List of compositions by Arnold Bax
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This page lists the music composed by Arnold Bax:
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[edit] Works for Orchestra
Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan (1905)
Christmas Eve [tone-poem] (1912, revised c.1921)
Coronation March (1952)
Cortège (1925)
Fanfare for a Cheerful Occasion (1930)
Fanfares for ‘Show Business’, Two (1951)
Festival Overture (1911, revised 1918)
From Dusk till Dawn [ballet] (1917)
Garden of Fand , The [tone-poem] (1916)
Golden Eagle [incidental music] (1945)
Happy Forest , The [tone-poem] (1922)
Hosting at Dawn [fanfare] (1921)
In Memoriam (1916)
In the Faery Hills [tone-poem] (1909, revised 1921)
Into the Twilight [tone-poem] (1908)
Legend, A [tone-poem] (1944)
London Pageant (1937)
Malta, G.C. [film music] (1942)
Mediterranean (1922)
Northern Ballad No.1 [tone-poem] (1931)
Northern Ballad No.2 [tone-poem] (1934)
November Woods [tone-poem] (1917)
Nympholept [tone-poem] (1915)
Oliver Twist [film music] (1948)
On the Sea-Shore [orchestrated by Graham Parlett] (1908, orch. 1984)
Orchestral Pieces, Four (1912-13)
Overture, Elegy and Rondo (1927)
Overture to Adventure (1936)
Overture to a Picaresque Comedy (1930)
Pæan (1938)
Pieces for Small Orchestra, Three (1913, revised 1928)
Prelude for a Solemn Occasion (1933)
Rogue’s Comedy [overture] (1936)
Romantic Overture [for chamber orchestra] (1926)
Rosc-catha [tone-poem] (1910)
Royal Wedding Fanfares, Two (1947)
Russian Suite (1919)
Salute to Sydney [fanfare] (1943)
Sinfonietta (1932)
Song of War and Victory, A (1905)
Spring Fire (1913)
Summer Music [tone-poem] (1921, revised 1932)
Symphonic Scherzo (1917, revised 1933)
Symphony No.1 (1922)
Symphony No.2 (1926)
Symphony No.3 (1929)
Symphony No.4 (1931)
Symphony No.5 (1932)
Symphony No.6 (1935)
Symphony No.7 (1939)
Tale the Pine-Trees knew, The [tone-poem] (1931)
Tamara [ballet] (1911). Five-movement suite compiled and orchestrated by Graham Parlett (2000)
Tintagel [tone-poem] (1919)
Truth about the Russian Dancers, The [incidental music/ballet] (1920)
Variations (1904)
Variations on the name Gabriel Fauré (1949)
Variations sur ‘Cadet-Rousselle’ [orchestrated by Eugene Goossens] (1918)
Victory March (1945)
Work in Progress [overture] (1943)
[edit] Concertos
Concertante for Piano (left hand) and Orchestra (1949)
Concertante for Three Solo Instruments [Cor Anglais, Clarinet, Horn] and Orchestra (1948-9)
Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1939)
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1932)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1938)
Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex) for Piano and Orchestra (1946)
Oboe Quintet arranged for Oboe and String Orchestra [arrangement by John Barbirolli] (1922)
Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra (1920)
Saga Fragment for Piano, Trumpet, Percussion and String Orchestra (1932)
Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra (1918)
Winter Legends for Piano and Orchestra (1930)
[edit] Chamber Works
[edit] Six–nine instruments
Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Harp and String Quartet (1936)
In Memoriam (1916) for Cor Anglais, Harp and String Quartet (1917)
Menuet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and String Quartet (1898)
Nonet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Harp, String Quartet and Double Bass (1930)
Octet for Horn, Piano and String Sextet (1934)
Threnody and Scherzo for Bassoon, Harp and String Sextet (1936)
[edit] Quintets
Concerto for Harp and String Quartet [arrangement of Vivaldi’s Concerto for viola d’amore, lute and strings, RV 540] (1740, arr. 1927)
Lyrical Interlude (1908, revised 1922)
Quintet for Harp and String Quartet (1919)
Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet (1922)
Quintet for Piano and String Quartet (1915)
Quintet in G for Strings (1908)
Quintet for Strings [in one movement] (1933)
[edit] Quartets
Quartet in One Movement for Piano and Strings (1922)
Quartet for Strings in A (1902)
Quartet for Strings in E (1903)
Quartet for Strings No.1 (1918)
Quartet for Strings No.2 (1925)
Quartet for Strings No. 3 (1936)
[edit] Trios
Elegiac Trio for Flute, Viola, and Harp (1916)
Trio in B flat for Violin, Cello, and Piano (1946)
Trio in One Movement for Violin, Viola (or Clarinet), and Piano (1906)
[edit] Violin with piano
Ballad (1916, revised c.1929)
Concert Piece [arrangement of Concert Piece for Viola and Piano] (1904)
Gopak [arranged by Louis Godowsky] (1912)
Legend (1915)
Mediterranean [arranged by Jascha Heifetz] (1920)
Sonata in G minor [in one movement] (1901)
Sonata in F (1928)
Sonata No.1 (1910, revised 1915, 1920, 1945)
Sonata No.2 (1915, revised 1921)
Sonata No.3 (1927)
[edit] Viola with piano or harp
Concert Piece for Viola and Piano (1904)
Fantasy Sonata for Viola and Harp (1927)
Legend for Viola and Piano (1929)
Sonata for Viola and Piano (1922)
[edit] Cello with piano or unaccompanied
Folk-Tale for Cello and Piano (1918)
Legend-Sonata for Cello and Piano (1943)
Rhapsodic Ballad for Unaccompanied Cello (1939)
Sonata for Cello and Piano (1923)
Sonatina for Cello and Piano (1933)
[edit] Flute with piano or harp
Pieces for Flute and Piano, Four (1912)
Sonata for Flute and Harp (1928)
[edit] Clarinet with piano
Sonata in E (1901)
Sonata [in D] (1934)
[edit] Horn with piano
Sonata (1901)
[edit] Harp
Valse (1931)
[edit] Keyboard Works
[edit] Two pianos
Devil that tempted St Anthony, The (1928)
Fantasia (1900)
Festival Overture [arrangement of orchestral work] (1911)
Mediterranean [arranged for three hands by H. Rich] (1920)
Moy Mell (1916)
Hardanger (1927)
Poisoned Fountain, The (1928)
Sonata (1929)
Red Autumn (1931)
[edit] Piano solo
Apple-Blossom-Time (1915)
Burlesque (1920)
Ceremonial Dance (1920)
Clavierstücke [juvenilia] (1897-8)
Concert Valse (1910)
Concertante for Piano (left hand) and Orchestra [slow movement abridged and arranged for piano solo (both hands) by William Lloyd Webber] (1949)
Country-Tune, A (1920)
Dream in Exile (1916)
Fantasia in G, BWV 572 [Bach transcribed by Bax] (1927)
From the Mountains of Home [arranged by Peter warlock] (1913)
[Funeral] March (1900)
Happy Forest , The (1914)
Hill Tune, A (1920)
In a Vodka Shop (1915)
In the Night (1914)
Legend, A (1935)
Lullaby (1920)
Lyrical Pieces, Two (1948)
The Maiden with the Daffodil (1915)
Marcia Trionfale (1900)
Mediterranean (1920)
Mountain Mood, A (1915)
Nereid (1916)
Nympholept (1912)
O Dame get up and bake your pies (1945)
On a May Evening (1918)
Pæan (c.1928)
[Pieces, Four] (1947)
Princess’s Rose Garden, The (1915)
Romance, A (1918). Warner Chappell. 5’42.
Russian Tone-Pictures, Two (1912)
Scherzo (1913)
Serpent Dance (1920)
Slave Girl, The (1919)
Sleepy-Head (1915)
Sonata, Op.1 (1898)
Sonata in B flat (‘ Salzburg ’) (1937)
Sonata in D minor (1900)
Sonata in E flat (1921)
Sonata No.1 (1910, revised 1917-20)
Sonata No.2 (1919, revised 1920)
Sonata No.3 (1926)
Sonata No.4 (1932)
Suite on the Name Gabriel Fauré (1945)
Toccata (1913)
What the Minstrel told us (1919)
Water Music (1920)
Whirligig (1919)
White Peace, The [arranged by Ronald Stevenson] (1907)
Winter Waters (1915)
[edit] Organ solo
Note: Bax wrote no pieces for organ solo himself; these are all arrangements by others.
Coronation March [Arranged by (1) Garrett O’Brien; (2) Geoffrey M.H. Carter] (1952)
Malta , G.C.: Funeral March [arranged by W.H. Harris] (1942)
Pæan [arranged by William Barr] (c.1928)
[edit] Choral Works
[edit] Soloists and chorus with orchestra
Enchanted Summer (Shelley) [two soprano solos] (1910)
Fatherland (Runeberg, tr. C. Bax) [tenor solo] (1907, revised 1934)
To the Name above every Name (Crashaw) [soprano solo] 1924)
To Russia (Masefield) [baritone solo] (1944)
Variations sur ‘Cadet Rousselle’ (French trad.) [arranged by Max Saunders] (1918)
[edit] Chorus with orchestra
Five Fantasies on Polish Christmas Carols (trans. Jan Śliwiński) [unison trebles or other voices] (1942)
The Morning Watch (Vaughan) [SATB] (1935)
St Patrick’s Breastplate (Anon.) [SATB] (1924)
[edit] Chorus with organ
Christmas Carol, A (Anon.) [arranged by Allan Wicks for boys’ voices].
Epithalamium (Spenser) [SATB in unison] (1947)
Gloria [SATB] (1945)
Magnificat [SATB] (1948)
Nunc Dimittis [SATB] (1945)
Te Deum [SATB] (1945)
[edit] Chorus with other accompaniment
Now is the Time of Christymas (Anon.) [TB, flute, piano] (1921)
Of a rose I sing a song (Anon.) [SATB, harp, cello, double bass] (1920)
[edit] Unaccompanied chorus and hymn
- Boar’s Head, The (Anon.) [TTBB] (1923)
- Christmas Carol, A (Anon.) [arranged for SATB by Hubert Dawkes] (1909)
- Greek Folksongs, Five (trans. Michel-Dmitri Calvocoressi) [SATB] (1942)
- Happy Birthday to you (Hill) [arr. SATB] (1951)
- I sing of a maiden that is makeless (Anon.) [SAATB] (1923)
- Lord, Thou hast told us (Washbourne) [hymn for SATB] (1930)
- Mater, ora Filium (Anon.) [SSAATTBB] (1921)
- This Worldes Joie (Anon.) [SATB] (1922)
- What is it like to be young and fair? (C. Bax) [SSAAT] (1953)
[edit] WORKS FOR SOLO VOICE
[edit] Songs with orchestra
Bard of the Dimbovitza, The (Strettel and Sylva) [mezzo-soprano] (1914, partially revised 1946)
Eternity (Herrick) [high voice] (1934)
Glamour (O’Byrne) [high voice] (1921, orchestrated by Rodney Newton 1987)
Lyke-Wake, A (Anon.) [high voice] (1908, orchestrated 1934)
Nocturnes, Two [soprano] (1911)
O Dear! What can the matter be? (trad. arr. Bax)
Song of the Dagger (Strettell and Sylva) [bass] (1914)
Songs, Three [high voice] (1914)
Walsinghame, for tenor, chorus & orchestra (1926)
Wild Almond (Trench) [high voice] (1924, orchestrated 1934)
[edit] Songs with string quartet or piano trio
My eyes for beauty pine (Bridges) [high voice with string quartet] (c.1921)
O Mistress mine (Shakespeare) [high voice with string quartet] (c.1921)
Aspiration (Dehmel, trans. C. Bax) [arranged for high voice with violin, cello, and piano] (1909)
[edit] Songs with piano
Note: All the songs listed below have piano solo accompaniment, but one (‘From the Uplands to the Sea’) also exists in a version with two pianos. Durations are not given except for a few unusually long songs. Unpublished juvenilia (1900-1) are listed separately at the end.
Aspiration (Dehmel, trans. C. Bax) (1909)
Carrey Clavel (Hardy) (1925)
Celtic Song Cycle, A (Macleod) (1904, revised 1922)
Chant d’Isabeau, Le (trad. Canadian arr. Bax] (1920)
Christmas Carol, A (Anon.) (1909)
Dermott Donn MacMorna (Colum) (1922)
Dream Child ( Newton ) (c.1943)
Du Blomst i Dug (Jacobsen) (1907)
Enchanted Fiddle, The (A. Bax) (1907)
Enfantines, Trois (trad. French, trans. Agate, arr. Bax] (1918)
Eternity (Herrick) (1925)
Fairies, The (Allingham) (1905)
Far in a Western Brookland (Housman) (1918)
Flute, The (Bjørnsen, trans. Gosse) (1907)
From the Hills of Dream (Macleod) (1907)
From the Uplands to the Sea (Macleod) 1905)
Garden by the Sea, The (Morris) (1909)
Glamour (O’Byrne) (1921)
Golden Guendolen (Morris) (1905)
Grand Match, The (O’Neill) (1903)
Green Branches (Macleod) 1905)
Green grow the Rashes O! (Burns) (1918)
Heart o’Beauty (Macleod) (1907)
Hushing Song, A (Macleod) (1906)
I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden (Shelley) (1906)
I have house and land in Kent [trad. arr. Bax] (1918)
I heard a Soldier (Trench) (1924)
I know myself no more, my child (AE) (1916)
In the Morning (Housman) (1926)
In the Silences of the Woods (Macleod)
Irish Songs, Five (1921)
Irish Songs, Three (Colum) (1922)
Isla (Macleod) (1908)
Jack and Jone (Campion) [Thomas Campion arr. Bax] (1918)
Landskab (Jacobsen) 1908)
Leader, A (AE) (1916)
Leaves, Shadows and Dreams (Macleod) (1905)
Longing (Macleod) (1907)
Lullaby, A (MacCarthy) (1910)
Lyke-Wake Dirge, A (Anon.) (1908)
Magnificat (1906)
Maid and the Miller, The [trad. arr. Bax] (1918)
Marguerite (Morris) (1909)
Market Girl, The (Hardy) (1922)
Milking Sian , A (Macleod) (1907)
My Eyes for Beauty pine (Bridges) (c.1920)
O Dear! What can the matter be? [trad. arr. Bax] (1918)
O Mistress mine (Shakespeare) (1916)
On the Bridge (Hardy) (1926)
Out and Away (Stephens) (1926)
Parting (AE) (1916)
Rabelaisian Catechism, A (trad. French) (1920)
Rondels, Three (Chaucer) (1914)
Shieling Song (Macleod) (1908)
Song in the Twilight, The (F. Bax) (1905)
Songs from the Norse, Three (1927)
Splendour falls, The (Tennyson) (1917)
Spring Rain (Frühlingsregen) (Rückert) (1910)
To Éire (Cousins) (1910)
To my Homeland (Gwynn) (1904)
Tote Kind, Das (Meyer) (1911)
Traditional Songs of France [arr. Bax] (1920)
Treue Liebe (Anon. German) 1911)
Variations sur ‘Cadet-Rousselle’ [trad. French arr. in collaboration with Bridge, Goossens and Ireland] (1918)
Viking-Battle-Song (Mircath) (Macleod) (1905)
Watching the Needleboats (Joyce) (c.1931)
When I was one-and-twenty (Housman) 1918)
When we are lost (O’Byrne) (1905)
White Peace, The (Macleod) (1907)
Wild Almond (Trench) (1924)
Youth (C. Bax) (1918)
Unpublished juvenilia (1900-1)
Note: Titles have been supplied in brackets for untitled songs.
[Archy’s Song] (Shelley)
Cytherea’s Day (Gray)
I love thee! ( Anderson )
[I will dream] (C. Bax)
[If I but knew] (Unknown)
Indian Serenade, An (Shelley)
Music when soft voices die (Shelley)
Phillida and Corydon (Breton)
[Say, Myra !] (Lyttleton)
Serenade of Spring-time, An (Unknown)
Soldier’s Dream, The (T. Campbell)
Songs of the Four Seasons (1) It was a lover (Shakespeare).
(2) In summer-time (Unknown). Incomplete.
To Daffodils (Herrick)
To Phyllis (Lodge)
To the Cuckoo (Wordsworth)
To the Moon (Shelley)
[To the Virgins] (Herrick)
Wanting is—what? (Browning)
[Why we love and why we hate] (Philips)
[edit] Recitations with piano
Blessed Damozel, The (D.G. Rossetti) (1906)
Corbies, The Twa (trad.) (1906)
[edit] INCOMPLETE, UNORCHESTRATED, AND MISSING WORKS
[edit] Orchestral
Ballade (1921). This orchestration by Bax of Chopin’s Ballade in A flat, Op. 47 (transposed into A) was last performed in 1931. Missing.
Ballet Suite (1901) . Two movements completed in short score only. British Library.
Carnival (c.1907). Short-score sketches only. Privately owned.
Connemara Revel, A (An Irish Overture) (1905). Last performed in 1906. Missing.
Dance Prelude and Lament of the Swan-Princess (1918). These orchestrations by Bax of Liadov’s Prelude, Op. 11 No. 1 and Sur la prairie, Op. 23 were made for Diaghilev’s ballet Children’s Tales (Contes Russes) and last performed in 1920. Missing.
Fanfares, Two [brass, percussion and organ] (1943). Written for a ‘Red Army Celebration’ at the Royal Albert Hall and last performed in 1943. Missing. A recording of one is extant.
Frog-Skin, The [ballet] (1918). No performance traced. Missing.
Journey into History [film score] (1951). Last performed in 1951. Missing, but the soundtrack, the piano score (British Library), and some string parts (BBC Music Library) are extant, the last currently mislaid. Three movements have been reconstructed by Graham Parlett (2.2.2.2. 4.2.3.0. timp., b.d., cym., glock., strings).
Love-Song (1901). Completed in short score only. British Library.
Prelude to Adonais (1912). Last performed in 1912. Missing.
Song of Life and Love, A (1905). ‘Tone-poem for full orchestra’. Missing.
Symphonietta (c.1911). Eight pages of the finale are extant in short score only. Privately owned. No connection with the later Sinfonietta (1932).
Symphonische Dichtung nach ‘Rubaiyat’ von Omar Khayyam (1898). Incomplete and in short score only. British Library.
Symphony in F (1907). Four movements completed in short score only. Boole Library.
Tamara (1911). Completed in short score only. Boole Library. Suite arranged and orchestrated by Graham Parlett (see section I).
[edit] Projected operas
Deirdre (1907). Libretto by Bax completed (unpublished). Prologue orchestrated as Into the Twilight, ‘The Gathering of the Chiefs’ as Rosc-catha, and the Prelude to Scene 5 as On the Sea-Shore (orchestrated by Graham Parlett). No other music extant.
Red Owen (c.1915). Libretto by Bax published by The Talbot Press Ltd., Dublin , 1919. Only a few sketches extant: Boole Library.
[edit] Chamber works
Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan for Two Violins and Piano (1904). Last performed in 1904. Missing. Probably an arrangement of the slow movement of the String Quartet in E, later orchestrated as the tone-poem Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan.
Sonata No.2 for Viola and Piano (1934). Only one folio extant, containing the last page of the slow movement and the first page (crossed through) of the finale. The material from the slow movement appears in the equivalent movement of the Sixth Symphony, suggesting that the latter may be an orchestration of the complete sonata movement.
Trio in B flat minor for Violin, Cello, and Piano (1901). A projected four-movement work of which only the first movement (privately owned) and sketches for the third movement (British Library) are extant (or were written).
[edit] Solo piano works
Devil that tempted St Anthony, The (1920). Listed in early editions of Grove’s Dictionary and elsewhere. Missing. Later arranged for two pianos (q.v.).
Mask (1912). Listed in early editions of Grove’s Dictionary and elsewhere. Missing.
Red Autumn (1912). Missing. Later arranged for two pianos (q.v.).
Sonata (1913). Only the Scherzo extant (British Library).
Sonata in D minor (1911). First movement performed in 1911. Missing. Possibly an early version of the First Sonata (1910-21).
Variations in G minor (1897). Incomplete. British Library. Different from the following.
Variations on an Air in G minor (1897). Incomplete. British Library.
[edit] Choral works
St George (Masefield) [pageant-play] (1947). Baritone, chorus, organ, and orchestra. Almost completed short score (c.20’30) extant: British Library. Probably never finished or orchestrated.
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The (Browning) [cantata] (c.1901?). Known only from its mention in Francis Colmer’s memoirs. Nothing extant.
Tegnér’s Drapa (Longfellow) (1901). Chorus and orchestra. Only the opening two pages of vocal score extant: British Library. Probably never completed.
[edit] Vocal works
[edit] With orchestra
Rune of Age (Macleod) (1905). Known only from an early list of Bax’s works.
Splendour falls, The (Tennyson) (1912-17, orchestrated 1934). Known only from Grove’s Dictionary (5th edn.). Version for voice and piano extant.
Viking-Battle-Song (Macleod) (1905). Known only from an early list of Bax’s works. A version for voice and piano is extant in two manuscripts, one entitled Mircath.
[edit] With piano
Note: Most of the following songs are known only from published lists of Bax’s works.
Beloved, even in Dreams (Rückert) (1909)
Blow, northern wind (Anon.) (c.1925?)
Bridal Prayer, The (Dehmel) (1911)
Butterflies all white (Coppée, trans. Davidson) (1896). Note: According to Bax’s sister, Evelyn, this was his first work.
Carols, Three [trad. French arr. Bax] (1926): (1) Haut, haut, Peyrot [baritone and piano]. (2) Laisse-quy tas aiffares [contralto and piano]. (3) Guillô, pran ton tamborin [voice and piano with flute and tambourine]. These were last performed in 1930.
Dance-Ring, The (Bierbaum) (1909)
Echo (C. Rossetti) (c. 1906)
Enlightenment (Dehmel) (1909)
Faith (Rückert) (1911)
Flight (Dehmel) (1911)
For Love’s Sake (Jonson) (c.1906)
Freimund (Rückert) (1911). Note: Title dubious. ‘Freimund Raimar’ was a pen-name used by Rückert, not the title of a poem.
Garden Song (A. Bax) (1906)
Go, lovely Rose (Waller) (1917)
Home (Dehmel) (1909)
Ideala (Dehmel) (1909). Note: Title may have been wrongly recorded; perhaps ‘Das Ideal’.
Journey, The (Dehmel) (1911)
Kingdom, The (Rückert) (1907)
Love-Ode (Hartleben) (1909). Note: Orchestral version (‘Liebesode’) extant.
Midsummer (C. Bax) (1918)
Rune of Age (Macleod) (1905). Note: Orchestral version also missing.
Summer Night (A. Bax) (1906)
Wood-Lake, The (Leuthold) (1908).
