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

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

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

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).

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.

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.

"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.

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

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

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.

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

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

In this article the Director of Music for the B.B.C.’s. Midland Region discusses the music of Zuleika.

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