1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1982 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1997 1998 1999 2004 2008 2009 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 All works published by Novello & Co./Music Sales, London, unless otherwise indicated * = Commercial recording here or abroadPETER DICKINSON
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS
Surviving juvenilia includes songs and piano pieces (all MS)
*A Cambridge Postlude: organ
*Postlude on Adeste Fideles: organ
*Prelude for organ (MS)
*Three Preludes on Songs by Orlando Gibbons for organ (MS); later scored for strings
A Cambridge Rondo: piano (MS)
*Strings in the Earth and Air (Joyce): mezzo/piano (MS);*later arr. voice, recorder, violin & cello
*Sonatina: flute (or recorder)/piano
*Toccata: organ
Jesus Christ is Risen Today: SATB (alternative as carol Jesus Christ is Born Today) [Musical Times supplement February 1965]
*Fantasy: clarinet/piano [Bosworth/Music Sales]
*Threnody: cello/piano (MS)
*Four W.H.Auden Songs: soprano or tenor/piano [Look, stranger on this island now; Eyes, look into the well; Carry her over the water; What's in your mind, my dove, my coney]
*Five Early Piano Pieces [Contemplations I, II, III; Inventions I, II] (MS)
Five Essays: piano
Madrigal - 'Black Mrs Behemoth' (Edith Sitwell): SATB (MS)
O Praise the Lord: SATB & organ (MS) [Epworth Press: Choir Series 373]
*Quintet Melody
*Vitalitas Variations: piano
*Variations on a French Folk Song ('Sur le pont d'Avignon'): harpsichord
Five Blake Songs: tenor, clarinet, horn, bassoon (MS)
Music for Brass: 2 trumpets, 3 trombones (MS)
*Meditation on Murder in the Cathedral (T.S.Eliot): organ
*String Quartet No.1 [revised version 2011]
Prelude, Bacchanal & Elegy (Dickinson): speaker/2 pianos (MS)
*Air: solo flute [also *violin and recorder]
*Monologue for Strings
Juilliard Dances: flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, cello, piano, percussion
*Fantasia for solo violin
*Three Comic Songs (Auden): tenor/piano [revised 1972]
[My second thoughts condemn; Happy Ending; Over the heather]
*Let the Florid Music Praise (Auden): tenor or soprano/piano
Four Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems: SATB/organ [Pied Beauty; Justus tu ed quidem (1960); Heaven-Haven; God's Grandeur - completed 1964]
*Sonata: violin/piano. Orchestral version of Vitalitas Variations used for Gloria Contreras ballet four times in Mexico City [now withdrawn]
*Four Duos: flute (or oboe, or clarinet)/cello
Music for Oboe & Chamber Organ
Baroque Trio: flute, oboe, harpsichord
Two Motets: John, Mark (Thomas Blackburn) ATB
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: ATB (MS)
Hymn-Tunes Made New: SATB
*Five Forgeries: piano duet [Poulenc; Hindemith; Stravinsky; Delius; Bartok]
*Dirge: organ
*Five Diversions: clavichord, harpsichord or piano [later small orchestra]
*Carillon: organ
*Three Statements: organ
*The Judas Tree: a Musical Drama of Judas Iscariot (Blackburn): 6 actors, SATB, 11 instruments, organ, percussion
*Four Easy Pieces: piano [Bosworth/Music Sales]
*An E.E.Cummings Song Cycle: mezzo/piano [i thank You God; no time ago; up into the silence; love is the every only god; love is more thicker] 'somewhere i have never traveled' (Cummings): mezzo/piano
*Mass: SATB
*Sonatina: solo bassoon [revised version 2011] (MS)
Elegy (Swinburne): counter-tenor, harpsichord, cello; later arr. recorder, cello & harpsichord
Martin of Tours (Blackburn): tenor, baritone, SATB, organ, piano
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: unision voices/organ
Three Complaints (Ian Whybrow): children's choir, instruments, percussion
'For the Nativity' (John Heath-Stubbs): SATB [Musical Times supplement, July 1967]
Fanfares & Elegies: 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, organ
*Paraphrase I: organ
Three Pieces for Four Groups (Adrian Mitchell, Ian Whybrow) voices, instruments, percussion (MS)
*'My Love is like a Red, Red Rose' (Burns): mezzo/piano
The Dry Heart (Alan Porter): SATB [The Fall; Funeral Song; The Dry Heart; The Falling World; Wood Path]
*Paraphrase II: piano
Letter to the Composer (Peter Bingham): soprano, tenor and harp (MS)
Sketches opera The Unicorns to libretto by John Heath-Stubbs - not completed but used in many later works
Communion Service: 2-part choir/organ
Four Poems of Alan Porter: counter-tenor/harpsichord [Translation; The Stallion; The River; The Shining of Peace]
*Outcry: a cycle of nature poems for contralto solo, SATB, orchestra ['A robin redbreast in a cage' (Blake: Auguries of Innocence); The Blinded Bird (Hardy); Badger (Clare); Horses Aboard (Hardy); Nature's Hymn to the Deity (Clare)]; revised version with two pianos. *Five Diversions: small orchestra (from clavichord pieces) *Extravaganzas (Gregory Corso, from Gasoline): mezzo/piano
*Satie Transformations: orchestra [based on Gnossiennes 1, 2 & 3]
*Three Satie Transformations: piano
*Winter Afternoons (Emily Dickinson): AATTBB/double bass [One dignity delays for all; There's a certain slant of light; Departed - to the Judgement]
*Translations: recorder, viola da gamba, harpsichord
*Metamorphosis: solo flute [*also violin]
*Organ Concerto
*'So We'll go no More a-roving' (Byron): mezzo/piano
Concerto for Strings, Percussion & Electronic Organ [withdrawn]
*Recorder Music: recorder player/tape (or 2 players)
*Four Piano Blues
*Surrealist Landscape (Lord Berners): voice, piano, tape (includes song 'On the pale yellow sands', that can be performed separately)
*Suite for the Centenary of Lord Berners: clavichord (from film music: A Great Day for Bonzo)
Lust (St. Augustine & composer): AATTBB/optional tape
*Late Afternoon in November (Dickinson): 16 solo voices [BBC commission]
*String Quartet No.2 (with tape or offstage piano)
*Quartet Rag
Solo for Baryton: baryton/tape or baryton/viola da gamba
A Memory of David Munrow (wordless): 2 counter-tenors, 2 recorders, gamba, harpsichord
Aria: horn, oboe, clarinet, bassoon. Aria for horn, oboe. clarinet and bassoon. Gershwin song arrangements, including 'I got Rhythm', 'A Foggy Day', 'They all laughed' (for recording)
Reminiscences (Byron): mezzo, alto sax, piano
*Blue Rose: piano
*Schubert in Blue: arr. mezzo & piano in jazz-pop idioms
(Drinking Song; 'Who is Sylvia?'; 'Hark, hark the lark')
*A Birthday Surprise: orchestra [for Sir Robert Mayer's 100th Birthday
*Eight Very Easy Pieces: piano [Bosworth/Music Sales]
*Blue Rose: piano
*Concerto Rag: piano
*The Unicorns (John Heath-Stubbs): soprano/brass band (or version for band alone) [Fanfares & Choruses (instrumental); Lullaby (song); Dance (instrumental); Interrupted Love Song; A Celebration Fugue (instrumental); The Ballad of St Brendan (song)] Lullaby, later arranged for oboe, for clarinet or soprano sax & piano; *flute & piano; *violin & piano, *clarinet & piano; cello and piano; piano left hand; *piano solo; and SATB. *Three Songs from The Unicorns arr, soprano and piano; also in *A Celebration Trio (2009) as Fugue - Lullaby - Dance; and Orchestral Suite [Fanfares & Choruses; Dance; Lullaby; Celebration Fugue; The Ballade of St Brendan] (2017)
*Piano Concerto
*A Mass of the Apocalypse: speaker, SATB, 2 percussion, piano [Kyrie; Sanctus & Benedictus; Agnus Dei; Gloria; Ite missa est]
*Stevie’s Tunes: An Anthology of Nine Songs (Stevie Smith): mezzo/piano [Heber; To the Tune of the Coventry Carol; O Happy Dogs of England; In Canaan's Happy Land; The Heavenly City; ...and the Clouds return after the Rain; The Devil-my-Wife; Le Singe qui Swing; Unser Vater]
*Blue Rose Variations: organ
*Wild Rose Rag: piano
*Hymn-Tune Rag: piano
*American Trio (originally Hymns, Rags & Blues): violin, clarinet, piano
London Rags: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba
*Patriotic Rag: piano
*Violin Concerto [BBC commission]
*Sonatas: piano/tape
A Hitchcok Fanfare: 3 trumpets (In A Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock, University of Michigan Press, 1990)
Cellars Clough Duo: 2 guitars. Five Explorations: guitar.
Auden Studies: oboe & piano [based on three Auden songs by Lennox Berkeley and Peter Dickinson, setting the same poems]. Jigsaws: 15 players, harp, percussion [withdrawn].
*Merseyside Echoes: orchestra [tribute to early Beatles].
Centenary Rag: piano, based on openings of Irving Berlin songs (MS)
*Larkin's Jazz: baritone-speaker; flute/piccolo/alto; clarinet in Bb/bass; soprano sax; trumpet cello; piano; percussion [Reasons for Attendance; For Sidney Bechet; Love Songs in Age; Reference back]
Tiananmen 1989 [text compiled by composer from news reports]: double choir/tubular bells
Two motets: Mark, John (SATB versions).
A Waltz of Roses: mezzo & harp (MS)
Summoned by Mother (Betjeman): mezzo/harp
Suffolk Variations: guitar (O.U.P.)
Swansongs: cello/piano (MS withdrawn)
Three Carols: SSAA (MS)
['Christmas is Coming', arr. from SATB; 'For the Nativity' (John Heath Stubbs), arr.from SATB; 'O Christmas Time, O Hateful Time' (Lord Berners)]
Sanctus [from Mass of the Apocalypse]: arr. organ, revised later (no. 1 of Three Pieces)
Fanfare for John Stephens: 3 trumpets, 3 trombones (arr. from The Judas Tree, MS)
*A Millennium Fanfare: organ, from Organ Concerto, (MS)
*Bach in Blue: piano (MS)
*Homage to Poulenc: flute (or recorder)/piano (arr. from Five Forgeries for piano duet) (MS)
Schubert in Blue: clarinet/piano (arr. from set of three songs, in Songs in Blue)
*A Celebration Trio: violin, clarinet & piano (Fugue, Lullaby, Dance, arr. from The Unicorns)
*Bach in Blue: arr. violin, clarinet and piano (MS)
*Pastorale, Blues and Homage, arr. recorder and piano (1. A James Joyce Pastorale, arr. from song 'Strings in the earth and air') 2. A Robert Burns Blues, arr. from song 'My love is like a red, red rose') 3. Homage to Poulenc, arr. from Five Forgeries for piano duet, No. 1) (MS)
Lullaby (from The Unicorns): arr. piano left hand MS
*Bach in Blue: arr. clarinet, violin, strings and piano (Goodmusic)
*Suite for the Centenary of Lord Berners: arr. small orchestra (Goodmusic) *Waltz for Elliott Schwartz at 80 (piano) (MS)
*Lullaby (from The Unicorns): arr. piano solo
'Up into the silence' (Cummings songs): arr. violin, viola, cello & piano (MS)
*A Rag for McCabe (piano) (MS)
*Freda's Blues: in Memory of Lady Berkeley (piano) (MS)
[published in Lennox Berkeley Society Journal 2017]
A Little Trio: arr. recorder, cello & harpsichord (from Elegy) (MS)
*'Strings in the Earth and Air' (Joyce), arr. voice, recorder, violin & cello (MS)
Lochinvar: a Melodrama (Walter Scott) for speaker, violin & piano (from Paraphrase II)
Three Preludes on Themes of Gibbons: arr. string orchestra, (from organ pieces) (MS) Tranquillo (from Violin Concerto): violin & piano (MS)
Revised version of Outcry, shortened and with two pianos
Elegiac Canons for two recorders (from A Memory of David Munrow) (MS)
Agnus Dei (from Mass of the Apocalypse) arr. organ (no.2 of Three Pieces)
2020
Three Pieces for String Quartet - Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Gloria (from Mass of the Apocalypse)
'Feeding the Birds' (Ian Whybrow): arr, voice & piano (from Three Pieces for Four Groups) (MS)
Three Pieces for Two Violins - Blue Lullaby, Elegiac Canons, A Rag for McCabe (MS)
Gloria (from Mass of the Apocalypse) arr. organ (No. 3 of Three Pieces)
Air for solo recorder (from Air for flute) (MS)
2023
A Winter Afternoon for recorder & double bass (from Winter Afternoons) (MS)
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