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Results of the 2025 Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize
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Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B major published
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Results of the 2024 Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize
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Entries are in for the 2024 Composition Prize
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The closing date has passed for the 2024 Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize and an impressive set of submissions has been received
[...Read More]Programme from the Perse Feast, 13 December 1963
Programme from the Perse Feast, 13 December 1963, at which the College choir would sing graces and anthems.
[...Read More]Programme from the Gonville & Caius College Music Society May Week Concert 11 June 1961
Programme from the Gonville & Caius College Music Society May Week Concert 11 June 1961
[...Read More]Programme from the Gonville & Caius College Music Society May Week Concert 12 June 1960
The programme from the Gonville & Caius College Music Society May Week Concert 12 June 1960
[...Read More]Photos from Twice A Kiss, Cambridge ADC, Lent Term, 1982
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Photos from the Cambridge Amateur Dramatic Club's 1982 revival of Twice A Kiss, a charade in one act, written 1955, words by Maurice Holt, music by Peter Tranchell. Find out more about the work here.
Rorate Caeli, by Dominic McGonigal - another excellent entry in the Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize 2023
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Rorate Caeli, by Dominic McGonigal, for SATB & Organ - another excellent and published entry from the Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize 2023
[...Read More]The Peter Tranchell Commemoration Weekend, 24 and 25 September 2005
Information about the Peter Tranchell Commemoration Weekend, 24 and 25 September 2005, including the programmes for the West Road Concert and the Mattins service
[...Read More]Second place in the Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize 2023: Lift up your heads, by Liam Condon
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Second place and Highly Commended in the Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize 2023: Lift up your heads, by Liam Condon.
[...Read More]The winner of the Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize 2023: Cantemus in omni die, by Dónal McCann
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The Peter Tranchell Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize: Cantemus in omni die, by Dónal McCann.
[...Read More]Impressive set of entries for the 2023 Composition Prize
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All entries are in for the 2023 Peter Tranchell Composition Prize, and we've forward 13 anonymised entries to our judging panel.
[...Read More]Mattins at St. Peter's Church, Brooke, Sunday 22 June 1969
During the 1969 tour to Norfolk, the choir sang Mattins at St. Peter's Church, Brooke, 10 a.m. Sunday 22 June 1969.
The image gallery below contains scanned pages from the booklet used by members of the choir. A copy was kindly provided by John Williams, who played Viola in the Introit Hymn:
My memory of this (I was the viola player) is that we all had to gradually process in, singing, during the hymn, then pick up our instruments and join in, hence the orchestration getting thicker in each verse as the players arrived at the east end. Quite mad!
Order of service:
Introit Hymn: At the name of Jesus (words: Caroline Maria Noel (1817–1877), music: Michael Brierley (b.1932), arr. Peter Tranchell (1922-1993))
Preces and Responses - Smith
Venite Exultemus Domino - single Ouseley chant in E major
Psalm 150 - Peter Tranchell's setting (score and information)
Te Deum - Stanford in C
Benedictus - Lang in A
Anthem - I was glad, Parry
Hymn 701 (EDEN)
Sermon Rev. Prof. Geoffrey Lampe
Hymn 160 (NICAEA)
Organ voluntary (unspecified)
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]"People, look East" on a new CD of contemporary Christmas music from Truro Cathedral
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]Two small anthems or introits published: "O that our faith" and "Jesus said: in the world you shall have tribulation"
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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]"Experimental Psalm-Settings" from a 1968 recital programme
An explanation of Peter Tranchell's antiphonal psalm settings, from the programme notes for a 1968 recital
[...Read More]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
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
A new old recording of Psalms 102 and 103
"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, are now available to pre-order from Oxford University Press
[...Read More]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, written in 1949 and dedicated to his friend Jane Scott (later Elizabeth Jane Howard, the author).
[...Read More]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]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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"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
An account of 16 diverse works by Peter Tranchell from the 1950s.
[...Read More]Analysis by Peter Marchbank, part 1. The early years: to 1950
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.
[...Read More]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
In this article the Director of Music for the B.B.C.’s. Midland Region discusses the music of Zuleika.
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