Peter Lawson

The song-cycle 'Care-Charmer Sleep' was written, with funds from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, for Alison Mary Sutton, who was accompanied by Alan Hazeldine, in its first performance in the Purcel...

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...

A splendid medley of songs made famous in the music halls comprising 'Put on your tat-ta little girlie', 'I'll be your sweetheart', 'Danny Boy', 'After the ball', 'She was one of the early birds', 'So...

For choir and orchestra or concert band, or choir and piano. A non-stop medley of tunes from World War One from recruiting through to the Last Post. This arrangement can be performed by a choir with e...

An original light-hearted song of celebration. Although suitable for any birthday with a zero on the end, it would perhaps be most appropriate for birthdays in the range 40-100 of a person, organisati...

Probably the best-known song from The Merry Widow arranged for choir and piano by Peter Lawson. The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar with libretto by Viktor Leon...

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

In Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 the Land of Hope and Glory section first appears in the key of G (rather low for voices) and triumphantly returns near the end in D (rather too high for som...

TTBB choir with accompanmiment of piano or orchestra.Conservation! is an adaptation of the 'show-stopper' from my children's opera, Nessie. Set on the banks of Scotland's Loch Ness, the opera is the s...

This is the first carol in a sequence entitled A BED OF HAY, a set of Seven Carols for Christmas for choir and orchestra or piano with words by Katherine Hayes.They are: A Bed of Hay; Shepherds' Carol...

A BED OF HAY is a set of Seven Carols for Christmas for choir and orchestra or piano with words by Katherine Hayes.They are: A Bed of Hay; Shepherds' Carol; Domine, Adoro Te; Christ is here, Holy Year...

A BED OF HAY is a set of Seven Carols for Christmas for choir and orchestra or piano with words by Katherine Hayes.They are: A Bed of Hay; Shepherds' Carol; Domine, Adoro Te; Christ is here, Holy Year...

A BED OF HAY is a set of Seven Carols for Christmas for choir and orchestra or piano with words by Katherine Hayes.They are: A Bed of Hay; Shepherds' Carol; Domine, Adoro Te; Christ is here, Holy Year...

A BED OF HAY is a set of Seven Carols for Christmas for choir and orchestra or piano with words by Katherine Hayes.They are: A Bed of Hay; Shepherds' Carol; Domine, Adoro Te; Christ is here, Holy Year...

A BED OF HAY is a set of Seven Carols for Christmas for choir and orchestra or piano with words by Katherine Hayes.They are: A Bed of Hay; Shepherds' Carol; Domine, Adoro Te; Christ is here, Holy Year...

A BED OF HAY is a set of Seven Carols for Christmas for choir and orchestra or piano with words by Katherine Hayes.They are: A Bed of Hay; Shepherds' Carol; Domine, Adoro Te; Christ is here, Holy Year...

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...

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...

This work was written for the pianist Yuki Matsuzawa in November 2015. It is the thirty-second to be composed in a projected series of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britai...

The Lady's Slipper Orchid, 'Cypripedium calceolus', is immediately recognisable by its large, yellow lip, resembling a slipper. It attracts small burrowing bees, who fall into it. The slipper's walls...