Edition Wilhelm Hansen have published Fred Thomas’ arrangements of J.S. Bach’s Chorale Preludes. Buy them here.

Spartan Press have publushed two volumes of Fred Thomas’s transcription of Bach fugues for string quartet. Buy them here.

To buy other scores please write to Fred Thomas here.

“The Fred Thomas Trio captures the imagination of the listener with hypnotic soundscapes, whilst challenging boundaries and traditional roles of the instruments within the genres of improvised music and contemporary composition. Most importantly though, it’s beautiful music.” – Gerard Presencer
CATALOGUE OF WORKS

 

 

INSTRUMENTAL PIECES

Taking A Nap, I Pound The Rice

Tapestries (with Bittersuite)

Country Song
Y Tu Mama También
Femyang
Superslyick
Buenos Aires
Canción (sumergida) para mi Abuela
Out Through an Earhole
Miasma
Canon
Beet-Twist Beatrice
Inspector Clouseau
Para Pussy
For Al
The Sick Rose
Feelings of Sea Sickness
It’s Time

 

SONGS
A Dream (W. Blake)
The Little Boy Lost (W. Blake)
The Fly (W. Blake)
The Fly II (W. Blake)
A Cradle Song (W. Blake)
On Another’s Sorrow (W. Blake)
The Wild Flower’s Song (W. Blake)
I laid me Down Upon a Bank (W. Blake)
How Sweet I Roam’d (W. Blake)
The Smile (W. Blake)
London (W. Blake)
The Human Abstract
Love to Faults is Always Blind (W. Blake)
Eternity (W. Blake)
The Birds (W. Blake)
Twilight (J. Joyce)
The Water’s Monotone (J. Joyce)
Lover’s Tale (J. Joyce)
Gentle Lady (J. Joyce)
He is a Stranger to me Now (J. Joyce)
Memories (J. Joyce)
Ecce Puer (J. Joyce)
O Mistress Mine (W. Shakespeare)
Take, O Take Those Lips Away (W. Shakespeare)

I Hid My Love (John Clare)
First Love (J. Clare)
The Secret (J. Clare)
There is a Lady Sweet and Kind (Thomas Ford)
Rest, Sweet Nymphs (Francis Pilkington)
I’ll Walk Beside You (Edward Lockton)
Tara’s Halls (Thomas Moore)
Ask Me no More (Thomas Carew)
Early One Morning (Anon)
All night by the Rose (Anon)
To Mary (J. Clare)
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening (R. Frost)
Prithee, Why so Pale? (Sir John Suckling)
Fall, Leaves, Fall (Emily Bronte)
Winter (W. de la Mare)
Mother, I Cannot mind my Wheel (Walter Savage Landor)
The Night Wind (Emily Bronte)

Sagan
The Host
Not the Man
I Love Your Money
Cry Baby
People Like Us
Can’t Help It
10,000 Years From Now
Take This Sorrow
The Lovely Moon

 

ARRANGEMENTS

 

 

Richard Wagner

Parsifal Prelude

Bells (Parsifal)

Flower Maiden’s Song (Parsifal)

Forest Murmuring (Die Meistersinger)

Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger)

Johannistag (Die Meistersinger)

Journey Over the Mountain (Siegfried)

Klingsor (Parsifal)

Lausch (Tristan und Isolde)

Mime’s Complaint (Siegfried)

Pilgrim’s Chorus (Tannhäuser)

Lohengrin Prelude

Wedding March (Lohengrin)

Siegfried Prelude

Die Walküre Prelude

Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)

Sailor’s Song (Tristan und Isolde)

The Night Watchman’s Song (Die Meistersinger)

The Shepherd’s Lament (Tristan und Isolde)

Prelude to Act III (Tristan und Isolde)

Fafner the Giant (Siegfried)

Walter’s Song (Die Meistersinger)

Kundry’s Aria (Parsifal)

Beckmesser’s Song (Die Meistersinger)

 

 

The Magic Lantern
Holding Hands

Masks

Harvest Moon

From my Window
From Way Up Here
Gotta Get Paid
Guilty Hearts
Laura’s Song
Patriots
Somebody Told Me
Swim
The Bridge
Water Rising
Canadian Folk Son
Shine a Light On
Romeo and Juliet
I Don’t Want to be Found
Karachi
Winter
Bristol
Seraphim

 

J.S. Bach Fugues transcribed for String Quartet

BWV 532

BWV 577

BWV 540

BWV 551

BWV 555

BWV 566

BWV 557

BWV 541

BWV 535

 

Bach Cello Suites transcribed for Tenor Banjo

No. 1 BWV 1007

No. 3 BWV 1009

 

Bach Chorale Preludes transcribed for Piano Trio

Ach bleib’ bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 649
Ach Herr, mich armen Sunder BWV 742
Alle Menschen mussen sterben BWV 643
Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Her BWV 711
Auf meinen lieben Gott BWV 755 alio modo
Christe, du Lamm Gottes BWV 600
Christum wir sollen loben schon BWV 611
Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund BWV 621
Das alte Jahr vergangen ist  BWV 614
Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich BWV 605
Durch Adam’s Fall ist ganz verderbt BWV 637
Erbarm’ dich mein, o Herre Gott BWV 721
Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl BWV deest
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ BWV 604
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ BWV 723
Gott, durch deine Gute BWV 600
Herr Christ, der ein’ge Gottes-Sohn BWV 601
Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn BWV Anh. 55
Herzlich Tut mich Verlangen BWV 727
Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 639
In Dulci Jubilo BWV 608
Jesu, meine Freude BWV 610

Jesus Christus unser Heiland BWV 688
Komm, Gott, Schopfer, heiliger Geist BWV 667
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV 633
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV 731
Meine Seele erhebt den Herren BWV 648
Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein BWV 734a
Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland BWV 659
Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland BWV 599
O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig BWV 618
O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sunde gross BWV 622
Partita BWV Ang. II 78 – Wenn wir in höchsten Noten sein – var. VI
Partita BWV Ang. II 78 – Wenn wir in höchsten Noten sein – var. IV
Parita diverse sopra il Corale, BWV 767 – O Gott, fu frommer Gott
Pedal- Exercitium BWV 598
Puer natus in Bethlehem BWV 603
Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 75. Ahn.III 172

Vor Deinen Thron Tret Ich Hiermit  BWV 668
Wen nur den lieben Gott lasst walten BWV 691
Wenn wir in hochsten Nothe sein BWV 641

 

Chantilly Codex
Adieu vous di, tres doulce compaynie – Anonymous
A l’arme, A l’arme – Grimace
Amans, ames secretement – Baude Cordier
Armes, Amours /O Flour Des Flours – F. Andrieu
Bell, Bonne, Sage – Baude Cordier
De Fortune Me Doi Pleindre – Machaut
En attendant esperance – Jacob de Senleches
En attendant souffrir – Johannes Galiot
En Nul Estate – Goscalch
En seumeillant – Trebor
Fuions De Ci – Jacob De Senleches
Fumeux fume par fumée – Solage
Ha, Fortune – Anonymous
He, tres doulz roussignol ioly – Borlet
La harpe de mellodie – J. Senleches
Le mont Aön de Trace – Anonymous
Le ray au soleyl – Solage
Ma douce amour, je me doy ben complaindre – de Haspre
Medée Fu en amer veritable – Anonymous
O bonne douce Franse – Anonymous
Or voit tout en aventure – Guido
Par maintes foys – Johannes Vaillant
Passerose De Beaute – Tebor
Pluseurs Gens Voy – Solage
Puisque Je Sui Fumeux – Hasprois
Quant Joyne Cuer – Trebor
S’aincy estoit – Solage
Se Alixandre Et Hector fussent en vie –  Trebor
Se Dedalus an sa gaye mestrie – Pierre Taillander
Se Galaas et le puissant Artus- Johannes Cuvelier
Se July Cesar – Trebor
Se Zephirus/Se Jupiter – Grimace
Pictagoras, Jabol et Orpheus – Suzoy
Tout par compas – Baude Cordier
Ung lion say – Anonymous

 

 

Mendelssohn

Hebrides Overture

 

Egberto Gismonti

Karate

 

Mor Karbasi
Beso de Vida
Kantiga de Fuego
La Hija de la Primavera
Morenica Sos
Shecharhoret
Volveremos
Arvoles
Cuando Vuelvas
Ay Ke Buena
Nu Bello Cardillo
Como el Pasharo
Conde Olinos
Ya se Van los Pastores
Halil
El Pastor
Estrella Brillante
Judia
La Blanca Paloma
La Galana y el Mar
La Galliarda
La Kantiga
La Pluma
Mi Niña me Trajo la Mar
Niña
Sol la Sadika
Tuve un Anhelo
Un Anio Hay
Yasmin

 

Tangos
Villeguita
Milonga sin Palabras
Ensueños
Asi se Baila el Tango
Danzarin
Mi Dolor
A Evaristo Carriego
Bahia Blanca
Preparense
Tanguera
Yunta de Oro
Zum
Cité Tango
Milonga del Angel
La Cumparsita

El Dia Que me Quieras

 

Spiriutals
Call That A Brother
Deep River
Danny Boy
Go Down Moses
It’s Me, O Lord
Gonna Walk All Over God’s Heaven
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
The Battle of Jericho
Wayfaring Stranger
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Waterboy

 

The Memory Band

O Willow Waly
The Bold Grenadier
Aileen Duinn
Face of a Country
Tell me who you Love
As I Walked Over Salisbury Plain
I See Cuckoo
On Dancing Hill
The Highest Song in the Sky
The Wearing of the Horns
What Blood is This
Where the River Meets the Sea
When I was on Horseback

 

Random
Durations II (Morton Feldman)
Tre Fontane (anon)
Learnt From Love (Barnaby Keen)
Someone Else (Barnaby Keen)
Cucurrucucu
Piensa en Mi
Gua
Dream (John Cage)/Instrumental Lament (Hildegard von Bingen)