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John Mitchell’s piano arrangements in Mood Music Medley, a volume of orchestral music by Carey Blyton, seek to give a wider audience the chance to hear (and to play) music of charming melodic invention and skilful mood presentation which was mainly originally written to fulfil publishers’ stocks of library music.

Thus can pianists relish, for example, the ‘Parisian left bank’ in Valse Musette and 18th century pastiche in the Minuet for Octet, and catch glimpses of the old music hall in Music Hall Memories.

There are many differing mood evocations in this Mood Music Medley and they are likely to prove as popular as the original orchestral versions were, as recorded by session players in the 1960s on Carey Blyton – Film & Television Music (1/4).

Note that this collection includes a slightly more demanding (Grade 6+) arrangement of Girl Friday, which John Mitchell recently arranged separately for easy piano (Grade 4–5).

Peter Thompson’s Symphony no 5, ‘The Sonnet’ is so named as it reflects the sonnet form. Thus, movement 1 is the volta, movement 2 is a development and exploration of the ‘theme’, and in movement 3 the issue seeks resolution in a short rhyming couplet.

This is a brief but pithy symphony which was sketched and orchestrated between February 2023 and March 2024 and is scored for traditional symphony orchestra.

Mood Music Medley

for solo piano
£10.95

Symphony no 5

‘The Sonnet’

for orchestra
£20.00