Across the Years
Seven contrasting and attractive movements, drawing on traditional songs and melodies, with the theme of music across the generations
(30 mins)
SA and piano
Alternative instrumentations
i. String quintet, piano duet and percussion
ii. Piano duet
Publisher: Prime Music PMVS 118
Recording: MMST/Prime CD 003
Commissioned by the Songtrees Project, first performed 13th June 2005
Can you count the stars?
S(A) and piano (4 mins)
Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-3511428
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Christmas Pudding
All your favourite carols stirred into one increasingly riotous pudding!
(4 mins)
SA and piano
Publisher: Prime Music PMVS 104a
Christmas Pudding SA VS excerpts
Good for you!
Six attractive and tuneful songs for upper-
voice choir, highlighting healthy living
(15 mins)
SA and piano (Piano duet accompaniment also available)
Publisher: Prime Music PMVS 117 (chorus part PMCP 117
Recording: Prime CD 003
Good for you! Sample Pages
How the Whale got his throat
(choral work – see Instrumental Works for version for narrator and orchestra)
A tuneful and very attractive setting of Kipling’s famous poem
(15 mins) SA choir, narrator and instrumental ensemble (1,1,1,1; 1,0,0,0; harp, 2 perc, strings)
Publisher: Prime Music
Commissioned by the Green Lake Festival of Music
first performed July 1998
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If you love me
(5 mins) SA and organ (or piano)
Publisher: Prime Music Recording: PRCD 1220
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Images of Youth
Seven contrasting movements, being settings of Shakespeare, Kingsley, Gay, Blake, MacNeice and Douglas, celebrating the innocence and vitality of youth
(30 mins)
SA and orchestra (2/2,2,2,2: 4,2,3,1; timp+2 perc, strings (or just Piano duet)
Publisher: Plymouth Music Company
Vocal score: HLM 1001
Commissioned by Richmond Education Committee, first performed on 4th July 1993
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace
(4 mins)
SA and piano or organ
Publisher: Oxford University Press A448
Recording: PRCD 770
.Mayhem! The misfortune of Miss Maisy Murgatroyd
A power-struggle between teacher and class – with a tragic ending
(18 mins)
SA, mezzo solo, strings, perc and piano (or just piano)
Publisher: Prime Music
Vocal score: PMVS 101
Recording: PrimeCD 001
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Musical Pie
Five contrasting light-hearted movements, using familiar folk melodies as well as original music and words
(15 mins)
Publisher: Prime Music
Vocal score: PMVS 102
Recording: Prime CD 001
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Sing Africa
Three vibrant arrangements of African songs
(12 mins)
SSAA with piano and hand-drums
Publisher: Prime Music
Vocal score: PMVS116a
Recording (of SATB version of Sing Africa): PrimeCD 005
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Sinner man
(4 mins)
SSAA unaccompanied
Publisher: Lorenz
Vocal score: 15/1492
Commissioned by Piggott School, UK
Snow White
Adapted from the classic Grimms’ fairy tale
(30 mins)
SA choir, mezzo solo, narrator, string quintet, perc and piano (or piano alone)
Publisher: Prime Music
Vocal score: PMVS 106
Recording: PrimeCD 002
Commissioned by Green Lake Festival of Music, first performed 20th July 2002
South Downs Way
A suite of four movements, setting words by Philip Young
(16 mins)
SA and instrumental ensemble (flute, 2 clarinets, trpt, cello and piano) or just piano
Publisher: Prime Music
Commissioned by the Petersfield Musical Festival, first performed 14th March 2011
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Te Deum
A lively and uplifting setting in English (We praise thee, O God)
(8 mins)
SA and piano (or organ)
Publisher: Prime Music
Vocal score: PMVS 114
Commissioned by the Burlington Boys’ Choir, USA, first performed on 29th May 2009
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.Ten folk songs
Arrangements of traditional melodies
SSAA unaccompanied
Publisher: Novello
Vocal score: 16 0200
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The Lord’s Prayer
A beautiful and lyrical setting of the traditional text of the Lord’s Prayer
(3 mins)
SA and piano or organ
Publisher: Prime Music
Vocal Score: PMVS 112
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Robert Browning’s famous poetic tale, with lots of possibilities for dramatic representation as well as concert performance
(20 mins)
SA, tenor (or Sop) solo, narrator, piano (with opt. brass quintet and 2 perc)
Publisher: Prime Music
Vocal score: PMVS 105
Recording: PrimeCD 001
Commissioned by Green Lake Festival of Music, first performed 26th July 1997