PETER DICKINSON
DISCOGRAPHY
Works listed alphabetically by title
These are CDs available in 2011: original issues not cited
Poems set in vocal works are listed
WORKS BY PETER DICKINSON
Air for solo flute. Duke Dobing (flute), Naxos 8.572287 (2009)
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 8.572287 (2011)
Blue Rose. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 – Naxos 8.572287 (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 forthcoming (2012)
Concerto Rag. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) – Naxos 8.572287 (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)
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 8.572287 (2011)
Five Early Pieces for piano. Peter Dickinson and John Flinders, 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)
Hymns, Rags and Blues (see American Trio)
Hymn-Tune Rag. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) – Naxos 8.572287 (2011)
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)
Lullaby from ‘The Unicorns’. Duke Dobing (flute); Peter Dickinson (piano), Naxos 8.572287 (2009)
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)
Millennium Fanfare. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009)
Organ Concerto. Jennifer Bate (organ); BBC Symphony Orchestra; David Atherton (conductor), TROY 360
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)
Patriotic Rag. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) - Naxos 8.572287 (2011)
Piano Concerto. Howard Shelley (piano); BBC Symphony Orchestra; David Atherton (conductor), Albany TROY 360 (1999)
Postlude on Adeste Fideles. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009)
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 8.572287 (2011)
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)
‘So we’ll go no more a-roving’ [Byron]. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000)
Sonatas for piano with tape playback. Eric Parkin (piano), Albany TROY 760 (2005)
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)
Study in Pianissimo. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009)
Surrealist Landscape with tape-playback [Lord Berners]. Meriel Dickinson (mezzo) and Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 365 (2000)
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 8.572287 (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 Alexanser Wells (piano), LIR Classics LIR022
Toccata. Jennifer Bate (organ), Naxos 8.572169 (2009)
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)
Vitalitas Variations. Peter Dickinson (piano), Naxos (2011)
Wild Rose Rag. Peter Dickinson (piano), Albany TROY 369 (2000) – Naxos 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, D’un vanneur de blé, Tant que mes yeux, Automne; Peter Dickinson: Extravaganzas [first recording] Argo LP ZRG 788 (1975)
An Erik Satie Entertainment (songs and piano music including first recordings), Unicorn LP RHS 338 (1976)
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 on CD 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)
Dreamscapes
Jonathan Harvey, Correspondances; Andrzej Panufnik: Dreamscapes; Elisabeth Lutyens, Stevie Smith Songs; Peter Dickinson: Surrealist Landscape [reissued on TROY365 Albany 2000]. LP Unicorn UNS 268 (1979); DKP(CD)9093 Unicorn-Kanchana (1990)
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)
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)
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) etc.
Peter Dickinson: Piano Music: Rags, Blues, Parodies, Vitalitas Variations, Paraphrise II, Five Diversions. Naxos 8.572287 (2011)
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