Prelude and Passacaglia for Organ, on 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind Hier' and 'Who would true valour see', Peter Tranchell, 1952

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Just a stub page for this work at present, mainly to capture this unexpected reference, from "The Diapason", September 1967, [...Read More]

Peter Tranchell wrote the music for the ballet "Fate's Revenge" in 1950-51. The CUL archive holdings reveal the work was [...Read More]

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Peter Tranchell wrote The Mayor of Casterbridge for the Festival of Britain in 1951. 

He described the "tribulations of [...Read More]

DAISY SIMPKINS

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THE SPINNING HOUSE

A Concert Entertainment in One Act

The Libretto by H. C. PORTER & PETER [...Read More]

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The Four Voluntaries for Organ were performed by Basil Ramsey, later to be Editor of The Musical Times, [...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).

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PAT wrote the music for Zuleika, a musical based on the 1911 novel, Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm. [...Read More]

Four Piano Duets (One Piano – Four Hands), by Peter Tranchell (1922 – 1993). Composed in May 1953.

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Peter Tranchell composed this 1958 Sonata for Organ (his second) for, and partly based on the name of, Peter Le Huray, a fellow lecturer in the Music Faculty of Cambridge University, and Director of Music at St Catharine’s College.

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