Peter Lawson

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Bassoons 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (Triangle, Cymbals, Bass Drum, Tambourine, Glockenspiel), Harp Strings...

Nessie is the story of the conflicting aspirations of naturalists and property-developers, with the Loch Ness monster, Nessie, caught between the opposing factions. The scene is the banks of Loch Ness...

Here is Beethoven's most famous piano piece, the first movement of his Moonlight Sonata, in an arrangement for choir with a soloist. The piece can be accompanied by piano or by an orchestra. For full...

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...

Here is Beethoven's most famous piano piece, the first movement of his Moonlight Sonata, in an arrangement for choir with a soloist. The piece can be accompanied by piano or by an orchestra. For full...

Arranged by Peter Lawson, this new four part SATB mixed voice choir arrangement of Parry's Jerusalem is compatible with either the Parry Orchestration: (Goodmusic GMCH006) or the Elgar Orchestration:...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb or A, 2 Bassoons 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (2 players:Tubular bells, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Tam-tam,...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Bassoons 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (Triangle, Cymbals, Bass Drum, Tambourine, Glockenspiel), Harp Strings...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion ([6 players] Triangle, Tambourine, Side Drum, Cymbals, Glockenspi...

Orchestration 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Bassoons 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (Triangle, Cymbals, Bass Drum, Tambourine, Glockenspiel), Harp Strings (...

Orchestration 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Bassoons* 4 Horns in F, Trumpet in Bb*, 3 Trombones*, Tuba*, Timpani, Percussion (Triangle, Glockenspiel), Harp Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cell...

Orchestration: Piccolo, Flute, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba Percussion (Triangle, Cymbals, Snare drum, Bass drum, Tubular bells), Harp (opti...

Colonel Bogey is a march written in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts (1881-1945), a British Army bandmaster who later became the director of music for the Royal Marines at Plymouth. He wrote under th...

The Song of the Broad Helleborine, written in 1987 for Nicolas Kynaston and first performed by him in the Royal Festival Hall, London, was the fourteenth to be written in a projected series of musical...

This a capella anthem, Virtue, was written in 1978, just after completing the song-cycle Care-Charmer Sleep, (Goodmusic GM265). The melody and harmonies of the closing bars of the first of four songs...

Wizard! is a 45 minute cantata originally written in 1980 for year-six juniors in a school in the East End of London, at which I taught for many happy years. The words were written by Katherine Hayes,...

The Song of the Fragrant Orchid was completed in 1986. It is dedicated to Frances Ann Brookes and Damaris Wollen who took part in its first performance in London, which was accompanied by myself. It w...

The Song of the Marsh Fragrant Orchid is a slightly eccentric variant of the Song of the Fragrant Orchid (for soprano, clarinet and piano - see GM078) incorporating elements of music theatre and an ev...

The Song of the Coralroot Orchid, written in 1988 for Frances Ann Brooks for a concert in Putney - and revised in 2012 - was the fifteenth to be written in a projected series of musical portraits of t...