Pastorale Blues And Homage by Peter Dickinson. Arranged for Recorder (tenor and descant) and Piano for John Turner.1. A James Joyce Pastorale (1955)2. A Robert Burns Blues (1967)3. Homage to Poulenc (1963)The Pastorale comes from a song a student work setting the first poem of James Joyce’s early cycle Chamber Music – ‘Strings in the earth and air’; the second piece is another song to Burns’ ‘My love is like a red red rose’ which was frequently performed by Meriel and Peter Dickinson in their recitals (recorded on Albany TROY 369); Homage to Poulenc started as a piano duet No. 1 of Five Forgeries (recorded by the composer and John Flinders on Naxos 8.572287). It is dedicated to Lennox Berkeley because he and Poulenc were good friends.The first performance of Pastorale Blues and Homage was given by John Turner and the composer at St Peter’s Church Westleton on 4 October 2012 in that year’s William Alwyn Festival. Their recording has been released on Heritage HTGCD 254.

For Medium Voice and Piano. A red red rose (Robert Burns) was written in August 1967. So we'll go no more a-roving (Lord Byron) was written March 1971 and became the principal material for the Organ Concerto. Schubert in Blue is an arrangement of the three Shakespeare settings which Schubert made in July 1826 designed as an unusual tribute on the 150th anniversary of the composers death.