Second place and Highly Commended in the Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize 2023: Lift up your heads, by Liam Condon.
[...Read More]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]All entries are in for the 2023 Peter Tranchell Composition Prize, and we've forward 13 anonymised entries to our judging panel.
[...Read More]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, commissioned by The Peter Tranchell Foundation, is now available to purchase
[...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]About the Peter Tranchell Commemoration weekend: Saturday 24th September and Sunday 25th September 2005, including the programmes of music
[...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]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]Programme for the Caius College Lent Term Concert, 1964, with Peter T conducting Carissimi's Jonah.
[...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]An account of 16 diverse works by Peter Tranchell from the 1950s.
[...Read More]An account of 18 diverse works by Peter Tranchell from the years before 1950.
[...Read More]We have transcribed Tranchell's Virgoan Responses as arranged for SATB.
[...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
[...Read More]Philip Radcliffe reviews Peter Tranchell's music for The Bacchae.
[...Read More]In this article the Director of Music for the B.B.C.’s. Midland Region discusses the music of Zuleika.
[...Read More]The most notable feature of this concert was the first [...Read More]