Paul Carr

RAIN, started out as an unaccompanied choral piece to words by Euan Tait, but I sometimes like to arrange my own music for other instruments, as is the case with this simple, but passionate song; so I...

2am, After Rain, composed by Paul Carr and arranged for alto saxophone with piano accompaniment. Taken from FingerPrints, 14 easy contemporary pieces for alto saxophone and piano.

Issued in conjunction with the quartet from which it was derived, this solo-with-piano edition will be as popular with players as it is with audiences. Seductively playful is an apt description, and t...

The Viola Air for solo viola and string orchestra, here with a piano reduction, is a heartfelt love song in the form of a long arching lament, built around a simple and passionate theme woven through...

Having watched the film Imagining Argentina which tells the plight of political refugees and the 'missing persons' of Argentina, I felt moved to write this soulful waltz. I imagine two people in love,...

Commissioned by, and dedicated to 'The Glens', Sonatina is in three movements and was written over the course of a few days in December, here on the island of Mallorca where I live. Trying to start a...

Sumptuous jazz style.

Sumptuous jazz style.

Wild Flowers In April, composed by Paul Carr and arranged for flute solo. Taken from FingerPrints, 14 easy contemporary pieces for flute.

Birds Now And Then, composed by Paul Carr and arranged for clarinet with piano accompaniment. Taken from FingerPrints, 14 easy contemporary pieces for clarinet and piano.

The concerto (my second for clarinet) is in four linked movements which run through continuously. It opens with a sustained but passionate Paean, beginning gently and building to a climax, before sett...

Running with Dogs started life as the first movement to my Bassoon Sonatina and was later re-worked as the first movement to my string suite 'A Gentle Music'. It is a liltingly infectious piece that t...

I have long wanted to write an Oboe Concerto and have made several false starts - I don't know why, but somehow the work never seemed to take flight and those earlier attempts were abandoned. I've wri...

RUNNING WITH DOGS was originally composed in 2007 on the beautiful island of Mallorca, where I was living at the time. The piece formed the first movement of my Bassoon Sonatina, but was later re-work...

Issued in conjunction with the quartet from which it was derived, this solo-with-piano edition will be as popular with players as it is with audiences. Seductively playful is an apt description, and t...

Orchestration Solo Viola Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) The Viola Air is a heartfelt love song in the form of a long arching lament, built around a simple and passionate theme woven...

Orchestration Piccolo, 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, Cor anglais, 2 Clarinets in Bb, Bass clarinet, 2 Bassoons 4 Horns in F, 3 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba Timpani [4], Precussion [3] (Tubular bells, Triang...

A superb new setting by Paul Carr of 'Go, Lovely Rose' by Edmund Waller (1606-1687) for SATB choir and piano. Duration 5 minutes

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways........ A new setting of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem for SATB choir and piano by Paul Carr. Duration about 4 minutes

In 2019, I attended a concert given in Bath, in which the opening work was Handel's Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne. Having never heard this work before, I was totally transfixed by the simplicity...

Text by Emily Bronte: Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom...

A setting of Christina Rossetti's words for SATB with orchestra or piano accompaniment. This is an arrangement taken from the "Winter" section of Paul's Four New Seasons for choir. It differs from the...