The title is derived from Woody Allen's famous jibe 'I am at two with nature'. It is a virtuoso piece for two violas written for violists Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner who have recently recorded the work, together with a host of other pieces, on their latest CD 'A Tale of Two Violas'. The CD can be obtained from Meridian (Meridian CDE 84652).

The music is available as a printed score for the two players.

Duration c.8 mins.

"...hauntingly memorable" – THE STRAD

"...lovely chamber music writing with some moderate technical and music challenges for both players..." – Steve Larson

Parts and provided in score format with an additional viola part to accommodate a bass in solo tuning if required.

Duration c. 4 minutes.

Three short movements for solo 'cello written for Jessie Ann Richardson who gave the world premiere at the Cheltenham Festival in 2015.

Duration c. 7 minutes

The gestures are intended to be dramatic and the protaganists evenly matched.

The hardcover folder contains three fold out pages for each player while overleaf the score is set out in full as a quick and easy reference.

Duration c. 5 minutes.

A single movement for violin, viola and cello composed in 1997.

"...I found this work most enjoyable to play as well as listen to...a delightful modern work." [Michael Videluch.]

Duration c.4‐5 mins

'Another Orpheus sings again, and loves and weeps and dies' – Shelley, 'Hellas'

Composed in 1993 and revised in 2014, Another Orpheus is a dramatic single movement for strings with obligato viola solos.

Duration c.9 minutes.

A bebop-influenced show piece written for a graduation recital.

Recorded by Thomas Gould on his CD "Bach to Parker" for Champs Hill Records.

Duration c. 4‐5 minutes.

A bebop‐influenced show piece – and great fun to play.

Duration c. 4‐5 minutes.

A single movement work inspired by William Blake's prophetic book. Composed in 1983 for Paul Silverthorne, it was later scored by the composer for viola and string orchestra, and more recently for viola and chamber orchestra of strings with alto flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet and 2 horns. Score and parts are available from Comus.

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Duration c.9 minutes.

A single movement work inspired by William Blake's prophetic book. Composed in 1983 for Paul Silverthorne, it was later scored by the composer for viola and string orchestra (Vla + 4,4,3,3,2), and there is also a version for viola and chamber orchestra (Strings with alto flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet and 2 horns). Digital inspection scores are available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration c.9 minutes.

An impressive setting of poems by six Merchant Seamen..."in which sailors reflect on their feelings when at sea ‐ loneliness at night, longing for home and the often harsh realities of a sailor's life...vividly translated into music, in turn dreamy, sad, dramatic or bittersweet, in which the sea, as in Britten's Peter Grimes, is always present." Hugh Culot (MusicWeb 12/03)

Voices from the Sea is also available on CD.

Duration c.20 minutes.

Three linked pieces all based on the number 3: triads, tritones, triplets and so on. The first piece was written in 2007 for the Spanish Academia Internacional di Musica di Solsona at the suggestion of the violist Paul Silverthorne. The composer 'so liked the sound of six violas' that he added two more pieces.

Duration 9‐10 minutes

Three moods appear in turn on different instruments: (decorative flute, violent clarinet and piano and lyrical violin and 'cello). Interrupting each other then combining, they create a chaotic climax before collapsing into calm. Then they exchange instruments (the violin becomes decorative, flute and cello violent and the clarinet and piano lyrical) and start all over again...

Duration c.6 minutes

Cortège? was composed in 2002 and is associated in the composer's mind with Garcia Lorca's 'Soneto', a poem in which images of love and grief are intertwined. It has been recorded by Siân Philipps and Sophia Rahmen for Meridian on the CD 'Homage a Lorca – In Search of Duende' (CDE 84513)

Duration 5‐6 minutes.

This seven-minute quartet takes its title from William Blake's illuminated book Ahania (1795), in which Fuzon is the embodiment of fire – who "On spike flames rose, his hot visage flam'd furious!"

The story begins with Fuzon rebelling against Urizen:

"Shall we worship this Demon of Smoke",
Said Fuzon, "This abstract non‐entity
This cloudy God seated on Waters
Now seen, now obscur'd; King of sorrow?"
So he spoke, in a fiery flame...

A short, lyrical piece which looks backward both musically and emotionally to the legend of Orpheus — as he returns Orpheus yearns and, finally, cannot resist a backward look — whereupon Euridice is brusquely returned to the underworld.

'Looking Back' was written in 2014 for the violinist Siân Philipps

Duration 5‐6 minutes

'Shadows' is a nostalgic, atmospheric waltz written in response to a poem by Ursula Vaughan Williams 'Ainsi le bon temps regrettons' which begins with the lines:

No, I will not tell you with whom I danced,
nor of the music we knew;
We stepped through the window and danced on the terrace
onto the grass and danced by the water.
the music followed us,
But long ago the grass was scythed
and with it, our shadows
that danced till morning.

Duration 3'20"

The composer was inspired to write 'This World' whilst working at Thames & Hudson with the poet and Blake scholar Kathleen Raine on her book about William Blake 'The Human Face of God: William Blake and the Book of Job'. It was her passion for Blake that suggested this and several other pieces including 'Urizen' (viola and piano), 'Fuzon' (String Quartet) and 'Rintrah Roars' (voice, harp and piano).

'This World' was commissioned and first performed by the choir 'Cryes of London' and subsequently broadcast by the BBC Singers. It is scored for choir, with two soprano soloists and two trumpets.

Multiple copies of the choral score are available for hire.

Duration c.12 minutes.

Composed for John Turner, who gave the premiere performance of "Coronach" with the harpsichordist Harvey Davies in Bury Parish Church in September 2015.

The title refers to the traditional improvised singing at a wake in the Highlands of Scotland and in Ireland.

Duration c.6 minutes.

Written for the Brighton based Sussex Flutes ensemble, and scored for 2 flutes, 2 alto flutes and a bass flute.

Total Duration c. 7 minutes.

John Hawkins has long been attracted by the poetry of Edward Thomas and first set these three poems in the 1970's. They were first performed in 1980 by Richard Fallas (baritone) with Alison Miles (flute), Diana Burrell (viola) and Jane Lister (harp).

This short song cycle is much enhanced by the imaginative chamber music setting and was recently revised for this edition.

Duration c. 10 minutes