SELECTED WORKS BY PAUL DRAYTON
KEYBOARD
Doctor Praetorius his Frolick – for piano duet
Commissioned by John Railton / Kate Elmitt
Dartington Hall, Devon Tour of Australia and New Zealand
Carnival of the Insects – for piano duet and chamber ensemble
Performed St. John’s, Smith Square, London
Pavane – for organ (published OUP)
Performed Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA
Advent Dances – for organ
Jonathan Bielby – premiered Huddersfield Town Hall.
Recorded – also BBC Radio 3 broadcast
Kyushu Island Suite – for organ
Commissioned by Dame Gillian Weir for Japanese tour
Suntory Hall, Tokyo
Dance in a Desolate Place – for organ
Commissioned by Christopher Gray for Regent CD
SOLO VOICE
Perceptions – for tenor and chamber ensemble
Premiere Royal College of Music, London, with Roger Norrington (tenor)
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! – five songs for tenor and piano
Alastair Thompson and composer – broadcast BBC World Service
Orchard Nocturne – mezzo-soprano, clarinet, piano,
Catherine Denley Trio
*Voices in the Tide – mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola, piano
Commissioned by Truro Three Arts for The Kegelstatt Trio
Performed Purcell Room, London South Bank
CHORUS, SOLO VOICES AND ORCHESTRA
Templa quam dilecta – choir, strings, piano, percussion (published Novello)
Written for Stowe School Performed Queen Elizabeth Hall, London South Bank
Canticle of Bells – double SATB, piano duet, organ and percussion
Hereford Three Choirs Festival
Premiered Hereford Cathedral, later broadcast by The BBC Singers
The Scholar’s Life – chorus and orchestra
Commissioned for the granting of a royal charter to the University of Buckingham
The Lady of Shalott – soprano, baritone soli, choir, chamber orchestra
Commissioned by St. Austell Choral Society
Also performed by East Cornwall Bach Choir (with Stephen Varcoe, baritone)
*Orpheus – choir and orchestra
Commissioned by Truro Choral Society to mark their 50th anniversary
The Passion of Christ as told by Mark the Evangelist
ST Bar B soli, choir, piano, harp, horn, strings, percussion
Premiere by Three Spires Choir and Orchestra, Truro Cathedral
CHOIR / VOCAL ENSEMBLE
Sonnet – solo voices a 6
Commissioned by The King’s Singers. Premiere Wigmore Hall, London
*Jesu, dulcis memoria SATB unaccomp.
Choir of New College, Oxford
Various recordings / broadcasts
*Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (New College Service) SATB unaccomp.
Choir of New College, Oxford
Various recordings / broadcasts Published by RSCM
*Ecce ancilla Domini anthem for SATB, organ (published OUP)
Recorded by Hereford Cathedral Choir PRIORY
How like an angel came I down anthem for SATB, organ (published Novello)
Recorded by The Cathedral Singers of Christ Church, Oxford
Lift up your heads, great gates!
Festival anthem commissioned by Washington National Cathedral, USA
*Love’s redeeming work is done SATB, organ (and brass ad lib.)
Commissioned by Grace & Holy Trinity cathedral, Kansas City, USA
Recorded St. Mary’s Singers, Truro (Regent)
*The Starry Stranger – Christmas carol (published OUP)
Recorded by The Cathedral Singers of Christ Church, Oxford
Ave Maris Stella
Recorded by Truro Cathedral Choir (Regent)
*The World’s Desire – Christmas carol (published OUP)
Premiered and recorded by Truro Cathedral Choir
Sir Aglovaile and the Ghost-Girl – solo voices a 6 OR SATB choir and harp
The King’s Singers
Premiered Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, UK – later broadcast by the BBC
INSTRUMENTAL / ORCHESTRAL
Doctor Culpeper his Nosegaye – spicy variations
Commissioned / premiered by the Wavendon All-Music Plan, Buckinghamshire
with John Dankworth (saxophone)
Elegiac Variations for 12 cellos
Commissioned by Uppingham School
Premiere at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh
A Time to Dance – for string orchestra and Cornish folk-band
Antique Suite (brass a 10)
Commissioned by Abbey Brass, Plymouth
Sinfonietta for chamber orchestra (2 oboes, 2 horns, strings)
Commissioned by The Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra
Broadcast by the Orchestra of Radio Telefis Eireann (Ireland)
Odyssey Variations
Commissioned Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra
Midland Chamber Orchestra, Nottingham
STAGE WORKS
*The Hobbit – music for stage production of the book by J. R. R. Tolkien
Performed New College School, Oxford in the presence of J.R.R.Tolkien
This work was the subject of a 2014 programme on BBC Radio 4
Nero – an ancient Roman light cantata
Southend Boys’ Choir Performed Fairfield Halls, Croydon, London
The Mermaid of Zennor – One-act opera for children and adults
Cornish Primary Schools
*The Hanging Oak – Two-act opera based on a story by M. R. James
Duchy Opera
*Audio extract