Peter Thorogood

I began planning Fantasy Variations after hearing the simple tune from the clock on Copenhagen City Hall. I was studying with the Swiss pianist and musicologist Francis Engel at the Royal Irish Academ...

A sequence of six short movements composed for Peter Thorogood's own scenario, 'Harlequin at the Fair.' 'Overture:' Pantaloon is chasing Columbine in the hope of a kiss but the ugly Brighella spoils h...

This suite was composed in the 1970s when Peter Thorogood came under the influence of the 'Groupe des Six', in particular Germaine Tailleferre. The work is dedicated to Robert Plowright, with whom Pet...

Halcyon Days' recalls the pleasures of youth and is an earlier suite revised in 1949 while Peter Thorogood was studying at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. It consists of five pieces: 'By t...

In these five scenes, Peter Thorogood recalls the pleasant days of his childhood on the family farm, running through the meadows, playing in his father's rose garden, chasing butterflies and enjoying...