(to be released on June 20th) ‘Re-Sounding’ is for solo piano. ‘A Song for the Friendly Bird’ is for piano three hands. ‘Mirror Mirror’ was composed using all 88 notes of the piano and is atonal. Pt. 1 for solo piano starts on the lowest note and gradually gets faster as the notes go upwards. Pt. 2 is a mirror image of Pt. 1, (as if played backwards). Pt. 3 is for two pianos and plays Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 together. (I’ve also written a solo piano version of Pt. 3). ‘For a Rainy Day’ is for solo piano. ‘Something For the Weekend?’ is for solo piano. Like Mirror Mirror the music goes backwards but this time it’s a palindrome, so it reflects at the halfway point of the music. The music is written using an additive process of generally one extra note at a time. The high repeated right-hand part is the actual central point of the piece but placed randomly throughout. ‘On the Seventh Of May’ was composed for solo piano on May 7th. ‘The Golden Pot’ is for piano three hands. All of the music was composed in May 2026 except ‘Mirror Mirror’ which was written in April.

(to be released on 20th May) ‘Ten-Four’ was composed for solo piano in March 2026 and is entirely in ten four time, but with the two pieces dividing the beats differently. Pt. 1 is in D major, and Pt. 2 is in D minor (with G flat throughout). ‘Eight Minutes and Twenty Seconds’ is for solo piano. The title comes from the average amount of time it takes light to travel from the Sun to Earth. The piece lasts as long as it would take a photon from the Sun to reach the Earth. ‘Three Point Eight Centimetres’ is for solo piano. The title refers to the distance the Moon moves away from Earth each year. ‘Two and a Half Billion Seconds’ is composed for piano three hands. Though the piece contains more dissonance it is still diatonic (as all the other pieces) and is written in G Major. The phrase two and a half billion seconds appears in Samuel Beckett's 1979 play, ‘A Piece of Monologue,’ where the speaker suggests how long a lifetime is, with two and a half billion seconds equating to roughly 80 years, or 28,935 days. ‘Minus Two Hundred and Seventy-Three Point One Five’ is for solo piano. -273.15 °C is Absolute zero, the lowest theoretically possible temperature. ‘K2-18b’ is for piano three hands. K2-18b an exoplanet 124 light-years away from Earth considered to be the most likely (so far discovered) to sustain life. All the music except ‘Ten-Four’ was composed in April 2026.

(to be released on 20th April) ‘A Hill Climb’ was composed on 28th January 1989 (rather unusual for me as it constantly changes tempo) & ‘A Close Finish’ on 29th January 1989. Both pieces are from the set ‘Motors, The Golden Picture Book’ (with amended titles) for solo piano and first performed by Helen Ottaway. ‘Shadow Line’ was composed in February 2026 for solo piano, with a light and bright right hand and a more sombre left hand. ‘An Idea of Walking (In Octaves) for Twenty Minutes’ was composed in February 2026 for solo piano. All the music is written in octaves, and the idea was to have a piece in a constant tempo to walk to. ‘Reflections on Water’ was composed on March 4th 2026, for solo piano. Each bar is repeated at twice the speed, so a bar of three four becomes a bar of three eight etc. ‘Just Around the Corner’ was composed on March 5th 2026, for solo piano. ‘No Ifs or Buts’ and ‘No Where No Why No When’ were composed in March 2026 for piano three hands.

(to be released on 21st Feb) Music composed between 1988 and 2026. ‘The Blue You’ was composed on 22nd May 1990 and first performed by Helen Ottaway. I found ‘Of Unknown Provenance’ in a pile of pieces but with no title, so it’s become this. It was composed in the late 80’s or early 1990s for two pianos, and I recently wrote additional material for it. ‘For Eve’ was composed in 1988 while I was at the Royal Academy of Music and performed in a workshop there with dancers from the London Contemporary Dance School. It was played by Eve Egoyan to whom it is dedicated. ‘Four Minutes Thirty Three Seconds and a Bit’ was composed on 21st June 2000 as a tribute to John Cage. I’ve reworked it for this recording. ‘Joining The Dots’ was composed in January 2026 for solo piano. ‘Small Things’ is a set of ten small pieces composed in July 1996 and dedicated to Paola. ‘A Nice Little Tune’ was composed on 15th Jan 2001. ‘Titled’ was composed on 10th Oct 2003. ‘Something Missing’ consists of five small pieces composed in December 1990. ‘A Competitor Prepares’ was composed in 1989 and first performed by Helen Ottaway as part of the series ‘Motors, The Golden Picture Book.’ ‘Ecumenical Music for Timothy Verdon,’ was composed on January 22nd 2026 for piano three hands. The top part plays in five eight while the other parts play in three four. On the same day Mons. Timothy Verdon, an acclaimed art historian inaugurated the new Ecumenical chapel in The Basilica di San Lorenzo, Florence.

(To be released on 10/02/2026) ‘A Small Selection of Cheeses,’ was composed in 1988 while I was a student at the Royal Academy of Music and first performed there in a concert on the 5th May by fellow student Ed Cremo. John Miller did a piano improvisation and Laurence Crane performed some of his piano pieces with the title 'The piano is dead but the beat lives on.' At the time I was moving into composing more minimal music, but these pieces retain some older habits like a wide range of dynamics and tempo changes that I gradually eliminated almost entirely in later works. ‘Fond Memories of Carlo’ was composed in November 2025 in memory of Carlo Meccoci. ‘A Diatonic Song,’ was composed in 2001 and is a very quiet single line using the only notes of the C major scale. ‘A Free Hand,’ was composed in 2002 and is dedicated to Paola. The piece was meant to have an improvised top line but looking at the piece in December 2025 I decide to compose a top line. All the music on this album was put into the computer using MuseScore notation software, as ‘Finale’ which I’ve used for years is no longer working.

(to be released on 15th August) All of the music was composed in the summer of 2025 for solo piano or piano three hands. ‘For Roger Penrose’ is dedicated to the eminent Nobel Prize winning physicist, composed for piano three hands. ‘On Shifting Sands’ is a bit unusual as there is no constant pulse, giving a rather uneven unsettled feel to the piece. ‘For Camillo’ is dedicated to my father-in-law Camillo Paoletti and composed using a whole tone scale of C, D, E, F sharp, G sharp & A sharp (the piece was composed so Camillo can play along with it as using any of those notes should sound fine). ‘Picture Window’ uses a constant three against two pattern throughout. ‘Remembering Forgotten Dreams’ has a constant repeating rhythmic pattern in seven four in the left hand. ‘The Unknown Paradox’ was composed for piano three hands in five four, but with the top part generally playing in three four.