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10/07/2025

02/07/2025

Written in Hammersmith 1981.
Premiere this Sunday: 6th July 2025.
HUDDERSFIELD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA.
Conductor:
Katherine Stonham.

27/06/2025

Suite No 8 "Nameless Days"

Ennio Caironi performs At the Collyweston River Bridge. This is the 3rd piece in Peter Thompson's Suite No.8, a suite of pieces comprising of music composed in the mid 1970s.
https://youtu.be/_Icbp8VeZh8

Ennio Caironi performs At the Collyweston River Bridge. This is the 3rd piece in Peter Thompson's Suite No.8, a suite of pieces comprising of music composed ...

23/06/2025

New publication, coming soon....

26/05/2025

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NEW.... Just published... All at FAND MUSIC PRESS.

08/05/2025

At the Open Door. Recorded recital given by Lorna Windsor, soprano & William Hancox, piano. Music by Peter Warlock, Carey Blyton, Arnold Bax, E. J. Moeran, Peter Thompson and John Mitchell. Available from Fand Music Press.
https://youtu.be/ap7LoKAZlkA?si=KgfcY-pzOgHX3uIX

https://fandmusic.com/?product=WHR097CDAt the Open Door. Recorded recital given by Lorna Windsor, soprano & William Hancox, piano.Music by Peter Warlock, Car...

03/05/2025

FIRST RECORDING! Romance for Viola and Piano by Peter Thompson (28:27)
Ebenezer Prout Sonata in D major (1890)
I first came across the French Violist Cynthia Blanchon when I heard her scintillating and passionate account of the Arthur Bliss Sonata, which can be found on YouTube.
I realised, when I looked further into her work, that she is indeed very enterprising in her repertoire and has made a special study of early 20th century British music - including Bax, Bantock, Stanford, Tovey and here, Ebenezer Prout.
Along, probably, with many older music students, Ebenezer Prout I really only knew through his volumes of music theory; but in this Sonata, I feel a long way from those! – indeed, almost as if we are in some sunny afternoon in the Surrey hills, sometime in the late 19th century, where maybe the easy world of Salut d'Amour is not many miles away at times; surely it is a work that does not deserve to be forgotten, and Cynthia Blanchon’s strong advocacy will confirm this.
Delighted also to mention that at 28:27 on the film Cynthia Blanchon and Felix Hong perform my Romance for Viola and Piano. The sheet music of this work can be found at: https://fandmusic.com/?product=FM177
I do hope you enjoy this performance, and make a special note of the Bliss Sonata recording.
Peter Thompson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cq3JRY8ToA&t=1s

ProgramViola Sonata in D major, op.26 (1890) Ebenezer Prout (1835-1909)1. Allegro maestoso2. Scherzo3. Large espressivo4. Rondo Allegro graziosoRomance fo...

01/05/2025

“…THE DAZZLINGLY FLEXIBLE VOICE OF PURE SILVERY TONE OF LORNA WINDSOR, OUTSTANDING..."
AMADEUS
https://youtu.be/w1zWnSN4lsc?si=MMb6P4TUUZ6LX-29

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Lorna Windsor and William Hancox perform Peter Thompson's setting of Robert Burns' A Red, Red Rose.https://fandmusic.com/?product=FM203A Red, Red Rose By Rob...

27/04/2025

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The Wi******er Troper includes perhaps the oldest collection of two-part music in Europe. It consists of two English manuscripts dated circa 1000, both of which were originally used at Wi******er Cathedral. The Troper Fragment takes the Wi******er Troper as its starting point, quoting the initial fragment of Alleluia V: Dies sanctificatus and transforming it throughout the piece into other fragments, which are then juxtaposed against each other, hopefully creating a sense of drama.

This work can be heard on the Martin Read – A Celebration CD.
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13/04/2025

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This piece was written in 1961 as a Christmas present for the violinist David Martin (whose wife was the ’cellist Florence Hooton). Both were friends of Gordon Jacob and he wrote works for both of them, including a Concertino for violin, ’cello and string orchestra for their 25th wedding anniversary.

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12/04/2025

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(SME News Southern Enterprise Awards, August 2022 & August 2023)
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10/04/2025

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A Rabelaisian Catechism, La foi d’la loi (‘The creed of authority’)
for baritone and piano. Traditional French arr. Sir Arnold Bax
Words: Trad French (Bassac, Charente)
Translated by Graham Parlett

L’amour de moi. A fifteenth-century French chanson
arranged for medium voice and piano by John Goss.
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Julien Tiersot (1857–1936) was a pioneering musicologist responsible for transcribing French melodies and songs from the 13th to the 17th centuries. In 1906, he published a large collection of folksongs from the French Alps, Chansons populaires recueillies dans les Alpes françaises. This volume contains 1200 pages of songs, including L’amour de moi, which is thought to originate from the 15th century.

The British singer and scholar John Goss (1891–1953) published an arrangement by Hubert Foss in his Anthology of Song (Oxford University Press, 1929). Goss, a lyric baritone, was an early recording artist for HMV, performing with his own Cathedral Male Quartet in ballads, folksongs and sea shanties. He was also a close friend and collaborator with composers of his era, such as Peter Warlock, E. J. Moeran, Bernard van Dieren, Rebecca Clarke and Frederick Delius. His own personal dossier of songs in manuscript form was discovered in 2008. Along with many other transcriptions of songs in his own hand, here we find his own keyboard arrangement of L’amour de moi. Foss’s version with a simpler harmonic treatment is set in the key of E flat major, whereas Goss’s version is in D flat major, a preferable key for baritones and mezzo-sopranos.

The song has been a favourite for many years with popular recording artists, and has been recorded in arrangements by Jane Birkin and by the Mediæval Bæbes. Foss’s version features on Gossiana, a 1920s Anthology of Song celebrating the life and work of John Goss.

This is the first time Goss’s version has appeared in print, along with a new translation for singers who are more comfortable with English. It does so with the kind permission and approval of Andy Low, the grandson of John Goss.
Giles Davies.