MUSIC BY CHRISTOPHER GIBBS
PIANO
MAINLY BLUE (piano pieces) 1955-57
TEARS (piano arrangement of above) 1963
SIX BAGATELLES for piano 1964
OVERTURE: THE LAMB AND THE BEAST (piano) 1965
EASY PIECES FOR CHILDREN (piano) 1980
FLOOK'S FLUKE for piano (shortened version)
CANON ON THE LOOSE for piano 1998
PRELUDE AND TOCCATA for piano solo 2000
TWO PIANO DUETS (Clitheroe Market and Dick Barton Special Agent 2001.
INSTRUMENTAL
LACHRYMAE ATONALIS (flute and piano) 1956
VIOLIN SONATA 1965
DYRHOLAEY (flute and piano) 1965 (also violin and viola versions)
A LUDLOW SUITE (flute and piano) 1974 (later revised as IN THE WESTERN DALES)
A HANS ANDERSEN SUITE (recorders and piano) 1975 revised 1998
AUBADE for cello and piano 1976 revised 1998
INTRADA for organ 1982
IN MEMORIAM LENNIE TRISTANO for violin and pfte 1998
IN THE WESTERN DALES, 3 pieces for violin and pfte 1998 (Dentdale Air, Barbondale Air, Ribblesdale Air) also for flute and piano. (published by Phylloscopus)
Ribblesdale Air (m4a file)
Dentdale Air (m4a file)
Barbondale Air (m4a file)
SHADES OF BLUE for recorder quartet (also saxophone qtt) Commission from Cartmel Music Centre 1999 (version for wind/ flute quartet published by Phylloscopus)
Listen to this piece (m4a file)
COOL DUDE for recorder quartet 1999
TWO PIECES for clarinet choir and piano (Yewbarrow Woods/Lindale). 2000
CHILL OUT for alto sax and piano 2000
DRYAD for solo flute 2000
PABLO SE RENCONTRE AVEC CLAUDE for flute and guitar 2000
ELLIE’S BLUES for flute and guitar 2000
SONG OF THE NORNS arrangement for flute and piano 2000
SUNLIGHT IN THE MORNING FIELD for violin and piano 2001
UPWARD LEAP for alto sax and piano Jan 2001
WINTER SUN for 3 violins 2001
MORNING SUN for 3 flutes 2001
MEDITATION (arr. from Dyrholaey) for horn and piano (also clar./pno) (published for horn by Phylloscopus)
PRELUDE for violin and piano 2002
LAKELAND SUMMER for 2 Bb clarinets & pno 2003
ORCHESTRAL
MUSIC FOR STRINGS 1975 revised 1997.
VIOLIN CONCERTO 1993-6
OVER SANDS (MARK II) for virtuoso orchestra 1997
ENCORE for solo violin and orchestra 1997 (to be completed)
VIKING RUNES (oratorio for soprano, chorus and orchestra) 1997 Commission.
CUMBRIAN OVERTURE for small orchestra 1998
FOREST OF BOWLAND SUITE for string orchestra 1998
CHAMBER
FOREST OF BOWLAND SUITE for string quartet 1994
FOREST OF BOWLAND SUITE for wind quartet 1998 (published by Phylloscopus)
MUSIC FOR STRING QUARTET 1998 (Prelude, Pastorale, Fugato,Mattachins,
Adagio,Finale)
THOSE SLEEKIT BEASTIES for chamber ensemble/poetry readers 1998
IN NOMINE VARIATION for string trio 2004
SONGS AND CHORAL
TWO SONGS (ELBERETH & WENLOCK EDGE) 1974
SHE'S LIKE THE SWALLOW (SATB) 1974
CAROL for SATB 1997 ( " )
THEY ARE NOT LONG (SATB)
VIKING RUNES (oratorio for soprano, chorus and orchestra) 1997 Commission from Ormskirk Music Society
ANGELS for voice and piano 1998
SONG TO THE NORNS for voice and piano 1998.
ARTHUR’S BANE for voice and piano 1998
THREE QUAKER SONGS (Come Friend, Truth of Margaret Fell, Faith Hope Peace and Love) for voices and instrumental ensemble/ or piano 1998
TWO SONGS OF STILLNESS: (Winter Evening/High in the Quiet Sky)1999
MISSA BREVIS for SATB. 2000
REMEMBER (Christina Rossetti) for voice and piano Aug 2001
HOME ALONE (song for Anna) vor voice and piano Aug 2001
ACROSS AN UNKNOWN SEA music drama for tenor, soprano, string quartet and orch. + children’s orch & choir 2003 Commission from Sedbergh Pepperpot Club
LES SANGLOTS LONGUES(Prevert) voice and pno. 2003
SPRING MORNING (Frances Cornford) for 2 part choir and piano (commission from Cartmel Musia Centre) 2005
SUDDEN LIGHT (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) for high voice and piano January 2005
WEXFORD CAROL (arr. trad. carol) for mixed choir SATB Oct 2006 (for Levens Choir)
BRASS
FESTIVAL OVERTURE for brass 1984 (to be revised and rewritten)
OVER SANDS for brass quintet 1995
FLOOK'S FLUKE for brass 1995
FLOOKBURGH BLUES for Flookburgh Junior Band 1997. Commission from Flookburgh Band.