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| OPUS | TITLE |
INSTRUMENTATION |
COMPOSITION DATE |
DURATION |
PUBLISHER |
| 1 | Suite No. 1 | String orchestra | 1941-2 | Stainer & Bell | |
| 2 | Night Music | Chamber orchestra | 1943 | Stainer & Bell | |
| 3 | Vigil | Piano | 1944 | Lengnick | |
| 4 | Suite No. 2 | String orchestra | 1944 | Stainer & Bell | |
| 5 | Piano Concerto No. 1 | Piano and orchestra | 1944 | Lengnick | |
| 6 | Quintet | Bassoon & strings | 1945 | Stainer & Bell | |
| 7 | 2nd Nocturne | Chamber orchestra | 1946 | Stainer & Bell | |
| 8 | Intermezzo | Chamber ensemble | 1946 | Stainer & Bell | |
| 9 | 2 Songs of A.E. Housman | Voice & piano | 1946 | Stainer & Bell | |
| 10 | Ballade | Piano | 1947 | Stainer & Bell | |
| 11 | "Put away the Flutes" (W. Rodgers) |
Voice & 6 instruments | 1947 | Lengnick | |
| 12 | Quartet | Violin, clarinet, viola, bassoon | 1948 | Lyche, Oslo | |
| 13 | Fuga Giocosa | Orchestra | 1948 | Stainer & Bell | |
| 14 | Threnos & Toccata | Piano | 1948 | Lengnick | |
| 15 | Gold Coast Customs | Speakers, male chorus & orchestra | 1949 | Lengnick | |
| 16 | Passacaglietta in nomine Arnold Schoenberg | String quartet | 1949 | Lengnick | |
| 17 | Overture to a Drama | Orchestra | 1949 | Stainer & Bell | |
| 18 | Poem | 22 strings | 1950 | Stainer & Bell | |
| 19 | Gondoliera | Cor anglais & piano | 1950 | 3' |
Schott ED 10529* |
| 20 | The Riverrun (James Joyce) | Speaker & orchestra Soloist: speaker 2(pic).2(ca)2(bcl).2(cbn) -4.2.3.1-timp.perc-pno(cel). hp-str |
1951 | 30' |
Schott Material on hire |
| OPUS | TITLE |
INSTRUMENTATION |
COMPOSITION DATE |
PREMIERE |
DURATION |
PUBLISHER |
| 21 | Sonata | Piano | 1951 | O.U.P. | ||
| 22 | The Shadow of Cain (Edith Sitwell) | Speakers, male chorus & orchestra 2.2.2.2-4.2.3.1- timp.perc-str |
1952 | 25' | Schott Material on hire |
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| 23 | Symphony No. 1 | Orchestra2(pic).2.2(bcl). 2(cbn) -4.2.3.1 -timp.perc-str |
1952-3 | Dedicated to Hermann Scherchen | 25' | Schott Study score: AV 55(min.) Material on hire |
| 24 | Concertante | Piano, strings & percussion | 1954 | 6' | Schott Study score: AVV 61 Material on hire |
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| 25 | 3 Songs of Jocelyn Brooke | Voice & piano | 1954 | 18' | Faber Piano score 50163 X on sale |
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| 25 bis | 3 Songs of Jocelyn Brooke | High Voice & ensemble of 13 players 1.picc.1.1.bcl.1(=cbsn) - 1100 - harp (or pno) -vln.vla.vlc.db |
1954 | 18' | Faber full score and parts for hire |
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| 26 | Divertimento | Flute & piano or strings Improvisata - Scherzo - Aria - Giga |
1954 | for Rolf and Maria Ermeler | 8' | Schott Piano reduction: ED 10474 Material on hire |
| 27 | Piano Concerto No. 2 | Piano & orchestra Soloist: piano 2(pic)2.2.2-4.2.3.1-timp. 3perc-str |
1955 | 23' | Schott Piano reduction: ED 10397* Material on hire |
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| 28 | Aubade | Horn & strings | 1955 | Dennis Brain, 1955 Aldeburgh Festival | Schott Piano reduction: ED 10500*Material on hire |
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| 29 | Suite (Variations - Nocturne - Scherzo/Valse) |
Piano | 1955 | Dedicated to Natasha Litvin | 6' | Schott ED 10547 (Contemporary British Piano Music) |
| 30 | Les Noctambules Ballet in 1 Act | Orchestra | 1956 | 30' | Schott Material on hire |
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| 30a | Les Noctambules Suite | Orchestra 3(pic).2.2.2-4.3.3.1- timp.4perc-pno (cel).hp-str |
1956 | 14' | Schott Material on hire |
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31 |
Toccata alla Passacaglia | Organ | 1957 | 5' | Schott ED 10580* |
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| 32 | Suite(Prelude - Scherzo/Fugue - Rhapsody - March - Hora) | Clarinet in B flat & piano | 1956 | Written for the Attingham Summer School 1956 | 11' | SchottED 10487* |
| 33 | Symphony No. 2 | Orchestra 2(pic).2.2.2-4.2.3. 1-timp.3perc-cel.pno-str |
1956-8 | October 1958 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Pritchard. |
20' | Schott Study score: ED 10711* Material on hire |
| 34 | Variations & Finale | Chamber ensemble - ten instruments - pic.ob.cl.bn-hn- 2vn.va.vc.db |
1958 | Written for the Virtuoso Chamber Ensemble | 18' | Schott Study score: ED 10628 (min.) Material on hire |
| 34a | The Great Peacock ballet in one act (from Op 34) | Orchestra | 1958 | Schott Material on hire |
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| 35 | The Diary of a Madman chamber opera in 1 act (Humphrey Searle after Nikolai Gogol) |
4 singers, chamber orchestra | 1958 | 3 October 1958 Members of the "Studio der Städtischen Oper" with Theo Altmeyer in the title role conducted by Hermann Scherchen, Ernst-Reuter-Saal, Berlin. Co-commissioned by the Berliner Festwochen with financial support from the Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
20' | Schott Vocal score: ED 10686* Libretto: ED 10686-01* Material on hire |
| 36 | Symphony No. 3 | Orchestra 3.3.3.3-4.2.3. 1-timp.3perc-str |
1959-60 | early September 1960 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Pritchard, Usher Hall, Edinburgh. |
22' | Schott Material on hire Musica Viva |
| 37 | 3 Movements | String quartet | 1960 | Schott | ||
| 38 | Symphony No. 4 | Orchestra 2(pic).2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn) -4.2.3.1-timp. 3-4perc-pno(cel).hp-str |
1962 | 8 November 1962 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer, Town Hall, Birmingham .Commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with funds provided by the Feeney Trust. |
20' | Schott material on hire |
| 39 | Dualities, Ballet in 6 Scenes | Orchestra | 1963 | 20' | Schott Material on hire |
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| 40 | Counting the Beats (Robert Graves) |
Voice & piano | 1963 | 16.7.63, Royal Court Theatre: Gerard English. Commissioned by & written for the 1963 Poetry Book Festival |
4' | Faber 50057 9 (fp) on sale |
| OPUS | TITLE |
INSTRUMENTATION |
COMPOSITION DATE |
PREMIERE |
DURATION |
PUBLISHER |
| 41 | The Photo of the Colonel, opera (Eugène Ionesco) |
Singers, chorus & orchestra Bergenger - bass, Architect - baritone, Dany, the Architect's Secretary -soprano, The Drunk bass, Patron of the Bistro, baritone, First Old Man -baritone, Second Old Man - bass, Concierge - contralto, Postman - speaking role, Edouard, Berenger's Friend - high baritone, Mother Pipe - contralto, Old Man with White Beard - baritone, Two Policemen - baritones, Soldier - baritone, The Killer - speaking role Mixed chorus (act 1 only) 2(2pic)2(ca).2(bcl,asax). 2(cbn) -2.2.2.1-timp.3perc-pno/ cel. hp-tape-str |
1964 | Broadcast premiere 8 March 1964. First staged performance by the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main (Director: Hans Neugebauer, Conductor: Wolfgang Rennert), 3 June 1964 Dedicated to Fiona Searle. Commissioned by the BBC. |
105' | Schott Vocal score: ED 10869* Libretto: ED 10869-01* Material on hire |
| 42 | Song of the Sun (Neuhuatl poems - transl. Irene Nicholson) |
Chorus SATB unaccompanied |
1964 | 7 July 1964 BBC Singers conducted by Alan G. Melvilleat a BBC Invitation Concert, Cheltenham Festival, Town Hall, Cheltenham Commissioned by the BBC |
12' | Schott ED 10905 |
| 43 | Symphony No.5 | Orchestra 2(2pic).2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn) -4.2.3.1-timp.3-4 perc-pno(cel).hp-str |
1964 | 7 October 1964 Hallé Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Leonard, Free Trade Hall, Manchester. In Memory of Anton Webern. |
25' | Schott Study score: ED 10926 Material on hire |
| 44 | Scherzi | Small orchestra 2(pic).2.2.2-2.2.0.0 -perc-str |
1964 | 9' | Schott Material on hire |
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| 45 | Prelude on a Theme of Alan Rawsthorne | Piano | 1965 | 4' | Faber A4 score (fp) 50209 1 on sale |
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| 46 | The Canticle of the Rose (Edith Sitwell) | Unaccompanied double SATB chorus |
1965 | Commissioned by Lady Dorothy Mayer for the Cork International Choral FestivalFP: 7.5.66, Cork International Choral Festival: Choir of St Mary's Priory/de Rivera | 11' | Faber Score (fp) 50056 0 on sale |
| 47 | Oxus - Scena (Matthew Arnold) | high voice & orchestra 2(=picc).2(II=ca).2(II=bcl). 2(II=cbsn) - 4231 - timp -perc(4): 4 tam-t/vib/SD/TD/BD/ susp.cym/whip/glsp - pno (2 players: I on keyboard II on strings also=cel) -cimbalom (or harpsichord) - harp - strings |
1967 | FP: 31.8.67, BBC Promenade Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London: New Philharmonia Orchestra /Gerald English /del Mar Commissioned by the BBC |
6' | Faber Full score and parts for hire |
| 48 | Hamlet, opera in 3 acts (Text: William Shakespeare (Eng/Ger)) | Singers, male chorus & orchestra 2(=picc) .2.2(I=asax.II=bcl). 2(II=cbsn) - 4.2.(2).3.1 -timp - perc(4): timp/TD/SD/BD/cyms/4 tam-t/xyl/glsp/vib/whip/bell - pno(=cel) - organ - cimbalom - harp - strings |
1965-8 | March 1968, Hamburg State Opera House: Hamburg State Opera | 155' | Faber Full score, vocal score and parts for hire |
48a |
Hamlet Suite(Text: William Shakespeare (Eng/Ger)) | baritone and orchestra or orchestra alone 2(=picc).2.2(II=bcl). 2(II=cbsn) - 4231 - perc(4): timp/SD/TD/BD/glsp/vib/(xyl) /3 tam-t/susp.cym - pno - harp- strings |
1968 | 15' | Faber Full score and parts for hire |
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| 49 | Sinfonietta | chamber ensemble - 9 instruments - 1(=picc).1.1.1 - 1000 - vln.vla.vlc.db |
1969 | May 1970, Lincoln Center of Performing Arts: Julliard School of Music Commissioned by the Lincoln Center of Performing Arts to celebrate the opening of the Julliard School's premises in the Center | 18' | Faber Full score and parts for hire |
| 50 | Ophélie (Rimbaud) | Voice & piano | 1969 | Blackwell | ||
| 51 | I have a New Garden | Chorus unaccompanied | 1969 | Novello | ||
| 52 | Jerusalem (Blake) | Speakers, tenor solo, chorus & orch. |
1970 | MS | ||
| 53 | Zodiac Variations | Small orchestra0.2(II=ca). 0.0 - 2000 - strings |
1970 | FP: 7.7.70, Cheltenham Arts Festival: Orchestra Nova Commissioned by the Cheltenham Arts Festival with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain |
10' | Faber Full score and parts for hire |
| 54 | Divertimento | Seven Clarinets Ebcl.3(III=basset horn). 2 bcl.cbcl(or cbsn) |
1970 | 6' | Faber A4 facsimile score (fp) 55617 5 and parts (fp) 55618 3 | |
| 55 | The Donkey (G.K. Chesterton) | Voice & piano | 1971 | Blackwell | ||
| 56 | Labyrinth | Orchestra 3(I=picc+afl.II+III=picc). 3(III=ca). 3(I=Ebcl.II=asax.III=bcl). 2.cbsn - 4331 - timp - perc(5): 2 BD/5 wdbl/mcas/ant.cym/mar/3 tom-t/tgl/4 susp.cym/vib/glsp/TD/SD/ xyl/c.bell/ jingles/whip/2 tam-t/2 anvil/t.bells/ 3bongos/cyms - pno - organ - harp - strings |
1971 | FP: 18.11.71, Birmingham Town Hall: CBSO/Fremaux Commissioned by the Feeney Trust |
20' | Faber Full score and parts for hire |
| 57 | Fantasia | Cello & piano | 1971 | Faber Piano score and part (fp) 55299 4 on sale |
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| 58 | Les Fleurs du Mal (Baudelaire) | Voice, horn & piano | 1972 | Blackwell | ||
| 59 | Fantasy-Toccata | Organ | 1973 | Faber | ||
| 60 | Kubla Khan (Coleridge) | Tenor solo, chorus & orchestra | 1974 | Faber |
| OPUS | TITLE |
INSTRUMENTATION |
COMPOSITION DATE |
PREMIERE |
DURATION |
PUBLISHER |
| 61 | Five | Guitar solo | 1974 | FP: 29.1.75, QEH: Julian Bream |
19' | Faber A4 score (fp) 50515 5 on sale |
| 62 | Rhyme Rude to my Pride (James Michie) |
Male chorus unaccompanied | 1974 | MS | ||
| 63 | Nocturnall (Donne) |
Voice & piano | 1974 | Blackwell | ||
| 64 | Il Penseroso e L'Allegro (after Milton) |
Cello & piano | 1974 | MS | ||
| 65 | Skimbleshanks, the Railway Cat (T.S.Eliot) |
Baritone solo, chorus & orchestra | 1975 | Faber | ||
| 66 | Contemplations (Anne Bradstreet) |
Mezzo-soprano & chamber orchestra 2(=picc)2.2.2 - 2200 - perc(1): timp/BD/glsp/tgl/SD/TD/susp.cym/xyl - harpsichord - strings (min 4.3.2.2.1) 1975 | 21.4.76, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: The Clarion Concerts Orchestra Commissioned by the Clarion Music Society in honour of the American Bicentennial |
20' | Faber - Full score and parts for hire |
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| 67 | My Beloved Spake (Song of Solomon) |
Chorus & organ | 1976 | MS | ||
| 68 | Fantasia on British Airs | 5 Military bands | 1976 | MS | ||
| 69 | Dr Faustus (Robert Nye) | Singers, chorus & orchestra | 1977 | MS | ||
| 70 | The Serpent Son (Oresteia) | Speakers, chorus & orchestra | 1978-9 | MS | ||
| 71 | Tamesis | Orchestra | 1979 | MS | ||
| 72 | Prelude, Nocturne & Chase | 4 Horns | 1979 | 5.4.80, Guildhall School of Music: Royal College of Music Horn Ensemble/Bake |
8' | Faber Score and parts (fp) 50634 8 on sale |
| 73 | 2 Sitwell Songs | Voice & piano | 1980 | MS | ||
| 74 | The Apollonian Whale | Voice, cello & piano | 1980 | Whalesound, Can | ||
| 75 | A Winchester Overture | Orchestra | 1981 | MS | ||
| 76 | Cyprus Dances | Organ | 1981 | MS | ||
| 77 | Three Ages | Orchestra | 1982 | MS |
WITHOUT OPUS NUMBER
| TITLE | INSTRUMENTATION | COMPOSED | PREMIERE | DURATION | PUBLISHER |
| Highland Reel | Orchestra | 1946 | Stainer & Bell | ||
| The Owl and the Pussycat (Lear) | Speaker & 3 instruments | 1951 | O.U.P. | ||
| 2 Practical Cats (Eliot) | As above | 1953 | O.U.P. | ||
| Song of the Birds | Chorus unaccompanied | 1963 | Novello | ||
| Burn-Up (Royston Ellis) | Speaker & ensemble | 1962 | Schott | ||
| A Little Hymn to Mary | Chorus unaccompanied SATB | 1966-7 | 3' | Faber - Score (fp) 55422 9 on sale |
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| From "The Divine Narcissus" | Chorus unaccompanied | 1969 | Novello | ||
| Cat Variations - variations on the theme from 'Peter and the Wolf' | Clarinet & piano | 1971 | April 1972, BBC Broadcast: Alan Hacker/Paul Hamburger. Commissioned by the BBC for a programme of T.S. Eliot's 'Practical Cats' |
6' | Faber - Piano score and part 50130 3 on sale |
| A Little Waltz | Violin & piano | 1972 | MS | ||
| Three Romantic Pieces | Violin & piano | 1976 | MS |
ARRANGEMENTS
| ARNE. | Rule Britannia! | Tenor, chorus & orchestra | 1947 | Stainer & Bell |
| ADAM. | Giselle | (original Small orchestra version) | 1970 | Faber |
| LISZT. | Csardas Macabre | orchestra | 1948 | Stainer & Bell |
| LISZT. |
La lugubre gondola | orchestra | 1963 | Schott |
| LISZT. | Sonata in B minor | (Ballet, Marguerite & Armand) | 1963 | Schott |
| ROSEINGRAVE | 3 Pieces | string orchestra | 1939 | Faber |
MUSIC FOR STAGE
Favonia (Lesley Storm)
Out of this World
Troilus and Cressida (RSC)
The Duchess of Malfi (RSC)
TV PLAYS
Monsieur Barnett (Anouilh)
To the Frontier (Giles Cooper)
Epic '66
Henry 1V (Pirandello)
As A Man Grows Older (Svevo)
The Pistol Shot (Pushkin)
The Monsters
The Serpent Son (Aeschylus)
RADIO FEATURES AND PLAYS
Night Thoughts (David Gascoyne)
The Diary of a Madman (Gogol)
The Renegade (Camus)
A Gentle Creature (Dostoievsky)
Lenz (Buchner)
The Dynasts (Thomas Hardy)
Valse (Schehade)
Paradox, King
Antony and Cleopatra
The Masque of Falsehood (Peter Gurney)
The Pallingham Depression (Frederick Bradnum)
The Foundling (Peter Gurney)
A Lonely Place in a Dark Wood (Bradnum)
The Questionable Child (Bradnum)
No Going Home (Bradnum)
The Devil's Jig (Thomas Mann/Robert Nye)
Gulliver's Travels
Rosenberg in the Trenches (Bradnum)
FEATURE FILMS
Beyond Mombasa
The Baby and the Battleship
The Passionate Stranger
The Action of the Tiger
The Abominable Snowman
Right, Left and Centre
October Moth
Law and Disorder
The Haunting
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Foothold on Antarctica
Antarctic Crossing
Land of Mountain and Fjord
Holiday in Norway
The Road to M.I.S.
Ahmadi Cargo
The Desert is Green
O for Oxygen
A Light in Nature
Greek Sculpture
The Tide of Traffic
Woodland Harvest
Storm Cone
BOOKS
20th Century Counterpoint (1954, London; 2nd impression 1955)
The Music of Liszt (1954 & 1956, London; revised ed. New York 1967)
Ballet Music - An Introduction (1958, London; rev. ed. New York 1973, 1974)
20th Century Composers: Britain and Holland (1972, London)
EDITED
Arnold Schoenberg: Structural Functions of Harmony (1954, London)
TRANSLATED
Josef Rufer: Composition with 12 Notes (London 1954)
H.H. Stuckenschmidt: Arnold Schoenberg. (London 1959)
Hector Berlioz: A Selection from his Letters (London 1966)
Friedrich Wildgans: Anton Webern (London 1966)
Walter Kolneder: Anton Webern (London 1968)
H.H. Stuckenschmidt: Arnold Schoenberg, his Life, World and Work. (London 1977)
ARTICLES
Contributions to:-
Encyclopaedia Britannica;
Chambers' Encyclopaedia,
Dictionary of National Biography;
Grove's Dictionary of Music (4th, 5th and 6th Edition,)
The Listener, The Musical Times and numerous other periodicals.
DISCOGRAPHY
Aubade for horn & strings. Barry Tuckwell/New Philharmonia/Del Mar. Argo. LP
Symphony No. 1 LPO/Boult. Symphony No. 2. LPO/Krips. Lyrita SRCS 72 LP
Symphony No.2. Op. 33; Symphony No.3 Op. 36; Symphony No.5 Op. 43. CPO 7434525 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra /Alun Francis CD
PUBLISHERS
SCHOTT
Ulrike Muller
Manager, New Media
Schott & Co. Ltd - Music Publishers
48 Gt Marlborough Street, UK - London W1V 2BN
Tel: +44 (171) 437 6031
Fax: +44 (171) 287 1529
FABER
Tim Brooke
Promotion Manager
tel: (+44) (0) 171 833 7911
fax: (+44) (0) 171 833 7939
e-mail: tim_brooke@fabermusic.co.uk
http://www.fabermusic.co.uk
FOOTNOTE March 2003
Dear Mr Mullenger
On your website, I notice that Stainer & Bell are listed as publishers of
works by Humphrey Searle. Unfortunately we have no record of Suite No.1,
Suite No.2, Quintet, Nocturne No.2 or Fuga Giocosa. However, you might like
to know that hire material is available from us for the following works:Intermezzo (not in current catalogue, but parts can be made available)
Night Music
Overture to a Drama
Poem
Highland ReelThe following works are no longer in print, but we can supply authorised
photocopies through our 'Made-to-Order' service:2 Songs of A.E. Hausman
BalladeI hope the above is of interest. Please contact me if you would like any
further information.Yours sincerely
Caroline Holloway
Archive Librarian--
Caroline Holloway
Stainer & Bell Ltd, 23 Gruneisen Road, London, England N3 1DZ
http://www.stainer.co.uk Tel. 44 020 8343 3303 Fax. 44 020 8343 3024
Registered in England No. 95905
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