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November 2025

Kingdom of Daylight

2025-11-23T16:40:03+10:00November 23rd, 2025|classical music|

Kingdom of Daylight, my latest composition, is out now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, Amazon, Deezer etc. Here it is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Fxcx7cdFA7Q Kingdom of Daylight was inspired by the beauty and sensuality of the language and imagery in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem ‘The Windhover’: I caught this morning morning's minion*, king- dom of daylight's dauphin*, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air… … how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, …: the hurl and gliding… AND the fire that breaks from thee then,… … and blue-bleak embers… Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. The contrasts of brightness and shadow in early morning light, in the wimpling (rippling) [...]

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August 2025

Wandering on the World

2025-08-03T20:07:50+10:00August 3rd, 2025|classical music|

My latest composition, Wandering on the World, is now available on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, Amazon, Deezer, etc. Here it is (free) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwol94uzJso I chose Wandering on the World as the title because the music circles around the world of musical keys, and does so not in the usual way but in the wrong direction*, as if not quite at home in this world – and because that small word ‘on’ in the title fits this aspect of the music perfectly. And I chose this title because Wandering on the world, it seems to me, is not at all the same as wandering around the world or in the world: the wanderer on the world seems separate from or above the world rather than [...]

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April 2025

Kin: my new album

2025-04-22T17:49:36+10:00April 22nd, 2025|classical music|

My new album, Kin, released today, contains some of my best recent work plus two recent recordings of older works. It’s available on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, Deezer and other streaming and download services. This blog has information on each of the tracks, including lyrics for the one vocal track. At the end of the blog you can watch a video with musical excerpts from the album. Why have I called the album ‘Kin’? For two reasons. One is that Kin is the title of the new composition that’s being released on this album for the first time (more on that below). The other reason has more to do with the meaning of the word ‘kin’. Kin are the people we are close to [...]

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February 2025

Lucid Dream

2025-02-01T12:08:18+10:00February 1st, 2025|classical music|

Lucid Dream (in memory of Michael Leunig) ‘Nothing can be loved at speed’ – Leunig Lucid Dream is the title of my latest composition, 7’52 of flowing orchestral polyphony with an important solo part for cor anglais or alto saxophone. (To hear it, scroll down.) A lucid dream is one in which you are aware that you are dreaming – in other words, you are conscious and unconscious (asleep) at the same time, a powerful reminder that there are (at the very least) two parts to the human mind. In most human cultures, through most of human history, dreams have been taken very seriously, seen as a source of wisdom, prophecy, connection with the gods, or (more recently) a source of insight into ourselves and [...]

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