| —FORTHCOMING— | ||
| Never a Sound So Beautiful (2020-25) | Triptych for mezzo soprano (or baritone), viola and piano — i. Lacrima (Pia Tafdrup/David McDuff) [complete] — ii. Lament (viola/piano only) [in progress] — iii. Never a sound so beautiful (Euan Tait) [complete] Duration: c.9 mins. | |
| Four Songs from The Lost Spells (2022-26) | Four songs for mezzo-soprano and string quartet Words by Robert Macarlane and Jackie Morris. — i. Swifts [in progress] — ii. Barn Owl [completed] — iii. Beech [in progress] — iv. Silver Birch [completed] Duration: c.20 mins | |
| Crow (viii.22-2026) | Song-cycle–melodrama for ’cello and baritone Words by Ted Hughes. [4 of 10 songs completed] Duration: c.40 mins | |
| —CHRONOLOGICAL LIST (most recently completed first)— * * * See listings by instrumentation for full details * * * | ||
| Lucem Sequimur (vi.25) | SATB choir, unaccompanied
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| Refugee Carol (x.24-i.25) | SATB choir, unaccompanied
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| Barn Owl (ii-iii.24) | mezzo-soprano and string quartet [Lost Spells: II]
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| Silver Birch (2022-ii.24) | mezzo-soprano and string quartet [Lost Spells: IV] | |
| Lacrima (vii.21/x-xi.23) | mezzo-soprano, viola and piano [Never a Sound: I]
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| If ye love me (ix-x.22) | SATB choir, unaccompanied | |
| Echo (i-vii.22) | violin and piano | |
| Encroaching Shadows (xii.19-iv.21) | 17 haiku for solo piano | |
| Never a Sound so Beautiful (vii/ix.20) | mezzo-soprano, viola and piano [Never a Sound: III] | |
| The Blake Lamentations (iv.19-xi.20) | SATB choir and organ | |
| Carol of the Passion (ix-xi.19) | SSAATB choir, unaccompanied | |
| Fallen (ix.18-i.19) | song cycle for tenor and violin | |
| Into the Tomb (x.18) | SATB choir, unaccompanied | |
| Lament for Æthelflæd (v.18) | 3 voices (S.A.T.), violin and tenor drum | |
| Miriam’s Exile (ii.17-v.18) | Canticle for soprano and piano | |
| A Welcome to EKRG (iv.17) | violin and piano | |
| We are but Dust (i-iv.17) | SSAATTBB choir, unaccompanied | |
| Aubade for Christmas Morning (ix.16/ix.17) | Two-part treble voices and string quartet | |
| A Noiseless Patient Spider (x.16) | Song for soprano and piano | |
| War Passion (v.14-v.16) | Chamber oratorio for SATB soloists, choir and ensemble | |
| Bach & the Sentry (vi.15) | Song for baritone and piano | |
| —VOICE & VIOLIN— | ||
| Fallen (ix.2018-i.2019) | Song cycle for tenor and violin Words by John Greening. Duration: 18'30. Supported by Sound and Music’s Francis Chagrin Award. The poems for this work were commissioned by the composer, supported by a Crowdfunder initiative in January 2018. First performance: Ludlow English Song Weekend, 30 October 2021. Ted Black (tenor); Michael Foyle (violin). Published by The Maker’s Press (Buy Here) | |
| —VOICE with VIOLA & PIANO— | ||
| Never a Sound So Beautiful (2020-25) | Triptych for mezzo soprano (or baritone), viola and piano — i. Lacrima (Pia Tafdrup/David McDuff) [complete] — ii. Lament (viola/piano only) [in progress] — iii. Never a sound so beautiful (Euan Tait) [complete] Duration: c.9 mins. | |
| —VOICE & PIANO— | ||
| Miriam’s Exile (v.2017-v.2018) | Canticle for Soprano and Piano. Words by Euan Tait. Duration: 10'30. First performance: 9 June, St. Paul’s Church, Clifton, Bristol, 3pm. Charlotte Newstead (soprano) with Stefan Hofkes (piano). Published by The Maker’s Press (Buy Here) | |
| A Noiseless Patient Spider (x.2016) | Song for soprano and piano. Words by Walt Whitman. Duration: 2'10. First performance: Ludlow Weekend of English Song, 20 May 2017. Soraya Mafi (soprano); Iain Burnside (piano). | |
| Bach and the Sentry (vi.2015) | Song for baritone and piano. Words by Ivor Gurney. Duration: 3'30. Dedicated, in memoriam, to the poet and scholar, Jon Stallworthy. | |
| —VOICE & ORGAN— | ||
| Pain (1997) | Song for countertenor and organ. Words by Ivor Gurney. Duration: 3'15. Written for Neil Welch and Mark Holt. | |
| —TWO OR MORE SOLO VOICES— | ||
| Lament for Æthelflæd (v.2018) | 3 voices (S.A.T.), violin and tenor drum Words selected and adapted from the Anglo-Saxon Legend of St. Guthlac, The Exeter Book. Duration: 3'00. Commissioned for the City of Gloucester’s commemorations of the 1100th anniversary of the death of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians. First performance: Gloucester Cathedral, 26 June 2018. | |
| Lament for the Village Post Office (2008) | Vocal quartet (SATB) and piano. Based upon Greensleeves. Duration: 3'20. Text adapted from Harvey Geller’s 'Green Stamps’. Written for Lichfield Cathedral’s celebration of the issue by Royal Mail of a first class stamp featuring the Cathedral. | |
| —FULL CHOIR — with organ accompaniment— | ||
| The Blake Lamentations (iv.2019-xi.2020) | SATB choir and organ with occasional divisi and soli (sop.) Words: selected from the visionary works of William Blake. Duration: 15'00. Published by The Maker’s Press (Buy Here) | |
| —FULL CHOIR — unaccompanied— | ||
| Lucem Sequimur (vi.2025) | S.A.T.B. unaccompanied Written for Michael Graham and the University of Exeter Chapel Choir. Words: ‘Lucem Sequimur: We follow the light’ [motto of the University of Exeter]. Duration: 1'00. | |
| Refugee Carol (x.2024–i.2025) | S.A.T.B. unaccompanied with S.solo Commissioned by Susie Howells. Words by Maida Stanier. Duration: 6'00. | |
| If ye love me (x.2022) | S.A.T.B. unaccompanied After Thomas Tallis. Words by the composer. Duration: 3'00. | |
| Carol of the Passion (x-xi.2019) | Carol for SSAATB choir (unaccompanied) Words: 15th Century English Carol. Duration: 4'00. Première: JAM, Music of Our Time. The Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge (dir. Sarah MacDonald), cond. Michael Bawtree, 23 March 2022. Published by The Maker’s Press (Buy Here) | |
| Into the Tomb (x.2018) | S.A.T.B. unaccompanied Words by William Blake. Duration: 3'30. Published by Stainer & Bell, 2019 (Choral Now, CN33). (Buy Here) | |
| We are but Dust (i-iv.2017) | Motet for unaccompanied 8-part choir. A Lenten reflection on mortality for SSAATTBB choir. Words by Edward Thomas, William Blake and from Psalm 103. Duration: 6'30. | |
| Carol (2000; rev.2007) | Unaccompanied SATBB. Words by R. E. Grange. Duration: 1'50. Commissioned by Nicola Grange. | |
| —UPPER VOICES— | ||
| Aubade for Christmas Morning (2016/2017) | Trebles (2-part) and String Quartet Words by Bo Carpelan, trans. David McDuff. Duration: 3'25. | |
| Echo (2022) | for violin and piano. After a poem by Ursula Vaughan Williams. Duration: 5'30. Published by The Maker’s Press (Buy Here) | |
| Encroaching Shadows (2019-21) | 17 Haiku for solo piano after Tomas Tranströmer. Duration: 18’15. Published by The Maker’s Press (Buy Here) | |
| A Welcome to E.K.R.G. (iv.2017) | for violin and piano. Duration: 1'20. | |
| Picardy (2013) | Organ (last verse hymn harmonisation) |
| War Passion (2013-2016) | Chamber oratorio for SATB soloists, chamber choir and 14 instrumentalists. Words from the Gospel of Mark and poems by Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, Ivor Gurney, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Sorley, and Edward Thomas. Duration: 68'00. Begun under the auspices of a Finzi Scholarship and subsequently commissioned for the 2016 Three Choirs Festival. First performance: Gloucester Three Choirs Festival, 24 July 2016. Further details here. Extract from second movement, ‘Trial’ (recording of first performance): |
| Ivor Gurney The Trumpet (2007-8) | Orchestration of Gurney’s choral setting of Edward Thomas [based on Gurney’s sole extant ms short score, c.1921]. Scoring: 2.2.2.2.(2nd doubling contra)/4.3.3.1./perc.(1).timp./str. (with SATB chorus). Premiered at Kendal Parish Church as part of the Cumbria Choral Initiative, cond. Ian Jones, 2008; 2nd performance: Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester, 2010, with the Philharmonia Orchestra, cond. Adrian Lucas. 
Recorded by BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra for broadcast on Radio 3's Gurney Composer of the Week, June 2014. Released on CD by Naxos in a recording by the City of London Choir, London Mozart Players, cond. Hilary Davan Wetton, 2014.Published by The Maker’s Press. | |
| Ivor Gurney Five Elizabethan Songs (2009-10) | Reconstruction, reimagination and edition of Gurney’s original scoring of the ‘Elizas’ for 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, harp and 2 bassoons. Premiered at the Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester, 2010, by Susanna Spicer with an ensemble of students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Gurney originally conceived this early masterpiece for this curious ensemble, although the scoring for all except the final song is lost. Philip undertook to recreate the original scoring from the extant manuscript short-scores, some of which give indications of instrumentation. Published by The Maker’s Press. | |
| Hubert Parry Two Shakespeare Lyrics (2010) | Two of Parry’s ‘English Lyrics’: ‘When icicles hang by the wall’ & ‘Blow, blow, thou winter wind’ arr. for 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, harp and 2 bassoons [the ‘Elizas’ ensemble; see Gurney above], for performance at the Three Choirs Festival, 2010. |
