Peter Lawson

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 Yea...

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...

Star of Bethlehem is a set of three carols for Christmas and is a tribute to the memory of the late Kath Hayes with whom I collaborated on a number of projects, notably the recent "A Bed of Hay - Seve...

Mary's Prayer for choir and orchestra or piano is an unusual and beautifully simple, direct carol, recalling the Angel Gabriel's message to the Virgin Mary that she was chosen to bear God's son, who w...

"Christ is born, this brightest of days!" A Carol for Christmas for choir and orchestra or piano. This Brightest of Days! is a rousing, uplifting carol, rich in dramatic contrast of music in joyous pr...

A carol for Christmas adapted from the 2nd movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C minor Op.13 (Pathetique) with words by Peter Lawson arranged by Peter Lawson for choir with orchestra or piano Orch...

A carol for Christmas adapted from Schubert's Impromptu No.3, Op.90 with words by Peter Lawson arranged by Peter Lawson for choir with orchestra or piano. Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets...

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...

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...

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...

For choir and concert band, or concert band alone (can also be performed by choir accompanied only by piano). A non-stop medley of tunes from World War One from recruiting through to the Last Post. Th...

The Song of the Dark Red Helleborine is the seventeenth in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Britain and Ireland, and was first performed on January 4th, 1991 i...

The Song of the Violet Helleborine, written in 1987 for Philip Fowke, is the thirteenth in a projected cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Britain and Ireland, for various so...

The Song of the Late Spider Orchid was the tenth to be written in a series of musical portraits - for various instrumental combinations - of the wild orchids of Great Britain and Ireland, of which the...

The Song of the Bird's-Nest Orchid was written in 1982 for Reiko Isobe. It was the fifth to be written in a series of musical portraits of the 48 species of wild orchids in Britain and Ireland. The B...

The Song of the Lizard Orchid , written in 2012 for the double piano duet team Piano 40 for a Purcell Room concert, is the 29th to be written of a projected cycle of musical portraits of the 48 wild o...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes (2nd db.Piccolo & Alto Flute), 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons, 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (3 players: Snare Drum, Triangle,...