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The Three Sonatinas Op.2 were originally written in the mid to late 1980s. Some of these pieces are more or less unchanged from this time, having received the mildest of editorial handling. Other move...

The Three Sonatinas Op.2 were originally written in the mid to late 1980s. Some of these pieces are more or less unchanged from this time, having received the mildest of editorial handling. Other move...

The Three Sonatinas Op.2 were originally written in the mid to late 1980s. Some of these pieces are more or less unchanged from this time, having received the mildest of editorial handling. Other move...

This is strikingly different in style to all my other piano music to date. Employing twelve-note procedures throughout, it is to some degree a response to newer musical influences encountered at unive...

1. Evening Twilight: Andante tranquillo 2. Cavatina: Andante tranquillo 3. Waltz: Allegretto grazioso These three pieces were composed in 2010. 'Cavatina' was the first to be written and was composed...

1. Prelude: Allegro con brio 2. Air: Largo tranquillo 3. Invention: Allegro moderato 4. Romance: Adagio ma con moto 5. Fugue: Allegro con brio This suite was written in 2010. Squeezing five brief move...

1. Stags in Knole Park: Andante con moto 2. Aira Force: Andante con moto 3. The Haunted Abbey:Presto con moto 4. Harvest Moon:Largo 5. Harlech Castle: Andante maestoso 6. Innisfallen Lake: Andante sos...

Eight pieces for piano solo. Private Detective; Scene d'Amour; The' 'eavy Mob; Happy Solitaire; Suburban Sunday; The Flapper; Solitude; Anaiis. The first six pieces in this collection were originally...

Eleven short pieces for piano solo. Victorian Lady; Mr. Punch; Ceremonial; Toy Soliders; Pagoda Garden; Circus Clowns; 'Rag' Doll; Cakewalk; Lazy Old Joe; Flapper Girl; Cabbage White. All of these pie...

The Song of the Fen Orchid, was written for James Kirby in 1985-6 and revised in 1990 and again in 2012-3. It was the ninth to be written in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the 48 wild orchi...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes (2nd db.Piccolo & Alto Flute), 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons, 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (3 players: Snare Drum, Triangle,...

The Song of the Early Spider Orchid, for piano duet, was planned in 1988 as the 23rd to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the 48 wild orchids of Britain and Ireland, but remained very much...

This work was written for the pianist Yuki Matsuzawa in November 2015. It is the thirty-second to be composed in a projected series of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britai...

Berceuse; Scherzo; Intermezzo; Finale These Four Piano Pieces were composed for the Italian pianist Giorgio Vercillo following a 2004 recital at St James's Piccadilly with the violinist Peter Fisher w...

Three light and tuneful pieces for solo piano - around grade 4 standard. For Nina Marie; For Rowena; For Mike - Three musical gifts to my granddaughter, daughter and son-in-law. 'For Nina Marie' was m...

The Lady's Slipper Orchid, 'Cypripedium calceolus', is immediately recognisable by its large, yellow lip, resembling a slipper. It attracts small burrowing bees, who fall into it. The slipper's walls...

A sequence of six short movements composed for Peter Thorogood's own scenario, 'Harlequin at the Fair.' 'Overture:' Pantaloon is chasing Columbine in the hope of a kiss but the ugly Brighella spoils h...

This suite was composed in the 1970s when Peter Thorogood came under the influence of the 'Groupe des Six', in particular Germaine Tailleferre. The work is dedicated to Robert Plowright, with whom Pet...

Halcyon Days' recalls the pleasures of youth and is an earlier suite revised in 1949 while Peter Thorogood was studying at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. It consists of five pieces: 'By t...

In these five scenes, Peter Thorogood recalls the pleasant days of his childhood on the family farm, running through the meadows, playing in his father's rose garden, chasing butterflies and enjoying...

The 'Piano Sonata - A Portrait of the Monkey Orchid', with optional narrator, is the final piece to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britain and Irel...

A piece of cake for an enthusiastic pianist!' For some years I have enjoyed giving regular talks to the East Sussex Federation of Women's Institutes, travelling to different branches throughout the co...

Edited by Peter Lawson, who has also done an orchestral arrangement of these three marches (Goodmusic GMCL213 and GMCL214), here is a new clear edition of these favourite pieces. Schubert's 'Trois Mar...

The 'Song of the Fly Orchid' is the thirty-ninth to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britain and Ireland. The Fly Orchid, 'Ophrys insectifera', is ar...

Though scored for 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and 3 percussion (snare drum, tambourine, cymbals), the fanfare can be performed by trumpets or trombones without one another and with or without percussion....