Leda and the Swan', 'Byzantium', and 'The Second Coming']
[This single-movement piece develops further the techniques found in the earlier Duo for Violin and Pianoforte of 1978]
[A setting of Cummings' 'Anyone lived in a Pretty How Town' describing the lives of ordinary folk in early 20th-century America. A 'hoedown' interlude in the middle of the piece evokes a party atmosphere following a wedding ceremony]
[A piece of programme music depicting the death and resurrection of the mythical phoenix]
[Three stylistically distinctive songs about falling in and out of love and finally turning to the love of God. The words are by Thomas Hardy, Shakespeare, and Julian of Norwich]
[Written for two school festivals in the Lincoln area. The words are by James Reeves and J. Edgar Middleton (based on a Canadian carol) respectively]
[A piece in four sections played without break. Technically difficult]
[A wedding anthem dedicated to the composer's wife on their fortieth wedding anniversary]
[A suite of four pieces based on traditional Welsh melodies]
[Based on chimes heard by the composer in a churchyard in northern Romania]
[These songs are in memory of four people whom the composer fondly remembers: his music master at school, his headmaster, his tutor at college, and lastly his little sister who died in infancy. The words are by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Shakespeare, John Donne, and Rupert Brooke]
[Based on musical phrases taken from 2 piano pieces by the Norwegian composer Fartein Valen]
[Settings of three poems, 'Snow', 'Brown Earth' and 'Gloucester', by the Gloucester-born poet Ivor Gurney]
[A through-composed piece in three main sections]
[Two pieces to be played as a concert item or as incoming and outgoing voluntaries for a church service.]
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