The flamboyant Carillon Festivo was written in 1999 as a recessional voluntary for the wedding of my publisher Andrew Skirrow and his wife, Lucy. Carillon da Festa was written two years later in celebration of a special birthdayfor my good friend Deborah Venner and is based on the tune 'Happy Birthday'.

A recording of Two Festive Carillons is available on the Herald label (released Autumn 2012) under the title Moody Moves (HAVPCD380) played on theorgan of Brentwood Cathedral by Stuart Nichols...