"It was absolutely wonderful: the sincerity with which you played the first movement of the Beethoven - and the virtuosity with which you played the last!"
—  audience member

Principal recordings

2023 Francis Routh Music for Violoncello and Piano

Tom Pickles and I play Francis Routh's two sonatas for 'cello and piano, each of us also contributing a solo sonata
[Available on a Redcliffe Recordings CD from this page of the Francis Routh website]

2022 Serenade

I play organ arrangements of three pieces on this celebration of the work of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and also the Suite for Four Hands on One Pianoforte with Lynn Arnold
[Available on Albion Records CD from this page of the Ralph Vaughan Williams website]

2022 A London Symphony

William Walton's A London Symphony, Elizabeth Maconchy's Preludio, Fugato e Finale and Gerald Finzi's Eclogue, performed with Lynn Arnold
[Available on Albion Records CD from this page of the Ralph Vaughan Williams website]

2021 Works for Piano Duet

William Walton's Symphony No 1 and Crown Imperial and Ralph Vaughan Williams's Suite for Four Hands, performed with Lynn Arnold
[Available on Albion Records CD from this page of the Ralph Vaughan Williams website]

2021 Double Bass Classics

Works by Schubert, Mišek and Glière, performed with Tony Alcock
[Available on CD from Tony Alcock's website]

2019 Magnifical and Mighty

I accompany works by Edward Elgar and Benjamin Britten, sung by the Choir of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
[Available on CD from Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon]

2017 Subito

Virtuoso music for violin and piano, performed with Julia Hwang.
Review by MusicWeb International
[Available on CD from Signum Classics]

2016 The Romantic Flute

Anne Allen and I perform a disc of relaxing popular flute repertoire, including a couple of my own compositions (Dance and Love Song)
[Available on CD from Birnam CDs or by emailing Anne via her website; and on CD or as a download from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and iTunes; and on Spotify]

2014 Spire - Live in Bergen

Highlights from the Spire concert in November 2013, in Bergen, Norway.  Please note that this recording is available only as a cassette
[Available from the Touch Shop]

2014 The Story Tenor

Twenty-four songs by the English composer Gerald Finzi, recorded in 2013 with John Beaumont
[Available from the Touch Shop and iTunes]

2011 On Christmas Night 2

A selection of popular Christmas carols, performed with Armonico Consort under their director Christopher Monks
[Available from Armonico Consort]

2010 24 Preludes for Piano - The Well Tempered Pianist

A CD release of Charles's world premiere recording of Francis Routh's major work 24 Preludes for Piano, recorded under the composer's supervision.  As a free taster, four of the preludes can be played at the Redcliffe Recordings website
[Redcliffe Recordings: RR021 - available from Francis Routh's website]

2008 Spire Live - Fundamentalis

A 2 LP (only) set of live tracks recorded at Spire events in 2005 and 2006: Charles plays Giacinto Scelsi's mesmeric In Nomine Lucis, recorded at a concert in Brussels Cathedral in May 2006 (with other performances by Marcus Davidson, B J Nilsen, Philip Jeck and Christian Fennesz)
[Touch: Tone 28 - available from TouchShop]

2005 Spire Live in Geneva Cathedral St Pierre

A 2 CD set of the first concert of the Spire organ and electronics project: Charles plays four organ solo pieces by Marcus Davidson, André Jolivet and Liana Alexandra (with other performances by Marcus Davidson, B J Nilsen, Philip Jeck and Christian Fennesz).
Charles has written some notes from his researches on performing Jolivet's Hymne a l'Univers here
[Touch: Tone 21 - available from TouchShop]

2004 Choral Music of Antón García Abril

With Coro Cervantes and London Symphony Orchestra Strings, conducted by Carlos Fernández Aransay, and recorded under the composer's supervision
[Available from Coro Cervantes Shop]

2003 Oratio: 20th Century Sacred Music from Spain & Latin America

Seventeen pieces of 20th century Spanish organ music and choral works, sung by Coro Cervantes, under the direction of Carlos Fernández Aransay
[Guild: GMCD 7266 - available from GuildMusic Shop]

2001 Great European Organs, No 65

Organ music by André Jolivet, Darius Milhaud and other French composers, played on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of La Madeleine, Paris.
Charles has written some notes from his researches on performing Jolivet's Hymne a l'Univers here, Cinq Interludes here and Mandala here
[Priory: PRCD 772 - available from Priory Records and TouchShop]

1994 Arnold Bax: Viola and Piano Music

Works for piano solo and for viola and piano (with Richard Crabtree)
[Olympia: OCD 454 - now deleted, but may be available through Amazon]

Compositions

2023 Swirls

For two alto saxophones
[Unpublished]

2016 Dance and Love Song on The Romantic Flute

Two of my compositions are included on Anne Allen's disc of popular flute repertoire
[Available on CD from Birnam CDs or by emailing Anne via her website; and on CD or as a download from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and iTunes; and on Spotify]

2006 Signs of the Zodiac

Fourteen pieces for flute and piano (intermediate standard:
grades 3 - 5).  Part of Schott's Elena Durán collection.  Includes CD
[ISBN 1-902455-36-3; ISMN M-2201-2460-0 - available from Schott Music]

1994-2007

Introits for the Church's Year
[Unpublished]

1985-1995

Various parody compositions for the Miles and Millner Show, many of them broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with repeats on BBC 7
[Unpublished]

Book

1989 The Organs and Organists of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick

Written while Assistant Director of Music to the Parish of Warwick, in collaboration with Alan Baker 
[pp. 56; inc photos & line drawings]
[Available from St Mary's Church; 21 Church St, Warwick CV34 4AB; 01926 403940]