Song of the Pyramid Orchid was written in 1990 and revised in 2015 for Bryn Lewis, then the principal harpist of the Philharmonia Orchestra, now the principal harpist of the London Symphony Orchestra and a Professor of Harp at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

It was the sixteenth to be composed in a projected series of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Britain and Ireland, of which there are currently thirty-one written, scored for various instrumental and orchestra...