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Four Swinburne Pictures1

for voice and piano

Peter Thompson

	…vocal lines are relatively straightforward but underpinned by a varied and at times quite virtuosic piano part
	— The Singer

Soprano Lorna Windsor, whose recordings of the Four Swinburne Pictures are provided below, has more recently recorded the second song, A Match, with William Hancox, piano on the At the Open Door CD.

Sample pages

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		Composer	Title		Vocal range	Forces	Total duration
		Peter Thompson	Four Swinburne Pictures1 for voice and piano		C to G'	Voice, Piano	6¾ mins
	#	Composer	Work		Movement	Forces	Duration
	1	Peter Thompson Words: A. C. Swinburne	Four Swinburne Pictures		I: Lines from ‘A Ballad of Life’	Voice, Piano	1¾ mins
	2				II: Lines from ‘A Match’		1¼ mins
	3				III: Lines from ‘April’		2¼ mins
	4				IV: Lines from ‘Madonna Mia’		1½ mins

Recorded performance

Lorna Windsor, Soprano, Nancy Coolley, Piano

Video

Lorna Windsor, soprano and William Hancox, piano perform A Match from Four Swinburne Pictures; recording from the CD At the Open Door.

Catalogue code: FM108
Entry last updated: 10th July 2026