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John Mitchell has recently contributed performances of four movements from Peter Thompson’s Sketches & Fancies:

Pieces by Peter Thompson
Sketches & Fancies: Naiad Music II
Sketches & Fancies: Winter Pastoral
Sketches & Fancies: Spring Bagatelle
Sketches & Fancies: Russian Fragment

Additions to Fand’s YouTube channel

(Click the YouTube button at the top-right of this site to visit the Fand YouTube channel home page.)

Following all the recent recordings of his piano works by John Mitchell, Peter Thompson has himself been trying his hand at video creation and has added YouTube videos with static images, based on the new recordings, to the Fand channel. Videos now exist for Three Pieces, Ballad and June Tune (plus John Mitchell’s Joss Sticks.

Richard Hallas has also created a new video of Peter Thompson’s Sidlesham Quay in the animated style used by other previous Fand videos.

With the single exception of Ballad (which is a recording by Stephen Robbings from 1991), all these new videos are based on the recent recordings of John Mitchell.

A couple of examples…

Cradle Song (from Three Pieces for Piano):

and Sidlesham Quay:

PLEASE NOTE: The collection of audio recordings can be found all together on John Mitchell’s own information page.


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