Catalogue of Compositions
Phillip’s music is strongly influenced by his native Lake District and by history. His main musical influences are found in continuing and reconciling a pastoral British tradition.
![Preces and Responses [set 1] (2009, rev. 2025)](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4be93058d7396dafa702d0/1601504143196-Y4K92BBFAUR4OBQGV1DK/image-asset.jpeg)
Preces and Responses [set 1] (2009, rev. 2025)
My setting of the Preces and Responses is a simple, thematic affair with the opening material setting the tone for the whole work.
O salutaris Hostia (2008)
The text of O salutaris Hostia has always appealed to me, with particularly good settings by an anonymous Renaissance composer and by Herbert Howells springing to mind.
O magnum mysterium (2005, rev. 2025)
I had long been attracted to these words, maybe due to them dealing with the mystery and majesty of the birth of Christ, rather then the more run-of-the-mill fayre found at Christmastime.
