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    • Orchestral
      • Symphony No.1
      • Symphony No.2
      • The Flight of Icarus **
      • Sea-Change
      • Channel Firing *
      • Partita
      • Symphony No.3
      • The Spindle of Necessity *
      • Piano Concerto
      • Tenebrae **
      • The Burning of the Leaves (version for Baritone and Orchestra)
      • Binyon Songs (version for Baritone and Orchestra)
      • 2011 Concertante Variations (Presteigne Concerto)
      • Sixteen Sunrises
      • Angry Lament
      • Symphony No.5
      • In Sea-Cold Lyonesse
      • Forbidding Mourning
      • The Art of Beginning
      • Men of Stone (version for Symphonic Wind Band)
      • Symphony No.6
    • Instrumental
      • Piano Sonata **
      • Paraphrase on “The Duke of Marlborough
      • Inscape
      • The Phagotus of Afranio – a capriccio
      • A Starlit Dome *
      • Insomnia
      • Chaconne
      • Valedictions
      • Orion
      • Sonata for Violin and Piano
      • Three Chicken Studies
      • Tesserae
      • Dance of the Animals
      • Piano Sonata No.2
      • Departures for two violas
    • Choral
      • Ozymandias **
      • Three Latin Motets
      • Ave Maris Stella
      • A Better Time than Ours – A Carol
      • Agamemnon’s Tomb (A Requiem)
      • Songs of Rain and Sea
      • O Magnum Mysterium – motet
      • Mass in Troubled Times for 18 Unaccompanied voices
    • Solo Vocal
      • The Phoenix
      • The Borders of Sleep – Nine Poems by Edward Thomas
      • The Burning of the Leaves
      • Binyon Songs for Baritone and Piano
      • Verlaine Songs
      • Verlaine Songs (version for Voice, Violin and Piano)
      • A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning for Voice and Piano
    • Chamber
      • Serenata Concertata
      • Trio **
      • String Quartet No.1
      • String Quartet No.2 **
      • String Quartet No.3 **
      • String Quartet No.4 **
      • Snowbound
      • String Quartet No. 5
      • String Quartet No. 6
      • Stronghold
      • Night-Spells
    • Brass
      • A Madrigal for Thomas Morley
      • Wildfire **
      • Men of Stone (Symphonic Suite) **
      • Invocation
      • Tsunami **
      • Black Castles **
      • Aurora **
      • Gaia Symphony **
      • Eden **
      • Rain, Steam and Speed
    • Transcriptions
    • Bridal Lullaby (Percy Grainger)
    • The Battle Song (Havergal Brian)
    • Toccata (Monteverdi)
    • Mazurka in A minor Op.17 No.4 (Chopin)
    • The Vision of Cleopatra – Tragic Poem by Havergal Brian
    • 6 Maeterlinck-Lieder by Alexander von Zemlinsky
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Chamber programme notes

String Quartet No.2

String Quartet No.3

String Quartet No.4

Snowbound

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