Peter Thompson is a prizewinning British classical composer. Born in 1955, his extensive output encompasses most genres: chamber music, vocal music, piano music and orchestral works, including four symphonies.
Peter Thompson is published by Fand Music Press. (View his selected list of works.)
Selected works include…
Orchestral
- Symphony no 1
- Symphony no 2
- Symphony no 3
- Symphony no 4
- Symphony no 5, ‘The Sonnet’
- Symphonietta Doppio
- Five Elegiac Fragments
- Hampshire Summers
- Labyrinth
- Prelude for Orchestra: “Stress”
- Serenade for Orchestra
- Capriccio for Violin and Orchestra
- Concertino for Cello and Orchestra
Chamber
- String Quartets nos 1–7
- String Trio for Two Violins and Cello
- Roundels for Violin and Cello
- Ballet for Clarinet in B flat, Cello and Piano
- Sonatina for Bass Clarinet (or Bassoon) and Cello
- Meditation for Soprano, Flute and Harp
- Top o’ the Morning for Brass Quintet
Instrumental
- Aubade for Flute and Piano
- Recorder (or Flute) Sonatina
- Suite of Six Pipers for Recorder and Piano
- Suite for Oboe and Piano
- Ballad for Solo Violin
- Calydon Eclogue for Solo Violin
- Pastoral for Violin and Piano
- Three Ritornels for Violin and Piano
- Romance for Viola or Clarinet and Piano
- Elegiac Ballad for Solo Cello
- In Rutland for Solo Cello
- Cello Sonata
- Cello Sonatina
- Écossaises for Cello and Piano
- Sonnet for Solo Guitar
- Epithalamium I–III for Organ and Organ Duet
Piano
- Suites nos 1–13
- Ballad
- Bicycle Ride
- Burlesque
- June Tune
- March Hares
- May Song
- The Renaissance Spirit
- Sestina
- Sidlesham Quay
- Sketches & Fancies
- Soliloquy
- Sonata
- Sonatina
- Three November Poems
- Three Pieces
- Toccata
- Two Wildflowers
Choral
- A Red, Red Rose
- At the Window
- Carol
- Hope and Fear
- The Keys of Heaven (arrangement)
- Prayer Against Lightning
Songs
- The Daisies
- Dark Veils
- Dawn
- Echoes
- Four Swinburne Pictures
- The Green of the Semiquaver
- The Lamb
- The Oblation
- Three Poems by Helen Clarke
- Two Henley Poems
- Two Robert Southey Poems
- When I was One-and-Twenty
![Peter Thompson [Portrait: Jennie Slater]](pt.png)
