LIST OF MY COMPOSITIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS
with samples below
Some are already available for purchase - further information about availability and prices: christopherthomas21@hotmail.co.uk
Two Pieces for Piano in an Impressionistic style - Bristol 1973
Prayer of Dedication (cantor, choir and congregation, organ) Northwood 1974 (sample below)
Psalm 77: I Cried Aloud to God (SSA and piano) Derby 1976 (sample and recording below)
Canonic Sanctus (choir, organ, band and congregation ) Derby 1976
'For Our Sake' - a folk Passion (incorporating songs by local composers: choir, soloists, piano, organ, band and congregation) - Derby 1978
The Friesland Sketches for Orchestra - Sandiacre 1979
The Friesland Concerto for Orchestra - Sandiacre 1980
Mass for Mens' Voices (Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus) - Waltham Abbey 1982
Three Meditations on the Holy Spirit (organ) - Waltham Abbey 1983
Transcription (manuscript) of 12 Psalm settings from Robert Tailour's Sacred Hymns 1615 (lute or orpharion, viols, lyra viol and 5 voice parts). See under 'Robert Tailour project'. Psalms 16 and 137 set in Sibelius.
The Waltham Abbey Sanctus (choir, baritone solo, organ) - Waltham Abbey 1985
Genevan Psalm 8 (organ arrangement of Louis Bourgeois’ melody); pubished in On Being Human: Imaging God in a Modern World Calvin Seerveld (ed.) Welch Publishing, Ontario, 1988
Now the Green Blade Riseth - an Easter carol arrangement (SATB) - Waltham Abbey 1986
Sing Lullaby (The Infant King) - carol arrangement SSATB - Waltham Abbey 1986 (sample below)
Psalm 134: a responsorial setting for cantor, congregation and organ or piano - London 1987 (sample below)
Five arrangements for worship band at SOMA88 conference - Canterbury 1988
All Praise to Christ our King (arrangement of a carol by Lorraine Norton) unison voices, recorder or flute, guitar, percussion – London 1989 (sample below)
We Shall Glorify (arrangement as a 2-voice canon in a neo-Baroque style of a song by Lorraine Norton): upper voices, two solo instruments, continuo – London 1989 (published in 'Christian Music' magazine) (full score below)
In the Beginning: An Advent Carol (baritone solo + SATB) – Enfield 2001
Lord Give Me Faith - an anthem for upper voices and organ or piano – London 2002
Concerto Canonica - for 2 solo instruments and Baroque orchestra – Enfield 2010 (samples below)
Chorale Partita for Organ on Jesu meine Freude (6 movements) - Berlin 1974 and Geneva 2013 (samples below)
An Advent Responsory SSAATTBB - Geneva 2013
A Christmas Acclamation - Geneva 2014 (sample below)
Toccata for Organ in a French Style – Geneva 2016 (sample below)
'For Our Sake' - a folk Passion (2017, a revision of the 1979 version co-written at St.Werburgh's Derby; for choir, soloists, piano, organ, band and congregation) Keynsham 2017
Two Genevan Psalm Tunes (harmonisations and variations of Psalms 2 and 8) 2011 rev.2017
Psalm 77: I Cried Aloud to God (SSA and piano) Kilburn 2020 (sample and recording below)
Psalm 16: Then thou preserve me Lord (an arrangement for organ and voices from Robert Tailour's Sacred Hymns 1615)
Agnus Dei: for choir SATB unaccompanied. Solihull, February 2022 (sample below)
Sample pages from my Chorale Partita for Organ on Jesu meine Freude
Sing Lullaby (The Infant King) - carol arrangement SSATB
Samples from the raw version of my Concerto Canonica - here for for 2 solo violins. Can be adapted to any two solo instruments for the concertino, and various instrumentations for the ripieno.
Psalm 77: I Cried Aloud to God (SSA and piano: revised and extended version of 2020)
