Peter Tranchell's Salonika Nights: Valse for solo piano is presumed to date from 1945-46. It’s a delightful salon-piece consisting of an eight bar introduction followed by four waltzes in different keys, after which the first is repeated.
[...Read More]Peter Tranchell's Variations for String Quartet on Chopin's Prelude no. 7 (Op. 28). Seven variations and the theme.
[...Read More]Tranchell's piano transcription of The Remembrance Waltz, aka Souvenir d’un jour d’espoir, from his 1947 incidental music for Johnson Over Jordan (the 1939 play by J.B. Priestley).
[...Read More]An SATB unaccompanied setting of this Christina Rossetti's poem "Twist me a crown of wind-flowers"
[...Read More]Seven Pieces in Alphabetical Order, for solo piano. Composed 1947, revised 1960. Duration c. 9 minutes.
[...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, and was dedicated to Jane Scott, later to become Elizabeth Jane Howard.
[...Read More]The Carol Voluntary is a light-hearted piece with a serious side, melding eight different carols (at the last count) with unexpected results. It was first written for Tranchell's friend David Isitt (later The Reverend) in 1948, then revised in 1964.
[...Read More]Composed July 1948, in the house of Hermione Gingold, Kinnerton Street, London.
Three versions of this song are held [...Read More]