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ANTHONY GILBERT (b. 1934) WORKS IN DATE ORDER: CLICK ON TITLES FOR FULL DETAILS Unless otherwise indicated, all works written between 1962 and 1994 are available from SCHOTT & Co. Ltd., 48 Great Marlborough St., London W1V 2BN, info@schott-music.com Works written since April 1994 (i.e. those after Ziggurat) are available from THE UNIVERSITY of YORK MUSIC PRESS, YO10 5DD, philip@uymp.co.uk Other works, as marked, are available from FORSYTH MUSIC PUBLISHING DIVISION, 126 Deansgate, Manchester M3 2GR, U.K. recordermusic@forsyths.co.uk For information on works in manuscript, marked (MS), contact gilbert@halifenu.demon.co.uk NOTES ON WHAT FOLLOWS *These little piano pieces now form part of People Pieces, 2003 **These little recorder pieces now form part of Farings, 2000 Indicated durations are rounded up to the nearest minute | ||
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COMPOSITIONS 1961 Elegy for piano (MS) 6’ Strophics for violin & piano (MS) 7' 1962 Duo for violin and viola (MS) (reworked & retitled 2008) 10’ 1963
Serenade for 6 instruments (lost) 16’ 1965 Missa Brevis for unaccompanied choir 7’ Sinfonia for chamber orchestra 10' Assonants 1 for SATB soli + clarinet & horn (MS) 3' 1966 Regions for two orchestras (score published by Central Music Library) 14' Three War Poems for chorus (MS) Piano Sonata no.2 (piano 4-hands) 25’ 1967 Brighton Piece for 8 players 13’ Nine or Ten Osannas for 5 players 20'-30’ 1968 The Incredible Flute Music for flute and piano (Peal I) 11’ Peal II for big band 9’ Shepherd Masque for young voices (Novello) 3’ Spell Respell for electric basset clarinet and piano 12’ 1969 Mother for solo cello and ensemble 14’ (withdrawn) Treatment of Silence for violin and tape 11’ 1970 Love Poems for soprano and instrumental ensemble (2 versions) 10’ The Scene-Machine one-act opera, libretto by George MacBeth 50’ 1971 Cantata: the man who tried to hijack an airliner 16’ (withdrawn) O’Grady Music for clarinet, cello and toy instruments 24’ 1972 String Quartet with Piano Pieces (also exists in version for string quartet alone) 17’ / 22’ Little Piano Pieces (from above, performable as a separate work) 8’ 1973 Symphony (incorporates modified version of Regions) 39’ Canticle I (Rock-Song), for wind instruments 9’ 1974 Canticle II (Anger) for 6 male voices 6’ Ghost and Dream Dancing for orchestra 19’ 1975 Inscapes for soprano, speaking voice and small ensemble 30’ 1976 Crow-Cry for chamber orchestra 20’ Welkin for orchestra 11’ 1977 The Chakravaka-Bird radio opera (libretto trans. from Indian sources by A. K. Ramanujan, Daniel H. H. Ingalls and A. Gilbert) (contact composer) 77’ 1978 Towards Asâvari for piano and chamber orchestra 22’ 1979 Canticle I (Rock-Song) version 2, for woodwind, horns, harp & piano 9' Calls around Chungmori for chamber ensemble and participating audience 15’ 1980 Long White Moonlight for soprano and electric double bass 18’ 1981 Vasanta with Dancing for chamber ensemble (dancer optional) 17’ Crow Undersongs for solo viola 11’ Chant of Cockeye Bob for children’s voices and instruments 14’ Koonapippi for youth orchestra 6’ Sunrising for oboe and piano (commissioned and published by Forsyth Bros. Ltd., Manchester) 3’ Bendigo Match for wind band (MS) 3' Concert Fanfare for Strathfieldsaye for 5 brass and 2 perc. (MS) 1' Little Fantasy on Gold-digger Melodies for flute and string quartet (MS) 4' Little Dance of Barrenjoey for fl.,cl., vla, vc. (MS) 2’ Victorian Round for any number of voices (MS) 1982 Two Birds by Kuring-Gai for horn and piano (commissioned and published by Forsyth) 6’ 1983 Moonfaring for cello and percussion 19'-30’ 1984 Dawnfaring for viola and piano 15’ Quartet of Beasts for 3 wind instruments and piano 13’ Beastly Jingles for soprano and instrumental ensemble 11’ O alter Duft for solo piano (withdrawn) 1985 Six of the Bestiary for saxophone quartet 12’ Funtoons: children’s pieces for piano (MS) 8’ 1986 Fanfarings for 6 and 8 brass instruments (MS) 5 x 1’ 1987 String Quartet II (revised 2003) 19’ String Quartet III super hoqueto 'David' 7’ 1988 Peal III for piano (MS) 2’ Peal IV for organ (MS) 2’ Four small Farings for sopranino recorder/piccolo and piano (Forsyth)** Dream Carousels for orchestra of wind 13’ 1989 Certain Lights Reflecting song-cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (to poems of Sarah Day) 19’ Tree of Singing Names for chamber orchestra 15’ 1990 O alter Duft for piano duet (withdrawn) 1991 Upstream River Rewa for storyteller and Indo-European ensemble 29’ Mozart Sampler with Ground for orchestra 10’ 1992 Igórochki for solo recorder player and chamber ensemble 22’ Fanfaring V for brass (MS) 1’ Little Cycle for Elizabeth Yeoman for soprano, cello and piano (MS) 7’ 1993 Paluma for sopranino recorder and piano (arranged from movement IV of Igórochki) (MS) 4’ Trying to make John SLOW DOWN AFTER 50 for sopranino recorder and piano (Forsyth)** 1994 Ziggurat for bass clarinet and marimba 21’ ...into the Gyre of a Madder Dance for orchestral wind (University of York Music Press) 7’ 1995 Handles to the Invisible for a-capella choir (to poems of Sarah Day) (rev. 2003) 15’ Stars for treble recorder and guitar (rev. 2004) 13’ Moon comes up, Pearl Beach (June ‘79) for alto flute, vibraphone and cello (version 2, MS lost) 1’ Flame Robin for sopranino recorder solo (Forsyth) 1’ Miss Carroll her Lullabye for sopranino recorder and piano (Forsyth)** Chant-au-clair sopranino recorder and piano (Forsyth)** 1996 Midwales Lightwhistle Automatic for sopranino recorder and piano (Forsyth)** Dancing to the Tune for 4-8 oboes, 2-4 cors anglais, 1-2 heckelphones (MS) 4’ This Tree (Frances Horovitz) [no.1 of Love Poems (1970), arr. mezzo and piano] (Schott) 3’ Réflexions, Rose nord for bass clarinet and vibraphone 5’ 1997 On beholding a Rainbow concerto for violin and orchestra 30’ Osanna for Lady O for cello and piano (rewritten 2007) 8’ 1998 Ondine - chant au clair de lune for soprano and recorder (Aloysius Bertrand) (MS) 6' 1999 Vers de Lune soprano plus flute, cello, percussion (Aloysius Bertrand) (incorporates a version of Ondine - chant au clair... above) 17’ Os for oboe and vibraphone (revised 2002) 16’ 2000 Margareeting for tenor or descant recorder and piano (MS) 2’ Sinfin for vibraphone solo 8’ Sinfin 2 for 4 vibraphones (arrangement of above) 8’ Worldwhorls for bass clarinet solo 8’ Another Dream Carousel for string orchestra 8’ Photos found at Hukvaldy, August 1928 for oboe solo 5’ Even in flames,/the Thames/can’t hold a candle/to the Wandle for variable orchestra 6’ Farings for sopranino recorder and piano (Forsyth) (the published compilation of all double-asterisked items) 15’ 2001 Unrise for ten wind 16’ Four Seasons for Josca’s for young players (variable ens.) 3’ Piano Sonata no.3 autour des palombes 15' 2002 Sinfin parados for vibraphone duo (arrangement of Sinfin) 8’ Kauri for solo Tuba 11’ 2003 Tulip Tree dances for solo Bass and Treble Recorders 15’ Ondine (version 2, extended), soprano + recorder, cello, hpschd. 11’ Sheer for string orch. 16’ Palace of the Winds for 11 solo strings 15’ Rose luisante for solo freebass accordion 9’ 2004 Tinos for soprano, clarinet and vibraphone (Magdalena Mismareza) 3’ Litany for clarinet and piano (Associated Board Spectrum series) 2’ Catercorny 4 pieces for clarinet and piano (contains Litany above) 6' Swallowtail for solo vibraphone 2' Encantos song-cycle to Spanish symbolist love poetry for soprano or mezzo + clarinet, vibraphone, guitar (Magdalena Mismareza & anon.) (includes Tinos above) 14' Halifenu Vine Dance for organ and pre-recorded organ 9' People Pieces for piano (beginners and on) 15’ Dark Singing, Dancing Light for bassoon and string quintet/string ens. 10' 2006 A Piece of Cake for treble recorder and piano (MS) 80" Jugalbandi Blues for bass clarinet solo 60" Passing Bells for piano solo 3' Ygg-drasill for soprano or mezzo + recorder, ob., cl., bsn, trp., 3 vlns, vc. (Cincuentas 3) 9' Groove, Perchants, dance-concerto for orchestra 19' 2007 Moon comes up, Pearl Beach (June ‘79) for alto flute, vibraphone, vc.(version 1 reconstructed) (Cincuentas 2) 2' Osanna for Lady O for cello and piano (1997, rewritten 2007) 8’ ecco Eco for flute, clarinet & vibraphone (Cincuentas 4) 50" Echo for solo trumpet (Cincuentas 5) 4' HumDance for string trio 20' En Bateau, d'après Watteau for soprano, recorder, oboe, violin & cello (to poems by Baudelaire & Proust) 9' York Surprise for flute, clarinet & bass clarinet 8' 2008 Those Fenny Bells for treble, counter-tenor & vibraphone (poem by John Clare) 3' Twirlpool for flute & viola 3' Gioco dei Pari for violin & viola (reworking of Duo of 1962) 10'
ARRANGEMENTS 1981 (Guillaume de Machaut): Ma fin est mon commencement, arr. recorder ensemble with tambour (MS) 4' 1990 (Arthur Benjamin): Two Jamaican Street Songs , arr. piano 4h. (Boosey) 2005 (Mátyás Seiber): Burlesque from Pastorale & Burlesque, arr. recorder and piano; also arr. recorder and string trio (Schott) | ||
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