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Fand is proud to announce another clutch of publications for September, most of them by Peter Thompson:

Hope and Fear

Thirty years after the publication of the original Hope and Fear for five-part professional choir, Peter Thompson has now produced a brand new reworking of the piece for Baritone solo and String Orchestra (with an arrangement for Baritone solo and Piano also available).

Fand’s designer, webmaster and long-term editer/setter of many music editions, Richard Hallas, feels enormously privileged to be the dedicatee of this superb new pair of arrangements.

Morningtide

Morningtide is a set of three songs by John Mitchell to texts by A. E. Housman. Because the majority of poems from Housman’s A Shropshire Lad have been memorably set to music already, for Morningtide John Mitchell deliberately avoided this source and instead set a single poem from each of Housman’s three subsequent, lesser known collections of verse. The collection’s title reflects the fact that all three songs relate to early morning.

Apple-Gathering

Peter Thompson’s Apple-Gathering, an Autumn Poem, was composed in, and between, two autumns – those of 2014 and 2015. However, the kernel of the material came much earlier and from a setting of words by Damaris West, Apple-Gathering, a poem originally written in 1976 and set for voice and piano in the summer of 1985. The orchestral version is an entirely new score for double woodwind, two horns, one trumpet, percussion, timpani and strings.

Piano Sonata

The Piano Sonata is a new work by Peter Thompson, completed in April 2022. It is in three movements, of which the first is the most extensive. Virtuosic at times and spilling over onto three and four staves, the sonata conducts an ‘argument’ through its thematically linked movements and ends in brilliant light.