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.
Verbum caro factum est (2009, rev. 2024)
My setting of Verbum caro factum est takes the atmosphere and sense of anticipation in the Midnight Mass as the basis for a slow, reverential meditation on these profound words.
Preces and Responses (2009)
My setting of the Preces and Responses is a simple, thematic affair with the opening material setting the tone for the whole work.
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.
O magnum mysterium (2005, rev. 2018)
I had long been attracted to these words, maybe due to them dealing with the mystery and majesty of the birth of Christ, rather then the more run-of-the-mill fayre found at Christmastime.
