Une pièce pleine d'effets, entre romantisme et jazz, qui rappelle par moments la musique de cirque. Composée à l'origine par Paul Lewis pour harmonica, cette courte œuvre à succès a été arrangée chez...
I have always loved the harp. My first TV score, written in 1963 when I was twenty, contained an extensive harp part, and I have recorded with many wonderful harpists, including Marie Goossens, Jean B...
A gentle piece to induce reminiscence and memories of childhood, commissioned by harpist Margaret Watson for her mother Carol's eightieth birthday celebrations in November 2019. Using the English exte...
Une pièce pleine d'effets, entre romantisme et jazz, qui rappelle par moments la musique de cirque. Composée à l'origine par Paul Lewis pour harmonica, cette courte œuvre à succès a été arrangée par S...
Scored for harp, two violins, viola, cello and bass, this suite is in three movements: Shalom Chaverim Fantasia; Hava Nagila Rumba; Mevo Hama Nocturne. A full score and set of parts is included. When...
This suite of six movements was commissioned by Brian Spiby to celebrate his adoptive home town of Seaford on the Sussex coast and its fascinating history. It is written for Horn and String Quartet wi...
Three easy pieces for piano.Tasty foreign takeaway meals are a regular source of happiness and convenience in this busy modern world. Surveys show the most popular to be Chinese, Indian and Italian pi...
It was at Mrs.Yarrington's Music Club in the village hall at Whatlington, East Sussex, that I first heard Stranger Strings: Charlie Draper on theremin and Holly Lowe on harp. I have always adored the...
In December 2018, browsing in an antique shop, I discovered a hand-coloured photographic print, dated 1900, of a loosely attired maiden with long wavy pre-Raphaelite hair bearing roses and gazing lang...
Lament for a King (in memoriam Richard III, slain 1485) Lament for a Castle (in memoriam Cathcart Castle, demolished 1980) In September 2014 I discovered that Cathcart Castle in Scotland, which I had...
Orchestration: Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass This work is a celebration of some of the genres and character types most popular in the days of the silent movies. 1. Ride-em Cowboy! Early Weste...
Orchestration: Flute, Harp, Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) 'Norfolk Concerto', a tribute to one of the composer's favourite counties, was written in 1992 and is dedicated to his frie...
Three melodies that leave the listener with memories which, like a perfume, waft in and out of the mind. 'Jasmine,' a youthful, bright and fresh fragrance bringing with it memories of spring and the p...
Two French songs for children - 'Lucie cueille les fleurs des champs' and 'Vilain garcon!' - original words by Genevieve Lewis set to music by Paul Lewis. Musically straightforward, these songs are ex...
A lovely new Christmas carol for children with words by Helen Cresswell, either for a two-part choir or two solo voices, accompanied by harp or piano. Duration c.3 minutes
These pieces are evocations of 16th and 17th century dance forms by a composer long fascinated by the period. The melodies are new and no genuine anticke (old English for antique) tunes are used. MONS...
Whilst composing this piece to assuage the sadness of parting from a loved one, a single flower of my favourite rose blossomed in my garden - the only one to do so that year. (P.Lewis) The composer ma...
Music evocative of a far-off realm of mists and magic where our ancestors lived close to nature and pagan beliefs were still strong. Paul Lewis was inspired to write music for the lever harp when his...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
The Pink and White Terraces near Rotorua, with their thermal pools, were known as the eighth wonder of the world and were New Zealand's most famous beauty spot and tourist attraction in the nineteenth...
Whilst scoring a TV play starring actor Robert Hardy, I was asked by him to write a short organ piece in memory of his recently deceased mother-in-law, the famous star of stage and screen Gladys Coope...
Norfolk Idyll' is based on my score for the celebrated 1972 BBC TV documentary 'The Vanishing Hedgerows', presented by author and naturalist Henry Williamson. The film was Williamson's reaction to mod...
Lyric Suite is dedicated to Sharon my wife and is inspired by the happiness of married life in our Tudor home near the South Downs. Sharon grew up north of the Downs within sight of Chanctonbury Ring...
Listening in England to harpist Alessandra Ziveri's recording of Luigi Perracchio's Sonata on popular Italian folk songs, I decided as a gesture of international musical friendship to thank her for th...
Instrumentation: Horn in F, 4 Trumpets in Bb, 4 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani. Jubilate was commissioned in 2016 by the Restoration Committee of St. Nicolas Church Parochial Church Council, Pevensey, to co...
Two Soliloquies' were originally composed in 1997 as solos for harpist Elizabeth Jane Baldry. The composer made this trio arrangement (for Flute [or Violin], Viola and Harp) for the Aurora Trio in Sep...
In 1997 guitar virtuoso John Mills asked me to write a piece to conclude his 50th birthday concert that would 'bring the house down'. The result was this dance suite. The first movement, 'Slow Waltz,'...
Trois Serenades:' three romantic pieces with a Mediterranean atmosphere, adapted from music composed in 1969 for film and TV and completed in France in April 1992 for guitar virtuoso John Mills. 'Paul...
The subject of these musings, 'Hine e Hine', is a simple but tender lullaby written in New Zealand by Fanny Rose Howie, 1868-1916. Renaming herself Princess Te Rangi Pai after her Maori mother, she en...
Three musical postcards from the city of love, culture and expensive shops. 1. Moonlight in Montmartre: Montmartre, a village within a city - artists, singers of chanson, cafes and the bells of Sacre...
Scintillate the tintinnabulator' my maths master used to say when it was time to ring the school bell, adding his own take to Edgar Alan Poe's beautiful word 'tintinnabulations', devised to describe t...
Lullaby and Music Box Waltz were commissioned by Graham and Jenny Pay as a gift for their daughter, harpist Camilla Pay, upon the birth of her first child, Rosanna Chloe Knight, on September 23rd, 201...
A collection of pieces evocative of an age of wandering minstrels, kings and castles, by a composer with a lifelong fascination for all things mediaeval. Having composed many works for pedal harp, Pau...
A collection of pieces from the contemplative to the downright silly, with a choice of local takeaway for added sustenance! Paul Lewis was inspired to write these pieces when his wife, Sharon Elizabet...
An album of gentle, relaxing pieces with the emphasis on melody. Nothing too difficult and only one lever change while playing! Paul Lewis was inspired to write these pieces when his wife, Sharon Eliz...