MERRY CHRISTMAS!

A quick Christmas message from me! 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

CLASSICAL ADVENT CALENDAR - HALFWAY POINT!

Halfway through Advent already and I'm really enjoying the countdown to Christmas with my Classical Advent Calendar!  

Each day I've been adding a new track to the Advent playlist in Spotify and it's been so tricky deciding the selection. All the tracks to me sum up Advent and Christmas and have had a real impact on me over the years.  

Click here to access the Classical Advent Calendar.

COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS - CLASSICAL ADVENT CALENDAR

Starting tomorrow I'll be counting down to Christmas with my Classical Advent Calendar!  

Each day I'll be adding a new track to the Advent playlist in Spotify - all the tracks to me sum up Advent and Christmas and have had a real impact on me over the years.  

It would be great to know if you enjoy my choices!  

Click here to access the Classical Advent Calendar.

CLARINET CONCERTO RECORDING

Having a GREAT time recording my new clarinet concerto with Emma Johnson, conductor Philip Ellis and the BBC Concert Orchestra. It's sounding so beautiful!

CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS FREE DOWNLOADS

     

I've just released this new video about the FREE SHEET MUSIC AND MP3 of Christian Soldiers.  This piece is an excerpt from The Great War Symphony and will feature in the final four-movement symphony.

In the video, I encourage you to download the sheet music and guide track to perform Christian Soldiers to commemorate the soldiers and survivors of World War One.  The sheet music is available for SATB choir & organ, brass band, and orchestra, and I’d love to see videos from your rehearsals or performances.  Share them online using #greatwarsymphony or post them to me via the Contact page.

If you would like to stay in touch with the progress of The Great War Symphony, please visit www.thegreatwarsymphony.com and sign up to our newsletter.

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS MP3

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS SHEET MUSIC

CLASSICAL MASTERCLASS ALBUM RELEASED

The Classical Masterclass album has been released!  This is the album for which I produced arrangements of pieces by, amongst others, Handel, Mozart, Pachelbel and Wagner for strings and Alex James on his bass guitar.

I'm REALLY pleased with how they sound - so sexy!

In case you missed it earlier in the year, you can CLICK HERE to see great behind the scenes footage posted by the English Session Orchestra from the recording with Alex James.  It's the strings section recording my new arrangement of Praeludium from Grieg's Holberg Suite - amazing!  Alex James is in the foreground (back to camera) and we're recording in his barn.

And this is a photo of the whole team, including, on the left, Alex James, me, Sarah Pickering from Sony and our fantastic engineer Steve Price, and the brilliant English Session Orchestra players.

CLICK HERE to download the Classical Masterclass album  from the Sony / EMI website.

POETRY & SONG CONCERT

A very special evening last night at Swinstead, Lincs performing English songs with the soprano Elizabeth Adams interspersed with poetry readings by my brother Andrew.  

This is our rehearsal of my setting of Remember, the beautiful poem by Christina Rossetti.

Remember me when I am gone away, 

    Gone far away into the silent land; 

     When you can no more hold me by the hand, 

Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. 

Remember me when no more day by day 

    You tell me of our future that you plann'd: 

    Only remember me; you understand 

It will be late to counsel then or pray. 

Yet if you should forget me for a while 

    And afterwards remember, do not grieve: 

    For if the darkness and corruption leave 

    A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, 

Better by far you should forget and smile 

    Than that you should remember and be sad.

The music scores for Patrick's setting of Remember for 

SATB choir with Piano/Organ are also available from MusicRoom.