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.
Evening Service (2009)
My setting of the Evening Service is a relatively simple piece, largely homophonic and rooted in a claustrophobic modal C# minor.
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.
