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The Song of the Red Helleborine was written in 1981 for James Shenton and Elizabeth Dunn, who gave it its first performance. It was the first in an extended cycle of portraits of the forty-eight wild...

The Meditation is remotely based on an old Czech chorale. This chorale is a prayer to the national patron saint, Wenceslas. This ancient hymn has no connection with the well-known English carol 'Good...

The Three Pieces are Impromptu, Legende and Rondello. Antonin Tucapsky is a Czech born composer who lives and works in London. In 1975 he was appointed Professor of Composition at Trinity College of M...

On May 30th 2004, a few days after completing my Concerto Burlesco for bassoon and small orchestra, I attended a concert given by bassoonist Alison Woodward, known to her friends as 'Poppy'. The ensui...

Antonin Tucapsky is a Czech born composer who lives and works in London. In 1975 he was appointed Professor of Composition at Trinity College of Music, London and held this position for 21 years until...

The two sentimental songs hark back in style to the palm court music played in seaside hotels in days gone by. Paul Lewis writes 'The bassoon is for me primarily an instrument of poetry and passion, a...

Divertissement for clarinet was commisssioned by Verity Butler in 1994, and first performed by her that year in Cheltenham Town Hall. The work holds a similar place in the composer's oeuvre as Elgar's...

Written for Kei Itoh and Reiko Isobe for a concert in Japan in 2005, the Song of the Northern Marsh Orchid (a Sonatina for clarinet and piano) is the 26th in a series of musical portraits of the 48 wi...

Two original pieces 'Prelude' and 'Rondino' for clarinet and piano. Michael Gryspeerdt, who inherited his name from his Flemish grandfather, was born in London in 1927. He studied medicine at St. Thom...

Russian Scenes are pictures of the old Russia my forbears would have known. The melodies are simple and folk-like, the middle movement being a lament, something which the possession of Russian blood e...

Antonin Tucapsky is a Czech born composer who lives and works in London. In 1975 he was appointed Professor of Composition at Trinity College of Music, London and held this position for 21 years until...

Five miniatures for two and three clarinets. CLARINETTISSIMO - a very strange and unusual word! I invented this expression and I think it suggests very clearly that music under such a title is for cla...

The Song of the Musk Orchid written in 1982 for David Presly and Reiko Isobe, is the third in a projected series of portraits by Peter Lawson, for solo, chamber and orchestral combinations of the fort...

Written in 2007 for Mari Hikichi, Kei Ito and Reiko Isobe for a concert in Tokyo, the Song of the Dense-flowered Orchid - for flute, bass clarinet and piano - is the 28th in a series of musical portra...