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A chamber opera with a libretto by Alexander McCall Smith. Set in the Botswana Okavango Delta, it tells a story of the struggle for power among competing baboons in their matriarchal society - thus dr...

Words by Frances Button Music by Philip Lane A new Christmas song for unison voices (with an optional 2nd part) with piano or orchestra accompaniment. It tells the story of Gobbledegook, a turkey with...

An intriguing short work composed for the International Schools Choral Music Society to 'nonsense' words by Douglas Macari. It is scored for tenor or baritone soloist, mixed voice choir (SATB) and orc...

In 1886 Parry was commissioned by Charles Villiers Stanford to compose a piece for the Bach Choir of London, of which Parry was a member. Stanford, one of the first British musicians to recognise Parr...

Wizard! is a 45 minute cantata originally written in 1980 for year-six juniors in a school in the East End of London, at which I taught for many happy years. The words were written by Katherine Hayes,...

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...

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...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes (db. Piccolos[1.opt]), 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in A or Bb, 2 Bassoons, 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba Timpani, Percussion (2 players:Triangle, Cymbals, Side dru...

This arrangement of what is probably the best known piece taken from Vaughan Williams' opera 'Sir John in Love', may be played just by strings with piano (or harp).

FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION. Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in A or Bb, 2 Bassoons, 2 or 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones Timpani, Percussion (2 players: Cymbals, Bass Drum) Stri...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, Oboe, 2 Clarinets in Bb, Bassoon 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 2 Trombones, Timpani, Percussion (Triangle, Glockenspiel, Celeste, Tambourine, Temple Block, Xylophone, Vibrap...

Orchestration 2 Flutes, Oboe, 2 Clarinets in Bb, Bassoon 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 2 Trombones, Timpani, Percussion (Triangle, Glockenspiel, Celeste, Tambourine, Temple Block, Xylophone, Vibraph...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb (or A), Clarinet 3 (in lieu of bassoon), Bassoon 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Timpani, Percussion (Triangle, Tambourine, Side Drum,...

Orchestration: Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) Four of the Five of Peter Warlock's Five Folksong Preludes written for piano have been arranged here for string orchestra by Philip Lane...

Orchestration: Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) This piece was written in 1981 for the Scottish Baroque Ensemble. I wanted to give them a piece in a lighter style which could be used i...

Orchestration: Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) This five-movement work was commissioned by the BBC for performance by its orchestra in Cardiff. The wording of the commission specified...

Orchestration: Solo trumpet in Bb Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) Seven 'easy' pieces for solo trumpet with string orchestra. The trumpet part stays within the range D up to F# and is...

Now comes beauty' was originally composed in the Summer of 2009 as this song for solo voice and piano. Written at a time of great change in my life, it is essentially a song about reluctantly saying f...

The Song of the Fragrant Orchid was completed in 1986. It is dedicated to Frances Ann Brookes and Damaris Wollen who took part in its first performance in London, which was accompanied by myself. It w...

The Song of the Marsh Fragrant Orchid is a slightly eccentric variant of the Song of the Fragrant Orchid (for soprano, clarinet and piano - see GM078) incorporating elements of music theatre and an ev...

The Song of the Coralroot Orchid, written in 1988 for Frances Ann Brooks for a concert in Putney - and revised in 2012 - was the fifteenth to be written in a projected series of musical portraits of t...

Five of W.H.Auden's poems on the theme of 'love' set to music by Tom Cunningham for voice and piano. Due to the nature of Auden's texts, these settings are more suited to an adult performer and audien...

A selection of seven songs from the chamber opera The Okavango Macbeth - Macbeth with baboons! - with music by Tom Cunningham and words by Alexander McCall Smith. This album for solo voice and piano w...