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Three light and tuneful pieces for solo piano - around grade 4 standard. For Nina Marie; For Rowena; For Mike - Three musical gifts to my granddaughter, daughter and son-in-law. 'For Nina Marie' was m...

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...

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...

The 'Piano Sonata - A Portrait of the Monkey Orchid', with optional narrator, is the final piece to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britain and Irel...

A piece of cake for an enthusiastic pianist!' For some years I have enjoyed giving regular talks to the East Sussex Federation of Women's Institutes, travelling to different branches throughout the co...

Edited by Peter Lawson, who has also done an orchestral arrangement of these three marches (Goodmusic GMCL213 and GMCL214), here is a new clear edition of these favourite pieces. Schubert's 'Trois Mar...

The 'Song of the Fly Orchid' is the thirty-ninth to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britain and Ireland. The Fly Orchid, 'Ophrys insectifera', is ar...

Though scored for 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and 3 percussion (snare drum, tambourine, cymbals), the fanfare can be performed by trumpets or trombones without one another and with or without percussion....

These 'fun variations' on the famous Paganini Caprice No.24 were commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival and first performed on August 21st 1989 by the London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble in St.Catherine...

A piece for brass quintet (2 Trumpets in Bb, Horn in F, Trombone and Tuba) which features the trombone. Score and parts included. The first four notes of the trombone solo came to me out of the air. Y...

Lux et Ombra: light and shadow - for brass quintet of two trumpets in Bb (or Cornet and Flugelhorn), Horn in F, Trombone and Tuba. The music suggests an interplay between the forces of light and darkn...

The Song of the Small White Orchid, written in 2013 for John Turner in celebration of his seventieth birthday, is the thirtieth to be written in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eig...

The 'Song of the Lesser Butterfly Orchid,' for the tiny (and remarkably agile!) Sopranino Recorder (or alternatively, Piccolo) and piano, is the forty-third to be written in a cycle of musical portrai...

Imogen Holst, the daughter of Gustav Holst, wrote this suite for viola in 1930, though the exact date is unknown. It was first performed on 14th December 1931 at the Ballet Club Theatre, 2a Ladbroke R...

This work was dedicated by John Barbirolli (1899-1970) to the Scottish born virtuoso violist and teacher William Primrose (1904-1982) who provided the fingering and bowing in the viola part. This tran...

This piece, with string orchestra accompaniment, was composed in 1987 for Jonathan Mallalieu, now artistic director of Beauville Arts in France, then a gifted viola player at Plymouth College, where C...

A lament in rondo form for solo 'cello During the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina, on May 27th 1992, a bakery in the pedestrian precinct Vase Miskina in Sarajevo, happened to have a supply of flour and...

This work, a cello concerto in all but name, was inspired by an old black and white photograph taken on Sheerness beach with a very young Philip Henderson huddling up to Alice, his mother, at the wate...

This work was commissioned by Isabel Young in May 1999 and written in June of that year. She had commissioned a piece for 'cello and piano for her 75th birthday. The composer's first thoughts were to...

Among the disturbing number of World War One casualties listed in the old church of St.Michael's, East Peckham, Kent are the following, to whose memory this Elegy is dedicated: Hugh Robert Lachlan (Or...

This is the thirty-eighth to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britain and Ireland for various instrumental and orchestral combinations. The White Hel...

A Paris & Tango Erotique' - The two 'Etudes Amicales', or 'Friendly Studies', were written for two pairs of friends and are spontaneous gestures of appreciation for their musicianship and friendship....