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worksworksComposition catalogue at
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Orchestral |
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| Six Studies of Francis Bacon (1968) 32' 3+3 3+1 3+2 3/4 4 3 1/timp 4perc pno+cel hp/str. Cat No 090161 Commercial recording: Chandos 9167 |
Dedicated to the painter Francis Bacon. Commissioned by Radio Telefis Eireann First performance 9 January 1969 by RTE Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schurmann - Dublin Festival First USA performances at Severance Hall, Cleveland on 23, 24, 25 April 1981 by the Cleveland Orchestra / Lorin Maazel |
| Variants (1970) 18' 1+1 2+1 0 2 / 2 0 0 0 / str. Cat No 890104 Commercial recording: Chandos 9167 |
Commissioned by the Guildford Festival Committee First performance 8 March 1971 by London Mozart Players / Harry Blech - Guildford Cathedral First USA performances at Severance Hall, Cleveland on 4, 5, 6 May 1977 by the Cleveland Orchestra / Lorin Maazel |
| Attack and Celebration (1971) 8' 2+2 2+1 2 2 / 4 2 3 1 / timp 2perc hp / str. Cat No 360029 Commercial recording: Silva Screen / BMG FILM CO72 FILM CD072 / FILMXCD 309 |
Based on music from the composer's scores for films about the Second World War. Written for the BBC Concert Orchestra. First performed in 1971 by BBC Concert Orchestra / Ashley Lawrence |
| Piano Concerto (1972-3) 29' 2+1 2+1 2 2 / 4 2 3 1 / timp 3perc str. Cat No 890068 |
A work in two movements, written for John Ogdon. First performance 21 November 1973 by John Ogdon (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Berglund - Guildhall, Portsmouth First movement premiered separately by John Ogdon and the RTE Symphony Orchestra / Proinssias O'Duin at public concerts in Dublin and Cork on 14, 15 January 1973. First complete performances at the Guildhall, Portsmouth, the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, and the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 21, 22 and 23 November 1973. John Ogdon was the soloist with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Berglund. First USA performance at Michigan State University on 19 February 1978. |
| Violin Concerto (1975-8) 34' 2+1 2+1 2+1 2 / 4 2 3 1 / timp 3perc hp cel / str. Cat No 890097 Commercial recording: Chandos 9915 |
Written to commemorate Ruggiero Ricci's Golden Jubilee. Commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. First performance 26 September 1978 by Ruggiero Ricci, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Walter Weller - Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool First USA performance at Michigan State University on 24 February 1980. |
| Slovak Folk Songs (1988) 25' soprano, tenor and orchestra: 2+1 2+1 2 2 / 2 2 0 0 /timp 2perc pno+cel hp / str. See also piano version |
Nine folk song arrangements dedicated to Stephen and Betty Roman. Commissioned by the Canadian Foundation of the Slovak World Congress in Toronto First performance 23 May 1989 by Marjorie Sparks (soprano), Glyn Evans (tenor) and the Toronto orchestra / Paul Robinson - Toronto, Canada UK premiere by Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Martyn Hill (tenor) and the BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth - London. |
| The Gardens of Exile (1989-90) 30' solo cello and orchestra 3+3 3+1 3+2 3+1 / 4 3 3 1 / timp 4 perc pno+cel hp/str. Cat No 890181 Commercial recording: SILKD 6011 |
Commissioned by the Western Orchestral Society with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. First performance 20 March 1991 by Peter Rejto (cello), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Howard Williams - Poole (and in Bristol, then in Southampton on the following two days) |
| Concerto for Orchestra (1994-1996) 32' 3+1 3+1 3+1 3+1 / 4 4 3 1 / timp 4perc pno+cel hp / str Cat No 890186 Commercial recording: Chandos 9915 |
Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony for their 100th Anniversary season First performance 29,30,31 March 1996 by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Edo de Waart - Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh |
| Man in the Sky - Overture (1994) 4' 2+1 2 2 2 / 4 3 3 1 / timp 2perc str. Commercial recording: Silva Screen LC7371 |
First performed and recorded by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Kenneth Alwyn |
| Gaudiana ("Symphonic Studies") (2000-2001) 25' 3+1 3+1 3+1 3+1 / 4 3 3 1 / timp 4perc pno+cel hp / str. Cat No NOV 121396 |
Commissioned and first performed by the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya at L'Auditori Barcelona (Spain) conducted by Rumon Gamba on 2, 3 and 4 December 2005. |
| Sonata for string orchestra (2004) 25' Cat No NOV 957132 |
Dedicated to the Art Historian Arthur M Hind. |
| Romancing the Strings (2015) 12' string orchestra |
Commissioned by the AFCM, Tucson, Arizona. |
| Nefertiti (2015) 2'15" string orchestra |
Written in 2015 for Martin Anderson, founder of Toccata Classics, to celebrate the life of his partner, Yodit Tekle, who died of cancer at a tragically young age leaving Martin with a son, Alex. The work, dedicated to Martin and Alex in memory of Yodit, was recorded in July 2018 on Volume 2 of Music for My Love, performed by the Ukrainian Festival Orchestra, conducted by Paul Mann on Toccata Classics TOCC 0370 |
Chamber & Instrumental |
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| Bagatelles (1945) 8' piano Cat No 100251 Commercial recording: HMV ESD 7144 |
Written for Kathleen Long First performance November 1945 by Kathleen Long - Concertgebouw, Amsterdam UK premiere in 1946 by Cor de Groot |
| Fantasia (previously entitled Dialogue) (1967) 8' cello and piano Cat No 120394 Commercial recording: TOCC 0220 |
First performance March 1968 by Adolpho Odnoposoff and Aldo Ciccolini - the Salle Pleyel, Paris, the Wigmore Hall, London and the Lincoln Center, New York |
| Sonatina (1968) 11' flute and piano Cat No 120395 |
Written for Severino Gazzelloni. First performance 6 January 1969 by Patricia Dunkerley and John McCabe - Dublin Festival of 20th Century Music UK premiere in 1971 by James Galway and Margaret Kitchin. First performance in the USA by James Galway and Philip Moll. |
| Serenade (1969) 16' violin solo Cat No 120396 |
First performance 7 January 1970 by Yossi Zivoni - Dublin Festival of 20th Century Music First public performance in London at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 16 March 1980, by Ruggiero Ricci. USA premiere at Michigan State University on 19 April 1976, by Mincho Minchev. |
| Contrasts (1973) 15' piano Cat No 100207 Commercial recording TOCC 0133 |
Commissioned by John Ogdon, and written for his series of "Virtuoso Piano Music". First performance 21 May 1973 by John Ogdon - Queen Elizabeth Hall, London USA premiere at Michigan State University on 12 November 1976 by Ivan Drennikov. |
| Leotaurus (1975) 14' piano Cat No 100221 Commercial recording TOCC 0133 |
Written for Tamas Vasary. First performance September 1975 by John Ogdon - Canberra and Sydney, Australia First performance in the UK at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 5 February 1976, by John Ogdon. |
| Two Ballades (1981-83) 17' piano Cat No 100265 |
Written in homage to Leos Janacek. First performance 19 September 1983 by Jeffrey Kahane - County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA UK premiere at the Purcell Room, London, on 25 May, 1985, by Christopher Green-Armytage. |
| Duo (1983-84) 24' violin and piano Cat No 120617 Commercial recording TOCC 0133 |
Commissioned by Earl Carlyss and Ann Schein, with additional funds provided by the US Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA. First performance 23 March 1984 by Earl Carlyss and Ann Schein - US Library of Congress, Washington DC (and at the Lincoln Center, New York, the following day) |
| Quartet No 1 (1986) 22' piano and strings Cat No 120670 Commercial recording: AZ85717 |
Commissioned by the US National Endowment for the Arts, written as an In Memoriam Hans Keller. First performance 20 July 1986 by Los Angeles Piano Quartet - Cheltenham Festival (and at the Wigmore Hall, London, the following day) New York premiere at Carnegie Hall on 6 November 1987, by the Los Angeles Piano Quartet. |
| Ariel (1987) 7' oboe solo Cat No 120714 |
First performance 30 November 1988 by Allan Vogel - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA First UK performance at the International Double Reed Society Congress, Manchester, on 14 August 1989, by Harry Sargous |
| Quartet No 2 (1997-1998) 22' piano and strings Score & parts NOV 120877 Commercial recording: PO 40802 |
Commissioned by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music for their 50th Anniversary Season First performance 6 March 1998 by Los Angeles Piano Quartet - Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival |
| Moonbird (1998) 7' flute solo or recorder solo Cat No NOV 130317 |
First performance 25 September 1999 by John Turner - University of Manchester |
| Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (2002) 14' Cat No NOV 954437 Commercial recording: TOCC 0220 |
Commissioned by the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival 2003. First performance 5 March 2004, Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival, Arizona, USA, by Richard Hawkins (clarinet), Peter Rejto (cello) and Christina Dahl (piano). UK première 10 March 2005, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, by Nicholas Cox (clarinet), Jonathan Aasgaard (cello) and Timothy Horton (piano). |
| String Quartet No 1 (2003-04) c27' Cat No NOV 957121 Commercial recording: TOCC 0220 |
First performance by the Chilingirian Quartet on 3 October 2004 at the Conway Hall in London. US première by the Chilingirian Quartet on 10 April 2005 at Irvine Barclay Theatre, California. |
| Partita for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (2005-06) 12' Cat No NOV 020779 |
Commissioned by the Verdehr Trio and Michigan State University. First performances by the Verdehr Trio at the Phillips Collection Sunday Series, Washington DC on 4 March 2007, and at the Cleveland Institute the following day. |
| Autumn Leaves (2007) c18' violin and piano Cat No NOV 957770 Commercial recording: TOCC 0133 |
First performance 17 June 2008 by Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin) and Aaron Shorr (piano) at Wilton's Music Hall, London |
| Canzonetta (2010) c4' viola and piano Cat No NOV 959409 |
An arrangement of a piece originally written in 1957 for the wedding of a friend. |
| String Quartet No 2 (2011-12) c20' Cat No NOV 162228 Commercial recording: TOCC 0220 |
First performance 12 May 2013 by the Lyris Quartet at the Los Angeles Bing Auditorium |
| Four Pastoral Preludes for Piano (2012) c10' Cat No NOV 163119 |
First performance 7 August 2013 by Mikhail Korzhev at the Beverly Hills Festival, California. |
| Two Violins (2015) c14' Cat No NOV 165374 |
Written for Alyssa Park and Shalini Vijayan. First performance 2 August 2015 by Alyssa Park and Shalini Vijayan at the Bing Auditorium, Los Angeles, California |
| Romancing the Strings (2015) 12' nonet version |
Commissioned by the AFCM, Tucson, Arizona and first performed at the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival on 20 March 2016. |
| Memento for solo piano (2016) 4' |
Commissioned by The Rawsthorne Trust in memory of John McCabe and first performed by Peter Lawson at Recital Room, RNCM, Manchester on 29 October 2016. |
Vocal & Choral |
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| Chuench'i (1966) 18' high voice and piano Cat No 170284 Commercial recording: Pye GSGC 14105, Nonesuch H-71209 See also orchestral version |
Cycle of 7 songs from the Chinese, translated by Arthur Waley. Commissioned by Marni Nixon First performance 28 June 1966 by Marni Nixon and Wilfrid Parry - Wigmore Hall, London |
| Chuench'i (1967) 18' high voice and orchestra: 3+2 2+1 2 2 / 4 2 3 0 / timp 3perc cel hp / str. Cat No 170285 See also piano version |
Cycle of 7 songs from the Chinese, translated by Arthur Waley. Commissioned by Marni Nixon First performance 10 March 1968 by Ank Reinders, RTE Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schurmann - Gaiety Theatre, Dublin (and at the City Hall, Cork, the following day) UK premiere at the Harrogate Festival on 10 August 1969, by Hazel Holt and the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra / Erich Schmid. First USA performances on 9, 10, 11 November 1972, by Marni Nixon with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, New York / Frederick Prausnitz. |
| Summer is Coming (1970) 5' SATB unaccompanied |
Madrigal. Poem by Bryan Guiness. Commissioned by the Cork International Choral Festival First performance 1 May 1970 by Heinrich Schutz Chorale / Roger Norrington - Cork |
| The Double Heart (1976) 18' SATB unaccompanied Cat No 072329 Commercial recording: BBC TS 554 |
Cantata. Text compiled from the poems of Andrew Marvell. Commissioned by the BBC First performance 28 March 1977 by BBC Singers / John Poole - St. John's Smith Square, London |
| Piers Plowman (1979-80) 50' SATB soloists, chorus and orchestra: 3+1 3+1 3+2 3 / 4 4 3 1 / timp 3perc hp cel+pno / str. Cat No 070439 (vocal score) |
Opera-cantata in 2 acts. Text by the composer after William Langland. Commissioned by Netherlands Radio, Hilversum, for their Jubilee year. First performance 22 August 1980 by Felicity Lott, Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Norman Welsby, the Festival Chorus and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / John Sanders - Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral |
| Slovak Folk Songs (1987) 25' high voice and piano Cat No 170353 See also orchestral version |
Nine folk song arrangements Commissioned by the Canadian Foundation of the Slovak World Congress in Toronto |
| Six Songs of William Blake (1956-1997) 15' voice and piano Cat No 170365 |
Commissioned by the Rawsthorne Trust in memory of the soprano Tracey Chadwell. First performance 4 July 1997 by Alison Wells (soprano) and Keith Swallow (piano) - Lichfield International Arts Festival |
Gerard Schurmann in 1997.
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