Peter Thompson, Composer

Peter Thompson is a prizewinning British classical composer. Born in 1955, his extensive output encompasses most genres: chamber music, vocal music, piano music and orchestral works, including four symphonies.

Peter Thompson is published by Fand Music Press. (View his selected list of works.)

Selected works include…

Orchestral

Symphony no 1
Symphony no 2
Symphony no 3
Symphony no 4
Symphonietta Doppio
Five Elegiac Fragments
Hampshire Summers
Prelude for Orchestra: “Stress”
Serenade for Orchestra
Capriccio for Violin and Orchestra
Concertino for Cello and Orchestra

Chamber

String Quartets nos 1–7
String Trio for Two Violins and Cello
Roundels for Violin and Cello
Ballet for Clarinet in B flat, Cello and Piano
Sonatina for Bass Clarinet (or Bassoon) and Cello
Meditation for Soprano, Flute and Harp
Top o’ the Morning for Brass Quintet

Instrumental

Aubade for Flute and Piano
Recorder (or Flute) Sonatina
Suite of Six Pipers for Recorder and Piano
Suite for Oboe and Piano
Ballad for Solo Violin
Calydon Eclogue for Solo Violin
Pastoral for Violin and Piano
Three Ritornels for Violin and Piano
Romance for Viola or Clarinet and Piano
Elegiac Ballad for Solo Cello
In Rutland for Solo Cello
Cello Sonata
Cello Sonatina
Écossaises for Cello and Piano
Sonnet for Solo Guitar
Epithalamium I–III for Organ and Organ Duet

Piano

Suites nos 1–10
Ballad
Bicycle Ride
Burlesque
June Tune
March Hares
May Song
The Renaissance Spirit
Sidlesham Quay
Sketches & Fancies
Soliloquy
Sonatina
Three November Poems
Three Pieces
Toccata
Two Wildflowers

Choral

A Red, Red Rose
At the Window
Carol
Hope and Fear
The Keys of Heaven (arrangement)
Prayer Against Lightning

Songs

The Daisies
Dark Veils
Dawn
Echoes
Four Swinburne Pictures
The Green of the Semiquaver
The Lamb
The Oblation
Three Poems by Helen Clarke
Two Henley Poems
Two Robert Southey Poems
When I was One-and-Twenty