Tranchell bar of the day for 25/01/2026...

this was the first bar of the 2nd movement of the Sonatina for Flute and Piano, written for Henri and Juana Fromageot (aka Zayas) in May 1966. Find out more peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

this was from the Magnificat in B flat, which featured at Evensong at Ripon Cathedral on 23/01/2026. Score and recording peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

Tranchell bar of the day for 24/01/2026...

Tranchell bar of the day for 23/01/2026 has a bottom C for the 3rd basses...

this was from Bread of the world in mercy broken, a setting for unison voices and organ, available from CMS with an arrangement for SATB by Geoffrey Webber. Here's the The Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge performing them as one www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWug...

Tranchell bar of the day for 22/01/2026...

This was from Waltz and Calypso, a wind octet written for the inauguration of the Cambridge University Music School Concert Hall, 11 November 1977 on a theme ‘On CAmBriDGE’ with some typical Tranchell riddles. Find out more peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

Tranchell bar of the day for 21/01/2026...

this was from This Sorry Scheme of Things, composed in 1953 for the Homerton College Madrigal Society and Allen Percival. Specifically this is Our Village, PAT's adaptation of Thomas Hood's poem. Find out more peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

this was from A Tribute to the Grave of Dr Staggins, a round for four voices that eventually reveals the 'tribute' (which is rather rude, as seen in this bar). Find out more peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

Tranchell bar of the day for 20/01/2026...

Bar of the day for 19/01/2026 ...

this was from Police use hoses against seven hundred, from the song cycle In a Sunday Paper. Here's James Gilchrist singing it www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXTR... Info and score peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

Tranchell bar of the day for 18/01/2026...

This was the Chorus of Undergraduates from Daisy Simpkins, or The Spinning House, text by Harry Porter and Peter Tranchell, music by the latter. The libretto is online here, with further information peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

Tranchell bar of the day for 17/01/2026 takes us to the pub...

The opening of a psalm chant based on the theme tune from Neighbours. Note the pencil marking - this featured in a service in 1987/88. Further info and typeset score peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

Tranchell bar of the day for 16/01/2026 comes with an extra bar for free...

this was from Tranchell's piano transcription of Remembrance Waltz, from his incidental music for the 1947 Cambridge production of Johnson over Jordan, by J. B. Priestley. The 'Tempo di Hesitation' may be a nod to Walton's The First Shoot. Further info and score: peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

Tranchell bar of the day for 15/01/2026 features an unusual tempo

This was from 'O that our faith', a short setting of a text by Charles Wesley, for three voice parts and organ. The tune is named Waltham Chase. Info and free score peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

Tranchell bar of the day for 14 Jan 2025

this was from the 5th and final movement ('Cadenza and fugato) of the mysterious 3rd Piano Sonata (1948)

Tranchell bar of the day for 13/01/2026...

this was from Saul's Successor (1969) a "minicantata" for TBrB solo, male-voice choir, organ, percussion and timpani, performed at St Margaret's, Westminster. Peter said it aimed "to show that every religion is in danger of its hierarchy becoming ossified and corrupt"

Tranchell bar of the day for 12/01/2026 involves the organist's fists...

Yesterday's bar of the day was from the 1st movement (Preludio) of Tranchell's 1958 Organ Sonata, with the Morse Code letter "P" (· - - ·)in the left hand starting the name "Peter Le Huray" for whom the work was composed

yesterday's bar of the day was from Chorus 9: Agrestic Comestibles, from Murder at the Towers, a 'detective cantata' based on E.V.Knox's This Other Eden. Free typeset score and lots of info here peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

Tranchell bar of the day for 11/01/2026 may contain code

"when national economy kills international bonhomie, it doesn’t leave the world much hope!" from Peter Tranchell's 1955 detective cantata Murder at the Towers

Tranchell bar of the day for 10/01/2026 - one for the gourmands...

This was from the Nunc Dimittis of the ATB Tone 4 setting peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...

Tranchell bar of the day for 09/01/2026...

So this was Lazy Man's Song, from Seven Poems of Po Chü-i, and can be heard performed by Mary Bevan and Will Vann from our 2024 concert here www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTu...

Tranchell bar of the day for 08/01/2026 ...

Tranchell bar of the day for 07/01/2026. Just add carnyx?

Tranchell bar of the day for 06/01/2026 features whistling...

Bar of the day 05/01/2026 is for SSATB and organ...

Tranchell bar of the day for 04/01/2026 should not be too hard to identify, even if it's quite hard to sing!...

Happy New Year from the Peter Tranchell Foundation... this year we'll post a "bar of the day", every day(!?), selected randomly from something in the archives... here's our first

3 years on, here's the première performance of Cheryl Frances-Hoad's lovely "Psalm 133: The Peace of God", commissioned for the Peter Tranchell Centenary Concert 26 November 2022, performed by @caiuscollege.bsky.social choir directed by Mathew Martin www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzqq...

Did you know Peter Tranchell wrote the music for several of the triennial Cambridge Greek Plays? Here's a couple of photos from 1959 - The Antigone of Sophocles, and the programme

An unpublished and rather lovely hymn tune from Peter Tranchell, 1970, words "And now our Father", tune "Old Winchester Hill", found in the archives today...

We've just been alerted to this very fine recording, from Grote Kerk van Wijk bij Duurstede carol service, 21 December 2024 of PAT's "People, look East" www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LS...

We're very excited to announce that the great Piers Lane #PiersLane will play Peter Tranchell's Seven Pieces in Alphabetical Order in the "Twice a Kiss" concert Saturday 18 April 2026. Tickets peter-tranchell.uk/the-2026-pet... Photo credit: Benjamin Ealovega

Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize: Maho Ishizaka, for her duet for piano and organ "Tickle the Keys". See peter-tranchell.uk/blog/results...

3 hours till the deadline in this years Peter Tranchell Foundation composition prize... exciting - how many more entries will arrive?

One week to the deadline for submissions in the 2025 Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize... peter-tranchell.uk/the-peter-tr...

Updated free score of a little Peter Tranchell introit from 1972... "Jesus said: in the world ye shall have tribulation" for either ATTBB or SATBB published here: peter-tranchell.uk/music/works/...