Musical scores are available for items marked [SM]. Further information is available from the composer.

• Sonata Movement for viola d'amore and pianoforte (originally 1960; later rearranged for viola and pianoforte). Duration 7 minutes
• A Child's Vision of Night for soprano and pianoforte (1964). Duration 13 minutes [SM]

[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]

• Six Fugues for harpsichord (1967-68). Duration 16 minutes

[Three 'modernist' pieces each consisting of two interlinked so-called 'Fugues'. Technically difficult]

• Credo and Gloria for 4-pt choir and organ (1968). Duration 9 minutes

[Composed for the old Anglican rite of Holy Communion where the Gloria occurs at the end of the service]

• String Quartet 1 (1972). Duration 25 minutes

[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]

• Three Settings of Thomas Hardy for baritone and pianoforte (1975). Duration 10 minutes [SM]

[Settings of Hardy's 'If it's ever spring again', 'An autumn rain-scene', and 'The phantom horsewoman']

• Duo for Violin and Pianoforte (1978). Duration 13 minutes [SM]

[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]

• Three Settings of W.B. Yeats for tenor and pianoforte (1979). Duration 15 minutes [SM]

[Settings of three of Yeats' best-known poems: 'Leda and the Swan', 'Byzantium', and 'The Second Coming']

• Duo for Two Pianos (1982-83). Duration 16 minutes [SM]

[This single-movement piece develops further the techniques found in the earlier Duo for Violin and Pianoforte of 1978]

• A Pretty How Town (words by E.E. Cummings) for baritone and eight instrumentalists (1983). Duration 22 minutes

[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]

• Phoenix for oboe and pianoforte (1988, revised 1993). Duration 10 minutes [SM]

[A piece of programme music depicting the death and resurrection of the mythical phoenix]

• Three Songs about Love for baritone and pianoforte (1985-94). Duration 13 minutes [SM]

[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]

• Two Songs for Cherry Willingham for childrens' voices and pianoforte (1994-96). Duration 5 minutes [SM]

[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]

• Fantasy for Solo Violoncello (1997). Duration 24 minutes [SM]

[A piece in four sections played without break. Technically difficult]

• Blessed Art Thou, O God, anthem for unaccompanied 8-pt choir (2001). Duration 6 minutes [SM]

[A wedding anthem dedicated to the composer's wife on their fortieth wedding anniversary]

• The House of Bernarda Alba, opera in 2 acts (1997-2004). Duration approx. 2 hours 20 minutes (for further details, see the Opera page on this site)
• A Welsh Garland, suite for wind band (2005-06). Duration 16 minutes

[A suite of four pieces based on traditional Welsh melodies]

• The Bells of Ieud for pianoforte solo (2007). Duration 11 minutes [SM]

[Based on chimes heard by the composer in a churchyard in northern Romania]

• Four Sonnets for soprano and pianoforte (2008). Duration 9 minutes [SM]

[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]

• Fantasia on phrases of Fartein Valen for pianoforte solo (2010). Duration 13 minutes [SM]

[Based on musical phrases taken from 2 piano pieces by the Norwegian composer Fartein Valen]

• A Gloucester Lad for tenor and orchestra (2013-14). Duration 25 minutes [SM]

[Settings of three poems, 'Snow', 'Brown Earth' and 'Gloucester', by the Gloucester-born poet Ivor Gurney]

• String Quartet 2 (2015-16). Duration 25 minutes [SM]

[A through-composed piece in three main sections]

• Exordium and Exeat for organ (2019). Duration 17 minutes [SM]

[Two pieces to be played as a concert item or as incoming and outgoing voluntaries for a church service.]