DISCOGRAPHY [see separate list below for works by category with durations and dates of composition] First list: alphabetical by title These are CDs available in 2020: original issues not always cited Poems set in vocal works are listed WORKS BY PETER DICKINSON Air for solo flute. Duke Dobing (flute), Naxos 8.572287 (2009); for solo violin. Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) American Trio (Hymns, Rags and Blues). Walter Verdehr (violin); Elsa Verdehr (clarinet); Gary Kirkpatrick (piano), Crystal Records CD744 (1995) Bach in Blue. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 760 (2005), Naxos 8.572654 (2011) Bach in Blue (trio). Walter Verdehr (violin); Elsa Verdehr (clarinet); Silvia Roerderer (piano), Heritage HTGCD 259 (2013), Blue Griffin Recording Inc BGR 557 (2020) Bach in Blue (violin, clarinet, piano and strings). BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Clark Rundell (conductor), Heritage HTGCD 211 (2015) Birthday Surprise (orchestra). BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Clark Rundell (conductor), Heritage HTGCD 211 (2015) Blue Rose. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369, Naxos 8.572654 (2011) Blue Rose Variations. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Cambridge Postlude, A. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Carillon. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Celebration Trio, The Verdehr Trio, Crystal Records CD973 (2016) Concerto Rag. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000), Naxos 8.572654 (2011) E. E. Cummings Song Cycle, An. ‘i thank you god’; ‘no time ago’; ‘up into the silence’; ‘love is the every only god’; ‘love is more thicker’. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000) Dirge. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Dylan Thomas Song Cycle, A. ‘I have longed to move away’; On a wedding anniversary’; Was there a time’; In my craft or sullen art’; On no work of words’. Henry Herford (baritone) and Robin Bowman (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000) Eight Very Easy Pieces. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 760 (2005) Extravaganzas [Gregory Corso]. ‘The street-singer is sick’; Outside the wall’; ‘Death weeps because death is human’; ‘I hang old photos of my childhood girls’; ‘Four windmills, acquaintanceships’; ‘O people! My people!’; ‘Mrs Lombardi’s month-old son is dead’; ‘Last night I drove a car’. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000); on British Song, Heritage HTGCD 240 (2012) Fantasia for solo violin. Peter Sheppard Skearved, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) Fantasy for clarinet and piano. Stuart Eminson (clarinet) and Joseph Havlat (piano, Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) Four Duos for oboe and cello. Sarah Francis (oboe); Rohan de Sarum (cello); on English Oboe Music, Heritage HTGCD 275 (2014). Four Duos for flute and cello. Rosanna Ter-Berg (flute); Lydia Hillerudh (cello) Four Easy Pieces. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 760 (2005) Five Diversions. Amiable; Lyrical; Gently jazzy; Quiet and dreamy; Lively and brash. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 760 (2005), Naxos 8.572654 (2011) Five Diversions. Peter Dickinson (clavichord), Heritage HTGCD 259 (2013) Five Diversions (small orchestra). BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Clark Rundell (conductor), Heritage HTGCD 211 (2016) Five Early Pieces for piano. Peter Dickinson (piano), Naxos 8.572287 (2009) Five Forgeries for piano duet. Poulenc; Hindemith; Stravinsky; Delius; Bartok. John Flinders and Peter Dickinson (piano), Naxos 8.572287 (2009) Four Piano Blues. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000), Naxos (2011) Four W. H. Auden Songs. ‘Look, stranger on this island now’; ‘Eyes look into the well’; ‘Carry her over the water’; What’s in your mind, my dove, my coney’. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000). James Gilchrist (tenor) and Nathan Williamson (piano), Somm CD 0646 (2022) Freda's Blues. Peter Dickinson (piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) Hymns, Rags and Blues (see American Trio) Hymn-Tune Rag. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000), Naxos 8.572654 (2011) Judas Tree, The: A Musical Drama of Judas Iscariot [with Thomas Blackburn] - actors, singers, SATB, string quintet, brass quintet, percussion, piano and organ. 1967 Washington Cathedral production; Richard Dirksen (conductor), Heritage HTGCD 263 (mono, 2014 Late Afternoon in November [Dickinson]. The BBC Northern Singers/Stephen Wilkinson, Prima Facie PFCD147 (2021) Larkin’s Jazz [Philip Larkin]. ‘Reasons for attendance’; ‘For Sydney Bechet’; ‘Love songs in age’; Reference back’. Henry Herford (baritone-speaker); The Nash Ensemble – John Harle (saxophone); Ian Brown (piano); Edward Becket (flute); Duncan Prescott (clarinet); Paul Archibald (trumpet); Christopher van Kampen (cello); Terence Emery (percussion); Lionel Friend (conductor), Naxos 8.572287 (2009) ‘Let the florid music praise’ [W. H. Auden], Martyn Hill (tenor) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000). James Gilchrist (tenor) and Nathan Williamson (piano), Somm CD 0646 (2022) Lullaby from ‘The Unicorns’. Duke Dobing (flute) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Naxos 8.572287 (2009). Stuart Eminson (clarinet) and Joseph Havlatt (piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018). Peter Dickinson (piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018). Peter Sheppard Skaerved & Roderick Chadwick, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) Mass. Stoke-on-Trent Bedford Singers/May Whalley. Sain TRF 239 (1981) Mass of the Apocalypse. Kyrie; Sanctus and Benedictus; Agnus Dei; Gloria; Ite Missa est. The Rev Donald Reeves (speaker); Jo Maggs (soprano); Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano); St. James’s Singers; James Holland and David Johnson (percussion); John Alley (piano); Ivor Bolton (conductor), Naxos 8.572287 (2009) Meditation on ‘Murder in the Cathedral’. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Metamorphosis for solo flute. Duke Dobing (flute), Naxos 8.572287 (2009); solo violin. Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) Merseyside Echoes. BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Clark Rundell (conductor), Heritage HTGCD 276 (2014) Millennium Fanfare. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Monologue for strings. BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Clark Rundell (conductor), Heritage HTGCD 211 (2016) Organ Concerto. Jennifer Bate (organ); BBC Symphony Orchestra; David Atherton (conductor), Heritage HTGCD 276 (1986/2014) Outcry: a Cycle of Nature Poems: ‘From Auguries of Innocence’ [Blake]; ‘The Blinded Bird’ [Hardy]; ‘Badger’ [Clare]; ‘Horses aboard’ [Hardy]; ‘Nature’s Hymn to the Deity’ [Clare]. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo); The London Concert Choir; City of London Sinfonia; Nicholas Cleobury (conductor), TROY 360 (1999) Paraphrase I. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Paraphrase II. Peter Dickinson (piano), Naxos 8.572287 (2011). Nathan Williamson (piano), Somm CD 0195 (2019) Pastorale, Blues and Homage (A James Joyce Pastorale; A Robert Burns Blues; Homage to Poulenc), John Turner (recorder), Peter Dickinson (piano), Heritage HTG CD259 (2013) Patriotic Rag. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000), Naxos 8.572654 (2011) Piano Concerto. Howard Shelley (piano); BBC Symphony Orchestra; David Atherton (conductor), Heritage HTGCD 276 (EMI 1986/Heritage 2014) Postlude on Adeste Fideles. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009). Hakan Martinsson (organ), It's Christmas Time: Famous Organ Works for Christmas, Sweden, Deezer 147467758 (2002) Prelude. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Prelude on Song 20 (Orlando Gibbons). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Prelude on Song 34 (Orlando Gibbons). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Prelude on Song 46 (Orlando Gibbons). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Quartet Rag. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000), Naxos 8.572654 (2011) Quintet Melody for solo violin. Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) Recorder Music, with tape playback. David Munrow (recorder), Testament SBT2 – 1368 (2005) ‘Red, red rose, A’ [Burns]. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) Satie Transformations (orchestra). BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Clark Rundell (conductor), Heritage HTGCD 211 (2016) ‘So we’ll go no more a-roving’ [Byron]. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) Sonata for violin & piano. Peter Sheppard Skaerved & Roderick Chadwick, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) Sonatas for piano with tape playback. Eric Parkin (piano), Albany TROY 760 (2005) Sonatina for recorder & piano. John Turner and Peter Lawson, Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) Sonatina for solo bassoon. Rosie Burton (bassoon), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) Stevie’s Tunes [Stevie Smith]. ‘I love little Heber’; ‘To the tune of the Coventry Carol’; ‘O happy dogs of England’; ‘In Canaan’s happy land’; ‘The Heavenly city’; ‘…and the clouds return after the rain’; ‘The devil-my-wife’; ‘Le singe qui swing’; ‘Unser vater’. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) String Quartet No. 1. Kreutzer Quartet, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) String Quartet No. 2 with playback. Kreutzer Quartet & Roderick Chadwick, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) Strings in the Earth and Air (Joyce) for soprano, recorder, violin & cello, Divine Art dda 25210 (2020) Study in Pianissimo. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Suite for the Centenary of Lord Berners. Blues; Jig; March; Dirge; Waltz; Blues. Peter Dickinson (clavichord), Heritage HTG CD259 (2013) Suite for the Centenary of Lord Berners (orchestra). BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Clark Rundell (conductor), Heritage HTGCD 211 (2016) Surrealist Landscape with tape-playback [Lord Berners]. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000), on British Song, Heritage HTGCD 240 (2012) Three Comic Songs [W. H. Auden]. ‘My second thoughts condemn’; Happy Ending’; ‘Over the heather’. Martyn Hill (tenor) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000) Three Satie Transformations [based on Trois Gnossiennes (1890)]. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000), Naxos 8.572654 (2011) Three Songs from The Unicorns [John Heath-Stubbs]. Lullaby; Interrupted Love Song; The Ballad of St Brendan. Marylin Hill Smith (soprano) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000) Three Statements. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Threnody. Penelope Lynex (cello) and Alexander Wells (piano), LIR Classics LIR022 (2010). Lydia Hillerudh (cello) and Jospeh Havlat (piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) Toccata. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) Tranquillo for violin & piano. Peter Sheppard Skaerved & Roderick Chadwick, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) Translations. John Turner (recorder), Richard Tunnicliffe (gamba) and Harvey Davies (harpsichord), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018). Also on Wandering Pathways: Variations for Recorder and Strings by Leonard Bernstein and Others. Prima Facie PFCD091 (2018) Unicorns, The. [John Heath-Stubbs]. Fanfares and Choruses; ‘Lullaby’; Dance; ‘Interrupted Love Song’; A Celebration Fugue; ‘The Ballad of St Brendan’. Elisabeth Söderström (soprano); Solna Brass; Lars-Gunnar Björklund, Albany TROY 760 (2005) Variations on a French Folk Song. Jane Chapman (harpsichord), Heritage HTGCD 254 (2013) Violin Concerto. Chloe Hanslip (violin); BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Clark Rundell (conductor) Heritage HTGCD 276 (2014) Waltz for Eliott Schwartz. Peter Dickinson (piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) Vitalitas Variations. Peter Dickinson (piano), Naxos (2011) Wild Rose Rag. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000), Naxos 8.572654 (2011) Winter Afternoons [Emily Dickinson]. ‘One dignity delays for all’; ‘There’s a certain slant of light’; ‘Departed – to the Judgement’. The King’s Singers: Nigel Perrin, Alastair Hume (counter-tenors); Alastair Thompson (tenor); Simon Carrington (baritone); Brian Kay (bass); with Rodney Slatford (double bass), Albany TROY 760 (2005) WORKS BY OTHER COMPOSERS RECORDINGS WITH MERIEL DICKINSON Gordon Crosse: The New World [LP reissued on Dreamscapes, DKP(CD)9093, Unicorn-Kanchana 1990]; Lennox Berkeley: Chinese Songs [first recording, reissued on Heritage HTGCD 240 (2012)] D’un vanneur de blé, Tant que mes yeux, Automne; Peter Dickinson: Extravaganzas [second recording, reissued on Heritage HTGCD 240 (2012)] Also Argo LP ZRG 788 (1975) An Erik Satie Entertainment (songs and piano music including first recordings), Unicorn LP RHS 338 (1976). Reissue plus live recordings on Heritage HTGCD 171 (2021) An American Anthology. Copland: Poet’s Song; In Evening Air and Night Thoughts (piano); Carter: Three Poems of Robert Frost, Voyage; Cage: Five Songs (E. E. Cummings); Virgil Thomson: Two by Marianne Moore, Portrait of F. B.; Gershwin: I got Rhythm, A Foggy Day, They all laughed. Unicorn LP RHS 355 (1978); reissued as American Song with nine of Copland's Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson on Heritage HTG CD231 (2012) Eugene Goossens: Six Songs from Chamber Music (James Joyce), Unicorn LP RHS 348 (1977) A Portrait of Lord Berners. A Lieder Album, Three Songs, Trois Chansons, Red Roses and Red Noses, Come on Algernon, Fragments psychologiques (piano). LP RHS 355 (Unicorn 1977); reissued on CD Symposium 1278 (Symposium 2000). Reissued in The Lord Berners Collection, Heritage HTGCD 199/200 (2016) Dreamscapes. Jonathan Harvey, Correspondances; Peter Dickinson: Surrealist Landscape; Gordon Crosse, The New World; Andrzej Panufnik: Dreamscapes; Elisabeth Lutyens, Stevie Smith Songs; [reissued on TROY365 Albany 2000]. LP Unicorn UNS 268 (1979); DKP(CD)9093 Unicorn-Kanchana (1990); reissued as British Song on CD with Lennox Berkeley, Chinese Songs; Dickinson, Extravaganzas; without Panufnik; Heritage HTGCD 240 (2012) The Joyce Book. Thirteen songs by Moeran, Bax, Roussel, Hughes, Ireland, Sessions, Bliss, Howells, Antheil, Carducci, Goossens, C. W. Orr, Van Dieren; historic release on Heritage HTGCD 175 (2020) RECORDING WITH SARAH FRANCIS (OBOE) Howells, Oboe and Piano Sonata; Rubbra, Oboe and Piano Sonata; Hamilton Harty, Three Pieces. LP and cassette Hyperion A66206 (1986); CDH5 5008 (1999); Howells on Heritage HTGCD 275 (2014) RECORDING WITH RALPH HOLMES (VIOLIN) A Tribute to Ralph Holmes (1937-84). Bartok, Solo Sonata; Beethoven, Spring Sonata; Bax, Sonata No. 3; Delius, Lullaby for a Modern Baby. Heritage HTGCD 228 (2011) RECORDING WITH MARTYN HILL (TENOR) Chamber Music (James Joyce) set by G.Molineux Palmer; historic release on Heritage HTGCD 175 (2020) PIANO SOLO RECORDINGS The Essential Erik Satie. Conifer CDCF 183 (1990). Many reissues in various countries including: Satie Piano Collection, Boots DDD510 (1990); The Erik Satie Show, Conifer CDFC 512; Satie Piano Music, Conifer 56014-2 (1995); Satie Piano Works, RCA Red Seal, BMG 09026 63976 2 (2002); now Alto ALC 1276 (2014); also included in 4 CD set from Alto ALC 4004 Peter Dickinson: Piano Music: Rags, Blues, Parodies, Vitalitas Variations, Paraphrase II, Five Diversions. Naxos 8.572287 (2011) Peter Dickinson: Translations. Including piano solos Freda's Blues, Waltz for Elliott Schwartz; Lullaby from The Unicorns. Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) CLAVICHORD RECORDINGS Blue Clavichord: Peter Dickinson. Twentieth-Century Music for Clavichord, Harpsichord and Recorder. Dickinson, Suite for the Centenary of Lord Berners, Five Diversions; Alun Hoddinott, Sonatina, Op. 18; Duke Ellington, five songs; Alan Ridout, Suite; Dickinson, Pastorale, Blues and Homage [with John Turner, recorder]; Jeremy Dale Roberts, Hymn [with John Turner]. Heritage HTGCD 259 (2013) PETER DICKINSON RECORDED WORKS BY CATEGORY {with dates and durations} ORCHESTRAL Monologue for strings (1959). BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Clark Rundell {9'} Heritage HTGCD 211 (2016) Five Diversions (1969). BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Clark Rundell {12'}, Heritage HTGCD 211 (2016) Satie Transformations (1970). BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Clark Rundell {17'}, Heritage HTGCD 211 (2016) Organ Concerto (1971). Jennifer Bate (organ); BBC Symphony Orchestra/David Atherton {20’00”}; EMI CDC 7 47684 2 (1986); Albany TROY 360 (1999); Heritage HTGCD 276 (2014) Birthday Surprise, A (1979). BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Clark Rundell {2'}, HTGCD 211 (2016) Piano Concerto (1984). Howard Shelley (piano); BBC Symphony Orchestra/David Atherton {24’20”}, EMI CDC 7 47684 2 (1986); Albany TROY360 (1999); Heritage HTGCD 276 (2014) Violin Concerto (1986). Chloe Hanslip violin); BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Clark Rundell {22’00"}; Heritage HTGCD 276 (2014) Bach in Blue (2004/2010/2015). BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Clark Rundell {6}, Heritage HTGCD 211 (2016) Merseyside Echoes (1986). BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Clark Rundell {8'41"}; Heritage HTGCD 276 (2014) and HTGCD 211 (2016) Suite for the Centenary of Lord Berners (1972/1983/2015). BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Clark Rundell {13'}, Heritage HTGCD 211 (2016) CHORAL Mass of the Apocalypse (1984). Kyrie {4’06”}; Sanctus and Benedictus {3’30”}; Agnus Dei {5’06”}; Gloria {4’00”}; Ite Missa est {6.09”}. The Rev Donald Reeves (speaker); Jo Maggs (soprano); Meriel Dickinson (mezzo-soprano); St. James’s Singers; James Holland and David Johnson (percussion); John Alley (piano); Ivor Bolton (conductor), Naxos 8.572287 (2009) {23’07”} Mass (1965). Stoke-on-Trent Bedford Singers/May Whalley, Sain TRF239 (1981) (9'02") Outcry: a Cycle of Nature Poems (1969): ‘From Auguries of Innocence’ [Blake] {8’19”); ‘The Blinded Bird’ [Hardy] {4’39”}; ‘Badger’ [Clare] {7’40”}; ‘Horses aboard’ [Hardy] {4’04”}; ‘Nature’s Hymn to the Deity’ [Clare] {8’35”}. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo); The London Concert Choir; City of London Sinfonia; Nicholas Cleobury (conductor), Conifer CDCF 167 (1989); Albany TROY 360 (1999) {33’17”} Winter Afternoons [Emily Dickinson] (1970). ‘One dignity delays for all’; ‘There’s a certain slant of light’; ‘Departed – to the Judgement’. The King’s Singers: Nigel Perrin, Alastair Hume (counter-tenors); Alastair Thompson (tenor); Simon Carrington (baritone); Brian Kay (bass); Rodney Slatford (double bass)/Ivor Bolton, Albany TROY 760 (2005) {10’56”} Late Afternoon in November [Peter Dickinson]. BBC Northern Singers/Stephen Wilkinson, Prima Facie PFCD147 {11'35"} SOLO VOICE WITH INSTRUMENTS Larkin’s Jazz [Philip Larkin] (1989). ‘Reasons for attendance’; ‘For Sydney Bechet’; ‘Love songs in age’; Reference back’. Henry Herford (baritone-speaker); The Nash Ensemble – John Harle (saxophone); Ian Brown (piano); Edward Becket (flute); Duncan Prescott (clarinet); Paul Archibald (trumpet); Christopher van Kampen (cello); Terence Emery (percussion); Lionel Friend (conductor), Naxos 8.572287 (2009) {24’09”} Unicorns, The (1967/82). [John Heath-Stubbs]. Fanfares and Choruses {2’34”}; Lullaby {3’39”}; Dance {2’27”}; Interrupted Love Song {2’59”}; A Celebration Fugue {2’46”}; The Ballad of St Brendan {3’42”}. Elisabeth Söderström (soprano); Solna Brass; Lars-Gunnar Björklund, Albany TROY 760 (2005) CHAMBER MUSIC American Trio [Hymns, Rags and Blues] (1985). Walter Verdehr (violin); Elsa Verdehr (clarinet); Gary Kirkpatrick (piano), Crystal Records CD744 (1995) {20’29”} Bach in Blue Trio (arr. 2012). Walter Verdehr (violin); Elsa Verdehr (clarinet); Silvia Roederer (piano), Heritage HTGCD 259 (2013) {6’05”} Celebration Trio (arr. 2009). The Verdehr Trio, Crystal Records CD973 (2016) {8'59"} Fantasy. Stuart Eminson (clarinet); Joseph Havlat (piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) {4'23"} Four Duos (1962). Rosanna Ter-Berg (flute); Lydia Hillerudh (cello), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) {9'28"} Lullaby from ‘The Unicorns’ (1967/82 arr. 1986). Duke Dobing (flute); Peter Dickinson (piano), Naxos 8.572287 (2009) {3’24”}. Stuart Eminson (clarinet); Joseph Havlat piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) {3'47"}. Peter Sheppard Skaerved & Roderick Chadwick, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) {3'20"} Pastorale, Blues and Homage (A James Joyce Pastorale; A Robert Burns Blues; Homage to Poulenc) (arr. 2012), John Turner (recorder), Peter Dickinson (piano), Heritage HTG CD259 (2013) {1’41” + 3’32” + 2’46”} String Quartet No. 1 (1958). Kreutzer Quartet, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) {13'18"} String Quartet No. 2 with two channels of playback (1976). Kreutzer Quartet & Roderick Chadwick, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) {16'12"} Sonata for violin & piano (1961). Peter Sheppard Skaerved & Roderick Chadwick, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) {12'47"} Sonatina (1956). John Turner (recorder); Peter Lawson (piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) {6'06"} Threnody (1956). Penelope Lynex (cello); Alexander Wells (piano), LIR Classics LIR022 (2010) {7’25”}. Lydia Hillerudh (cello); Joseph Havlat (piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) {6'48"} Translations (1971). John Turner (recorder); Richard Tunnicliffe (gamba); Harvey Davies (harpsichord), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018). Also Prima Facie PFCD091 (2018) {11'51"} PIANO AND PIANO DUET [see below for clavichord and harpsichord] Five Diversions (1963). Amiable; Lyrical; Gently jazzy; Quiet and dreamy; Lively and brash. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 760 (2005), Naxos 8.572654 (2011) {10’30”} Five Early Pieces (1955-56). Peter Dickinson and John Flinders (piano), Naxos 8.572287 (2009) {10’59”} Five Forgeries for piano duet (1963). Poulenc; Hindemith; Stravinsky; Delius; Bartok. John Flinders and Peter Dickinson (piano), Naxos 8.572287 (2009) {10’27”} Freda's Blues (2016). Peter Dickinson (piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) {2'53"} Paraphrase II (1967). Peter Dickinson (piano), Naxos 8.572287 (2011) {12’54”} Nathan Williamson (piano), Somm CD 0195 (2019) Sonatas for piano with tape playback (1987). Eric Parkin (piano), Albany TROY 760 (2005) Lullaby from The Unicorns (1967/2016). Peter Dickinson (piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) Three Satie Transformations [based on Trois Gnossiennes (1890)] (1970). Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) – Naxos 8.572654 (2011) {2’02” + 3’13” + 1’57”} Vitalitas Variations (1967). Peter Dickinson (piano), Naxos (2011) {15’13”} Waltz for Elliott Schwartz (2016). Peter Dickinson (piano), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) {1'07"} BLUES FOR PIANO Bach in Blue (2004). Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 760 (2005), Naxos 8.572654 (2011) {6’12”} Blue Rose (1979). Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369, Naxos 8.572654 (2011) {3’05”} Four Piano Blues (1973). Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) - Naxos (2011) {2’20” + 2’56” + 2’02” + 3’00”} EASY PIECES FOR PIANO Eight Very Easy Pieces (1979). Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 760 (2005) {5’14”} Four Easy Pieces (1965). Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 760 (2005) {5’37”} PIANO RAGS Concerto Rag (1984). Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) – Naxos 8.572654 (2011) {4’05”} Hymn-Tune Rag (1985). Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) – Naxos 8.572654 (2011) {2’28”} Patriotic Rag (1986). Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) - Naxos 8.572654 (2011) {2’32”} Quartet Rag (1975). Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) – Naxos 8.572654 {2’53”} Wild Rose Rag (1985). Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) – Naxos 8.572654 (2011) {2’14”} ORGAN WORKS Blue Rose Variations (1985). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {15’44”} Cambridge Postlude 1953), A. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {2’45”} Carillon (1964). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {3’41”} Dirge (1963). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {4’09”} Meditation on ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ (1958). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {5’26”} Millennium Fanfare (1999). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {2’48”} Paraphrase I (1967). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {15’16”} Postlude on Adeste Fideles (1954). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {2’31”} Prelude (1953). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {2’55”} Prelude on Song 20 (Orlando Gibbons) (1954-55). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {2’27”} Prelude on Song 34 (Orlando Gibbons) (1954-55). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {2’49”} Prelude on Song 46 (Orlando Gibbons) (1954-55). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {2’42”} Three Statements (1964). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {6’31”} Study in Pianissimo (1959). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {3’21”} Toccata (1955). Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009) {3’20”} SONGS and SONG CYCLES E. E. Cummings Song Cycle, An (1965). ‘i thank you god’; ‘no time ago’; ‘up into the silence’; ‘love is the every only god’; ‘love is more thicker’. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000) {12’42”} Dylan Thomas Song Cycle, A (1959). ‘I have longed to move away’; On a wedding anniversary’; Was there a time’; In my craft or sullen art’; On no work of words’. Henry Herford (baritone) and Robin Bowman (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000) {11’26”} Extravaganzas [Gregory Corso] (1969). ‘The street-singer is sick’; Outside the wall’; ‘Death weeps because death is human’; ‘I hang old photos of my childhood girls’; ‘Four windmills, acquaintanceships’; ‘O people! My people!’; ‘Mrs Lombardi’s month-old son is dead’; ‘Last night I drove a car’. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000); on British Song, Heritage HTGCD 240 (2012) {5’49”} Four W. H. Auden Songs (1956). ‘Look, stranger on this island now’; ‘Eyes look into the well’; ‘Carry her over the water’; What’s in your mind, my dove, my coney’. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000) {8’17”}. James Gilchrist (tenor) and Nathan Williamson (piano), Somm CD 0646 (2022) {10'} ‘Let the florid music praise’ [W. H. Auden] (1960), Martyn Hill (tenor) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000) {3’27”}. James Gilchrist (tenor) and Nathan Williamson (piano), Somm CD 0646 (2022) {4'08"} ‘Red, red rose, A’ [Burns] (1967). Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) {3’33”} ‘So we’ll go no more a-roving’ [Byron] (1971). Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) {3’58”} Surrealist Landscape with tape-playback [Lord Berners] (1973). Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000), on British Song, Heritage HTGCD 240 (2012) {9’45”} Three Comic Songs [W. H. Auden] (1960). ‘My second thoughts condemn’; Happy Ending’; ‘Over the heather’. Martyn Hill (tenor) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000) {4’46”} Three Songs from The Unicorns [John Heath-Stubbs] (1967/82 arr. 1986). Lullaby; Interrupted Love Song; The Ballad of St Brendan. Marylin Hill Smith (soprano) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000) {9’48”} Stevie’s Tunes [Stevie Smith] (1984). ‘I love little Heber’; ‘To the tune of the Coventry Carol’; ‘O happy dogs of England’; ‘In Canaan’s happy land’; ‘The Heavenly city’; ‘…and the clouds return after the rain’; ‘The devil-my-wife’; ‘Le singe qui swing’; ‘Unser vater’. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) {14’01”} SOLO INSTRUMENTS OTHER THAN KEYBOARD Air for solo flute (1959). Duke Dobing (flute), Naxos 8.572287 (2009) {2’46”}; for violin, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) {3'33"} Fantasia for solo violin. Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) {9'20"} Metamorphosis for solo flute (1971). Duke Dobing (flute), Naxos 8.572287 (2009) {3’42”}; for violin, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) {4'19"} Quintet Melody for solo violin (1956). Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) {2'33"} Recorder Music, with tape playback (1973). David Munrow (recorder), Testament SBT2 – 1368 (2005) {13’05”} Sonatina for solo bassoon (1966). Rosie Burton (bassoon), Prima Facie PENSCD009 (2018) {10'23"} Tranquillo for violin & piano (1986/2018). Peter Sheppard Skaerved & Roderick Chadwick, Toccata Classics TOCC 0538 (2020) {6'01"} CLAVICHORD Five Diversions (1963). Peter Dickinson (clavichord), Heritage HTGCD 259 (2013) {1’23” + 2’54”+ 1’38” + 2’00” + 1’42”} Suite for the Centenary of Lord Berners (1972/83). Blues; Jig; March; Dirge; Waltz; Blues. Peter Dickinson (clavichord), Heritage HTG CD259 (2013) {12’42”] HARPSICHORD Variations on a French Folk Song (1957). Jane Chapman (harpsichord), Heritage HTGCD 254 (2013) {8’11”}PETER DICKINSON
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