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op 71 | Toccata on 'Puer Nobis' 1998 (Published by Typeset)
Organ music

This exciting Toccata is based on the familiar Christmas hymn 'Unto us a boy is born' (heard on the pedal) and was composed a week before the 1998 carol service at Holy Trinity Meanwood where it was played by Peter Gunstone, who later also performed it at the RNCM in Manchester. The composer recorded it live in recital at Leeds Parish Church on Amphion CD PHI CD 503. E-mail the composer for a pdf of the typeset score.

op 77 | Stations of the Cross (Published by Typeset)
Organ music

This is a suite of 18 short pieces, dedicated to Rev. Richard Wiggen (former Vicar of Meanwood) which can be used liturgically as interludes between meditations on the Stations, or may be played as a half-hour concert suite, with or without suitable readings to introduce each short movement. The 14 stations, plus an extra one, are followed by an interlude (the Harrowing of Hell) and a triumphant explosion of fanfares to represent Easter; the epilogue is a quiet reflection on what we have been through: prologue; 15 stations; harrowing of hell, resurrection/Easter alleluias/epilogue. This has been recorded at Leeds Parish Church by the composer on Amphion CD PHI CD 503. In addition there are private CD recordings of live performances in Ilkley and Bradford Cathedral (CBR) and in Leeds Town Hall (Simon Lindley, with readings by the composer). The music is now available in a typeset edition by the composer as a pdf, by return of e-mail.

Introduction
Jesus is condemned to death
Jesus receives the cross
Jesus falls
Jesus meets his mother
Simon of Cyrene
Veronica
Jesus falls (2nd)
Women of Jerusalem
Jesus falls (3rd)
Jesus is stripped
Nailed to the cross
Jesus dies
Jesus is taken down
Laid in the sepulchre
Vigil: the harrowing of Hell
Resurrection
op 69 | 'This endris night' carol 1998 (Published by Typeset)
Choir and organ

This catchy and singable carol has proved popular with the Morley Music Society, Bradford Chorale, Meanwood Parish Church choir, Leeds Parish church choir (who recorded it twice), and St Margaret's Ilkley choir. The words are Mediaeval.

There is also a simplified version of this for unison or solo voice(s), which was typeset for the Draughton singers, and used on our Christmas card for 2021

op 72 | Nunc natus est altissimus, carol for SATB and organ (Published by Banks)
Choir and organ

(recorded on Amphion CD PHI CD 503)

This Carol of the Shepherds and the Angels, written in 1999, describing the encounter between the angels and the shepherds on Christmas night, was written for Leeds Parish Church Choir to sing at the dedication service for the glass Angel Screen in the Church in 1999. It was recorded in 2000 by the choir, for the Amphion CD 'This Endris Night', and again  for an LPC CD issued by Foxglove Records, directed by Simon Lindley and accompanied by Jonathan Lilley (also 2000.) It was included in the Bradford RSCM Area Festival in Sept 2012 at St Margaret's Ilkley and again at St Margaret's for the 2012 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The Mediaeval text is 'macaronic', half in Latin and half in English.

op 43 | Fantasia on the Old Bath Road
Organ music

This is a brief 'jeu d'esprit' in the form of an introduction, a statement of the theme (John Ivimey's school song, 'The Old Bath Road') and a variation, rounded off by a coda. It was performed at end-of-term services at Marlborough for many years, and was even orchestrated for concert performance. The organ original was later performed in Leeds Town Hall and recorded (live) in Leeds Parish Church in February 2000. The fantasia dates from around 1975, orchestrated in 1982. Also recorded for a private CD by Stewart Smith at a recital by the composer on 4.ii.22 at St Margaret's Ilkley.

op 64 | Sonatina (Sonata no 1) 1998 (Published by Typeset)
Organ music

This work can be regarded as the 1st Sonata (there is a second, op 106), and it consists of 4 movements: prelude (march tempo), adagio, scherzo (allegro), passacaglia (andante). It was written as a 50th birthday present for Isobel Rathbone. It was recorded im 2000 by the composer for Amphion on the organ of Leeds Parish Church. Newly typeset in 2016 for performances at Ilkley and Bathwick in March and April 2016.

Prelude
Andante
Scherzo
Passacaglia
op 52 | Sonata for cello and piano 1990/91
Chamber music, and works for organ and other instruments

A 20-minute sonata first played by Tom Rathbone when he was 15, later recorded by him on the Amphion CD 'This Endris Night'. The movements are Slow - Allegro, Adagio, Scherzo (Allegro), Passacaglia (Andante, Piu mosso, Lento)

Intro & allegro
Adagio
Scherzo
Passacaglia and Epilogue