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Known principally for his solo songs, Armstrong Gibbs also wrote music for the stage, sacred works, three symphonies and a substantial amount of chamber music, much of which remains unpublished. Armst...

Written in 2002-4, The Grand Design Quartet is dedicated to Paul and Charlotte Houlton by way of thanks for a holiday in France. The title takes its name from their Graphic Design company in Croydon....

The theme on which 'In Retrospect' is based comes from a work written in my teens and first performed in the early 1940s by the strings of Cape Town Municipal Orchestra. Since both my children have gr...

As in my earlier Miniature String Quartets the objective has been to write music that stems from the kinds of passage-work that will be familiar to players of an intermediate technical standard. This...

The Song of the Dune Helleborine, for treble recorder and piano, was written for John Turner in 2005 and first performed by him in the Bridgewater Hall in 2006. It is the twenty-seventh in a projected...

The Song of the Red Helleborine was written in 1981 for James Shenton and Elizabeth Dunn, who gave it its first performance. It was the first in an extended cycle of portraits of the forty-eight wild...

The Meditation is remotely based on an old Czech chorale. This chorale is a prayer to the national patron saint, Wenceslas. This ancient hymn has no connection with the well-known English carol 'Good...

The Three Pieces are Impromptu, Legende and Rondello. Antonin Tucapsky is a Czech born composer who lives and works in London. In 1975 he was appointed Professor of Composition at Trinity College of M...

On May 30th 2004, a few days after completing my Concerto Burlesco for bassoon and small orchestra, I attended a concert given by bassoonist Alison Woodward, known to her friends as 'Poppy'. The ensui...

Antonin Tucapsky is a Czech born composer who lives and works in London. In 1975 he was appointed Professor of Composition at Trinity College of Music, London and held this position for 21 years until...

The two sentimental songs hark back in style to the palm court music played in seaside hotels in days gone by. Paul Lewis writes 'The bassoon is for me primarily an instrument of poetry and passion, a...

Divertissement for clarinet was commisssioned by Verity Butler in 1994, and first performed by her that year in Cheltenham Town Hall. The work holds a similar place in the composer's oeuvre as Elgar's...

Written for Kei Itoh and Reiko Isobe for a concert in Japan in 2005, the Song of the Northern Marsh Orchid (a Sonatina for clarinet and piano) is the 26th in a series of musical portraits of the 48 wi...