Psalm 133: The Peace of God, by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, now available to purchase
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Psalm 133: The Peace of God, by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, commissioned by The Peter Tranchell Foundation, is now available to purchase
[...Read More]Psalm 133: The Peace of God, by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, commissioned by The Peter Tranchell Foundation, is now available to purchase
[...Read More]Peter T is described as "the most erudite and versatile of the many distinguished scholars Clifton produced..."
[...Read More]Peter Tranchell's grave is in Wolvercote cemetery (north Oxford), "No 11 Section H3 next to James”.
[...Read More]Notes on the Gonville & Caius College chimes, composed by Charles Wood
[...Read More]On 26th November 2021 Peter Tranchell's carol "People, look East" is being released as the first track on "All the World Tonight Rejoices: contemporary Christmas music" by Truro Cathedral Choir, on Regent Records.
[...Read More]We've typeset and published two small anthems or introits: O that our faith and Jesus said: in the world you shall have tribulation dating from October 1971 and October 1972 respectively.
[...Read More]An explanation of Peter Tranchell's antiphonal psalm settings, from the programme notes for a 1968 recital
[...Read More]Information and a photograph of a rehearsal of "Daisy Simpkins" in Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1962
[...Read More]We are pleased to announce that the Charity Commission has approved the registration of The Peter Tranchell Foundation as a Community Interest Organisation (a legal vehicle with limited liability for charitable organisations).
[...Read More]About the Peter Tranchell Commemoration weekend: Saturday 24th September and Sunday 25th September 2005, including the programmes of music
[...Read More]Memories of Peter Tranchell' advice to new Footlights members, from "Going Up" by Frederic Raphael
[...Read More]IN PREP
We were contacted recently by someone who remembers Peter Tranchell's radio broadcasts on music and theatre, wondering whether [...Read More]A favourable review of "Bread of the world in mercy broken" (CMS047) by James L. Montgomery in the RSCM Magazine.
[...Read More]Members of Peter T's Caius choir formed the late-1960s psychedelic band "The Gentle Power of Song", recording the marvellous "Constant Penelope" track
[...Read More]A RVW letter found amongst Peter Tranchell’s papers about ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’
[...Read More]"Bread of the world in mercy broken" and responsorial Psalms 15, 126 and 133, published by the Church Music Society, are now available to pre-order from Oxford University Press
[...Read More]By kind permission of John Fraser we have made available for the first time a private recording of Peter Tranchell's Sonatina for panoforte, written in 1949 and dedicated to his friend Jane Scott (later Elizabeth Jane Howard, the author).
[...Read More]A beer tin from Swiss Airlines ... Why is the boy so red in the face? Why is the dog's tongue out? Is the cow just an innocent bystander?
[...Read More]Programme for the Caius College Christmas Concert 1963, including an "Improvisation for piano duet" featuring John West & Peter Tranchell.
[...Read More]Programme for the Caius College Music Society Summer Concert, 1962, with Peter T conducting the Caius Chorus in Handel's The Passion.
[...Read More]Elizabeth Jane Howard remembers Peter T (aka "Mephi").
[...Read More]We have been working on bringing two new scores to publication...
[...Read More]Programme for the Caius College Lent Term Concert, 1964, with Peter T conducting Carissimi's Jonah.
[...Read More]A hand-made Christmas card sent by Peter Tranchell to friends and members of the choir in 1978
[...Read More]"Divertissement" for violin, viola, 'cello, trumpet, horn, bassoon and piano, by Geoffrey Weaver, dedicated to Peter Tranchell.
[...Read More]Information and a photograph from a performance of Daisy Simpkins in Northampton, 1961
[...Read More]People, look East, written by Peter Tranchell in 1982 and arranged for SATB by Peter Marchbank in 2013, has been released on a new CD Christmas with St John's on Signum Classics.
[...Read More]On Sunday 19th June 2016 Gonville & Caius College hosted its first event for the newly-formed Caius Choir Alumni. All former [...Read More]
From The Independent, Saturday 8 January 1994
[...Read More]Peter Andrew Tranchell was born on 14 July 1922 in Cuddalore, India
[...Read More]Memories of Peter T from A history of music at Eastbourne College from its foundation in 1867 until the move into the Birley Centre
[...Read More]The Ripon Lay Clerks found it hard to believe that the "ch" in Tranchell was a [k] and not a [tʃ], so we offered to print this on every score:
[...Read More]An account of 16 diverse works by Peter Tranchell from the 1950s.
[...Read More]Peter T is dead
But his music still lives on
(I hear the cackle:-)
Vyvyan Chatterjie, by email, 29/01/2016
[...Read More]An account of 18 diverse works by Peter Tranchell from the years before 1950.
[...Read More]Chris Henshall (1972) remembers...
[...Read More]We have transcribed Tranchell's Virgoan Responses as arranged for SATB.
Address delivered by Raymond Leppard at the Memorial Service for Peter Tranchell, 12 February 1994
[...Read More]Another take on Peter T may be found in this poem by Paul Archer http://www.paularcher.net/poems/peter_tranchell.html
[...Read More]Peter Tranchell, the composer, was for 40 years a key figure in the musical world of Cambridge University.
By the [...Read More]Philip Radcliffe applauds the revival of PAT’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, conducted by Guy Woolfenden, and hopes that it will soon be as widely known as it deserves.
[...Read More]A review by David Epps of a concert performance of Peter Tranchell’s Decalogue in St John’s College Chapel by the C.U.M.S. chorus, brass and percussion; from The Cambridge Review, 3rd March 1956
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