• Duration: 4 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Strings or Military Band
    Written for the HM's Bands of the Household Division and Royal Choral Society to mark the Platinum Jubilee and based on Shakespeare's text from Henry VIII.
    • Duration: 5 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    Commissioned by Wells Cathedral for the Cathedral Choir, Patrick has set the words of 16th century English poet Edmund Spenser which glorifies Christ’s sacrifice for mankind and praises his path of love.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Strings or Military Band
    Written for the HM's Bands of the Household Division and Royal Choral Society to mark the Platinum Jubilee and based on Shakespeare's text from Henry VIII.
  • The Manger | The InfantThe OxenThe ShepherdsThe StarThe Magi
    • Duration: 20 minutes
    • Chorus: unaccompanied SATB
    A collection of six carols with brand-new texts by Patrick's brother.   As a whole, they make an effective collection for concert performance but are also designed for individual use within the context of a Christmas service.
  • Virga Jesse | Puer NatusNesciens Mater | Gaudete Omnes
    • Duration: 12 minutes
    • Chorus: unaccompanied SATB
    A setting of four motets with a fresh and dramatic approach to the well-known ancient texts.  Perfect to be sung as a complete set or as individual items within a carol service or other liturgical setting.
    • Duration: 5 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    A piece full of unbridled majesty and victory through its colourful registrations and insistent rhythmic patterns.  Perfect for Christmas or the great Feast of Christ the King.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: unaccompanied SATB
    This setting of the well-known text creates a warm and intimate sound world, written to reflect the prayerful and devotional feast of The Assumption of Our Lady.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: unaccompanied SATB
    This attractive fifteenth-century text has inspired a setting which is reminiscent of medieval tonality and rhythm.  An uplifting Christmas carol.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: unaccompanied SATB
    A beautiful setting of words depicting the unifying power of singing together in peace and love.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    A beautiful setting of this unusual fifteenth-century text.  There is an overriding atmosphere of joy and intense love, as well as touching moments of pathos, especially in relation to the premonition of Calvary.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: unaccompanied SATB
    A simple, but beautiful, strophic Christmas carol setting the words of the poem by William Chatterton-Dix.
    • Duration: 5 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB choir and semi-chorus (trebles OR children's choir OR soloist)
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    Using words from Psalm 139 and commissioned by the choir of St James’ Church, Louth, this work was premiered on the 500th anniversary since the spire was completed, the tallest medieval parish church spire in England.
    • Duration: 30 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB, and semi-chorus of trebles
    • Instrumentation: String orchestra
    The Land was written for the South Holland Choral Project in Lincolnshire and was commissioned by the South Holland District Council to celebrate the changing seasons in that area.
    • Duration: 5 minutes
    • Chorus: SSAA
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    A bright, festive arrangement of the well-known Dutch carol written for the girls of the Charterhouse Choir. Each verse provides variation and contrast with the intricate, playful organ underpinning the soprano and alto textures.
  • Duration: 4 minutes Soloist(s): Soprano Instrumentation: Piano
    The piano depicts the gentle flowing of the fountain which the poet, Ben Johnson (1572-1637) sees as a mirroring of grief and sorrow.  The solo soprano voice conveys the deeper nuances of the text with broken, 'sighing' phrases and, at points of climax, with more expansive sweeping statements.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB unaccompanied
    The call of Christ to "Come To Me" is represented by gentle vocal phrases and an overall sense of yearning.  There is an atmosphere of weightlessness and calm to reflect the sentiment that Christ’s yoke is easy and his burden is light.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Instrumentation: woodwind, horns, timpani, percussion, harp, guitar and strings
    This piece which features on Patrick's album Fair Albion uses the orchestra to convey a panoramic pastoral scene.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Piano
    A lilting melody is introduced in the piano against which the independent choral parts call for love to pervade all that we do.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Chorus: Divided soprano voices
    • Instrumentation: Piano
    A Christmas Carol with words by Andrew Hawes for divided soprano voices and piano written for Norwich High School for Girls.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Chorus: Divided soprano voices
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    A Christmas Carol with words by Andrew Hawes for divided soprano voices and organ written for the Chapel Choir of Gresham's, Norfolk.
    • Chorus: Celebrant, Congregation, and optional SATB choir
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    A setting of the Eucharist (Common Worship, Order One) for celebrant, congregation, organ and optional SATB choir.
    • Duration: 75 minutes
    • Chorus: Children's Voices
    • Orchestration: Piano OR Chamber Orchestra (eleven players: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Percussion, Piano, Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello, Double Bass)
    A children's opera that reimagines the story of Robin Hood, exploring what happens when Robin is unable to save the day and the forest community must look to itself for solutions.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB unaccompanied
    A mystical setting of the opening words of St John's Gospel.  Perfect as an anthem at any time of the year but especially at Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve when this reading is proclaimed.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Soloist(s): Soprano
    • Instrumentation: Piano
    This song takes the first two verses and last two verses from Samuel Crossman's (1624-83) marvellous poem.  There is no reference to the well-known hymn tune; instead the listener is taken through a whole range of emotions as the piano supports the soprano voice with warm, sonorous textures.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Soloist(s): Soprano
    • Instrumentation: Piano OR String quartet, Harp / Piano
    The eighth piece from the song-cycle The Call written in Autumn 1997 in the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana and uses poems which seemed to echo the public’s need for answers to eternal questions.  This piece for soprano and piano is a setting of the beautiful poem by Christina Rossetti describing the sadness and deep pain of the poet for a deceased lover.
    • Chorus: Celebrant, Congregation, and optional SATB choir
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    A setting of the Eucharist (Common Worship, Order One) for celebrant, congregation, organ and optional SATB choir.
    • Duration: 21 minutes
    • Soloist: Clarinet
    • Instrumentation: Strings, Harp
    Patrick Hawes's Clarinet Concerto [is] musically nourishing...a fine work....gorgeous..." GRAMOPHONE (Aug 2016) A three-movement work for clarinet, strings and harp written especially for clarinetist Emma Johnson.  The three contrasting movements are rooted in the English pastoral tradition but with a definite 21st-century gloss.  Melodic, fresh and immediately appealing.
    • Duration: 61 minutes
    • Soloist(s): Soprano & Tenor
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Full Orchestra
    The Great War Symphony is a poignant and moving work for choirs, soloists and orchestra written to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.  It mourns the dead, salutes their sacrifice and evokes a vision of England and her allies that inspired so much of the art and music of that time.
    • Duration: 2 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Piano OR Organ
    A setting of the well-known phrase from Psalm 46 "Be still, and know that I am God" for choir and piano.
  • A carol imbued with both a sense of longing and the hope that a healing light may be born to comfort mankind. Written specially for The Self-Isolation Choir's Virtual Christmas Concert 2020.
    • Duration: 2 minutes
    • Soloist(s): Soprano
    • Chorus: SATB choir
    • Instrumentation: Orchestra or Piano
    The Last Post originally appeared as part of the fourth and final movement of The Great War Symphony written to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, and fuses the words of the iconic poem by Laurence Binyon with the bugle (or trumpet) playing the Last Post.
    • Duration: 2 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB unaccompanied
    Peace Beyond Thought uses simple unison singing through to rich and warm harmonic textures, with restrained dynamics throughout.
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