Philip has an extensive repertoire of works for concert, opera and ballet, many of which are available for performance at short notice.

For extracted lists of opera, ballet and choral works and for works currently in preparation please visit the appropriate pages on the Repertoire Tab…

– Opera
– Ballet
– Choral
– Works currently in preparation

Performed Repertoire

Adams – The Chairman Dances; A Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Adès – Powder Her Face
Albinoni – Oboe Concerto in D Minor; Adagio
Alfvén – En Skärgårdssägen
Arensky – Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky
Arnold – Overture “Tam O’Shanter”; Scottish Dances; Peterloo Overture
Ashe, Brendan – La Bamba; Tango for no fingers
Bach – Orchestral Suites Nos.2 & 3; Concertos B’burg No.3, 2 Violins, Oboe & Violin
Badelt – The Pirates of the Caribbean Suite 
Barber – Adagio for Strings; Violin Concerto; Knoxville – Summer of 1915; Agnus Dei
Bargiel – Adagio for cello and orch op.38
Barry – Out of Africa
Bartok – Duke Bluebeard’s Castle; Concerto for Orchestra; Piano Concerto No.3; Viola Concerto; Rumanian Dances
Beethoven – Fidelio; Symphonies Nos. 1 to 9; Concertos Piano 1,4,5, Violin, Triple; Ovs Egmont, Fidelio & Leonore No.3; Romance in F major
Berg – Seven Early Songs
Berkeley , L. – WindsorVariations
Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique, Harold in Italy, La Morte de Cleopatre, Ovs: King Lear, Les Francs Juges, Le Corsaire; Beatrice & Benedict; Les Nuits d’Ete
Bernstein – West Side Story; Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; Candide
Bizet – Carmen (recit. Version); Symphony in C; Pearl Fishers (Excerpts); L’Arlesienne Suites (Excerpts)
Blake – The Snowman; Nursery Rhyme Overture; The Land of Counterpane
Borodin – Symphony No.2; Prince Igor Overture; Polovtsian Dances; In the Steppes of Central Asia
Boulez – Messagesquisse
Bowyer, G. – Then (Tom McKelland)
Brahms – Symphonies Nos.1 to 4; Variations on a Theme of Haydn; Concertos: Double, Piano Nos. 1 & 2, Violin; Academic Festival Ov.
Bridge – There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook
Britten – A Midsummer Night’s Dream; 4 Sea Interludes from P. Grimes; Sinfonia da Requiem; Young Person’s Guide; Noye’s Fludde; Var. on a Theme of Frank Bridge; Gloriana: Courtly Dances; Simple Symphony; Soirees Musicales
Bruch – Violin Concerto; Scottish Fantasy; Concerto for Clarinet and Viola; Kol Nidrei
Bruckner – Symphonies Nos. 4, 8 & 9
Brunning, John – Pie Jesu
Butterworth – “A Shropshire Lad” Rhapsody; “On Banks of Green Willow” Idyll; English Idyll No.1
Cantaloube – Chants d’Auvergne 1er Serie
Carmichael, John – Fêtes Champêtres; Trumpet Concerto
Chabrier – Espana
Chappell H. – Paddington’s First Concert
Chausson – Symphony in Bb; Poéme; Poéme de l’Amour et de la Mer; Viviane
Cherubini – Les Deux Journées
Chopin – Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2
Cimerosa – Concerto for 2 Flutes
Coates – The Merrymakers Ov.
Copland – Symphony No.3; Appalachian Spring; Clarinet Concerto; Billy the Kid Suite; Fanfare for the Common Man; Lincoln Portrait
Debussy – La Mer; Prélude à l’Apres-midi d’un Faune; Petite Suite; Marche Ecossaise; Fanfare from King Lear
De Falla – The Three-Cornered Hat – Miller’s Dance; Ritual Fire Dance for cello & orch
Delibes – Coppelia
Delius – A Walk to the Paradise Garden; On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring; In a Summer Garden; Piano Concerto
Dhondi, Danyal – Shahrazad (Premiere)
Dibdin – The Widow of Ephasus
Dodgson, Stephen – Essay for Orchestra No.4
Donizetti – Don Pasquale Overture, Concertino for Clarinet
Dorff – Billy and the Carnival
Drigo – Le Corsaire (excerpts)
Dukas – Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Dvorak – Symphonies Nos.5,7,8,9; Concertos Cello & Violin; Serenades for Strings & Winds; Czech Suite; Slavonic Dances from Op. 46 & 72; Carneval Ov; Romance in f; Nocturne
Elgar – Symphonies Nos.1 & 2; Concertos Cello & Violin; Enigma Variations; In the South (Alassio);  Sea Pictures; Int. & Allegro; Serenade for Strings; Ov. Froissart; P & C March No.1; Romance for Bassoon & Orch.; Mazurka; Sospiri
Fall – Die Dollarprinzessin (medley)
Faure – Elegy for cello & orch, Pavane
Ferre, Stephen – A Point of Amber Light – 1st U.K. perf.
Finzi – Severn Rhapsody
Flotow – Martha
Foskett, Ben – The Scarlet Pimpernel (Ballet) – Premiere; Suite from The Scarlet Pimpernel – Premiere
Francaix – Quadruple Concerto
Franck – Symphony in D Minor
Gershwin – An American in Paris; Piano Concerto in F
Glass – Company
Glazunov – Concertos Violin; Saxophone
Glinka – Ruslan & Ludmilla Ov. & excerpts; A Life for the Tzar Overture
Gluck – Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Goleminov, Marin – Violin Concerto (UK Premiere)
Gomelskaya – Jane Eyre (Ballet)
Goodall – 633 Squadron
Gorecki – 3 Pieces in Olden Style
Gounod – Romeo et Juliette; Petite Symphonie for Winds
Grainger – Country Gardens/Shepherd’s Hey
Grieg – Piano Concerto; Peer Gynt Suites Nos 1&2; Holberg Suite
Hammond, Tim – Ballets: Faithful Gelert, The Prince &The Pauper – Premiere, The Little Princess, Nanny McPhee – Premiere
Handel – Rodelinde; The Messiah; Music for the Royal Fireworks
Haslam – Cooie Louis
Haydn – The Creation; Symphonies Nos. 53,73,89,92,94,101,103,104; Toy Symphony; Trumpet Concerto
Holst – The Planets Suite inc. Colin Matthews’ Pluto; St Paul’s Suite, Somerset Rhapsody
Honneger – Pacific 231
Humperdink – Hansel & Gretel Prelude; Evening Prayer for 12 horns and 4 Wagner Tubas
Ibert – Flute Concerto
Ives – The Unanswered Question
Janacek – Sinfonietta; Jealousy; Glagolitic Mass (reh only)
Jenkins, Karl – Songs of Sanctuary (Adiemus, Cantus Iteratus)
Jolivet – Concertino for Trumpet, Piano and Strings
Kalinnikov – Symphony No.1
Khatchaturian – Gayaneh (excerpts), Masquerade Suite
Kodaly – Hary Janos; Dances of Galanta; Peacock Variations
Korngold – Violin Concerto; “Escape Me Never” Suite
Lane, Elizabeth – Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Ballet)
Lawrence, Peter – Puss in Boots
Lee, Roland – Violin Concerto
Lehar – Gold and Silver Waltz; Merry Widow Expts (Vilia)
Lerner & Loewe – My Fair Lady (Excerpts)
Liszt – Piano Concerto No.1; Mephisto Waltz
Lloyd Webber, Andrew – Phantom of the Opera (Excerpts)
Lloyd Webber, William – Aurora
Lowenskiold – La Sylphide (excerpts)
Lutoslawski – Symphony No.4
MacMillan – Tryst, The World’s Ransoming
Mahler – Symphonies Nos.1,2,3,4,5,6; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Blumine
Maric, Ljubica – Passacaglia
Martinu – Frescoes of Piero della Francesca; Intermezzo
Mascagni – Excerpts from Cavalleria Rusticana
Massenet – Meditation from Thais for cello & orch
Maxwell Davies – An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
McCunn – The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
McDowall, Cecilia – Floreat Oriana (First Performance)
McGowan, Peter – Celebration – 1st perf.; Little Red Riding Hood – 1st perf.; Son of One Hand -1st perf
McKelland – Then (arr. Geoffrey Bowyer)
Mendelssohn – Elijah; Symphonies Nos.3,4,5; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Overture & 4 Pieces) Ovs.The Hebrides, Die Schone Melusine, Ruy Blas; Concertos Violin, Piano No.1; Capriccio Brillante
Milhaud – Le Boeuf sur le Toit
Minkus – Don Quichotte (excerpts)
Moeran – Cello Concerto; Violin Concerto
Moore, Jeff – River Journey (first perf – concert version)
Moricone – Gabriel’s Oboe
Morris, Corinne – Un’Ultima Volta for cello & orch
Moross  – The Big Country
Mozart – Don Giovanni; Idomeneo; Le Nozze di Figaro; Cosi fan tutte; Symphonies Nos.25,29,35,38,40; Mass in C Minor; Ovs. Don Giovanni, Figaro, Magic Flute; Sinfonia Concertante Violin & Viola; Sinfonia Concertante Winds; Concertos Piano K453, 488 & 491, Clarinet, Flute, Flute & Harp, Horn No.4; Serenade “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”; Excerpts from Magic Flute; Concert Aria “Nehmt Meinen Dank”
Mulgan, Lucy – Looking Sideways – 1st Perf.
Murray, Alan – I’ll Walk Beside You
Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel); Night on a Bare Mountain (R-Korsakov)
Nestroy – Lumpazivagabundus
Nicolai – The Merry Wives of Windsor Ov.;
Nielsen  – Symphony No.4; Helios Overture; Flute Concerto
Norriss, Richard – Snow White (Ballet) – Premiere
Novello, Ivor – Keep the Home Fires Burning & We’ll Gather Lilacs (orch Trevor Denyer)
Offenbach – Orpheus in the Underworld Overture; Tales of Hoffman (Excerpts)
Orff – Carmina Burana
Ovcherenko – The Last Battle – Premiere
Parry – I Was Glad
Pärt – Fratres; Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte
Penderecki – Symphony No.2
Pergolesi/Barbirolli – Oboe Concerto
Piazzolla – Oblivion for cello & strings
Porter, Cole – Kiss Me Kate Suite
Poulenc – Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani; Concerto for 2 pianos; La Voix Humaine; L’Histoire de Babar le petit Eléphant
Prokofiev – Alexander Nevsky; Symphonies Nos.1 “Classical” & 5; Romeo and Juliet (Excerpts); Cinderella Suite No.1; Concertos Piano No.2 & 3, Violin Nos. 1 & 2; Peter and the Wolf; Lt. Kije
Puccini – La Boheme; Tosca; Madame Butterfly; Il Tabarro; Various Opera Excerpts
Purcell – Chacony; The Fairy Queen Overture
Rachmaninov – Symphonies Nos.1 & 2; Symphonic Dances; Piano Concertos Nos.1,2,3; Paganini Rhapsody
Rautavaara – Cantus Arcticus
Ravel – Daphnis & Chloe 2nd Suite; La Valse; Piano Concertos in G & for Left-Hand; Sheherazade; Suite “Ma Mere l’Oye”
Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherezade; The Tzar’s Bride (excerpt); Capriccio Espagnol; Dance of the Clowns
Rodrigo – Fantasia para un Gentilhombre
Rossini – Barber of Seville (Overture & excerpts); Ovs. Semiramide, William Tell, La Gazza Ladra, Otello; Italian Girl in Algiers
Saint-Saens – Symphony No.3 (Organ); Carnival of the Animals; Concertos Cello No.1, Violin No.3; Danse Macabre; La Muse et la Poéte; Bacchanale (Samson & Delilah); Allegro Appassionato for Cello
Samuel, Rhian – Encounters for Piano and Orch.; Intimations of Immortality – British Premiere
Sartori & Quarantotto – Con te partiro
Schrammel – “Wien Bleibt Wien ”
Schoenberg – Notturno
Schofield, Ian – Concerto for Violin & Viola (One Player) (1st Performance)
Schubert – Symphonies Nos.3,4,5,8,9; Mass in G major; Rosamunde Entr’acte; Zauberharfe
Schumann – Symphonies Nos.3&4; Concertos Piano & Cello, Konzertstuck for 4 Horns; Genoveva Ov.
Shostakovich – Symphonies Nos.5,8,10,11; Festival Ov.; Cello Concerto No.1; Suite for Variety Orchestra; Tahiti Trot; Romance from The Gadfly
Sibelius – Symphonies Nos.1,2,3,5; Violin Concerto; Finlandia; Karelia Suite; Swan of Tuonela
Smetana – The Bartered Bride Overture; Vltava
Spragg, Gillian – Galileo (1st Perf)
Strauss Fam. – Many
Strauss R. – Ein Heldenleben; Alpine Symphony; Don Juan; Tod & Verklaerung; Aus Italien; Four Last Songs; Rosenkavalier Suite (1945); Serenade op 7 for Winds; Duet Concertino; Concertos Horn Nos.1 & 2, Oboe
Stravinsky – Rite of Spring; Petrushka; The Firebird Suite; Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments; Violin Concerto; Divertimento (Fairy’s Kiss); Suites Nos.1 & 2 for Small Orch; Jeu de Cartes; Pulcinella Suite
Suk – Asrael Symphony; Serenade for Strings, A Fairy Tale (Pohadka)
Sullivan – Ovs Iolanthe, Yeomen of the Guard
Sullivan/Mackerras – Pineapple Poll Suite
Suppe – Morning, Noon & Night in Vienna
Svendsen – Romeo and Juliet
Szymanowski – Violin Concerto No.1
Takemitsu – Tree Line
Taskov, Krassimir – Suite for Orchestra – UK Premiere
Tattersall, Piers – Rumpelstiltskin – Premiere
Tausky – Serenade for Strings – World Premiere
Tchaikovsky – Ballets The Nutcracker, Onegin; Eugene Onegin; Symphonies Nos.2,4,5,6 & Manfred; Concertos Violin, Piano No.1; Rococo Variations; Romeo and Juliet Concert Overture; Overture 1812; Marche Slave; Francesca da Rimini; Sleeping Beauty Suite; Swan Lake: Suite and Finale: Act 4; Serenade for Strings; Capriccio Italienne; Nocturne op.19 no.4 for cello & orch; Andante Cantabile op.14 for cello & orch
Vassiliev, Artem – Ballets: The Canterville Ghost – Premiere, The Secret Garden – Premiere; Vivere Memento – UK Premiere.
Vaughan Williams – Symphonies Nos.2 & 5; Job, a masque for dancing; Oboe Concerto; Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis; Serenade to Music (Orch version); Fantasy on Greensleeves; Five Variants on Dives & Lazarus; The Lark Ascending; English Folk Song Suite
Verdi – Aida; Rigoletto; Requiem; Forza del Destino Ov.; Excerpts from Trovatore, Macbeth, Nabucco
Vivaldi – Concertos Bassoon in C & e, 2 Trumpets in C, Piccolo “The Goldfinch, Recorder in c minor; Guitar RV93
Wagner – The Flying Dutchman Overture; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Prelude; Lohengrin Act 3 Prelude; Siegfried Idyll; Wesendonk Lieder; Die Walküre – Ride of the Valkyries; Götterdämmerung – S’s Rheinfahrt, S’s Funeral Music, B’s Immolation Scene
Walton – Belshazzar’s Feast; Symphony No.1; The Bear; Viola Concerto; Cello Concerto; Henry V Suite; Crown Imperial March
Warren, Raymond – The Ballet Shoes (Ballet) – Premiere
Webb, John – White Stones – 1st Perf.
Weber – Ovs. Euryanthe, Der Freischütz, Oberon; Concertos Clarinet No.1, Bassoon; Introduction and Hungarian Rondo
Webern – 5 Pieces op.5
White, Robert – Treasure Island – Premiere
Wieniawski – Violin Concerto No.2 in D Minor
Willcocks – Meet the Orchestra
Williams, John – Star Wars Film Music; Harry Potter Film Music; other film music
Wood Sir H. – Fantasy on British Sea Songs
Ziehrer – Die Nachtschwärmer