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Two Soliloquies' were originally composed in 1997 as solos for harpist Elizabeth Jane Baldry. The composer made this trio arrangement (for Flute [or Violin], Viola and Harp) for the Aurora Trio in Sep...

In 1997 guitar virtuoso John Mills asked me to write a piece to conclude his 50th birthday concert that would 'bring the house down'. The result was this dance suite. The first movement, 'Slow Waltz,'...

Trois Serenades:' three romantic pieces with a Mediterranean atmosphere, adapted from music composed in 1969 for film and TV and completed in France in April 1992 for guitar virtuoso John Mills. 'Paul...

An arrangement for a variety of solo instruments with piano accompaniment. Suitable for Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone in Eb or Bb, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone or Tu...

Orchestration: Solo Treble Recorder Harp Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) The Lesser Twayblade is a type of orchid, a miniature plant, found in Britain almost exculsively in Scotland,...

Orchestration: Solo clarinet Harp Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) Divertissement for clarinet and piano was commisssioned by Verity Butler in 1994, and first performed by her that yea...

Orchestration: Solo baritone Flute Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) A poem by Ivor Gurney set to music for solo baritone, flute and string orchestra. A voice and piano reduction (Rober...

Orchestration: Clarinet in Bb, Solo Violin, Piano, Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) Bach in Blue for piano (composed 2004) - arranged for clarinet, violin, piano and strings (2015). As...

I have always loved the harp. My first TV score, written in 1963 when I was twenty, contained an extensive harp part, and I have recorded with many wonderful harpists, including Marie Goossens, Jean B...

The subject of these musings, 'Hine e Hine', is a simple but tender lullaby written in New Zealand by Fanny Rose Howie, 1868-1916. Renaming herself Princess Te Rangi Pai after her Maori mother, she en...

Three musical postcards from the city of love, culture and expensive shops. 1. Moonlight in Montmartre: Montmartre, a village within a city - artists, singers of chanson, cafes and the bells of Sacre...

This piece was originally designed to be the equivalent of the Interlude in Britten's Ceremony of Carols in a similar type work which was later abandoned, leaving it artistically stranded. So it now s...

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...

Two short pieces for harp with a gentle jazz inflection. 'Sunday Morning Meander:' One Sunday morning Fiona Hosford, my wife's harp teacher, emailed her a chord she'd discovered and taken a liking to....

Two rhapsodic and improvisatory pieces composed in 1997 for harpist Elizabeth Jane Baldry and revised for publication in 2018. The second makes use of two three-note motifs representing the initials o...

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...

The 'Trois Preludes' were originally composed for guitarist Erik Marchelie and harpist Anne Mispelter in gratitude for their passionate performances in a day-long celebration of my music at the Ecole...