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8 songs for baritone and piano, with words from News of the World, 9th Aug 1953, and the Daily Telegraph, 8th or 10th Aug 1953
[...Read More]8 songs for baritone and piano, with words from News of the World, 9th Aug 1953, and the Daily Telegraph, 8th or 10th Aug 1953
[...Read More]Peter Tranchell's 100-fold Amen. The work quotes several Amens and other works - see what you can find!
[...Read More]Peter Tranchell's Music for the service of Holy Communion: written for Fitzwilliam House, 1960
[...Read More]An SATB unaccompanied setting of this Christina Rossetti's poem "Twist me a crown of wind-flowers"
[...Read More]Peter Tranchell's piano duet "Spring Rondo" (four hands one piano), composed in 1968, duration approx 2'45".
[...Read More]A dismissal or closing response for unaccompanied AATTBB or SATTBB choir. Duration 30 seconds.
[...Read More]A bidding anthem for SATTBBB, duration c.20 seconds.
[...Read More]A round for four men's voices, with hidden depths, paying tribute to the "bandy legged and contemptuously regarded" Professor Nicholas Staggins, Master of the King's Music and Professor of Music at Cambridge University.
[...Read More]This light song sets words from a newspaper article to music for unaccompanied ATTBB or TTBB choir. This could easily be arranged for SATBB.
[...Read More]A light song written in 1979, exposing the savagery of the rose garden. For SATBB or ATTBB choir.
[...Read More]An anthem for SSATB and organ, piano or harmonium, composed by Peter Tranchell for the Wedding Service on 10 July 1982 of Jeremy Mark Davies and Catherine Hudson Wilks.
[...Read More]"O that our faith", (tune: Waltham Chase) a short setting of a text by Charles Wesley, for three voice parts and organ, written October 1971
[...Read More]An introit/anthem for ATBrBB or SATBB unaccompanied, the text from John 16:33.
[...Read More]"His first Mayweek", or, "The scholar's progress: a speculation with music in five scenes". For male and female soloists, male-voice chorus, and two pianos. Words and music by Peter Tranchell.
[...Read More]A double Anglican psalm chant by Peter Tranchell for ATB or SATB.
[...Read More]From the Caius Psalter, Chant 21A by "M.W. Scot-Higson", an anagram of Moscow Nights.
[...Read More]Seven Pieces in Alphabetical Order, for solo piano. Composed 1947, revised 1960. Duration c. 9 minutes.
[...Read More]Fortunare Nos was composed in 1986 for the wedding of one of Tranchell's students. It incorporates the hymn tune Wish Road originally written for Eastbourne College in 1950. The words are from a hymn by Henry J. Buckoll (1803-71) in Psalms and Hymns for Rugby School Chapel, 1850, and the Latin verse is a translation, presumably by Tranchell, of Verse 1.
[...Read More]"The Fire Raisers" was written by Max Frisch in German (1958) as "Biedermann und die Brandstifter". Originally a radio play, it was later adapted [...Read More]
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Ballet in 11 numbers: Il Preludio, Il Giocoso, La Radura, Il Terremoto, Il Antico, Il Brioso, La Bramosia, [...Read More]An eyebrow-raising harmonisation, written 1988.
[...Read More]An excellent quadruple chant, well-known from the Psalms from St Paul's recordings where it's used for Psalm 103. Three typeset editions are published here.
[...Read More]Two (and possibly three) versions of this triple chant are found in the Cambridge University Library archive:
Double chant for Psalm 75 in A major, D major or E flat major, also used by St. Paul's for Psalm 102 in B flat major
[...Read More]The Libran Preces and Responses were composed in October 1972. We are publishing the original ATBrBB version and a transposed version for SATTBB.
[...Read More]Peter Tranchell's Sonatina for pianoforte (1949) is a little mysterious - Tranchell didn't mention it in letters home, and was at the time talking more about his piano concerto (which either never materialised or has been lost). The work is in five movements, duration approx. 15 minutes.
[...Read More]Some confusion surrounds Peter Tranchell's Sonata (or Sonatas) for piano.
[...Read More]The Sonatina for flute and piano was written for and dedicated to Henri and Juana Fromageot in May 1966. Juana later became a well-respected concert and recording pianist under the name Juana Zayas.
[...Read More]Peter Tranchell' opera The Mayor of Casterbridge was first performed on 30 July 1951, by a largely amateur and student cast, at the Arts Theatre as part of the Cambridge Festival.
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A Concert Entertainment in One Act
The Libretto by H. C. PORTER & PETER [...Read More]Four Voluntaries for Organ by Peter Tranchell (Pastorale, Fantasy, Prayer, Epilogue), first performed by Basil Ramsey (later to be Editor of The Musical Times and Choir and Organ) in 1952
[...Read More]"The Robot Emperor" is an "entertainment" in 5 scenes for solos, chorus and orchestra, with words and music by Peter Tranchell, written in 1965.
[...Read More]"Heaven!", for voice and piano, was written in 1954 for performance in "Just as it Comes" at Trinity College, Cambridge. The lyrics are by Simon Phipps (Chaplain at Trinity College 1953-57 and Bishop of Lincoln between 1974 and 1987).
[...Read More]Peter Tranchell wrote this setting of Psalm 23 (The Lord is my shepherd) in 1962 for unison voices and organ, revised it in 1970 for two-part male-voices and organ, and again in 1976 for ATBrB choir and organ. The score published here has been arranged for SATB by Peter Marchbank.
[...Read More]This beautiful setting of Psalm 133 incorporates verses from Colossians 3. The setting can be purchased from OUP/CMS, in Peter Tranchell, Three Responsorial Psalms (CMS 046)
[...Read More]"Suite" was published in the Draconian, the school magazine of the Dragon School, in August 1935. The score shows that Tranchell [...Read More]
In 1954 Peter wrote the music for the musical comedy Zuleika, which culminated in a three month run in the West End in 1957. We have published a typeset version of Peter Tranchell's own piano edition.
[...Read More]Probably Peter Tranchell's best known work at present, "If ye would hear the angels sing" was written in 1965, setting words by Dora Greenwell to music for SATB and organ.
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