Music archive entry

This work was begun in November 1997 and completed the following month. It has three movements. The first is an allegro with a short slow introduction and contrasts tonal and atonal ideas. The second movement is a pastoral adagio and the third a moto perpetuo with nonsensical themes which eventually run out of momentum.

The composer was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in 1948. His life-long love of music led him to compose from an early age and he now has a catalogue of over a hundred works including two operas, four symphonies, five string quartets and many other pieces for most instrumental and chamber groupings, over seventy of them published. He is a member of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, the North West Composers' Association and the Performing Rights Society. As well as writing music himself, he has also compiled annotated catalogues of the works of Anthony Hedges and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. CDs of his piano music played by David Martin and complete organ music played by Ronald Frost are available on the New Century Classics label.