Daisy Simpkins performance in Selwyn College, 1962
Information and a photograph of a rehearsal of "Daisy Simpkins" in Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1962
[...Read More]Commemoration Weekend 2005
About the Peter Tranchell Commemoration weekend: Saturday 24th September and Sunday 25th September 2005, including the programmes of music
[...Read More]Review of "Bread of the World", RSCM Magazine 2019 - "a useful and original communion motet"
A favourable review of "Bread of the world in mercy broken" (CMS047) by James L. Montgomery in the RSCM Magazine.
[...Read More]The Gentle Power of Song
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]Recordings from the Caius Choir Alumni evensong, September 2018
With the kind permission of all concerned, we are able to make these amateur recordings available from evensong at the Inaugural
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A letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Peter Tranchell
A RVW letter found amongst Peter Tranchell’s papers about ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’
[...Read More]Psalms 133 & 141 released on CD by St George's Metropolitan Cathedral Southwark
Thanks to Norman Harper for letting us know that Psalm 133 The Peace of God & Psalm 141 Lord, I call upon thee have
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A new old recording of Psalms 102 and 103
The "Archive of Recorded Church Music" YouTube Channel has recently published a
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"Bread of the world" and three psalms available for pre-order from CMS/OUP
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"Bread of the world in mercy broken" and responsorial Psalms 15, 126 and 133, published by the Church Music Society,
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Sonatina for pianoforte "For Jane" - recording published
By kind permission of John Fraser we have made available for the first time a private recording of Peter Tranchell's Sonatina for panoforte,
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Gonville and Caius College Christmas Concert 2nd December 1963
Programme for the Caius College Christmas Concert 1963, including an "Improvisation for piano duet" featuring John West & Peter Tranchell.
[...Read More]Gonville and Caius College Lent Term Concert 11th March 1962
Programme for the Caius College Music Society Summer Concert, 1962, with Peter T conducting the Caius Chorus in Handel's The Passion.
[...Read More]Psalm 119 vv1-8 and Sonatina for flute and piano nearly ready for publication
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We have been working on bringing two new scores to publication.
The Sonatina for Flute and Piano was [...Read More]Gonville and Caius College Lent Term Concert 9th March 1964
Programme for the Caius College Lent Term Concert, 1964, with Peter T conducting Carissimi's Jonah.
[...Read More]Divertissement, by Geoffrey Weaver, dedicated to Peter Tranchell
"Divertissement" for violin, viola, 'cello, trumpet, horn, bassoon and piano, by Geoffrey Weaver, dedicated to Peter Tranchell.
[...Read More]Daisy Simpkins performance in Northampton, 1961
Information and a photograph from a performance of Daisy Simpkins in Northampton, 1961
[...Read More]"Heaven" free score published
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We were contact recently by Robert Weddle, who used to perform Heaven with Simon Phipps "at parties for Cathedral staff at
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"People, look East" released on Christmas with St. John's CD
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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]Analysis by Peter Marchbank, part 3. Music of the 1950s
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An account of 16 diverse works by Peter Tranchell from the 1950s.
[...Read More]Analysis by Peter Marchbank, part I. The early years: to 1950
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An account of 18 diverse works by Peter Tranchell from the years before 1950.
[...Read More]Virgoan Responses now available
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We have transcribed Tranchell's Virgoan Responses as arranged for SATB.
THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, Radcliffe, The Cambridge Review, 7th February 1959
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]Tranchell’s Decalogue, Epps, The Cambridge Review, 3rd March 1956
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
[...Read More]THE MUSIC FOR THE “BACCHAE”, Radcliffe, The Cambridge Review, 25th February 1956
Philip Radcliffe reviews Peter Tranchell's music for The Bacchae.
[...Read More]ZULEIKA—HER MUSIC, Lowe, The Cambridge Review, 13th November 1954
[As was suggested last week in News and Notes, the first-night critics did less than justice to the music of Zuleika. In this article the Director of Music for the B.B.C.’s. Midland Region discusses it in greater detail.]
[...Read More]HOMERTON COLLEGE MUSICAL SOCIETY [This Sorry Scheme of Things, February 13], Radcliffe, 21st February 1953
The most notable feature of this concert was the first performance of Peter Tranchell’s new Cantata, “This Sorry Scheme of [...Read More]