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

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With the kind permission of all concerned, we are able to make these amateur recordings available from evensong at the Inaugural [...Read More]

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

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Thanks to Norman Harper for letting us know that Psalm 133 The Peace of God & Psalm 141 Lord, I call upon thee have [...Read More]

The "Archive of Recorded Church Music" YouTube Channel has recently published a [...Read More]

"Bread of the world in mercy broken" and responsorial Psalms 15, 126 and 133, published by the Church Music Society, [...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, [...Read More]

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

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

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

The Sonatina for Flute and Piano was [...Read More]

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

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

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We have received some accounts and reminiscences of the Northampton performance of Daisy Simpkins.

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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 [...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.

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Works described in this part:

• Four Voluntaries for organ
• Two Preludes for organ on Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier and Who would true valour see
• This sorry scheme of things: cantata
• Friendly grotesques for piano duet
• In a Sunday Newspaper: song-cycle
• Daisy Simpkins: a concert entertainment
• Twice a Kiss: a musical charade
• Murder at the Towers
• Decalogue
• Two Kavafy Songs
• Spring Legend: a ballet
• Organ Sonata (1958)
• Fitzwillam Mass
• Aye, aye, Lucian
• Three Organ Voluntaries to be played during Holy Communion
• Scherzetto for orchestra

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Works described in this part:

• A Puritanism for flute and piano
• A Phase for violin, horn and piano
• What deaths men have died
• Nativitates: two movements for organ
• Cousin Cissie’s Baby Book of Swans for high voice and piano
• Seven Pieces almost in alphabetical order
• Salonika Nights: a concert waltz
• The Prodigal Son: a setting of Matins and Evensong
• Seven Poems of Po Chu-I
• Two Poems of T’ao Ch’ien
• Little Sonata for organ
• Carol Voluntary for organ
• Sonatina for piano
• Two Introits for mixed choir
• Psalm 144
• City of God
• Dodecafonia
• Organ Sonata (1950)

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

More information and the full score.

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.

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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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Philip Radcliffe reviews Peter Tranchell's music for The Bacchae.

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[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.]

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The most notable feature of this concert was the first performance of Peter Tranchell’s new Cantata, “This Sorry Scheme of [...Read More]