John Jeffreys

Thirty-three songs with piano Amaryllis (Thomas Campion); A light wind (Barry Duane Hill); Be you blithe and bonny (William Shakespeare); Black Stitchel (Wilfrid Wilson Gibson); Candle Gate (Wilfrid W...

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: Solo violin Flute, Cor anglais, French horn Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) The opening is a slow introduction recalling the wide span of the River Exe at Bickleigh. On...

Orchestration: Flute, Cor anglais Horn in F, Trumpet in Bb Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) Written in May 1999 as a tribute to the conductor Kenneth Page who had promoted and recorded...

Andre Louis Mangeot was born in Paris in 1883 but settled in London and became a British citizen. He was a leading violinist and impresario and played in the Queen's Hall Orchestra under Henry Wood. H...

Orchestration: Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) Bickleigh Idyll [and also the Violin Concerto] was inspired by the River Exe between Up Exe and Bickleigh Bridge. It is almost impossibl...

Orchestration: Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) A violin distantly remembered is represented at the opening of the work by the first violins playing sul tasto. This gives way to a quar...

Orchestration: Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) This work was composed in great haste during the evening of 24th August 1959 to celebrate the 76th birthday of Andr? Mangeot the very ne...

Orchestration: Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass These two sketches were written by John Jeffreys in 1958 when he was living in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. The manuscript was discovered amongst his...

Orchestration: Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass The Pieces from Otten are four of the twelve pieces originally composed for the chamber organ at the church of St.Ethelbert at Belchamp Otten in N...

This is a violin and piano reduction of this concerto for violin and orchestra. The orchestral version is also available (as GMCO055). Orchestration: Solo violin Flute, Cor anglais, French horn String...

A cycle of five poems by Barry Duane Hill set to music for tenor with an accompaniment of french horn and string quartet here in a reduction for voice and piano. The five poems are entitled Dawn; Idyl...

Orchestration Solo violin Flute, Cor anglais, French horn Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) The opening is a slow introduction recalling the wide span of the River Exe at Bickleigh. On...

Orchestration Flute, Cor anglais Horn in F, Trumpet in Bb Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) Written in May 1999 as a tribute to the conductor Kenneth Page who had promoted and recorded...

A lovely setting of A. E. Housman's well-known poem for high voice [range E up to A] and piano. Duration: 3 minutes

A setting of words by William Cory (1823-1892) for medium voice [range Eb up to Eb] and piano. Duration: 3,5 minutes

Forty songs for tenor and baritone Ambulance train (Wilfrid Wilson Gibson); And would you see my mistress' face (Philip Rosseter); The appeal (Thomas Wyatt); Curlew calling (Wilfrid Wilson Gibson); Fr...

Eighteen miniature songs for tenor or soprano with piano, being musical reflections on childhood days, in three parts, each album containing six songs in variety.

Four songs for tenor and bassoon That ever I saw (Anon); My little pretty one (Anon); My mistress frowns (Anon); And would you fain the reason know? (Philip Rosseter?)

Thirty-one songs with piano (Despite the title, this was NOT the composer's LAST book of songs!) Awake thee my Bessy (J. J. Callanan); The birds (Hilaire Belloc); Brown is my love (Anon); Corpus Chris...

Eighteen miniature songs for tenor or soprano with piano, being musical reflections on childhood days, in three parts, each album containing six songs in variety.

Eighteen miniature songs for tenor or soprano with piano, being musical reflections on childhood days, in three parts, each album containing six songs in variety.

Fourteen songs for a variety of voices. The salley gardens (4th setting)(W.B.Yeats); The salley gardens (5th setting)(W.B.Yeats); Drop, drop, slow tears (Phineas Fletcher); Brigg Fair (Traditional); T...

My dear lady (Anon); I saw love raised upon a tree (Barry Jones); Drop, drop slow tears (Phineas Fletcher); The herons (Francis Ledwidge); An old desire (Francis Ledwidge); Tom Collier of Croydon (Ulp...