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Pastorale for Flute, Clarinet and Piano

An original score dated February 1954 (see the last page) is available. It is in Peter Cork's handwriting using a fountain pen with blue-black ink on yellowing paper stapled together to form a book. The cover of the book is, itself, covered with brown paper. The score has a number of corrections in red ball-point pen and runs to seven sides of manuscript paper.

You may download a PDF copy of the score by a left click on the link below.

score of Pastorale for Flute, Clarinet and Piano

  A Pastoral Suite for Small Orchestra

Stored alongside the Pastorale were the instrumental parts for a suite with a similar name. These parts were undated but were written on yellowing manuscript paper using blue-black ink suggesting a similar period. There are parts for a First and Second Flute and for a First Clarinet in A and a Clarinet in B flat.

You may download a PDF copy of page one of the First Flute part by a left click on the link below.


page one of the First Flute part - Prelude



The discovery of a concert programme and a reel-to-reel monophonic tape recording of that concert gives a date of 1956 to 'A Pastoral Suite for Small Orchestra'.

The Pastoral Suite is in three movements:

1 Prelude
2 Air
3 Dance.

'A Concert of Music by Peter Cork' was given at Walsingham School on Friday, 15th July 1977 at 7:30pm.

The Solo Instrumental Players listed that evening were:

Eunice Chen, Jenny Fargie and Dorothy Wassall (violins), Sally Winter (viola), Jacqueline Hodges and Beryl Parkinson ('cellos), Jennifer Davis (double bass), Naomi Dixon and Ann Goodchild (clarinets), Janet Goodair (bassoon), Nigel Jones (percussion).
  You may listen to 'A Pastoral Suite for Small Orchestra' or its individual movements by left clicking the play symbol on the links below.

A Pastoral Suite for Small Orchestra



1 Prelude


2 Air


3 Dance




editor: Peter J. Cosker Peter T. Cork updated: 31/12/2014