Midsomer Sketches is a suite for brass quintet which develops some of the themes that were written for the television series Midsomer Murders. The first movement is a reworking of the title music of the television programmes.

Midsomer Morning, which is in 5/8 time was used in an episode set in Cambridge; Midsomer Evening was, in its original version called Agnus Dei and was sung by Catherine Bott. This was a sly reference to one of the characters called Agnes Grey. ("Enough of the jokes Jim. ...