Various: A Birthday Album for Thomas Pitfield

The works in this album, variously for soprano, countertenor, recorder, harp and
piano, were written as 80th birthday tributes to Thomas Pitfield. A jewel in this
collection is John McCabes "Desert IV: Vista" which alternates solo tenor and
sopranino recorders in music by turns still and mysterious, and frantic and joyful.

Contents

• A Song from the North by Alan Bush
• Chaconne for Tom by William Alwyn
• A Charm for You by Edward Cowie
• To Music by John Golland
• To Musick by Michael Ball
• Prestbury by Nicholas Marshall
• Evening Gold by Colin Touchin
• Variations on ‘Happy Birthday’ by M L Wilkins
• Sunrise by Stephen Wilkinson
• The Fly by John LeGrove
• Moto Non Perpetuo by David Ellis
• Mr. Pitfield’s Pibroch by Anthony Gilbert
• Seascape by Stephen Reynolds
• Lullaby by Gordon Crosse
• Desert IV: Vista by John McCabe
• The Faery Beam upon You by D Steele
• The Short-Tempered Singer by T Pitfield
• Lingering Music by Robert Elliott