Monthly Archives: December 2009

∞Tango

Posted on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments

Here’s an ∞Tango for the end of the year…

Hmmm… Well we may not be rich any more, but we’ve got art, music and books to keep our imaginations warm…!
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Hampton Court Stompe free download

Posted on December 26, 2009 | 1 Comment

Here’s a rollicking snow dance for Henry VIII at Hampton Court, performed by me with Fretwork, the wonderful viol consort. This was used in the David Starkey series, Henry Mind of a Tyrant.

I hope you’re having a wonderful Christmas!

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His Master’s Voice

Posted on December 23, 2009 | 5 Comments

His Master's Voice image by axonsolar


A 78 rpm record springs into life. This is (for a short time only) a free download!


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Recent itunes soundtrack release here.

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Orange Tree in Winter

Posted on December 20, 2009 | 2 Comments

Here’s a Christmas track to download by way of thanks for all the great support this year!


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The robin laughed in the orange-tree:
“Ho, windy North, a fig for thee:
While breasts are red and wings are bold
And green trees wave us globes of gold,
Time’s scythe shall reap but bliss for me
Sunlight, song, and the orange-tree.

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Dickens’ Christmas Carol Overture

Posted on December 12, 2009 | 9 Comments

Here’s an overture I wrote for a production of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol starring Clive Francis, designed by Tim Bird.


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If you’d like the mp3 drop me a line below!

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

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Henry Mind Of A Tyrant is out

Posted on December 3, 2009 | 8 Comments

Fountains Abbey - CD Cover by Lucy Martin

Finally… the HENRY MIND OF A TYRANT soundtrack to David Starkey’s Henry VIII series is out!

It’s on UK iTunes now, and US iTunes here.
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It’ll get onto Spotify a little while later, followed by all the other major retailers. ‘O Dolce Nocte’, ‘Without Discord’ and ‘Adieu Madame’ are getting some nice attention. Thanks everyone for getting behind this.

If you don’t want to buy it you can click below and stream the tracks from SoundCloud.
I’ve teamed up with an extraordinary photographer for the artwork, Lucy Martin, and am working on a physical copy of the CD for release in the New Year.

Thanks to everyone for spreading the word and getting RadioMovies CD label off the ground!

Recording details:

HENRY MIND OF A TYRANT

ISRC CODE: GBLFP0921202

Label: Radiomovies

Composer: Philip Sheppard

See the Anne Boleyn Files too.

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Lucky

Posted on December 1, 2009 | Leave a comment

I’ve been working again with a great animator called EB Hu.
This a film by him called Lucky.

My piano piece is called Memory of Water.

It’s featured on the forthcoming Venetian Underground album.

More here – including an interview with EB

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