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The Marc Chagall Suite (Suite No.3 for piano, by Peter Thompson) was written in 1985 after a visit to the Chagall exhibition at the Royal Academy. The pieces are musical depictions of five paintings: The Blue Circus, At The Barber's, Loneliness, Above The Town and Spring.
Here you can hear At The Barber's in its entirety (1min 44secs), played by Oliver Williams, taken from his CD Piano Pictures (FAND 101) which can be ordered from our catalogue, as can the sheet music (FM 016).
" ... imaginative and colourful ... "  BBC Music Magazine 

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Basso Ostinato, by Dick Koomans, was originally written for synthesizers and also exists in an arrangement for jazz band. Here you can hear the first minute or so of the organ version, which can be seen, according to the composer, 'as an experiment in writing "light" contemporary music for an old instrument'.
The organ of St. Peter's Church, Ealing, is played by Paul Ayres. This extract (1min 12secs) is taken from his CD Passacaglia (FAND 102) which can be ordered from our catalogue.
" ... a player of the highest calibre and I cannot recommend this disc too highly." The Organ 

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Bolinge Hill is a small inland hill situated in England's South Downs, a large area of lush green chalky upland where are revealed sweeping vistas of landscape and skyscape often falling seaward. Bolinge Hill by Peter Thompson is subtitled Reverie and this dreamy miniature is marked 'slow and summery'.
Here we reproduce a small section (1min 50secs) of this short piece, played by Oliver Williams on his CD Piano Pictures (FAND 101) which can be ordered from our catalogue. 
" Oliver Williams' nicely relaxed and flowing style ..." BBC Music Magazine
The sheet music can also be ordered as part of Sketches and Fancies (FM 023)
" ... a generous volume ..." Piano

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Sub-titled Eastern Song and also known as the Hindu Slave Girl's Song, The Rose and the Nightingale comes from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Sadko. Carey Blyton arranged it for the trio 'Sheherazade' in 1995, exploiting the alto flute's ability to play music of an 'eastern' nature very convincingly.
We include here the whole of this piece (2mins 34secs), sung in English by Verona Chard, soprano, accompanied by Denise Dance, alto flute, and Fiona Clifton-Welker, harp. This recording is taken from Carey Blyton, The Early Songs, published by Upbeat Recordings Ltd (URCD160) which can be ordered from our catalogue.
" ... this superb new album ... very strongly recommended ..." Musical Opinion
The sheet music is also available (FM 038).

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Hampshire Summers, an orchestral rhapsody for full symphony orchestra, was composed by Peter Thompson in 1988. It was first performed by The Solent Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Steve Tanner, in St. Thomas' Cathedral, Portsmouth, in 1996.
Here we include the first 3mins 13secs of this approx. 12 minute work, played by The Solent Symphony Orchestra. Score and Parts are available from our catalogue (FM 070).

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Carey Blyton composed Lyrics from the Chinese, Op.16 in 1953/4 and re-scored / added to it in 1957/8, and the first performance of the revised work was given in 1967.
We include here song no.2: Drinking Song, and below, song no.6: Sacrificial Song - both in their entirety - sung by Ian Partridge with the Britten Sinfonia.
The CD is available available from our catalogue (URCD179).

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Lyrics from the Chinese, Op.16 - song no. 6: Sacrificial Song - see above.

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Adrian Williams' first set of Quatre Cantilènes dates from 1996 / 97.
We include here the first 'movement': Andante con moto, played by Raphael Wallfisch, 'cello,
accompanied by Adrian Williams, piano, and taken from Metronome: MET CD 1028.
Quatre Cantilènes Set II is available from our catalogue, FM103.

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Newly published Flights of Fancy featuring Kathryn Bennetts and Peter Bowman on recorders.
12 tracks of mixed 'classical' (16th Century) to contemporary (21st Century) repertoire.
We include here track 7: Fantasia: La Girandola by Thomas Morley, taken from CD QTR CD06-03.

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Farewell to Hirta is both the name of a CD featuring 'Cello and Piano music by Francis Pott and the title of the final track, a piano piece inspired by the moving story of the inhabitants of St Kilda (Hirta in Gaelic) leaving their traditional homes for the last time in 1930.
We include here a short section from this romantic piece, played by the composer,
by kind permission of Guild Music, from their CD GMCD 7141 - www.guildmusic.com

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The score for The Last Norfolk Walk by Roger Eno (FM118) was added to our catalogue some months ago.
Our 'Wine Catalogue' describes the piece as follows: "Held, as in a delicate piece of crystalware, deep poignancy within reflected light; perhaps a profound sorrow, unspoken, yet hauntingly present within the music's gentle simplicity. Tendrils of light down a minimalist requiem".
We are sure you will be delighted by it!
We include here the whole piece (3 mins 31 secs), performed by, and with kind permission of, the composer.

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By way of something different, we include a Shockwave Flash (swf) file of the Petersfield Area Schools' String Orchestra (PASSO) playing Andrew Richardson's Fizzy Pop Suite (FM082, Educational Music section). All three movements are included (Fizzy Funk, Dance Trance and Balladade (rhymes with lemonade!) and can be played by using the controls in the panel below (click once to activate then again to start playing). We make no apology for the playing - this is an orchestra made up of early teens and younger and we think they play really well!

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Now we include a round dozen samples, all composed by Peter Thompson:

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The 2nd of "...five interesting movements..." Piano from Suite No.2 for piano, FM015/Piano, played by Jeremy Carter.

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The introduction to Ballad for piano, FM022/Piano, played here by Stephen Robbings.

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The opening of the 1st movement of the 'Cello Sonata, FM046/Cello, played by Margaret Powell accompanied by Michael Dussek.

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The 1st of four Écossaises for 'cello and piano, FM102/Cello, performed by Clare Deniz, 'cello and Paul Turner, piano.
"...showed the accomplished grip of youthful capability..." Music and Musicians

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The 1st movement of Suite for oboe and piano, FM045/Oboe, with Sylvia Harper on oboe and Chris Squires on piano.
"...an attractive and tuneful work..." Double Reed News

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The start of the 1st movement of String Quartet No.1, FM042/Strings, played by members of the Northern Sinfonia.

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The opening of Meditation for flute, harp and soprano, FM044/Ensemble, performed here by Sheherazade.

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The 2nd movement of Ballet for piano, clarinet and 'cello, FM090/Ensemble, with Karen Kingsley, Robert Blanken and Sophie McNestrie respectively.
"...lively and contrasting work...always interesting..." Walton Herald and News

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The 2nd movement of Sonatina for bass clarinet or bassoon and 'cello, FM128/Ensemble, Andrew Uren on bass clarinet, Katherine Hebley on 'cello.

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The opening 'verse' of Carol for SATB, FM077/Choral, sung here by Musica Sacra. Also available for voice (C - E) and piano, FM061/Voice.

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The 2nd of Four Swinburne Pictures for voice and piano, FM108/Voice, with Lorna Windsor, soprano, accompanied by Nancy Coolley.
"...vocal lines are relatively straightforward but underpinned by a varied and at times quite virtuosic piano part..." The Singer

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The 4th of Five Elegiac Fragments, FM101/Orchestra, performed by the Woking Mozart Players conducted by Richard Temple Savage.

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Burlesque for piano by Peter Thompson (FM156) is played here, in its entirety (3 mins 27 secs), by Philip Mead, the founder of the British Contemporary Piano Competition, whom Classical Music describe as "One of the country's leading contemporary pianists".
Of the piece, Philip says "Thompson's music shows striking originality within a tonal idiom".

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Martin Read's orchestral composition Snow Never Fell On His Grave (FM069) is included here in its entirety (13 mins 42 secs - this could be a long download and note: it starts very quietly!). For the background to this piece please refer to our 'Wine Catalogue' within this website.