where known) are: Midsummer Song (1921), Gavotte in G minor (1927), The Angelus (1927), Chansonette (1928), An Old Time Dance (1928), Le Soir (1928), Five Little Solos for Cello and Piano (1928), Romance in A (1929), Valse Capricieuse (1933), An Old World Love Song (1933), Cradle Song (1939), Humoresque Rumbaesque (1939), Petite Valse Lyrique (1950), Nocturne (1951), Pavane, The Vesper Bell (from an old Breton folk tune) and Five Little Songs. His cello and piano arrangements are of music by J. S. Bach and Thomas Arne. He also arranged the following traditional folk tunes: Six Old English Airs (1921), Six Old Irish Airs (1923), Eight Welsh Melodies (1925) and a set of Scottish folk tunes originally arranged for solo piano by his father Herbert Sharpe. His ballad songs (with dates and lyricists where known) are: "The year's at the Spring" (Robert Browning 1927), "The Fairy Fiddler" (N. Hopper arranged 1927), "Lullaby Song" (Gabriel Setoun 1933), "Love thy Mother", "Little One. Prayer." (Thomas Hood 1933), "It was the Time of Roses" (1933) and "In Praise of Ale" (1934). His light orchestral pieces are: Suite Pompadour (orchestrated by Hubert Bath 1934) and Holyrood Suite (1935). Recordings Sharpe recorded for HMV starting in 1915 with a number of short pieces for solo cello, for example The Broken Melody by Van Biene (1915), Le Cygne by Camille Saint-Saëns (1916), Roses of Picardy by Haydn Wood (1918) and Salut d'Amour by Edward Elgar (1919). Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he recorded with his ensembles, for example the Virtuoso Quartet recorded Beethoven's quartets in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 (in 1924), C major Op. 59 No. 3 and E-flat major Op. 127. They also recorded the Debussy quartet in G minor Op. 10, the Cesar Franck quartet in D major M.9, the Tchaikovsky No.1 in D major Op. 11 (in 1924) and the Ravel in F major (in 1929). Death He died in Steyning, Sussex, England, UK in 1978 aged 87. References and notes 1891 births 1978 deaths English classical cellists British music educators People from Maida Vale Associates of the Royal College of Music Academics of the Royal Academy of Music Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music 20th-century English composers Musicians from London 20th-century cellists