Catalogue of Compositions
Phillip’s music is strongly influenced by his native Lake District and by history. His main musical influences are found in continuing and reconciling a pastoral British tradition.
I Stood on a Tower (2008)
I Stood on a Tower is a simple setting of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem. The chord of a minor ninth is the harmonic colouring that binds the work together, enhancing the melancholy of Tennyson’s poem.
O salutaris Hostia (2008)
The text of O salutaris Hostia has always appealed to me, with particularly good settings by an anonymous Renaissance composer and by Herbert Howells springing to mind.