Armstrong Gibbs composed this 'Bridal March' for the wedding of his daughter, Ann to Lyndon Rust. They married on 14th February 1948 in Danbury Church in Essex. The organ in the church had been damage...
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...
The Song of the Dark Red Helleborine is the seventeenth in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Britain and Ireland, and was first performed on January 4th, 1991 i...
The Song of the Violet Helleborine, written in 1987 for Philip Fowke, is the thirteenth in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Britain and Ireland, for various so...
The Song of the Late Spider Orchid was the tenth to be written in a series of musical portraits - for various instrumental combinations - of the wild orchids of Great Britain and Ireland, of which the...
The Song of the Bird's-Nest Orchid was written in 1982 for Reiko Isobe. It was the fifth to be written in a series of musical portraits of the 48 species of wild orchids in Britain and Ireland. The B...
The Song of the Lizard Orchid , written in 2012 for the double piano duet team Piano 40 for a Purcell Room concert, is the 29th to be written of a projected cycle of musical portraits of the 48 wild o...
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...
