Psalm 133: The Peace of God, by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, commissioned by The Peter Tranchell Foundation, is now available to purchase

Peter T is described as "the most erudite and versatile of the many distinguished scholars Clifton produced..."

Peter Tranchell's grave is in Wolvercote cemetery (north Oxford), "No 11 Section H3 next to James”.

Notes on the Gonville & Caius College chimes, composed by Charles Wood

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.

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.

An explanation of Peter Tranchell's antiphonal psalm settings, from the programme notes for a 1968 recital

Information and a photograph of a rehearsal of "Daisy Simpkins" in Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1962

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).

About the Peter Tranchell Commemoration weekend: Saturday 24th September and Sunday 25th September 2005, including the programmes of music

Memories of Peter Tranchell' advice to new Footlights members, from "Going Up" by Frederic Raphael

IN PREP

A favourable review of "Bread of the world in mercy broken" (CMS047) by James L. Montgomery in the RSCM Magazine.

Members of Peter T's Caius choir formed the late-1960s psychedelic band "The Gentle Power of Song", recording the marvellous "Constant Penelope" track

A RVW letter found amongst Peter Tranchell’s papers about ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’

"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

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).

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?

Programme for the Caius College Christmas Concert 1963, including an "Improvisation for piano duet" featuring John West & Peter Tranchell.

Programme for the Caius College Music Society Summer Concert, 1962, with Peter T conducting the Caius Chorus in Handel's The Passion.

Elizabeth Jane Howard remembers Peter T (aka "Mephi").

We have been working on bringing two new scores to publication...

Programme for the Caius College Lent Term Concert, 1964, with Peter T conducting Carissimi's Jonah.

A hand-made Christmas card sent by Peter Tranchell to friends and members of the choir in 1978

"Divertissement" for violin, viola, 'cello, trumpet, horn, bassoon and piano, by Geoffrey Weaver, dedicated to Peter Tranchell.

Information and a photograph from a performance of Daisy Simpkins in Northampton, 1961

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.

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

Peter Andrew Tranchell was born on 14 July 1922 in Cuddalore, India

Memories of Peter T from A history of music at Eastbourne College from  its foundation in 1867 until the move into the Birley Centre

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:

An account of 16 diverse works by Peter Tranchell from the 1950s.

Peter T is dead

But his music still lives on

(I hear the cackle:-)

Vyvyan Chatterjie, by email, 29/01/2016 

An account of 18 diverse works by Peter Tranchell from the years before 1950.

Chris Henshall (1972) remembers...

We have transcribed Tranchell's Virgoan Responses as arranged for SATB.

More information and the full score.

Address delivered by Raymond Leppard at the Memorial Service for Peter Tranchell, 12 February 1994

Another take on Peter T may be found in this poem by Paul Archer http://www.paularcher.net/poems/peter_tranchell.html

Peter Tranchell, the composer, was for 40 years a key figure in the musical world of Cambridge University.

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.

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