FAND MUSIC PRESS

01/04/2026

https://youtu.be/RbL81WDuPxQ?si=_DYk9_M92M0-WBHT
Piano soloist: Ennio Caironi.
This Sonatina for Piano was written in 2011.
Movement I
This has a capricious range of tempi: Allegretto largamente, Allegro e preciso, Allegro vivace which are all played with and juxtaposed 'con rubato'. It has a sonata form design.
Movement II - 4.00
Lento quasi ad lib - Slightly quicker and more flowing - A tempo lento.
Alienation versus a reflection of human warmth.
Movement III - 8.00
Molto allegro, Molto piu lento, Molto allegro
Light and airy as a meadow in spring with a good humoured middle section.
Movement IV - 10.58
Con moto, Poco allegretto, Poco vivo, as in the first movement these are 'mixed and matched'.
A high spirited finale.
Sheet music published by FAND MUSIC PRESS.

Piano soloist: Ennio Caironi.I wrote this Sonatina for Piano in 2011.Movement I This has a capricious range of tempi: Allegretto largamente, Allegro e preci...

29/03/2026

John Barton Armstrong [1923–2010]
https://youtu.be/oegkANB9WAg?si=XgCeDIjhneglUMFt
WHY? for Piano (1947)
"…a good right-hand study … the title speaks volumes. " International Piano.
Performed here by Ennio Caironi.

22/03/2026

https://youtu.be/udMiQnKr9Ro
Here is a taster of SOUTHDOWNS CAMERATA'S performance of FLOWER PIECE by Peter Thompson in the Petersfield Musical Festival 2026.

"This work was written in 1978/79.

In those far off Modernist days - as a young composer of 23 - I bypassed that whole movement and instead felt motivated to return to where an earlier generation had left off; one which had then been rather brutally sidelined. 'Brutal' is not too strong a word. The power of the Modernist movement was immense and ran right through the BBC down to the Universities and Music Colleges where it was perpetuated into to 'the establishment' and media. One pertinent example among many: at the end of Sir Arnold Bax's career, in the early 1950s, an influential critic wrote of him as being 'the club bore'...

My music fared no better. When FLOWER PIECE was first performed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, ModernIsm was all the rage amongst staff and students, and although brilliantly performed by young classically trained musicians, the piece was dismissed as 'decadent' etc. A few years later - continuing to ignore 'Modernism' - I was described by a critic on the Times as 'a composer with absolutely nothing to say'. So, as I say, 'brutal', is not out of context here.

There are no direct quotations of folksong in FLOWER PIECE, but I do recognise the influence of EJ Moeran's 'lost Eden' world which he so brilliantly captured by his use of folk-permeated melodic lines.
The work is prefaced by these lines of Shakespeare:

"This carol they began that hour,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
How that life was but a flower...."

JB Priestley once wrote that Delius was 'nostalgic' before he had anything to be nostalgic about! Perhaps when I wrote FLOWER PIECE, I was glimpsing into the future and this performance, for it is certainly nostalgic for me to hear it now, nearly 50 years after it was written!"
Peter Thompson

Here is a taster of SOUTHDOWNS CAMERATA'S performance of FLOWER PIECE in the Petersfield Musical Festival 2026. The whole work can be found at https://youtu....

13/03/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8CLqMUSNuo
"This piece was written 'in January' of 2026 and is dedicated to the Italian pianist Ennio Caironi in recognition, and thanks, for all the masterful - often premiere - recordings of not only my work but also the work of Bax, Moeran, Bantock, Ireland and York Bowen.
Many of these recordings can be found on this YouTube channel and on the www.fandmusic.com site. I also urge you to check out the ground breaking BANTOCK'S PIANO MUSIC PROJECT: / "
Peter Thompson

This piece was written 'in January' of 2026 and is dedicated to the Italian pianist Ennio Caironi in recognition, and thanks, for all the masterful - often p...

15/01/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoEp9Ne4lbQ
"From a volume called SKETCHES AND FANCIES published in 1996 comes MAY RAG which was written in Peterborough in 1980. I had a concoction of extra musical ideas - Ragtime, College Rag Week and the colours and excitement of the budding Maytime - which hopefully all bounce exuberantly and energetically together within the piece.....
This first recording was made by Ennio Caironi."
Peter Thompson

From a volume called SKETCHES AND FANCIES published in 1996 comes MAY RAG which was written in Peterborough in 1980. I had a concoction of extra musical idea...

07/01/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21sVKg7Ya4
BICYCLE RIDE was written in 1983 and is dedicated to Nick Harden.
It was first performed by Richard Meyrick in Petersfield Library and was published in 1993. This recording, by Ennio Caironi, is a premiere.

https://fandmusic.com/?product=FM019BICYCLE RIDE was written in 1983 and is dedicated to Nick Harden.It was first performed by Richard Meyrick in Petersfield...

02/01/2026

https://youtu.be/_7pkEIDjZ0I?si=LIIPSsCdIHYGCF8_
Here is an absolute gem. Hitherto thought lost we have Nick Barnard to thank for discovering this in a sale at Hanson's and having the forethought to copy it from the auction house's catalogue.
Then we must thank Ennio Caironi for his beautiful first recording/performace and for creating this film.
Written in 1912 when Bax was living in Ireland, "Mask" dates from within months of Nympholept and Tamara. It is enigmatic. Why is it called "Mask" - with inverted commas? How did it become lost? What prompted its 'elfin', capriciously romantic mood?
The piece is dedicated to Mary Lediard who was Holst's cousin.
The three photos in the film were taken at the same time that "Mask" was written and depict:
1) Broughton Gifford, (Clifford Bax's Wiltshire home)11th, 12th, or 13th August 1912. The photo was taken by J.J. Farjeon.
2) Natalia Skarzhinska (renamed Loubya Korolenko in Farewell, My Youth) taken in 1912.
3) Arnold Bax, his wife Elsita and Mrs. George Russell in the garden of 'Yeovil', Rathgar, January 1913.

Here is an absolute gem. Hitherto thought lost we have Nick Barnard to thank for discovering this at a sale in Sotheby's and having the forethought to copy i...

10/12/2025

Hymn to Colour.
A setting of George Meredith's poem for Soprano and Bass soloists, Choir and Orchestra by Peter Thompson.
https://youtu.be/f9g2Q0mF7MY?si=J_mQIdSmjTU8khX8

I wrote this work in Petersfield in 1984/85.Anyone landing here, I stretch out a welcoming hand to. As does Jon Mecannico and his Orchestra, Soloists and Cho...

09/12/2025

Grand reception for Lorna Windsor's new English Song recording: AT THE OPEN DOOR.

A selection of review quotes from Lorna Windsor and William Hancox's recent CD 'At the Open Door'.CD & download available here: https://willowhaynerecords.co...

15/10/2025

https://youtu.be/WYBIuGBb1Yg
SUITE No. 5 'HOLIDAY SUITE' by Peter Thompson.
Performed by ENNIO CAIRONI.

I: Once Upon A Seaside Town
(Donaghadee) 1½ mins
II: March To The Mountain
(County Down) 1¼ mins
III: River Meadows
(Grantchester) 1¼ mins
IV: The Mighty Nowhere Bridge
(Humber Estuary) 1¼ mins
V: The Extatic Motorcycle
(Suffolk Lanes) 1¼ mins

https://fandmusic.com/?product=FM018SUITE No. 5 'HOLIDAY SUITE'I: Once Upon A Seaside Town(Donaghadee) 1½ mins II: March To The Mountain(County Down) 1¼ mins...

04/10/2025

IT'S A BOMB!
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27/09/2025

https://youtu.be/EgC8lBWlldI?si=a6vt4j3Kxv2VLR2Q
This is an enterprising collection of some of Sir Arnold Bax’s greatest songs, arranged by Italian pianist Ennio Caironi. The songs of Bax are hardly the best known portion of his œuvre at present, but this volume will be welcomed by pianists (and their audiences) wishing to explore them as solo piano arrangements and so to be beguiled by their extraordinary melodic invention and harmonic subtleties.

https://www.fandmusic.com/?product=FM301This is an enterprising collection of some of Sir Arnold Bax’s greatest songs, arranged by Italian pianist Ennio Cair...