Works
Opus Numbers
All designations, including blanks and projections into which posthumous works could be neatly fitted, were Finzi’s own.
1. Ten Children’s Songs
2. By Footpath and Stile
3. English Pastorals and Elegies
A Severn Rhapsody
Requiem da Camera
4. Psalms for unaccompanied SATB
5. Three Short Elegies
6. Introit
7. New Year Music
8. Dies natalis
9. Farewell to Arms
10. Eclogue
11. Romance
12. Two Sonnets by John Milton
13a. To a Poet
13b. Oh Fair to See
14. A Young Man’s Exhortation
15. Earth and Air and Rain
16. Before and After Summer
17. Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
18. Let Us Garlands Bring
19a. Till Earth Outwears
19b. I Said to Love
20. The Fall of the Leaf
21. Interlude
22. Oboe Quintet/[Elegy]
23. Five Bagatelles
24. Prelude and Fugue
25. String Trio/[Prelude for strings]
26. ‘Lo, the full, final sacrifice’
27. Three Anthems
‘My lovely one’
‘God is gone up’
‘Welcome sweet and sacred feast’
28. Love’s Labour’s Lost
a. songs
b. suite
29. Intimations of Immortality
30. For St Cecilia
31. Clarinet Concerto
32. Bridges partsongs for unaccompanied male voices
‘Thou didst delight my eyes’
33. ‘All this night’
34. Occasional Songs
‘Muses and Graces’
35. Two-part songs for accompanied male voices
‘Let us now praise famous men’
36. Magnificat
37. ‘White-flowering days’
38. Grand Fantasia and Toccata
39. In terra pax
40. Cello Concerto
1. Ten Children’s Songs
2. By Footpath and Stile
3. English Pastorals and Elegies
A Severn Rhapsody
Requiem da Camera
4. Psalms for unaccompanied SATB
5. Three Short Elegies
6. Introit
7. New Year Music
8. Dies natalis
9. Farewell to Arms
10. Eclogue
11. Romance
12. Two Sonnets by John Milton
13a. To a Poet
13b. Oh Fair to See
14. A Young Man’s Exhortation
15. Earth and Air and Rain
16. Before and After Summer
17. Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
18. Let Us Garlands Bring
19a. Till Earth Outwears
19b. I Said to Love
20. The Fall of the Leaf
21. Interlude
22. Oboe Quintet/[Elegy]
23. Five Bagatelles
24. Prelude and Fugue
25. String Trio/[Prelude for strings]
26. ‘Lo, the full, final sacrifice’
27. Three Anthems
‘My lovely one’
‘God is gone up’
‘Welcome sweet and sacred feast’
28. Love’s Labour’s Lost
a. songs
b. suite
29. Intimations of Immortality
30. For St Cecilia
31. Clarinet Concerto
32. Bridges partsongs for unaccompanied male voices
‘Thou didst delight my eyes’
33. ‘All this night’
34. Occasional Songs
‘Muses and Graces’
35. Two-part songs for accompanied male voices
‘Let us now praise famous men’
36. Magnificat
37. ‘White-flowering days’
38. Grand Fantasia and Toccata
39. In terra pax
40. Cello Concerto
Orchestral works
New Year Music (Nocturne)
Op.7 (alternative title: Nocturne (New Year Music))
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Op.7 (alternative title: Nocturne (New Year Music))
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Love’s Labour’s Lost
Op.28 - music for Shakespeare’s play
Op.28 - music for Shakespeare’s play
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Op.28b - Suite for small orchestra
Op.28b - Suite for small orchestra
- Introduction
- Moth
- Nocturne
- The Hunt
- Dance
- Quodlibet
- Soliloquy I
- Soliloquy II
- Soliloquy III
- Finale
The Fall of the Leaf – Elegy for Orchestra
Op.20 (Op.Posth.)
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Op.20 (Op.Posth.)
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Works for solo instrument and orchestra
Introit
Op.6 – for violin and small orchestra
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Eclogue
Op.10 – for piano and string orchestra
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Clarinet Concerto
Op.31 – for clarinet and string orchestra
(also available arranged for clarinet and piano by Harold Perry)
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Grand Fantasia and Toccata
Op.38 – for piano and orchestra
(full score and piano reduction available)
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Cello Concerto
Op.40 – concerto for cello and orchestra
(ed. Jeremy Dale Roberts; solo part ed. Raphael Wallfisch)
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Violin Concerto
(Op.Posth.) (also entitled: Concerto for Small Orchestra and Violin) (ed. Stephen Banfield; solo part ed. Tamsin Little)
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Op.6 – for violin and small orchestra
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Eclogue
Op.10 – for piano and string orchestra
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Clarinet Concerto
Op.31 – for clarinet and string orchestra
(also available arranged for clarinet and piano by Harold Perry)
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Grand Fantasia and Toccata
Op.38 – for piano and orchestra
(full score and piano reduction available)
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Cello Concerto
Op.40 – concerto for cello and orchestra
(ed. Jeremy Dale Roberts; solo part ed. Raphael Wallfisch)
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Violin Concerto
(Op.Posth.) (also entitled: Concerto for Small Orchestra and Violin) (ed. Stephen Banfield; solo part ed. Tamsin Little)
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Works for string orchestra
Works for chorus & orchestra
Lo, the full, final sacrifice
Op.26 – festival anthem for chorus and orchestra
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God is gone up
Op.27, No.2 – version for chorus with strings and organ
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Intimations of Immortality
Op.29 – Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra, (vocal score, arr. Gerald Finzi)
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For St Cecilia
Op.30 – Ceremonial Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra
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Let us now praise famous men
Op.35 – two-part choral song with strings/piano
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Magnificat
Op.36 – version for chorus and orchestra
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In terra pax
Op.39 - Christmas scene for soprano and baritone soli, chorus, strings, harp and cymbal
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Op.39 – version for full orchestra
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Muses and Graces
unison song with strings
Requiem da camera
for baritone solo, chorus (or SATB solo voices) and orchestra (published by Banks Music)
Op.26 – festival anthem for chorus and orchestra
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God is gone up
Op.27, No.2 – version for chorus with strings and organ
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Intimations of Immortality
Op.29 – Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra, (vocal score, arr. Gerald Finzi)
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For St Cecilia
Op.30 – Ceremonial Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra
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Let us now praise famous men
Op.35 – two-part choral song with strings/piano
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Magnificat
Op.36 – version for chorus and orchestra
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In terra pax
Op.39 - Christmas scene for soprano and baritone soli, chorus, strings, harp and cymbal
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Op.39 – version for full orchestra
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Muses and Graces
unison song with strings
Requiem da camera
for baritone solo, chorus (or SATB solo voices) and orchestra (published by Banks Music)
- ‘Prelude’
- ‘From “August 1914” ’ (Masefield)
- ‘In the time of the breaking of nations’ (Hardy)
- ‘Lament’ (Gibson)
Works for solo voice & orchestra/ensemble
By Footpath and Stile
Op.2 – song cycle for baritone and string quartet (edited by Howard Ferguson)
Dies natalis
Op.8 – Cantata for soprano/tenor solo and string orchestra
Farewell to Arms
Op.9 – Introduction and Aria for tenor voice and small (or string) orchestra (plus vocal score)
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Two Milton Sonnets
Op.12 – for tenor solo and small orchestra
Let Us Garlands Bring
Op.18 – Five Shakespeare Songs for baritone and string orchestra
Four Songs from Love’s Labour’s Lost
Op.28a – for voice and small orchestra
When I set out for Lyonnesse
for tenor voice and small orchestra (inc. in In years Defaced)
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In Years Defaced
six songs by Gerald Finzi arranged for voice (tenor) and orchestra by the composer, Colin Matthews, Jeremy Dale Roberts, Christian Alexander, Judith Weir and Anthony Payne
Op.2 – song cycle for baritone and string quartet (edited by Howard Ferguson)
- ‘Paying Call’
- ‘Where the Picnic was’
- ‘The Oxen’
- ‘The Master and the Leaves’
- ‘Voices from Things growing in a Churchyard’
- ‘Exeunt omnes’
Dies natalis
Op.8 – Cantata for soprano/tenor solo and string orchestra
- ‘Intrada’ (strings only)
- ‘Rhapsody’ (Recitativo Stromentato)
- ‘The Rapture’ (Danza)
- ‘Wonder’ (Arioso)
- ‘The Salutation’ (Aria)
Farewell to Arms
Op.9 – Introduction and Aria for tenor voice and small (or string) orchestra (plus vocal score)
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Two Milton Sonnets
Op.12 – for tenor solo and small orchestra
- ‘When I consider how my life is spent’
- ‘How soon hath Time’
Let Us Garlands Bring
Op.18 – Five Shakespeare Songs for baritone and string orchestra
- ‘Come away death’
- ‘Who is Silvia?’
- ‘Fear no more the heat o’ the Sun’
- ‘Oh mistress mine’
- ‘It was a lover and his lass’
Four Songs from Love’s Labour’s Lost
Op.28a – for voice and small orchestra
- ‘When daisies pied’ (Song of Ver)
- ‘When icicles hang by the wall’ (Song of Hiems)
- ‘If she be made of white or red’
- ‘Is it not sure a deadly pain’ (False Concolinel – anon.)
When I set out for Lyonnesse
for tenor voice and small orchestra (inc. in In years Defaced)
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In Years Defaced
six songs by Gerald Finzi arranged for voice (tenor) and orchestra by the composer, Colin Matthews, Jeremy Dale Roberts, Christian Alexander, Judith Weir and Anthony Payne
- ‘To a poet a thousand years hence’ (Matthews)
- ‘When I set out for Lyonnesse’ (Finzi)
- ‘In years defaced’ (Dale Roberts)
- ‘Tall nettles’ (Alexander)
- ‘At a lunar eclipse’ (Weir)
- ‘Proud songsters’ (Payne)
Works for chorus & keyboard (piano/organ)
Ten Children’s Songs
Op.1 – (also entitled Songs to poems by Christina Rossetti) – for unison and two-part voices and piano
Three Anthems
Op.21 – SATB with organ
Lo, the full, final sacrifice
Op.26 – Festival Anthem for choir and organ
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Let us now praise famous men
Op.35 – two-part choral song with piano
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Magnificat
Op.36 – SATB with organ
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Muses and graces
unison song for voices and piano
Two Motets
Op.1 – (also entitled Songs to poems by Christina Rossetti) – for unison and two-part voices and piano
- ‘Rosy maiden Winifred’
- ‘Dead in the cold’
- ‘Lullaby, oh lullaby!’
- ‘The lily has a smooth stalk’
- ‘Dancing on the hill-tops’
- ‘Margaret has a milking pail’
- ‘Ferry me across the water’
- ‘There’s snow on the fields’
- ‘A linnet in a gilded cage’
- ‘Boy Johnny’
Three Anthems
Op.21 – SATB with organ
- ‘My lovely one’ Information | For sale
- ‘God is gone up’ Information | Rental | For sale | Listen
- ‘Welcome sweet and sacred feast’ Information | For sale
Lo, the full, final sacrifice
Op.26 – Festival Anthem for choir and organ
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Let us now praise famous men
Op.35 – two-part choral song with piano
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Magnificat
Op.36 – SATB with organ
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Muses and graces
unison song for voices and piano
Two Motets
- Psalm 121
- ‘The Recovery’
Works for unaccompanied chorus
Three Short Elegies
Op.5
Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs
Op.17 – on poems by Bridges
Thou dids’t delight mine eyes
Op.32 – three-part song (TTB)
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All this night
Op.33 – unaccompanied choral motet
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White-flowering days
Op.37 – for unaccompanied chorus
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Op.5
- ‘Life a right shadow is’
- ‘This world a hunting is’
- ‘This life, which seems so fair’
Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs
Op.17 – on poems by Bridges
- ‘I Praise the tender flower’
- ‘I have loved flowers that fade’
- ‘My spirit sang all day’
- ‘Clear and gentle stream’
- ‘Nightingales’
- ‘Haste on, my joys’
- ‘Wherefore to-night so full of care’
Thou dids’t delight mine eyes
Op.32 – three-part song (TTB)
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All this night
Op.33 – unaccompanied choral motet
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White-flowering days
Op.37 – for unaccompanied chorus
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Works for voice & piano
By Footpath and Stile
Op.2 – version for voice and piano
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To a Poet
Op.13a - six songs for low voice and piano
Oh Fair to See
Op.13b – seven songs for high voice and piano
A Young Man’s Exhortation
Op.14 – ten songs for tenor and piano
Part I
Part II
6. ‘Shortening Days’
7. ‘The Sigh’
8. ‘Former Beauties’
9. ‘Transformations’
10. ‘The Dance Continued’
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Earth and Air and Rain
Op.15 – ten songs for baritone and piano
Before and After Summer
Op.16 – ten songs for baritone and piano
Let us Garlands Bring
Op.18 – Five Shakespeare Songs for voice and piano
Till Earth Outwears
Op.19a – seven songs for high voice and piano
I said to Love
Op.19b – six songs for baritone and piano
Tall Nettles
arranged for voice and piano by Christian Alexander
Op.2 – version for voice and piano
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To a Poet
Op.13a - six songs for low voice and piano
- ‘To a Poet a thousand years hence’
- ‘On parent knees’
- ‘Intrada’
- ‘The Birthnight’
- ‘June on Castle Hill’
- ‘Ode on the rejection of Saint Cecilia’
Oh Fair to See
Op.13b – seven songs for high voice and piano
- ‘I say I'll Seek Her’
- ‘Oh fair to see’
- ‘As I lay in the early sun’
- ‘Only the wanderer’
- ‘To Joy’
- ‘Harvest’
- ‘Since we loved’
A Young Man’s Exhortation
Op.14 – ten songs for tenor and piano
Part I
- ‘A Young Man’s Exhortation’
- ‘Ditty’
- ‘Budmouth Dears’
- ‘Her Temple’
- ‘The Comet at Yelham’
Part II
6. ‘Shortening Days’
7. ‘The Sigh’
8. ‘Former Beauties’
9. ‘Transformations’
10. ‘The Dance Continued’
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Earth and Air and Rain
Op.15 – ten songs for baritone and piano
- ‘Summer Schemes’
- ‘When I set out for Lyonnesse’
- ‘Waiting Both’
- ‘The Phantom’
- ‘So I have fared’
- ‘Rollicum-rorum’
- ‘To Lizbie Browne’
- ‘The Clock of the Years’
- ‘In a Churchyard’
- ‘Proud Songsters’
Before and After Summer
Op.16 – ten songs for baritone and piano
- ‘Childhood among the ferns’
- ‘Before and after summer’
- ‘The Self-Unseeing’
- ‘Overlooking the River’
- ‘Channel Firing’
- ‘In the Mind's Eye’
- ‘The Too Short Time’
- ‘Epeisodia’
- ‘Amabel’
- ‘He abjures love’
Let us Garlands Bring
Op.18 – Five Shakespeare Songs for voice and piano
- ‘Come away death’
- ‘Who is Silvia?’
- ‘Fear no more the heat of the sun’
- ‘Oh mistress mine’
- ‘It was a lover and his lass’
Till Earth Outwears
Op.19a – seven songs for high voice and piano
- ‘Let me enjoy the earth’
- ‘In years defaced’
- ‘The Market-Girl’
- ‘I look into my glass’
- ‘It never looks like summer here’
- ‘At a Lunar Eclipse’
- ‘Life laughs onward’
I said to Love
Op.19b – six songs for baritone and piano
- ‘I need not go’
- ‘At Middle-field Gate in February’
- ‘Two Lips’
- ‘In five-score summers’
- ‘For life I had never cared greatly’
- ‘I said to Love’
Tall Nettles
arranged for voice and piano by Christian Alexander
Chamber Music
Introit
Op.6 – for violin and piano (arr. Howard Ferguson)
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Interlude
Op.21 – for oboe and string quartet
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Elegy
Op.22 – for violin and piano
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Five Bagatelles
Op.23 – for clarinet and piano
arranged for flute and piano
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arranged clarinet and string quartet
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Prelude and Fugue
Op.24 – for string trio
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Op.6 – for violin and piano (arr. Howard Ferguson)
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Interlude
Op.21 – for oboe and string quartet
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Elegy
Op.22 – for violin and piano
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Five Bagatelles
Op.23 – for clarinet and piano
- ‘Prelude’
- ‘Romance’
- ‘Carol’
- ‘Forlana’
- ‘Fughetta’
arranged for flute and piano
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arranged clarinet and string quartet
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Prelude and Fugue
Op.24 – for string trio
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ARRANgements by gerald finzi
Ivor Gurney
Four Songs – for voice and string orchestra
C. H. Parry
Chorale Fantasia on an Old English tune – ‘When I survey the wondrous cross’
Four Songs – for voice and string orchestra
- 1. ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’
- 2. ‘Orpheus’
- 3. ‘Spring’
- 4. ‘Sleep;’
C. H. Parry
Chorale Fantasia on an Old English tune – ‘When I survey the wondrous cross’
Editions by Gerald Finzi
Capel Bond
Concerto No.1 in D for trumpet and strings
Concerto No.5 in G minor
Concerto No.6 in B flat for bassoon and strings
William Boyce
Overtures (Musica Britannica)
John Garth
Concerto No.2 in B flat, for cello, strings and continuo
Richard Mudge
Concerto No.4 in D minor
Concerto No.6 in F for organ and strings
Trumpet Concerto No.1 in D (arr. for trumpet & piano by John Andrews)
John Stanley
Concerto No.1 in D
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Concerto No.2 in B minor
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Concerto No.3 in G
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Concerto No.4 in D minor
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Concerto No.5 in A
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Concerto No.6 in B flat
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‘Welcome Death’ from Teraminta, for voice, keyboard and/or strings
Solo in D, Op.4, No.5 - for flute and piano
Charles Wesley
Concerto No.4 in C for piano (or harpsichord or organ) and strings (oboe ad lib.)
String Quartet No.1 in F
String Quartet No.2 in D
String Quartet No.5 in B flat
Concerto No.1 in D for trumpet and strings
Concerto No.5 in G minor
Concerto No.6 in B flat for bassoon and strings
William Boyce
Overtures (Musica Britannica)
John Garth
Concerto No.2 in B flat, for cello, strings and continuo
Richard Mudge
Concerto No.4 in D minor
Concerto No.6 in F for organ and strings
Trumpet Concerto No.1 in D (arr. for trumpet & piano by John Andrews)
John Stanley
Concerto No.1 in D
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Concerto No.2 in B minor
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Concerto No.3 in G
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Concerto No.4 in D minor
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Concerto No.5 in A
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Concerto No.6 in B flat
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‘Welcome Death’ from Teraminta, for voice, keyboard and/or strings
Solo in D, Op.4, No.5 - for flute and piano
Charles Wesley
Concerto No.4 in C for piano (or harpsichord or organ) and strings (oboe ad lib.)
String Quartet No.1 in F
String Quartet No.2 in D
String Quartet No.5 in B flat
Arrangements of music by Gerald finzi
Introit
Op.6 - for violin & piano, arr. Howard Ferguson
Intrada
(from Dies natalis, Op.8) - for organ, arr. Robert Gower
Eclogue
Op.10 - for two pianos, arr. Gerald Finzi
Eclogue
Op.10 - for organ, arr. Robert Gower
‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun’
(from Let us Garlands bring, Op.18) - for SATB and piano, arr. Jonathan Rathbone (published by Banks Music)
Interlude
Op.21 - for oboe & piano, arr. Howard Ferguson
Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for clarinet & string quartet, arr. Christian Alexander
Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for flute & piano, arr. Terence Allbright
Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for clarinet & string orchestra, arr. Lawrence Ashmore
Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for flute & piano, arr. Kenneth Smith
Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for symphonic band, arr. Bram Wiggins
‘Carol’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) for organ, arr. Robert Gower
‘Carol’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) - for organ, arr. Alan Ridout
‘Forlana’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) - for organ, arr. Robert Gower
‘Romance’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) - for organ, arr. Robert Gower
Prelude
Op.25 - for organ, arr. Alan Ridout (published by Banks Music)
Prelude
(from Intimations of Immortality, Op.29) - for organ, arr. Andrew Seivewright (published by Banks Music)
‘God is gone up’
Op.27, No.2 - for chorus & orchestra, arr. William Godfree
‘Let us now praise famous men’
Op.35 - for SATB and organ, arr. Jonathan Rathbone
In Years Defaced
vocal score
‘Tall Nettles’
(from In Years Defaced) - for voice & piano, arr. Christian Alexander
Op.6 - for violin & piano, arr. Howard Ferguson
Intrada
(from Dies natalis, Op.8) - for organ, arr. Robert Gower
Eclogue
Op.10 - for two pianos, arr. Gerald Finzi
Eclogue
Op.10 - for organ, arr. Robert Gower
‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun’
(from Let us Garlands bring, Op.18) - for SATB and piano, arr. Jonathan Rathbone (published by Banks Music)
Interlude
Op.21 - for oboe & piano, arr. Howard Ferguson
Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for clarinet & string quartet, arr. Christian Alexander
Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for flute & piano, arr. Terence Allbright
Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for clarinet & string orchestra, arr. Lawrence Ashmore
Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for flute & piano, arr. Kenneth Smith
Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for symphonic band, arr. Bram Wiggins
‘Carol’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) for organ, arr. Robert Gower
‘Carol’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) - for organ, arr. Alan Ridout
‘Forlana’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) - for organ, arr. Robert Gower
‘Romance’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) - for organ, arr. Robert Gower
Prelude
Op.25 - for organ, arr. Alan Ridout (published by Banks Music)
Prelude
(from Intimations of Immortality, Op.29) - for organ, arr. Andrew Seivewright (published by Banks Music)
‘God is gone up’
Op.27, No.2 - for chorus & orchestra, arr. William Godfree
‘Let us now praise famous men’
Op.35 - for SATB and organ, arr. Jonathan Rathbone
In Years Defaced
vocal score
‘Tall Nettles’
(from In Years Defaced) - for voice & piano, arr. Christian Alexander