Sax in the City – (2016)

Chamber Music, Wind, Wind & Brass, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble

Paternoster Square Dance Bishopsgate Blues Cheapside Chase   Details Written 2016Instrumentation Saxophone QuartetLength 13′ Commission The Worshipful Company of Musicians PremiereKaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet26th June 2017Worshipful Company of...

Deep in the Woods – Opus 109 (2010)

Chamber Music, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble

This piece is about the development of melodic motifs taken from the Blackbird folksong. At the start we hear two phrases of the Blackbird melody, the first eight notes, answered by the last sixteen. Like the definition of arboretum, the arboriculture is the...

Little Red Riding Hood (Wind Quintet and Piano version) – Opus 73f (1992)

Chamber Music, Children's Music, Ensemble, Keyboard, Narrated, Narrator & Chamber Ensemble, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble

Also available in the following versions: Symphony Orchestra. Opus 73 Chamber Orchestra. Opus 73b Symphonic Wind Band. Opus 73c Narrator (1-3) and Solo Piano. Opus 73d Narrator and 11 Instruments. Opus 73e PLEASE SEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA VERSION  FOR SOUND SAMPLES and...

Diversions – Opus 32 (1975)

Chamber Music, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble

I. Gusty; II. Blowing Blue; III. Sea Breeze Programme note I. Gusty; II. Blowing Blue; III. Sea Breeze This piece was commissioned by the London Saxophone Quartet for the 5th World Saxophone Congress, held in London in 1976. The three movements are each named after a...

Westerly Winds – Opus 84 (1999)

Chamber Music, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble

I. Scrumpy Giles IV. The Looe Bar Lady   Programme note I. Scrumpy Giles; II. Widecombe Jan; III. Lazy Lawrence; IV. The Looe Bar Lady Westerly Winds, commissioned by the Galliard Ensemble in 1999, is a recasting for wind quintet of the orchestral Four Rustic...

Comedy for Five Winds – Opus 14 (1972)

Chamber Music, Programme Notes, Wind & Brass, Wind Ensemble

I. Prelude: Allegro spiritoso; II. Soliloquy: Andantino; III. Blues: Slow, relaxed; IV. Hornpipe That Paul Patterson’s music possessed a razor-sharp sense of humour was already evident in his op.1, Rebecca (1965). By 1972, however, when the Comedy for five winds...