Systematic Catalogue of Music by Elisabeth Lutyens

1. Vocal Music

1.1 Opera and Stage

The Birthday of the Infanta, ballet in 1 act for instrumental ensemble, c.1931
Libretto: after Oscar Wilde
London 4 December 1932, Camargo Society Orchestra (cond. Constant Lambert)

King Midas, surrealist ballet in 8 episodes, 1939
Libretto: Tony del Renzio
London 6 December 1939, Les ballets trois arts, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
Chester (arr. for piano)

The Pit, dramatic scene for tenor, bass, women’s chorus and chamber orchestra, op. 14, 1947
Libretto: W. R. Rodgers
Commissioned by and dedicated to William Walton
Concertant: London 18 May 1947 (London Contemporary Music Centre Concert), Parry Jones, Norman Allin, Dorian Singers, Philharmonia Orchestra (cond. Edward Clark)
Scenic: Palermo 24 April 1949 (ISCM Festival), Wladimir Lozzi, Mario Tommasini (cond. Ettore Gracis)
15’
Lengnick/Mills

Rhadamanthus, ballet, 1948

Infidelio, chamber opera in 7 scenes for soprano, tenor and 7 instruments, op. 29, 1954
Libretto: Elisabeth Lutyens
London 17 April 1973, Alexandra Browning, John Winfield, New Opera Company (cond. Leon Lovett)
25’
Olivan/UYMP [withdrawn from Schott]

(Ballet for Six Dancers, for vocal quartet, clarinet, trumpet, piano, percussion, op. 50, 1962
Commissioned by Peggy Harper, withdrawn)

The Numbered, opera in a prologue and 2 acts, op. 63, 1965–1967
Libretto: Minos Volanakis after Elias Canetti, Die Befristeten (trans. Carol Stewart)
Dedicated to the memory of Edward Clark
150’
Olivan/UYMP

Time Off? Not a Ghost of a Chance!, charade in 4 scenes with 3 interruptions, for baritone, speaker/actor, vocal quartet, 2 mixed choruses and ensemble, op. 68, 1967–1968
Libretto: Elisabeth Lutyens
London, 1 March 1972 (Sadler’s Wells), John Gibbs, Barry Foster, Gillian Knight, Kevin Miller, New Opera Company Chorus and Orchestra (cond. Leon Lovett)
75’
Olivan/UYMP

Isis and Osiris, lyric drama in a prologue and 3 acts, for 8 voices and small orchestra, op. 74, 1969–1970
Libretto: Elisabeth Lutyens after Plutarch, Moralia V, Egyptian Book of the Dead
MS dedication ‘For Aki’
London 26 November 1976 (in association with the Greater London Arts Association and London Weekend Television), Anna Bernadin, Michael Lewis, Omar Ebrahim, Morley Musica Viva Ensemble (cond. Michael Graubart)
120’
Olivan/UYMP

The Linnet from the Leaf, music theatre for 5 singers and 2 instrumental ensembles, op. 89, 1972
Libretto: Elisabeth Lutyens
BBC commission
BBC studio broadcast 11 November 1979
40’
Olivan/UYMP

The Waiting Game, 3 scenes for mezzo-soprano, baritone and small orchestra, op. 91, 1973
Libretto: Elisabeth Lutyens
40’
Olivan/UYMP

One and the Same, scena for soprano, speaker/actress, 2 female mimes, male mime, 2 instrumental ensembles, op. 97, 1973–1974
Libretto: Elisabeth Lutyens
Commissioned by the York Festival
York 21 June 1976, Vesuvius Ensemble, cond. Tony Halstead
27’
Olivan/UYMP

The Goldfish Bowl, ballad opera for soloists, chorus, orchestra, op. 102, 1975
Libretto: Elisabeth Lutyens, 1975
120’
Olivan/UYMP (vocal score)

Like a Window for 2 speakers/actors, flute, violoncello and drum, op. 109, 1976
Libretto: excerpts from the letters of Vincent van Gogh
Commissioned by ‘In Performance’/Arts Council
BBC 24 November 1977
25’
Olivan/UYMP

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1.2 Choral

Winter the Huntsman, for mixed chorus, horn, violoncello, trumpet and piano, 1932
Words: Osbert Sitwell
London 12 December 1932, Macnaghten-Lemare Concert

Three Salutes to the United Nations, op. 9; no. 3 for tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra, 1943
Words: John Milton
Dedicated to the future

Requiem for the Living for 4 soloists, mixed chorus and orchestra, op. 16, 1948
Words: Elisabeth Lutyens
Commissioned by and dedicated to Elspeth Grant [original dedication to Lady Emily Lutyens withdrawn]
London 30 September 1952 (BBC), Margaret Rees, Maud Baker, Emlyn Bebb, Stanley Riley, BBC Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra (cond. Raymond Agoult)
13’

Les bienfaits de la lune for soprano, baritone, chorus, harp, celesta, percussion and strings, [op. 24], 1952
Words: Charles Baudelaire
Dedicated to Constant Lambert

Motet (Excerpta Tractatus Logico-Philosophici) for mixed chorus a cappella, op. 27, 1953
Words: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Commissioned by and dedicated to William Glock for the 1954 Dartington Summer School
Dartington August 1954, London Chamber Singers (cond. Anthony Bernhard)
10’
Schott

De Amore, cantata for soprano, tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra, op. 39, 1957
Words: Geoffrey Chaucer
London 7 September 1973 (Promenade Concert), Jane Manning, Philip Langridge, BBC Singers, London Choral Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. Leon Lovett)
40’
Schott/UYMP

The Dong with the Luminous Nose for children’s chorus and instrumental ensemble, 1961
Words: Edward Lear

The Country of the Stars, part-song for mixed chorus a cappella, 1957/1963
Words: Boethius, De consolatione philosophie [sic], trans. Geoffrey Chaucer
London 20 March 1963, John Alldis Choir (cond. John Alldis)
8’30”
Novello, also in The Musical Times 104.1446 (Aug. 1963).

Encomion – ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’ for mixed chorus, brass and percussion, op. 54, 1963
Words: biblical (apocryph)
Commissioned by the Sandon Music Society
Liverpool 15 April 1964, Sandon Music Society, Singers Anonymous (cond. David Connolly)
7’
Schott

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, for male chorus a cappella, 1965
Words: biblical
Commissioned by Coventry Cathedral, dedicated to the Choir of Coventry Cathedral
8’
Schott
Revised in 1970 for mixed chorus and organ

The Hymn of Man, motet for male chorus a cappella, op. 61, 1965
Words: A. C. Swinburne
Commissioned by John Alldis
London 1970 (Kensington Music Club Concert), John Alldis Choir (cond. John Alldis)
10’
Schott
Revised in 1970 for mixed chorus and published as op. 61a (Olivan/UYMP)

Essence of Our Happinesses for tenor, chorus and orchestra, op. 69, 1968
Words: Abū Yasīd (trans. R. C. Zaehner), John Donne, Arthur Rimbaud
Commissioned for the BBC Proms
To Ursula [Vaughan Williams]
London 8 September 1970 (Promenade Concert and BBC broadcast), Richard Lewis, BBC Chorus and Symphony Orchestra (cond. Norman del Mar)
26’
Olivan/UYMP

The Tyme Doth Flete for chorus a cappella with optional Prelude and Postlude for 2 trumpets and 2 trombones, op. 70, 1968
Words: Petrarch and Ovid (trans. Thomas Wyatt)
Commissioned by Stephen Plaistow/BBC
London 11 November 1968 (BBC Invitation Concert), Thames Singers (cond. Louis Halsey)
10’
Olivan/UYMP

Verses of Love, part-song for mixed chorus a cappella, 1970
Words: Ben Jonson
6’
Novello, also in Musical Times 112.1541 (Jul. 1971)

Voice of Quiet Waters for mixed chorus and orchestra, op. 84, 1972
Words: William T. Palmer, William Wordsworth, Joseph Conrad
Commissioned by the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (Ernest Warburton and Hans Keller)
Huddersfield 14 April 1973
16’
Olivan/UYMP

Counting Your Steps for mixed chorus, 4 flutes and percussion, op. 85, 1972
Words: after poems of the pygmies of Gabon
BBC commission
Dedicated to ‘Amna and Khalda’
London 22 May 1972
16’
Olivan/UYMP

It Is the Hour for SSTB, op. 111a, 1976
Words: Lord Byron
Commissioned by the Yorkshire Derwent Trust/Arts Council
Malton 29 September 1976
5’30”
Olivan/UYMP

The Roots of the World, for 16 solo singers and cello obligato, op. 136, 1979
Words: W. B. Yeats
BBC 14 April 1988
14’
Olivan/UYMP

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1.3 Voice(s) with Orchestra or Ensemble

Sonnet: To Sleep, for contralto and small orchestra, 1929
Words: John Keats
London 1929, Patron’s Fund Concert, Royal College of Music

Five Songs for contralto and string quartet, 1929
Words: Emily Brontë, George Meredith, John Donne, Charles Beaudelaire, Victor Hugo
London 3 December 1931 (Macnaghten-Lemare Concert)
Arr. for contralto and piano, see 1.4

The Dying of Tanneguy de Bois, for tenor, 4 horns and string orchestra, 1934
Words: Austin Dobson
4 February 1935, Macnaghten-Lemare Concert

Four Songs for tenor and string quartet, 1937–1938
Words: Viscount Rochford, John Lyly, Frances Quarles et al.
Commissioned by Adolph Hallis, written for Ian Glennie
London 15 January 1938 (also performed at Braunwald International Festival, 21 July 1938)

Four French Songs for mezzo-soprano/soprano and string/chamber orchestra, op. 6, 1938–1939
Words: François Villon, Jean Antoine de Baif, Joachim du Bellay, anon.
Braunwald International Festival 21 July 1938, Oda Slobodskaya

O Saisons, ô châteaux!, cantata for soprano, mandolin, guitar, harp and string orchestra, op. 13, 1946
Words: Arthur Rimbaud
Commissioned by Gerald Cooper, dedicated to John Davenport
London 11 February 1947, Margaret Field-Hyde, Merritt String Orchestra (cond. Kathleen Merritt)
6’30”

Nativity for soprano and string orchestra (or organ), 1951
Words: W. R. Rodgers
Commissioned by the Riddick String Orchestra/Arts Council for the Festival of Britain
London 5 June 1951 (Festival of Britain Concert), Audrey Strange, Riddick String Orchestra (cond. Kathleen Riddick)
Novello

3 Songs and Incidental Music for Group Theatre’s ‘Homage to Dylan Thomas’ for soprano, flute and viola; or soprano and accordion or piano, 1953 (no. 3, ‘Paper and Sticks’, completed 1948)
Words: Dylan Thomas
London 30 January 1954
Olivan/UYMP

Quincunx for soprano, baritone and orchestra, op. 44, 1959–1960
Words: after Sir Thomas Browne, ‘The Garden of Cyrus’
Dedicated to Minos Volanakis
Cheltenham 12 July 1962 (Cheltenham Festival), Josephine Nendick, Joseph Ward, BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. Norman del Mar)
20’
Mills, now UYMP

Catena, cantata for soprano, tenor and 21 instrumentalists, op. 47, 1961
Words: var. incl. James Joyce, William Shakespeare, John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer, Horace Gregory, Dylan Thomas, Teresa Tanner, W. B. Yeats
Phoenix Trust Award commission from the BBC, dedicated to Luigi Dallapiccola
London 8 June 1965 (BBC Invitation Concert), Dorothy Dorow, Gerald English, members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
40’
Schott

The Valley of Hatsu-Se for soprano, flute, clarinet, piano and cello, op. 62, 1965
Words: var. incl. Nakatsukasa, Fujiwara No Okikaze, Emperor Sutoku, Yoshitada, Tsumori Kunimoto, Yakamochi, Princess Daihaku
Commissioned by William Glock for the 1965 Dartington Summer School of Music
Dartington 6 August 1965, Jane Manning, Vesuvius Ensemble
10’
Olivan

Akapotik Rose for soprano and 7 instrumentalists, op. 64, 1966
Words: Eduardo Paolozzi
Commissioned by the Arts Council for the 1966 Dartington Summer School of Music, dedicated to Virgil Thomson
Dartington 8 August 1966, Jane Manning, Vesuvius Ensemble
18’
Olivan/UYMP

And Suddenly It’s Evening for tenor and 11 instruments, op. 66, 1966
Words: Salvatore Quasimodo (trans. Jack Bevan)
Commissioned by the BBC and Greater London Council for the first BBC chamber music concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall
London 3 March 1967, BBC Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble (cond. H. Handt)
24’
Schott

A Phoenix for soprano, clarinet, violin and piano, op. 71, 1968
Words: Ovid (trans. A. Goulding)
Commissioned by Jane Manning
6’
Olivan/UYMP
Arr. for soprano and piano as op. 71a in 1968
London (BBC) 6 October 1969, Jane Manning, Susan Bradshaw
Olivan/UYMP

Anerca for speaker/actress, 10 guitars and percussion, op. 77, 1970
Words: ‘Eskimo Poems’ (ed. Edmund Carpenter, trans. Knud Rasmussen)
Commissioned by The Omega Players
London, 4 May 1971, Freda Dowie, Omega Ensemble (cond. Gilbert Biberian)
9’
Olivan/UYMP

Vision of Youth for soprano, 3 clarinets, piano and percussion, op. 79, 1970
Words: Joseph Conrad
Commissioned by the Matrix Ensemble, dedicated to Harold Lang
London 13 November 1972
23’
Olivan/UYMP

Islands for soprano, tenor, narrator and 8 instrumentalists, op. 80, 1971
Words: Sophokles (trans Minos Volanakis), P. B. Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, François Rabelais (trans. T. Urquhart and P.A. Motteux)
Commissioned by the I.C.A. Music Section for the 1971 ISCM Festival/Gulbenkian Foundation
London 07 June 1971 (ISCM Festival)
25’
Olivan/UYMP

The Tears of Night for counter-tenor, 6 sopranos and 3 instrumental quintets consisting of medieval and modern instruments, op. 82, 1971
Words: anon. 14th century poems, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Dylan Thomas
Commissioned by the London Sinfonietta/Arts Council
London 3 March 1972
12’30”
Olivan/UYMP

Dirge for the Proud World for soprano, counter-tenor, harpsichord and violoncello, op. 83, 1971
Words: Thomas Merton
Commissioned by the Five Centuries Ensemble
Paris 13 December 1971
8’30”
Olivan/UYMP

Requiescat (In memoriam Igor Stravinsky 1971) for soprano and string trio; or mezzo-soprano, 2 clarinets and bass clarinet, 1971
Words: William Blake
BBC 15 August 1971
5’
Olivan (first published in Tempo Sept. 1971)

Chimes and Cantos for baritone and 11 instruments, op. 86, 1972
Words: Robert Herrick
Commissioned by the Globe Playhouse Trust, dedicated to ‘Susan’
London 23 April 1972
7’
Olivan/UYMP

Laudi for soprano, 3 clarinets, piano, percussion, op. 96, 1973
Words: Elisabeth Lutyens
Commissioned by the Matrix Ensemble/Arts Council, dedicated to Anne Macnaghten
Nottingham 11 November 1974
16’
Olivan/UYMP

Concert Aria for female voice and orchestra, op. 112, 1976
Words: unknown
London 12 July 1981 (London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox)
12’
Olivan/UYMP

Cascando for contralto, violin and string orchestra, op. 117, 1977
Words: Samuel Beckett
Commissioned by Katholieke Radio Omroep/Frans van Rossum
Hilversum 4 December 1979
10’
Olivan/UYMP

Chorale Prelude and Paraphrase for tenor, string quintet, piano and percussion, op. 123, 1977
Words: John Keats
‘For Stravinsky’
16‘
Olivan/UYMP

Elegy of the Flowers for tenor and 3 instrumental ensembles, op. 127, 1978
Words: C. Cavafy, trans. R. Devlen
Commissioned by and written for Philip Langridge/Arts Council
London 26 January 1980
13’
Olivan/UYMP

Echoi for mezzosoprano and orchestra, op. 129, 1979
Words: Thomas Merton
BBC 1 July 1980
13’
Olivan/UYMP

Cantata for soprano and instrumental ensemble, op. 130, 1979
Words: Ursula Vaughan Williams
16’
Olivan/UYMP

Cantata, op. 134, for soprano, contralto, baritone, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, celesta and percussion, 1979
Words: Charles Baudelaire
Dedicated to Robert Saxton
13’
Olivan/UYMP

Echoes for contralto and instrumental ensemble, op. 138, 1979
Words: Hiromi Sudo
Bracknell 28 June 1981
11’
Olivan

Dialogo, Concert Aria for soprano and chamber orchestra, op. 142, 1980
Words: Salvatore Quasimodo (identical text to Dialogo for tenor and lute, see 1.4)
Commissioned by the City of London Sinfonia/Arts Council
Dedicated to Richard Hickox
Cheltenham, Cheltenham Festival, 12 July 1981
13’
Olivan

Mine Eyes, My Bread, My Spade for baritone and string quartet, op. 143, 1980
Words: Teresa Tanner
Commissioned by Ian Caddy/Arts Council
London 23 July 1981
13’
Olivan

Fleur du Silence for tenor and 7 instruments, op. 150, 1980
Words: Remy de Gourment
Commissioned by Lontano, written for Philip Langridge
London, Round House Prom, 2 August 1981
14’
Olivan

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1.4 Solo Voice(s) a Cappella or with One Instrument

Five songs for contralto and piano, 1929
Words: Emily Brontë, George Meredith, John Donne, Charles Beaudelaire, Victor Hugo
London 3 December 1931 (Macnaghten-Lemare Concert)
Arr. for contralto and string quartet see 1.3

Four Songs for tenor and piano, 1933–1934
Words: Emily Brontë, D. H. Lawrence, William Shakespeare
Written for Ian Glennie
London 21 January 1935, Lemare Concert

Six Songs for tenor/soprano and piano, 1934–1936
Words: A. E. Housman, Emily Brontë, Sappho (trans. W. S. Landor), anon.
[1] Newcastle 19 September 1967; [2, 3, 4, 5, 6] London 8 February 1938

Bring, In This Timeless Grave to Throw for female voice and piano, 1936
Words: A. E. Housman

Two Songs by W. H. Auden for soprano/baritone and piano, 1942
Words: W. H. Auden
London 17 November 1945, Hedli Anderson, Norman Franklin
Olivan/UYMP

Rondeau for female voice and piano, 1945
Words: Christine de Pisan

Nine Songs for mezzosoprano and piano [= ‘Stevie Smith Songs’], 1948/1953
Words: Stevie Smith
1. ‘The Actress’, 2. ‘The Film Star’, 3. ‘Pad-Pad’, 4. ‘Progression’, 5. ‘The Songster’, 6. ‘The Repentance of Lady T.’, 7. ‘Ceux qui luttent’, 8. ‘Lady “Rogue” Singleton’, 9. ‘Up and Down’
Excerpts: London (BBC Third Programme) Hedli Anderson, Daphne Ibbott, 14 June 1949;
1st concert perf. Newcastle 19 September 1967, Jane Manning
Olivan/UYMP

My Holiday Week (Holiday Diary); children’s pieces for narrator and piano, 1949
Words: quotations from Elisabeth Lutyens’s British Transport and other documentary films

Carol for a Grandmother for solo voice, 1958
For the birth of Mary Links’s first grandchild
1’

In the Temple of a Bird’s Wing, songs for baritone and piano, op. 37, 1956–1957/1965
Words: Teresa Tanner
London 1966, Benjamin Luxon, Paul Hamburger
Olivan/UYMP

From A Prayer to my Daughter for solo soprano, 1967
Words: W. B. Yeats

Epithalamion for organ and optional soprano solo, 1968
Words: Edmund Spenser
Commissioned by Hilda Cross, dedicated to Hilda und Anthony Gaddum
7 June 1968, W. E. Whiteman, Noelle Barker
6’
Olivan/UYMP

The Ego-Centric for tenor or baritone and piano, 1968
Words: Oxford English Dictionary
Written for Dan Klein
Olivan/UYMP

A Tribute to Joe Links, for solo voice, 1968
‘To Joe with love and thanks’
2’

‘The Supplicant’ for bass and piano [from the opera Isis and Osiris op. 74], 1969
Commissioned by David Read/Gulbenkian Foundation
London (BBC) 6 October 1970, David Read, Susan Bradshaw
7’
Olivan/UYMP

‘Lament of Isis on the Death of Osiris’ for soprano solo [from the opera Isis and Osiris op. 74], 1969
Commissioned by and dedicated to Jane Manning
London (BBC) 6 October 1969?, Jane Manning
5’
Olivan/UYMP

In the Direction of the Beginning for bass and piano, op. 76, 1970
Words: Dylan Thomas
Commissioned by David Read/Gulbenkian Foundation
London (BBC) 8 September 1979, Ian Caddy, Jennifer Coultas
15’30”
Olivan/UYMP

Oda à la Tormenta for mezzo-soprano and piano op. 78, 1970
Words: Pablo Neruda
Commissioned by the Park Lane Group
London 15 January 1971
18’
Olivan/UYMP

Dialogo for tenor and lute, op. 88, 1972
Words: Salvatore Quasimodo (identical text to Dialogo, Concert Aria for soprano and chamber orchestra, op. 142, see 1.3)
Commissioned by Wynford Evans, Carl Shavitz/Arts Council
London 12 November 1972
14’
Olivan/UYMP

Roads, for 2 sopranos, counter-tenor, tenor, baritone and bass, op. 95, 1973
Words: Elisabeth Lutyens
Commissioned by the Purcell Consort of Voices/Arts Council
Cheltenham 6 July 1974
14’
Olivan/UYMP

Sloth – One of the Seven Deadly Sins for 2 counter-tenors, tenor, 2 baritones and bass, 1974
Words: Elisabeth Lutyens
Commissioned by the King’s Singers for the 1974 Cheltenham Festival
Cheltenham 8 July 1974
5’
Olivan/UYMP

The Hidden Power for two voices of equal range, 1974
Words: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Olivan/UYMP

Of the Snow for 3 voices of equal range, 1974
Words: Friedrich Martens
7’
Olivan/UYMP

Two D. H. Lawrence Songs for solo voice, 1974
Words: D. H. Lawrence
Olivan/UYMP

Nocturnes and Interludes for soprano and piano, op. 111, 1976
Words: Robert Burns, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Graves, Christopher Marlowe, Elisabeth Lutyens, John Milton, Henry Newbolt, George Peele
Commissioned by Poppy Holden and Wilfrid Mellers
18’
Olivan/UYMP

Variations: Winter Series – Spring Sowing for soprano and piano, op. 115, 1977
Words: Ursula Vaughan Williams
Commissioned by Jane Manning und Richard Rodney Bennett
40’ (revised version 16’30”)
Olivan/UYMP

By all These for soprano and guitar, op. 120, 1977
Words: Richard Jeffries
London 30 March 1981
Olivan/UYMP

She Tells her Love while Half Asleep for soprano, op. 131, 1979
Words: Robert Graves
BBC 18 January 1983
5’
Olivan/UYMP

That Sun for contralto and piano, op. 137, 1979
Words: Gustave Flaubert, trans. J. Cohen
Commissioned by and dedicated to Susan Tyrell/Arts Council
London 7 July 1980
11’
Olivan/UYMP

The Singing Birds for speaker/actress and viola, op. 151, 1980
Words: W. B. Yeats, reflection of Plato’s Phaedo provided by Mary Silverthorne
10’
Olivan/UYMP

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2. Instrumental Music

2.1 Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra

Three Pieces for Orchestra, op. 7, 1939
London 7 September 1940 (Promenade Concert), London Symphony Orchestra (cond. Henry Wood)
4’
Mills

Chamber Concerto no. 1 for 9 instruments (ob., cl., bsn., hn., tpt., tbn., vn., va., vc.), op. 8 no. 1, 1939–1940
To Edward Clark
London 11 June 1943
9’
Chester/Mills

Three Symphonic Preludes for orchestra, 1942
London 7 July 1946 (ISCM Festival), BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. Edward Clark)
12’
Lengnick/Mills

Three Salutes to the United Nations, op. 9; no. 1 for brass, strings, percussion; no. 2 for orchestra, 1941–1943
No.1 dedicated to the living; no.2 dedicated to the dead. Written for the North East Regional Orchestra (NERO)
Bedford (BBC) 15 February 1945
9/1: 5’

En Voyage, suite for orchestra, 1944
‘Overture, ‘Channel Crossing (La traversée)’, ‘Yvette (La dieppeoise)’, ‘Paris soir (City Lights)’
Commissioned by the BBC Light Music Festival
London 2 July 1960, BBC Light Music Festival, BBC Concert Orchestra, Vilem Tausky
12’
Mills

Petite Suite for orchestra, 1944
based on music for Jungle Mariners, see 3.1
London 26 August 1947 (Promenade Concert), BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. Adrian Boult)
9’
Lengnick

Suite Gauloise for chamber orchestra, 1944
Alt. arr. for wind octet or violin and piano
12’

Divertissement for small orchestra, 1944
10’
Chester/Mills

Proud City, overture, 1945
Newcastle 13 May 1959, Northumberland Orchestra
6’30”
Mills

Chamber Concerto no. 2, for clarinet, tenor saxophone, piano, string orchestra, op. 8 no. 2, 1945
Dedicated to Conrad [Clark]
London c.1945
10’
Chester/Mills

Chamber Concerto no. 3 for bassoon, percussion, strings, op. 8 no. 3 (= ‘Bassoon Concerto’), 1945
Written at the request of John Alexandra
London 18 January 1946, John Alexandra, Boyd Neel Orchestra (cond. Edward Clark)
10’
Chester/Mills

Chamber Concerto no. 4 for horn and chamber orchestra, op. 8 no. 4 (= ‘Horn Concerto’), 1946–1947
Written for and dedicated to Dennis Brain
Scheveningen, Amsterdam 12 June 1948 (ISCM Festival), Dennis Brain, Residentie Orchestra of The Hague (cond. Fritz Schurmann)
12’
Chester/Mills

Chamber Concerto no. 5 for string quartet and chamber orchestra, op. 8 no. 5, 1946–1947
London 22 April 1966 (BBC), London Sinfonia (cond. Kenneth V. Jones)
12’
Chester/Mills

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, op. 15, 1947
London 8 September 1950, Frederick Riddle, BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. John Hollingsworth)
15’
Lengnick (arr. viola and piano)/Mills

(Chamber Concerto no. 6 for oboe, harp and string orchestra, op. 8 no. 6, 1948
12’
Withdrawn)

Lyric Piece for violin and small orchestra, op. 23, 1951

Music for Orchestra [I], op. 31, 1955
London (BBC) 1 June 1961, BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. Bruno Maderna)
1st concert perf. 4 January 1962 (Music Viva Concert), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (cond. John Pritchard)
20’
Mills Music

Variation no. 4 of Diabelleries – Variations on ‘Where’s my Little Basket Gone?’, 1955 [composite work by various composers]
Commissioned for a Macnaghten-Lemare Concert
London 16 May 1955, Chamber Ensemble (cond. Iris Lemare)

Chorale for Orchestra ‘Hommage à Igor Stravinsky’, op. 36, 1956
Dedicated to Stravinsky on his recovery from an illness (with a quote from the score of Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 132 and the words ‘Thanks to Almighty God for recovery from illness of Master Stravinsky’)
London (BBC), 15 August 1971, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (cond. Elgar Howarth)
4’
Schott

Symphonies for solo piano, wind, harps and percussion, op. 46, 1961
Commissioned by William Glock for the BBC Proms 1961, dedicated to Katharina Wolpe
London 28 July 1961 (Promenade Concert), Katharina Wolpe, BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. John Carewe)
15’
Schott (reduction for two pianos)

Music for Orchestra II, op. 48, 1962
Dedicated to Edward Clark (changed to Clark’s memory when he died during composition)
Strasbourg September 1962, Strasbourg Radio Orchestra (cond. Charles Bruch)
1st UK perf. London 6 November 1975, New Philharmonia Orchestra (cond. Ole Schmidt)
11’
Schott

Music for Orchestra III, op. 56, 1964
Commissioned by the BBC for the 1964 Cheltenham Festival, dedicated to the memory of Lady Emily Lutyens
Cheltenham 17 July 1964, BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. Antal Dorati)
14’
Schott

Music for Piano and Orchestra, op. 59, 1964
Commissioned by Katharina Wolpe
10’
Schott

Novenaria for orchestra, op. 67 no. 1, 1967
Commissioned by the City of Leicester Arts Festival
Leicester 21 February 1969 (City of Leicester Arts Festival), BBC Training Orchestra (cond. Walter Susskind)
12’
Olivan/UYMP

The Winter of the World for 2 chamber orchestras with piano and percussion, op. 98, 1974
Commissioned by the English Bach Festival/Arts Council
London 5 May 1974
16’
Olivan/UYMP

Eos for small orchestra, op. 101, 1975
Commissioned by the Twentieth Century Ensemble of London
Nottingham 24 February 1975
10’
Olivan/UYMP

Rondel, op. 108, 1976
Commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Arts Council
Liverpool 25 April 1978
15’
Olivan/UYMP

6 Bagatelles for chamber orchestra, op. 113, 1976
Dedicated to John Horder
14’
Olivan/UYMP

Nox for piano and 2 chamber orchestras, op. 118, 1977
Commissioned by Roger Woodward/Arts Council
BBC 15 December 1983 (Memorial Concert, series Music in Our Time’)
14’
Olivan/UYMP

Tides for chamber orchestra, op. 124, 1978
13’
Olivan/UYMP

Wild Decembers for chamber orchestra, op. 149, 1980
Commissioned by the Milton Keynes February Festival
Bletchley 14 March 1982
12’
Olivan/UYMP

Music for Orchestra IV (‘Gone Like a Sea-Covered Stone’) for chamber orchestra w/o violins, op. 152, 1981
‘In happy memory of Oriel Glock’
BBC 15 December 1983 (memorial concert, series ‘Music in Our Time’)
10’
Olivan/UYMP

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2.2 Three or More Instruments

(String Quartet in one movement, c. 1927
London 14 December 1931, Macnaghten Quartet
Withdrawn)

Five-Part Fantasia for strings, 1937

(String Quartet no. 1, op. 5 no. 1, 1937–1938
Commissioned by Adolph Hallis
London 14 February 1939, Blech Quartet
22’
Withdrawn)

String Quartet no. 2, op. 5 no. 5, 1938
Dedicated to the Aeolian Quartet
Warsaw 17 April 1939 (ISCM Festival); 1st UK perf. London 1 May 1939
19’
Alfred Lengnick

String Trio, op. 5 no. 6, 1939
London 3 May 1945, London String Trio
8’
Mills

String Quartet no. 3, op. 18, 1949
London 23 January 1951 (London Contemporary Music Centre Concert), Vegh String Quartet
14’
Mills

Concertante for 5 players ( the same as the ‘Pierrot ensemble’), op. 22, 1950
Hampstead 11 February 1952 (Society for Twentieth Century Music Concert), London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, Peter Stadlen (cond. Francis Chagrin)
10’
Mills

(String Quartets nos. 4 and 5, op. 25 nos. 1 & 2, 1952, withdrawn)

String Quartet no. 6, op. 25 no. 3, 1952
Dedicated to Francis Bacon
London 6 December 1954 (Macnaghten Concert), Macnaghten String Quartet
8’
Mills

Four Nocturnes for violin, guitar and cello, op. 30, 1954–1955
Commissioned by Joyce Rathbone
London 10 December 1954 (Dartington Summer School Concert), Emmanuel Hurwitz, Julian Bream, Terence Weil
6’
Schott

Capriccii for 2 harps and percussion, op. 33, 1955
London 12 December 1955 (Macnaghten New Music Group Concert), Marie Korchinska et al.
8’
Schott

Six Tempi for 10 instruments, op. 42, 1957
London February 1959, Virtuoso Ensemble (cond. Walter Goehr)
12’
Mills

Wind Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, op. 45, 1960
Commissioned by, or written upon request of, the BBC for the Leonardo Wind Quintet, dedicated to Catherine Lacey
Awarded Phoenix Trust Award for Music
London 26 January 1961 (BBC Invitation Concert), Leonardo Wind Quintet
12’
Mills

String Quintet op. 51, 1963
Commissioned by Benjamin Sonnenberg for the Manchester New Music Forum
Manchester 12 May 1976 (Seventieth birthday concert), Roland Fudge, Peter Nutting, Avril Schepens, Elizabeth Brierley, Nigel Blomiley
21’
Schott

Wind Trio for flute, clarinet and bassoon, op. 52, 1963
Commissioned by the BBC, dedicated to Mona and Aglaya Mitropoulos
London 10 December 1963 (BBC Invitation Concert), Leonardo Ensemble
10’
Schott

Fantasie-Trio for flute, clarinet and piano, op. 55, 1963
Commissioned by and dedicated to the Chantry Ensemble
Dublin 2 December 1963 (Royal Dublin Society Concert), Chantry Ensemble
10’30”
Olivan/UYMP

String Trio, op. 57, 1964
London 5 December 1965 (I.C.A. Concert), Oromonte String Trio
10’
Schott

Scena for violin, violoncello and percussion, op. 58, 1964
Commissioned by and dedicated to David Martin und Florence Hooten
London 10 December 1965 (Macnaghten Concert), David Martin, Florence Hooton, Alan Cumberland
13’30”
Schott

Music for Wind (Divertissement for double wind quintet (arrangement of En Voyage), op. 60, 1964
Written for Portia Wind Ensemble
Liverpool 24 June 1965, Sandon Music Group (cond. David Connelly) or London 5 June 1965
11’
Schott

Music for Three, for flute, oboe and piano, op. 65, 1966
Commissioned by the Mabillon Trio
London c.1966, Mabillon Trio
Olivan/UYMP

The Fall of the Leafe for oboe and string quartet, 1966
Commissioned by the Exmoor and Minehead Festival
[Homage to Leon Goosens]
Exeter 27 July 1967 (Exeter and Minehead Festival), Leon Goosens, Dartington Quartet
8’
Schott

Horai for horn, violin and piano, op. 67 no. 4, 1968
Written for the Liverpool Horn Trio/BBC commission
Stoke-on-Trent 24 April 1969, Liverpool Horn Trio
16’
Olivan

Driving out the Death for oboe and string trio, op. 81, 1971
Commissioned by and written for Janet Craxton
London 20 February 1972
16’
Olivan

Rape of the Moone, Divertimento for wind octet, op. 90, 1973
Commissioned by the Mayfair Ensemble/Arts Council
London 20 March 1973
14’
Olivan/UYMP

Plenum II for oboe and 13 instruments, op. 92, 1973
Commissioned by the London Sinfonietta for Janet Craxton/Arts Council
London 14 June 1974
23’
Olivan/UYMP

Plenum III for string quartet, op. 93, 1973
London 6 May 1974
9’
Olivan/UYMP

Kareniana for viola and 10 instruments, op. 99, 1974
Written for and dedicated to Karen Phillips
14’
Olivan/UYMP

Go, Said the Bird for electric guitar and string quartet, op. 105, 1975
Commissioned for the 1976 Bath Festival/Arts Council
Bath 2 June 1976
12’
Olivan/UYMP

Fanfare for a Festival, for 3 trumpets and 3 trombones, 1975
Commissioned for the York Festival/Arts Council
York 5 June 1976
4’
Olivan/UYMP

Mare et Minutiae for string quartet, op. 107, 1976
Written for the Medici Quartet
York 12 June 1976
16’30”
Olivan/UYMP

Fantasia for alto saxophone and 3 instrumental groups, op. 114, 1977
13‘
Olivan/UYMP

O Absalom for oboe/cor anglais, violin, viola and cello, op. 122, 1977
Commissioned by from London Oboe Quartet/Arts Council. Homage to Perry Hart
London 14 June 1978
12’
Olivan/UYMP

Doubles for string quartet, op. 125, 1978
Commissioned by Medici Quartet/Arts Council
London 18 March 1979
10‘
Olivan/UYMP

Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, op. 135, 1979
Commissioned by the Mühlfeld Trio/Vaughan Williams Trust
London 22 May 1980
13’
Olivan/UYMP

String quartet op. 139, 1979
Dedicated to Stephen [Plaistow], commissioned by the Edinburgh Quartet
Edinburgh 9 November 1980
10’
Olivan/UE

Rapprochement for horn, harp and 10 instrumentalists, op. 144, 1980
Commissioned by Lontano, dedicated to Susan Bradshaw
London 3 November 1981 (New Macnaghten-Lemare Concert)
12’
Olivan

Diurnal for string quartet, op. 146, 1980
For Mary and Paul [Silverthorne]
Commissioned by Medici Quartet/Arts Council
Bowden Festival, 24 June 1981
15’
Olivan/UYMP

Six, for clarinet (doubling bass cl.), trumpet (doubling flugelhorn), piano, percussion, violin and double bass, op. 147, 1980
Written for the Lysis Ensemble
London 16 May 1981
15’
Olivan

Branches of the Night and of the Day for horn and string quartet, op. 153, 1981
Commissioned by South Hill Park Arts Centre/Arts Council
Bracknell 9 October 1981
8’
Olivan

String quartet no. 12, op. 155, 1981
Dedicated to ‘E.M.’, commissioned by the Harrogate Festival/Yorkshire Arts Association
Harrogate 5 August 1982
9’
Olivan/UYMP

String quartet no. 13, op. 158, 1982
For Sydney, commissioned by the Edinburgh Quartet
London 16 March 1983
10’30”
Olivan/UE

Triolet I for clarinet, mandolin and violoncello, op. 160a, 1982
London 4 December 1984 (New Macnaghten Concert)
10’
Olivan/UYMP

Triolet II for violoncello, marimba and harp, op. 160b, 1982
London 4 December 1984 (New Macnaghten Concert)
9’
Olivan/UYMP

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2.3 Duet or Solo Instrument

The Check Book. 12 piano pieces for children, 1937–1938
Augener

Sonata for Solo Viola, op. 5 no. 4, 1938
For Jean Stewart
Darmstadt (Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik), 20 August 1950
11’
Mills

Partita for 2 violins, 1938
BBC 16 November 1947

Five Intermezzi for piano, op. 9, 1941
Paris 1946
6’
Lengnick/Mills

Nine Bagatelles for cello and piano, op. 10, 1942
Paris 1946
8’
Lengnick/Mills

Five Little Pieces for clarinet and piano, op. 14 no. 1, 1945
Commissioned by Cyril Clarke for Frederick Thurston
London 3 November 1962
Schott

Aptote (Theme and variations) for violin, 1948
Commissioned for opening of I.C.A.
London 2 March 1948 (I.C.A. Concert), Frederick Grinke
9’
Lengnick/Mills

Three Improvisations for piano, 1948
Dedicated to Constant Lambert
London 16 February 1968, Richard Rodney Bennett
6’
Lengnick/Mills

Baker’s Dozen, 12 duets for 2 violins [teacher and pupil], 1948

Ninepins, 9 duets for 2 violins [teacher and pupil], 1948
Mills

Suite for organ, op. 17, 1948
London 16 June 1951, Arnold Richardson (Organ Music Society Recital)
5’30”

Prelude and Capriccio for solo cello, op. 20, 1949
London 27 April 1960, Gwendolen McGill
4’
Lengnick/Mills

Valediction for clarinet and piano, op. 28, 1953–1954
Commissioned by Georgina Dobrée and dedicated to the memory of Dylan Thomas
London 15 June 1954, Georgina Dobrée, Ian Kendall
10’
Mills

A Rainy Day for violin and piano, 1954

Sinfonia for organ, op. 32, 1955
Commissioned by William Glock for the I.C.A.
London 21 April 1956, Ralph Downes
5’
Schott

Three Duos op. 34, 1956–1957
(1) Sonance, for horn and piano
London (BBC) 20 May 1966, Barry Tuckwell, Margaret Kitchin
10’
(2) Cello and piano
London (BBC) 7 February 1960, Florence Hooton, Wilfrid Parry
10’
(3) Violin and piano [identical with Fantasie-Variations op. 41, see below]
London 24 April 1958, Hugh Maguire, Joyce Rathbone
11’
All Schott

Variations for solo flute, op. 38, 1957
London 18 November 1960 (Macnaghten Concert), William Bennett
5’
Mills

Fantasie-Variations for violin and piano, op. 41, 1957
[originally no. 3 of Three Duos op. 34, see above]

The Farmstead for 2 cello parts (one pre-recorded) and 2 speakers, 1957
20 February 1964

Piano e Forte for piano, op. 43, 1958
London 1960 (I.C.A. Concert), Wilfrid Parry
15’
Mills

Five Bagatelles for piano, op. 49, 1962
Dedicated to Katharina Wolpe
Liverpool 10 October 1963, Katharina Wolpe
7’
Schott

Présages , recitative and variations for solo oboe op. 53, 1963
Commissioned by and written for Janet Craxton
London 1965, Janet Craxton
9’
Olivan/UYMP

Helix for piano duet, op. 67 no. 2, 1967
Commissioned by Susan Bradshaw and Richard Rodney Bennett
London 16 February 1968, Susan Bradshaw, Richard Rodney Bennett
9’
Olivan/UYMP

Scroll for Li-Ho for violin and piano, op. 67 no. 3, 1967
Commissioned by Peter Carter und Sally Mays
London 8 April 1968 (Park Lane Music Group Concert), Peter Carter, Sally Mays
15’
Olivan/UYMP

(Temenos for organ, op. 72, 1969
Commissioned by the Dartington Arts Society, dedicated to Harold Darke
Olivan/UYMP [withdrawn])

The Dying of the Sun for guitar, op. 73, 1969
Dedicated to Yolanda Sonnabend
London 14 May 1969
7’
Olivan/UYMP

Trois pièces brèves for organ [from the opera Isis and Osiris, op. 74], 1969
Commissioned by the Dartington Arts Society to inaugurate the new organ at Dartington Hall
Dartington 1972, Nicholas Danby
Olivan/UYMP

The Tides of Time for double bass and piano, op. 75, 1969
Commissioned by and dedicated to Rodney Slatford /Arts Council
London 22 October 1970, Rodney Slatford, Clifford Lee
6’
Olivan/UYMP

Plenum I for piano, op. 87, 1972
12’
Olivan/UYMP

Tre for clarinet, op. 94, 1973
Written for Alan Hacker
Wexford Festival 1973
8’30”
Olivan/UYMP

Plenum IV for organ duet, op. 100, 1974
Commissioned by Nicholas und Stephen Cleobury/Arts Council
London 5 March 1975
9’
Olivan/UYMP

This Green Tide for basset horn and piano, op. 103, 1975
Commissioned by Georgina Dobrée
London 12 October 1978
9’30”
Olivan/UYMP

Pietà for harpsichord, op. 104, 1975
Commissioned by Colin Tilney, dedicated to the memory of Luigi Dallapiccola
BBC 6 Feburary 1977
9’
Olivan/UYMP

The Ring of Bone for piano and optional speaker, op. 106, 1975
Commissioned by the Manchester New Music Forum/Arts Council
Manchester 12 May 1976
13’
Olivan/UYMP

Constants for cello and piano, op. 110, 1976
Commissioned by Joan Dickson and Joyce Rathbone/Arts Council
London 30 January 1977
15’
Olivan/UYMP

Five Impromptus for piano, op. 116, 1977
Commissioned by Roger Woodward/Arts Council
10’
Olivan/UYMP

Madrigal for oboe and violin, op. 119, 1977
Written for Janet Craxton and Perry Hart, in memory of Kenneth Heath
London 21 January 1981
7’30”
Olivan/UYMP

Romanza for guitar, op. 121, 1977
Commissioned by David Starobin
8‘30“
Olivan/UYMP

Seven Preludes for piano, op. 126, 1978
Commissioned by Jeremy Brown/Arts Council
London 4 September 1978
22’
Olivan/UYMP

Footfalls for flute and piano (with optional speaker), op. 128, 1978
Commissioned by Ann Cherry und Jeremy Brown/Vaughan Williams Trust
London 7 February 1979
8’
Olivan/UYMP

The Great Seas for piano, op. 132, 1979
London 18 December 1979
20‘
Olivan/UYMP

Prelude for violin, op. 133, 1979
Commissioned by Perry Hart
London 21 January 1981
11’
Olivan/UYMP

Morning Sea for oboe/oboe d’amore and piano, op. 140, 1979
Commissioned by Elizabeth Routier and Robin Carter
London 18 December 1981
12’30”
Olivan/UYMP

Bagatelles for piano (3 books), op. 141, 1979
London 10 July 1981 (1st book)
32’
Olivan/UYMP

Déroulement for oboe and guitar, op. 145, 1980
10‘30“
Olivan/UYMP

Soli for clarinet and double bass, op. 148, 1980
London 13 December 1980
7’
Olivan/UYMP

La natura dell’acqua for piano, op. 154, 1981
Written to thank a group of composers who had organised 2 concerts of Lutyens’s music
London 28 October 1984
9’
Olivan/UYMP

The Living Night for percussion, op. 156, 1981
Commissioned by James Wood for Park Lane Group Festival, dedicated to James Blades
London 23 June 1982
13’
Olivan/UYMP
Alt. arr. for brass and cello

Echo of the Wind for viola, op. 157, 1981
Written for Paul Silverthorne and his new Amati viola
London 19 July 1984
7’
Olivan/UYMP

Encore – Maybe for piano, op. 159, 1982
Commissioned by Thalia Myers/Vaughan Williams Trust
London 7 March 1983
8’30”
Olivan/UYMP

Fanfare (‘Jubilate’) for viola, 1982
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3. Screen, Radio, and Incidental Music

3.1 Screen Music

Bustle for WAAFs (March for RAF Newsreel ‘The Gen’), Crown Film Unit, 1944
Conductor: Muir Mathieson

Jungle Mariners, Crown Film Unit, Central Office of Information, 1944
Producer: Basil Wright
Director: Ralph Elton
Music Direction: Muir Mathieson & John Hollingsworth
14’

The Way from Germany, Crown Film Unit with the cooperation of the Allied Control Commission and Army Film Unit, 1946
Director: Terry Trench
Conductor: John Hollingsworth
11’

Voices of Malaya, Crown Film Unit, 1947
Producer: John Taylor
Director: Ralph Elton

Furnival and Son [‘Sheffield’], Crown Film Unit for Board of Trade, 1948

A String of Beads. A Tea Garden Idyll, Greenpark for the National Tea Board, 1948
Producer: Humphrey Swingler
Director: Ralph Keene
Conductor: John Hollingsworth

Children of the Ruins, Central Office of Information, 1948
Director: Jill Craigie

Penny and the Pownall Case, Rank-Highbury Productions, 1948
Producer: John Croyden
Director: Slim Hand
Conductor: Muir Mathieson
47’

Oil Review no. 7, Greenpark, 1950
Producer: Humphrey Swingler
Director: Joe Mendoza

Waters of Life, Greenpark for the Central Office of Information, 1950
Producer: Humphrey Swingler
Director: Ralph Keene

Out of True, Crown Film Unit for the Central Office of Information, 1951
Producer: Frederick Wilson
Director: Philip Leacock
Conductor: Muir Mathieson
40’

British Guiana, Crown Film Unit & Argosy Pictures Corporation for Central Office of Information & The Colonial Office, 1951
Director: John Alderson
Conductor: Muir Mathieson
36’
(Edited and shortened version entitled El Dorado)

Persian Story, Greenpark/Film Producers Guild for Anglo-Iranian Oil Company/British Petroleum, 1951
Producer: Humphrey Swingler
Director: Ralph Keene
Conductor: John Hollingsworth

To be a Woman, Outlook Films, 1951 [including appearance by Elisabeth Lutyens in the film]
Director: Jill Craigie
18’

Sonnblick Mountain [‘Oil in the Alps’], BP, 1951

British Key to Plenty, Central Office of Information, 1951

The Boy Kumasenu, Gold Coast Film Unit, 1952
Producer: Basil Wright
Director: Sean Graham
Musical director: John Hollingsworth

The Third River, Film Centre for Iraq Petroleum Company, 1952
Director: Michael Clarke
Conductor: John Hollingsworth

The Way to Wimbledon, Pathé Documentary Unit for Dunlop Rubber Company, 1952
Producer: Howard Thomas
Director: Franklin Gollings
20’

Billy Boy, advertisement, Industrial Colour Film, 1952

Scotland and the New World, Anglo Scottish, 1952

Pipeline to the Sea, 1952

This Little Ship, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1953
Director: Colin Dean

On Closer Inspection, London Film Productions, 1953
Producer: Zoltan Korda
Directors: Joan and Peter Foldes
Conductor: Muir Mathieson
20’

They Planted a Stone, Central Office of Information, World Wide Pictures, 1953
Producer: James Carr
Director: Robin Carruthers
Conductor: John Hollingsworth

School for Colonels, Anvil, 1953
Producer: Peter Pooley
Director: Julian Spiro

The Nile, Worldwide, 1953

Rievaulx Abbey, 1953

Ertragreicher Kartoffelanbau, 1953

World Without End, International Realist, for UNESCO, 1953
Producer: Basil Wright
Directors: Basil Wright, Paul Rotha
Conductor: John Hollingsworth
60’

Three Pirates Bold, private, 1955
Producers: George K. Arthur, Victor Kayfetz
Director: Ilya Tolstoi
Conductor: Muir Mathieson

Harvest of the Forest [The Forest is not a Virgin], Worldwide, 1954
Producer: James Carr
Director: Julian Spiro

Tyrolian Harvest, Anvil, 1954

Destination UK, Anvil, 1954
Producer: F. R. Crawley

The Heart of England, British Transport Films, 1954
Producer: Edgar Anstey
Director: Michael Clarke
Conductor: Muir Mathieson
20’

Royal Tour, Anvil, 1954

We Found a Valley, Greenpark Productions, Film Producers Guild for British Petroleum, 1955
Producer and Director: Humphrey Swingler
32’

Theresa, Gold Coast Film Unit, 1955
Director: Sean Graham

The Song of the Grape, Stewart Films, 1955
Director: John R.F. Stewart

Intermezzo Antique, 1955

Little Aden, 1955

The White Falcon, BBC TV, 1956
Producer: Rudolph Cartier
Additional music: Edward German, Tom McCall

Simon, Independent Cine Art (INCA), 1956
Producers: Anne Balfour-Fraser, Hans Casparius
Director: Peter Zadek
18’

Any Man’s Kingdom, British Transport Films, 1956
Producer: Ian Ferguson
Director: Tony Thompson
Conductor: Muir Mathieson
22’

Bermuda Affair, Bermuda Studio (Green Park?) Productions, 1956
Producer: Coolidge Adams
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Conductor: Muir Mathieson

Odd Boy Out, 1956

Pipeline into Persia, Greenpark for Costain, 1957
Producer: Humphrey Swingler
Director: Roland Stafford

The Year of the Princess, Anvil Realist, 1957
Producer: Henry Geddes

One Man’s Challenge, Derek Stewart Productions, 1957

The Twilight Forest, Editorial Film Productions for Unilever, United Africa Company, 1957
Producer: James Mellor
Director: Sydney Latter
Music Director: Muir Mathieson

Freedom for Ghana [The Birth of Ghana], Ghana Film Unit, 1957
Director: Sean Graham

The Oil Rivers, Editorial Film Productions for Unilever, 1958
Producer: James Mellor
Director: Sydney Latter
Conductor: Muir Mathieson

The Green Islands, Greenpark, 1958
Producer: Humphrey Swingler
Director: Clifford Hanley

Paths of Progress, Stewart Films for the Gas Council, 1958
Director: John R.F. Stewart

The Travel Game, British Transport Films, 1958
Producer: Ian Ferguson
Director: Tony Thompson
Conductor: Marcus Dods
31’

The Seeds of Change, Editorial Productions for Unilever, 1958
Producer: James Mellors
Director: Sydney Latter
Conductor: Muir Mathieson
26’

The Iron Mountain, 1958

Moving with the Times, Derek Stewart Productions for Sovex, 1958

The Atlantic Decade, Pathé [Anvil?] for NATO, 1959

Three is Company, British Transport Films, 1959
Producer: Ian Ferguson
Director: Tony Thompson

Journey into the Weald of Kent (series Our National Heritage), Random Films, National Benzole, 1959
Producer and Director: Peter Mills
Commentary: John Betjeman

Return to Life, Film Centre for Kuwait Oil Company, 1959
Director: Rodney Giesler

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger, Hammer, 1960
Producer: Anthony Hinds
Director: Cyril Frankel
Musical Supervisor and Conductor: John Hollingsworth
81’

‘The Malpas Mystery’ (Episode 4 of The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre), Merton Park Studios/Langton, 1960
Producer: Julian Wintle, Leslie Parkyn
Director: Sidney Hayers
Music Director: Muir Mathieson
60’

Morning on Mount Kenya, Pathé, 1960

The Challenge of the Desert, Anvil Realist, 1960
Producer: Ralph N. May
Director: Hans Nieter

Off the Beaten Track, British Transport Films, 1960
Executive Producer: Edgar Anstey
Director: Syd Sharples
16’

Youth Hostels, 1960

Mikhaili of Skiathos, 1960

Don’t Bother to Knock, Associated British Picture Corporation, Haileywood Films, 1961
Producer: Frank Godwin
Director: Cyril Frankel
89’

A Woman’s Work, Samaritan Films, sponsored by Bex-Bissell Home Care Appliances, 1961
Producer: Anne Balfour-Fraser
Director: Sarah Erulkar
32’

The Diagnosis of Depression in General Practice, Samaritan, 1961
Producer: Anne Balfour-Fraser
Director: Sarah Erulkar

Cusson’s No. 2, advertisement, 1961

Paranoiac, Hammer for Universal International, 1963/1964
Producer: Anthony Hinds
Director: Freddie Francis
Musial Supervisor: John Hollingsworth
80’

Francis Bacon: Paintings 1944-1962, Samaritan Films for Arts Council of Great Britain and Arts Council of Ireland, 1963
Producer: Dudley Shaw Ashton [Anne Balfour-Fraser?]
Director: David Thompson
Conductor: John Hollingsworth
10’30”

Central Sterile Supply Department, Samaritan, 1963
Producer: Anne Balfour-Fraser
Director: Sarah Erulkar

Kaleidoscope Orissa, Pilgrim Films, 1963
Producer: Mary Kirby
Director: Robert Steele
Conductor: Marcus Dods

Angles of the Sun, private film produced and directed by Mary Kirby, 1963

The Favourites, Associated British Pathé for Central Office of Information, 1963
Producer: Terry Ashwood
Director: Sean Graham

The Vital Link [Malaya], Shell Film Unit for Shell International Petroleum Company, 1964
Producer: Douglas Gordon
Director: Ramsay Short

Puritan versus Cavalier, Newmark International, 1964

The Earth Dies Screaming, Lippert Films, 1964
Producer: Robert L. Lippert, Jack Parsons
Director: Terence Fisher
Conductor: Philip Martell
62’

Troubled Waters, Parroch-McCallum [ Lippert?], 1964
Producers: Robert L. Lippert, Jack Parsons
Director: Stanley Goulder
Conductor: Philip Martell

Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors, Amicus, 1965
Producer: Milton Subotsky, Max J. Rosenberg
Director: Freddie Francis
Other music by: Kenny Lynch (songs), Tubby Hayes (jazz)
Conductor: Philip Martell
98’

Condor One [Condor 1], Derek Stewart Productions for British Petroleum Company, 1965
Associate Producer: Terry Trench
Director: Gerard Bryant

Kakafon Kakkoon, United Motion Pictures, 1965
Director: Eduardo Paolozzi

Spaceflight IC-1, Lippert Films, 1965
Producer: Robert L. Lippert, Jack Parsons
Director: Bernard Knowles
Music Director: Philip Martell
65’

The Skull, Amicus, 1965
Producer: Milton Subotsky, Max J. Rosenberg
Director: Freddie Francis
Conductor: Philip Martell
83’
Score published as The Skull Suite, UYMP

Europe by Train, British Railway Board, British Transport Films, 1965

The Psychopath, Amicus Productions, 1966
Producer: Milton Subotsky
Director: Freddie Francis
Conductor: Philip Martell

Turner, Samaritan Films for Arts Council of Great Britain, 1966
Executive Producer: Anne Balfour-Fraser
Director: David Thompson
Music Director: Philip Martell

The Obi, 1966

Theatre of Death, Pennea Productions, 1966
Producer: Michael Smedley-Aston
Director: Samuel Gallu
Conductor: Philip Martell
91’

The Terrornauts, Amicus, 1967
Producers: Max J. Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
Director: Montgomery Tully
Conductor: Philip Martell
75’

The Pre-Raphaelite Revolt, Samaritan Films for Arts Council of Great Britain, 1967
Producer: Anne Balfour-Fraser
Director: David Thompson
Conductor: Philip Martell

Allegro, Derek Stewart Productions for British Petroleum Company, 1967
Director: Derek Stewart

RAF Recruiting, 1968

Barbican, Derek Stewart Productions for Corporation of London, 1969
Producer: Derek Stewart
Director: Robin Cantelon

The Rainbow Verdict [Stamps], Balfour Films for the Post Office, 1970
Producer: Richard Crewdson [Anne Balfour-Fraser]
Director: David Thompson
Conductor: Philip Martell

Never Go with Strangers, Balfour Films for Central Office of Information, 1971
Producer: Anne Balfour-Fraser
Director: Sarah Erulkar
Conductor: Philip Martell

Temple of Apollo at Bassae, Derek Stewart Productions, 1971
Producer: Derek Stewart
Director: Malcolm R. McBride

My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga and Julie [orig. Mijn Nachten met Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra] Scorpio Film, 1975
Producer: Wim Verstappen
Director: Pim de la Para
Conductor: Philip Martell
83’

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3.2 Radio scores

Enter Caesar, BBC, 1946
Margate [overseas exchange programme with Coney Island], BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1946
Oxford [overseas exchange programme with Princeton], BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1946

Don Juan, BBC, 1947
Port of London, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Stock Exchange, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Imaginary Conversations: ‘Ophelia’, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Theatre Workshop, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
London Undergrounds, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Infinite Variety, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Hyde Park, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Lorna Doone Country, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947

The Devil’s Horse, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1948

Bartholomew Fair, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1949
The Thames, BBC, 1949
The English Theatre, BBC, 1949
The English Seaside, BBC, 1949
The Fisher King, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1949
The Queen of Air and Darkness, BBC, 1949
Canada, Britain and Trade, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1949
Admetus, BBC, 1949
The Welfare State, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1949
Colonial Journey, 1949

Export Jigsaw – Potteries; Motorcars; Jewellery; Wool, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1950

Canterbury Cathedral, BBC Home Service (cond. E. Clark), 1950

Henry VIII, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1951
The Otter (arrangements of music), BBC, 1951
Shakespeare’s Birthday, BBC, 1951

Westminster Abbey, BBC Overseas Service (cond. E. Clark), 1953

Death of a Town, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1954
Sire Halewyn, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1954
Nano’s Song from Volpone, BBC, 1954
Two Songs from Bartholomew Fair, BBC French Overseas, 1954

The Quality of Desert, BBC, 1955
Every Man in His Humour, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1955
The Palm-Wine Drinkard, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1955
Life’s a Dream, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1955
Love After Death, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1955

Zoo, BBC, 1956
Harvest of the Sea, BBC, 1956
Envoy Extraordinary, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1956
The Trial of Thomas Cranmer, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1956
Bussy d’Ambois, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1956
Any Dark Morning, BBC Home Service, 1956

Anthony and Cleopatra, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1960
Hamlet, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1960

Cain, BBC, 1963
The Uneasy Chair, BBC, 1963

The Dog Beneath the Skin, BBC Network Three, 1965 (cond. Marcus Dods)

The Abbot Dies, BBC, 1966

Final Meeting, BBC, 1966 (cond. Marcus Dods)

The Life Class, BBC, 1968

The Spanish Tragedy, BBC, 1969

Paid on Both Sides, BBC, 1972

‘The Arts Council Songs’ for a special feature on Frank Hauser (of Oxford Playhouse), BBC Two, 1974

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3.3 Incidental Music for Stage Plays and Events

3 Songs and Incidental Music for Group Theatre’s ‘Homage to Dylan Thomas’ for soprano, flute and viola; or soprano and accordion or piano, 1953 (no. 3, ‘Paper and Sticks’, completed 1948, see also 1.3)
Words: Dylan Thomas
Production: The Group Theatre/Rupert Goone (Globe Theatre London)

Son et lumière, 1958
Writer: Louis MacNeice
Producer: Peter Wood (Cardiff Castle)

The Bacchae, 1959–1963, for ensemble (version 1959) and orchestra (1963)
Words: Euripides (trans. Minos Volanakis)
Director: Minos Volanakis (Oxford Playhouse, LAMDA Theatre London, Pittsburgh, USA [?])

Oresteia, 1961, for soloists, chorus, orchestra
Words: Aeschylos
Director: Minos Volanakis (Oxford Playhouse, Old Vic London)

Julius Caesar, 1962, for six musicians
Words: William Shakespeare
Director: Minos Volanakis (Old Vic London)

(As Is When [a series of screen prints based on the life and writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein], by Eduardo Paolozzi at Alecto London, 1965)

Volpone, 1965, songs for voices and guitar
Words: Ben Jonson
Producer: Frank Hauser (Oxford Playhouse and Garrick Theatre)

As You Like It, 1966
Words: William Shakespeare (‘Under the Greenwood Tree’, ‘Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind’, ‘It was a Lover and his Lass’)
Director/Producer: Harold Lang (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park London)

A Sleep of Prisoners, 1966, for organ
Words: Christopher Fry
Director/producer: Harold Lang (Adelaide Festival, Australia)

The Mad Woman of Chaillot, 1967
Words: Jean Giradoux
Director: Minos Volanakis (Oxford Playhouse)

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4. Arrangements

Girolamo Frescobaldi, Caprice sur ‘La pastorale’, arr. for string orchestra, 1931–1932
London 28 January 1932 (Macnaghten-Lemare Concert)

Jean Titelouze, 2 Organ Fugues, arr. for string orchestra, 1932
London 28 January 1932 (Macnaghten-Lemare Concert)

Dieterich Buxtehude, Passacaglia, arr. for orchestra, 1934
London 4 February 1935

Claudio Monteverdi, ‘Lamento d’Arianna’, arr. for tenor and orchestra, 1938
London 14 March 1939

‘Music for the People – Feudal England’, for workers’ choruses and dancers, 1939
Words: Randall Swingler
London, Albert Hall 1 April 1939, Pageant of Alan Bush’s Festival of Music for the People
Score lost

Henry Purcell, Air, Dance, Ground, arr. for viola and piano from Dido and Aeneas, 1946
Belwin/Chester

‘Greensleeves’ [signature tune for BBC Overseas Feature series ‘Window on Britain’], 1946

God Save the Queen, arr. for flute, trumpet, prepared piano, accordion, drums, 1956
For a guest appearance of the Berliner Ensemble in London
Commissioned by Edward Clark

Pieces by Morton Gould and other unknown composers for a ‘Negro Ballet Company’ tour of Newcastle, Liverpool et al., 1957

Enter Caesar, BBC, 1946
Margate [overseas exchange programme with Coney Island], BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1946
Oxford [overseas exchange programme with Princeton], BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1946

Don Juan, BBC, 1947
Port of London, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Stock Exchange, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Imaginary Conversations: ‘Ophelia’, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Theatre Workshop, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
London Undergrounds, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Infinite Variety, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Hyde Park, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947
Lorna Doone Country, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1947

The Devil’s Horse, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1948

Bartholomew Fair, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1949
The Thames, BBC, 1949
The English Theatre, BBC, 1949
The English Seaside, BBC, 1949
The Fisher King, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1949
The Queen of Air and Darkness, BBC, 1949
Canada, Britain and Trade, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1949
Admetus, BBC, 1949
The Welfare State, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1949
Colonial Journey, 1949

Export Jigsaw – Potteries; Motorcars; Jewellery; Wool, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1950

Canterbury Cathedral, BBC Home Service (cond. E. Clark), 1950

Henry VIII, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1951
The Otter (arrangements of music), BBC, 1951
Shakespeare’s Birthday, BBC, 1951

Westminster Abbey, BBC Overseas Service (cond. E. Clark), 1953

Death of a Town, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1954
Sire Halewyn, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1954
Nano’s Song from Volpone, BBC, 1954
Two Songs from Bartholomew Fair, BBC French Overseas, 1954

The Quality of Desert, BBC, 1955
Every Man in His Humour, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1955
The Palm-Wine Drinkard, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1955
Life’s a Dream, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1955
Love After Death, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1955

Zoo, BBC, 1956
Harvest of the Sea, BBC, 1956
Envoy Extraordinary, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1956
The Trial of Thomas Cranmer, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1956
Bussy d’Ambois, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1956
Any Dark Morning, BBC Home Service, 1956

Anthony and Cleopatra, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1960
Hamlet, BBC (cond. E. Clark), 1960

Cain, BBC, 1963
The Uneasy Chair, BBC, 1963

The Dog Beneath the Skin, BBC Network Three, 1965 (cond. Marcus Dods)

The Abbot Dies, BBC, 1966

Final Meeting, BBC, 1966 (cond. Marcus Dods)

The Life Class, BBC, 1968

The Spanish Tragedy, BBC, 1969

Paid on Both Sides, BBC, 1972

‘The Arts Council Songs’ for a special feature on Frank Hauser (of Oxford Playhouse), BBC Two, 1974

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