PEFORMANCES AND NEW RECORDINGS

Peter Dickinson was in the 2009 Proms

David Titterington played the Blue Rose Variations on the Royal Albert Hall organ Saturday 25 July 5.0 pm

Peter Dickinson on Naxos

Two New CDs in 2009: a third in 2011

1. Complete Solo Organ Works - Naxos 8.572169

Jennifer Bate, organs of St John's Duncan Terrace; St. James' Muswell Hill; St Dominic's Priory, London

'Exuberant, ebullient absorption of blues and rag...The disc is a fine birthday tribute to a composer who has escaped the confines of the predictable without ever ceasing to communicate'. Arnold Whittall in the Gramophone, July 2009

2. Apocalypse – Larkin – Forgeries - Naxos 8.572287

Mass of the Apocalypse – St James' Singers/Ivor Bolton

Larkin's Jazz – Nash Ensemble/Lionel Friend

Five Forgeries for piano duet – John Flinders and Peter Dickinson

Flute pieces with Duke Dobing

3. Peter Dickinson Piano Music - Naxos 8.572654

Peter Dickinson, piano

Wild Rose Rag; Blue Rose; Paraphrase II; Concerto Rag; Quartet Rag; Vitalitas Variations; Three Satie Transformations; Bach in Blue; Hymn-Tune Rag; Patriotic Rag; Four Piano Blues; Five Diversions

'Mr Dickinson is a wonderful pianist and the recordings (some of which had appeared earlier on Conifer or Albany) sound great.' Haskins in American Record Guide, November/December 2011

Peter Dickinson on Regis/Heritage 2011/12

A Tribute to Ralph Holmes (violin) - Bartok solo sonata; Holmes and Dickinson in Beethoven: Spring Sonata; Bax; Sonata No. 3; and Delius: Lullaby for a Modern Baby - Heritage HTG CD

'Beethoven's ever-delightful Spring Sonata receives a shapely and incisive performance...a performance to treasure...Holmes' interpretation of [the Bartok] is heroic, intense and insightful...to complete a very welcome and recommendable release'. Colin Anderson in www.classicalsource.com Ltd, 3 January 2012

American Song with Meriel Dickinson (mezzo)

Full contents of Unicorn LP American Anthology [see discography] plus Copland: nine of Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson - Heritage HTG CD228

Performances include

Tiananmen 1989 for double choir and tubular bells – Commotio/Matthew Berry – Merton College, Oxford;13 June 2009

American Trio for violin, clarinet and piano – Zalas Trio, Wigmore Hall; 30 November 2009

Premiere of A Celebration Trio for violin, clarinet & piano – Verdehr Trio, in Germany, France and at Trinity-Laban, London on 18 November 2010

Three Songs from the Unicorns - Rhona McKail (soprano) and Yshani Perinpagayam (piano) at St James's Church, Piccadilly, on 15 December 2010 and at the Purcell Room on 10 January 2011

Fanfares and Elegies for organ and brass - Christopher Bowers-Broadbent and Royal Academy of Brass Ensemble, St Peter's Church, St Albans, Saturday 22 January 2011

A Celebration Trio for violin, clarinet and piano - Verdehr Trio, Univeesitat Mozarteum, Salzburg, 2 March; Fanny Henschel-Mendelssohn-Saal, Vienna, 4 March; Phillips Art Gallery,Washington DC, 20 March; Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rytgers University, New Jersey, 22 March; Georgia Southern University, Music Department, 24 March, 2011 [recording forthcoming]

Three Statements for organ - Jennifer Bate, St James' Church, Muswell Hill, London, 18 June, 2011

String Quartet No. 1 [premiere of revised version] - The Kreutzer Quartet, Wilton Music Rooms, London, 19 June, 2011; York University, 21 June, 2011

Four W. H. Auden Songs - Rhona McKail and Yshani Perinpagayam, Oxford Lieder Festival, New College, Oxford, 28 October, 2011; St Martin's in the Fields, 13 December, 2011