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op 80 | Scenes and Antiphons 2000 (Published by Typeset)
Organ music

This is an attractive organ suite for the Advent/Christmas/Epiphany season, a series of 8 antiphons and 8 “pictures” lasting about half an hour, a poor man's 'La Nativite du Seigneur', if you like. The premiere performance was given by Simon Lindley at Leeds Town Hall in November 2000, and the second a few days later in the McEwen Hall at Edinburgh University by the composer. It was recorded by the composer at Holy Trinity Meanwood on Amphion CD PHI 504. Now typeset by the composer and available as a pdf by return of e-mail. 

O Sapientia
A voice crying in the wilderness
O Adonai
Annunciation
O radix Jesse
Shepherds go to the stable
O clavis David
Angels
O oriens
The Word made flesh
O Rex gentium
Magi
O Emmanuel
Herod and the Holy Innocents
The peace
O Virgo virginum
op 45 | The Turning Year (Song Cycle) - 1983
Secular choral music and songs

This is a cantata for voice(s) and piano (16 songs) (recorded by Victoria Sharp, Sally Daley and David Owen-Lewis on Amphion PH1CD 504). It traces the course of the seasons in setting several poems by James Thomson and Robert Bridges, and others by Spender, de la Mare, Edward Thomas, Auden, Breton, Plath, Shakespeare, Macneice and Ruthven Todd. Several of the Winter/Spring songs were performed recently by Edward Thornton and Christopher at St Margaret's Ilkley.

Prologue: New Year (Spender)
Winter (Thomson)
Winter, a memory of childhood
Last week of February 1890
But these things also are spring's
April 1885 (Bridges)
May with its light behaving
A country song (Breton)
The Green Roads (Thomas)
Poppies in July (Plath)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
August (MacNeice)
In September (Todd)
North wind in October
Autumn (Thomson)
Epilogue: Sonnet (Bridges)
op 91 | City of God - jazz variations on the hymn tune 'Richmond' 20 (Published by Typeset)
Organ music

There are 12 variations (recorded on Amphion CD PHI CD504) all inspired by various styles of Jazz.This piece has been recently performed at Bradford Cathedral and at Pembroke College Cambridge by Anthony Gray. It is available in Type-set form from the composer.It was recorded on an Amphion CD by the composer at Holy Trinity Meanwood.

Moderato
Vivace
Allegro moderato
Blues
Ragtime
Charleston
Tango
Dixieland
Gently swaying
Adagio
Fast