Peter Lawson

Nessie is the story of the conflicting aspirations of naturalists and property-developers, with the Loch Ness monster, Nessie, caught between the opposing factions. The scene is the banks of Loch Ness...

Here is Beethoven's most famous piano piece, the first movement of his Moonlight Sonata, in an arrangement for choir with a soloist. The piece can be accompanied by piano or by an orchestra. For full...

The Song of the Fen Orchid, was written for James Kirby in 1985-6 and revised in 1990 and again in 2012-3. It was the ninth to be written in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the 48 wild orchi...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb or A, 2 Bassoons 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (2 players:Tubular bells, Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Tam-tam,...

The Song of the Broad Helleborine, written in 1987 for Nicolas Kynaston and first performed by him in the Royal Festival Hall, London, was the fourteenth to be written in a projected series of musical...

This a capella anthem, Virtue, was written in 1978, just after completing the song-cycle Care-Charmer Sleep, (Goodmusic GM265). The melody and harmonies of the closing bars of the first of four songs...

Wizard! is a 45 minute cantata originally written in 1980 for year-six juniors in a school in the East End of London, at which I taught for many happy years. The words were written by Katherine Hayes,...

The Song of the Fragrant Orchid was completed in 1986. It is dedicated to Frances Ann Brookes and Damaris Wollen who took part in its first performance in London, which was accompanied by myself. It w...

The Song of the Marsh Fragrant Orchid is a slightly eccentric variant of the Song of the Fragrant Orchid (for soprano, clarinet and piano - see GM078) incorporating elements of music theatre and an ev...

The Song of the Coralroot Orchid, written in 1988 for Frances Ann Brooks for a concert in Putney - and revised in 2012 - was the fifteenth to be written in a projected series of musical portraits of t...

The song-cycle 'Care-Charmer Sleep' was written, with funds from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, for Alison Mary Sutton, who was accompanied by Alan Hazeldine, in its first performance in the Purcel...

Armstrong Gibbs composed this 'Bridal March' for the wedding of his daughter, Ann to Lyndon Rust. They married on 14th February 1948 in Danbury Church in Essex. The organ in the church had been damage...

A splendid medley of songs made famous in the music halls comprising 'Put on your tat-ta little girlie', 'I'll be your sweetheart', 'Danny Boy', 'After the ball', 'She was one of the early birds', 'So...

For choir and orchestra or concert band, or choir and piano. A non-stop medley of tunes from World War One from recruiting through to the Last Post. This arrangement can be performed by a choir with e...

An original light-hearted song of celebration. Although suitable for any birthday with a zero on the end, it would perhaps be most appropriate for birthdays in the range 40-100 of a person, organisati...

Probably the best-known song from The Merry Widow arranged for choir and piano by Peter Lawson. The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar with libretto by Viktor Leon...

Arranged by Peter Lawson, this new four part TTBB male voice choir arrangement of Parry's Jerusalem is compatible with either the Parry Orchestration: (Goodmusic GMCH006) or the Elgar Orchestration: (...

In Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 the Land of Hope and Glory section first appears in the key of G (rather low for voices) and triumphantly returns near the end in D (rather too high for som...

TTBB choir with accompanmiment of piano or orchestra.Conservation! is an adaptation of the 'show-stopper' from my children's opera, Nessie. Set on the banks of Scotland's Loch Ness, the opera is the s...

This is the first carol in a sequence entitled A BED OF HAY, a set of Seven Carols for Christmas for choir and orchestra or piano with words by Katherine Hayes.They are: A Bed of Hay; Shepherds' Carol...

A BED OF HAY is a set of Seven Carols for Christmas for choir and orchestra or piano with words by Katherine Hayes.They are: A Bed of Hay; Shepherds' Carol; Domine, Adoro Te; Christ is here, Holy Year...

A BED OF HAY is a set of Seven Carols for Christmas for choir and orchestra or piano with words by Katherine Hayes.They are: A Bed of Hay; Shepherds' Carol; Domine, Adoro Te; Christ is here, Holy Year...