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This page contains links to mp3 recordings of a selection of my arrangements and original compositions. If you have Sibelius and Scorch installed on your computer, you will also be able to view the score online and purchase it via Sibeliusmusic.com.
If you don't have Sibelius; if you'd like to purchase parts; or if you'd like to purchase one or more of the mp3 files listed below, then please contact me using the contact form on this site.
ARRANGEMENTS
Piano Duet
Waltz: To the Beautiful Blue Danube (Johann Strauss II)
Five Pianos
The Ride of the Valkyries (Richard Wagner)
Inspired by hearing "The Five Brown's" on the Radio this an arrangement
of "The Ride of the Valkyries" for five pianos. I sent the score to
their agent but alas, I've had no response, and I've yet to hear it
performed!!
SATB Choir & Piano
Erlkoenig (Franz Schubert)
An arrangement for SATB choir of Schubert's wonderful "Erlkoenig". In
this fantastic song, the singer has to take four different roles-
narrator, child, father and the Erl King. Using SATB voices enables
different tone colours for each voice- The whole choir as the narrator,
the basses as the Father, the Sopranos as the Child, and the tenors as
the Erl King- with the rest of the choir singing wordlessly pianissimo
to add a supernatural twist!
TTBB Choir & Piano
The Pilgrims' Chorus (Richard Wagner)
An arrangement for Male Voice Choir (TTBB) and piano of the Pilgrms Chorus from the opera Tannhauser.
ORCHESTRATIONS
Four Scherzos for Piano (Frederic Chopin)
No.1 in B minor
No.2 in B Flat minor
No.3 in C Sharp minor
No.4 in E
Clair de Lune (Claude Debussy)
Piano Sonata No.23 in F Minor, Op.57 "Appassionata" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
A full arrangement for large orchestra of Beethoven's Appassionata Piano Sonata.
Sonatine (Maurice Ravel)
Three Marches Militaires for Piano Duet (Franz Schubert)
The first two of these I arranged whilst at university for the St. Hugh's College Orchestra. I added the third 15 years later in 2010, to complete the set.
No.1 in D
No.2 in G
No.3 in E Flat
ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano
This work took a long time to perfect. The Rhapsody and the Scherzo were written first- again during my time in Oxford, and originally were part of "Five Pieces for Clarinet and Piano". I then removed the other three pieces and orchestrated them into a Tone Poem- which I'm still not happy with 15 tears later!- The remaining three movements as they are now evolved on and off over the next few years- The Sonatina as it is published on Sibelius was finally completed in 2005.
I am still most fond of the original two movements however. The Rhapsody features the Clarinet lyrically and melodically, whilst the piano explores a slowly developing chord sequence which pivots around the "C" above middle C- which sounds right the way through the piece. The Scherzo features a sequence of mischievous quotes- the opening bars are a direct quote of the closing bars of the Clarinet Sonata by Poulenc, and the clarinet also quotes the opening of the last movement of a sonata by the little known Louis Wanhal. For the piano there are direct quotes from both of the Shostakovich Piano Concertos. The significance of this is that whilst at university I was accompanying a clarinettist and we were working on both the Wanhal and the Poulenc- at the same time I was auditioning (unsuccessfully) to play the 2nd Shostakovich Concerto with University Orchestra.
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