PETER DICKINSON

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS

1953
*A Cambridge Postlude: organ

1954
*Postlude on Adeste Fideles: organ
*Prelude for organ (MS)
*Three Preludes on Hymn-Tunes by Orlando Gibbons for organ (MS)

1955 
Strings in the Earth and Air (Joyce): mezzo/piano (MS)
Sonatina: flute/piano (MS)
*Toccata: organ
Jesus Christ is Risen Today: SATB

1956
Fantasy: clarinet/piano [Bosworth/Music Sales]
*Threnody: cello/piano
*Four W.H.Auden Songs: soprano/piano
*Five Early Piano Pieces [Contemplations I, II, III; Inventions I, II]
Five Essays: piano (MS)

1957

*Vitalitas Variations: piano
Variations on an old French Folk Tune: harpsichord
Five Blake Songs: tenor, clarinet, horn, bassoon (MS)
Music for Brass: 2 trumpets, 3 trombones (MS)

1958
*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

1959
*A Dylan Thomas Song Cycle: baritone/piano
Juilliard Dances: 6 instruments, piano, percussion
*Study in Pianissimo: organ
Monologue for Strings

1960
*Three Comic Songs (Auden): tenor/piano
*Let the Florid Music Praise (Auden): tenor/piano
Four Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems: SATB/organ

1961
Sonata: violin/piano

1962
Four Duos: flute (or oboe)/cello
Music for Oboe & Chamber Organ
Baroque Trio: flute, oboe, harpsichord

1963
Two Motets: John, Mark (Thomas Blackburn) ATB
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: ATB (MS)
Hymn-Tunes Made New: SATB
*Five Forgeries: piano duet
*Dirge: organ
*Five Diversions: clavichord, harpsichord or piano

1964
*Carillon: organ
*Three Statements: organ

1965
The Judas Tree (Blackburn): 6 actors, SATB, 11 instruments, organ, percussion
*Four Easy Pieces: piano [Bosworth/Music Sales]
*An E.E.Cummings Song Cycle: mezzo/pianoMass: SATB

1966
Sonatina: solo bassoon (MS)
Elegy (Swinburne): counter-tenor, harpsichord, cello
Martin of Tours (Blackburn): tenor, baritone, SATB, organ, piano
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: unision voices/organ
Three Complaints (Ian Whybrow): children¹s choir, instruments, percussion
'For the Nativity' (John Heath-Stubbs): SATB

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
*Paraphrase II: piano

1968
Communion Service: 2-part choir/organ
Four Poems of Alan Porter: counter-tenor/harpsichord

1969
*Outcry (Blake, Clare, Hardy): mezzo, SATB, orchestra
*Five Diversions: small orchestra (from clavichord pieces)
*Extravaganzas (Gregory Corso): mezzo/piano

1970
Satie Transformations: orchestra
*Three Satie Transformations: piano
*Winter Afternoons (Emily Dickinson): AATTBB/double bass

1971
Translations: recorder, viola da gamba, harpsichord
*Metamorphosis: solo flute
*Organ Concerto
*'So We'll go no More a-roving' (Byron): mezzo/piano
Concerto for Strings, Percussion & Electronic Organ (withdrawn)

1973
*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)

1974
Suite for the Centenary of Lord Berners: clavichord (from film music : A Great Day for Bonzo)
Lust (St. Augustine & composer): AATTBB/optional tape

1975
Late Afternoon in November (Dickinson): 16 solo voices

1976
String Quartet No.2 (with tape or offstage piano)
*Quartet Rag
Solo for Baryton: baryton/tape or baryton/viola da gamba

1977
A Memory of David Munrow: 2 counter-tenors, 2 recorders, gamba, harpsichord 
Aria: horn, oboe, clarinet, bassoon

1978
Reminiscences (Byron): mezzo, alto sax, piano
*Blue Rose: piano
Schubert in Blue: arr. mezzo & piano
(Drinking Song; 'Who is Sylvia?'; 'Hark, hark the lark')

1979
*Eight Very Easy Pieces: piano [Bosworth/Music Sales]
*Blue Rose: piano

1980
*Concerto Rag: piano

1982
*The Unicorns (John Heath-Stubbs): soprano/brass band (or band alone)

1984
*Piano Concerto
*A Mass of the Apocalypse: speaker, SATB, 2 percussion, piano
*Stevie’s Tunes (Stevie Smith): mezzo/piano

1985
*Blue Rose Variations: organ
*Wild Rose Rag;
*Hymn-Tune Rag: piano
*American Trio (Hymns, Rags & Blues): violin, clarinet, piano

1986
London Rags: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba
*Patriotic Rag: piano
Violin Concerto

1987
*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)

1988
Cellars Clough Duo: 2 guitars
Five Explorations: guitar
Auden Studies: oboe & piano
Jigsaws: 15 players, harp, percussion
Merseyside Echoes: orchestra

1989
*Larkin's Jazz: baritone-speaker; flute/piccolo/alto; clarinet in Bb/bass; soprano sax; trumpet cello; piano; percussion

1990
Tiananmen 1989: double choir/tubular bells
Two motets: Mark, John (SATB versions)

1991
Summoned by Mother (Betjeman): mezzo/harp

1992
Suffolk Variations: guitar (O.U.P.)

1993
Swansongs: cello/piano (MS)

1997
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)]

1998
Sanctus & Benedictus [from Mass of the Apocalypse]: arr. organ (MS - withdrawn)
Fanfare for John Stephens: 3 trumpets, 3 trombones (from The Judas Tree, MS)

1999
*A Milennium Fanfare: organ (MS)

2004
*Bach in Blue: piano (MS)

2008
Homage to Poulenc: flute/piano (from Five Forgeries)
Schubert in Blue: clarinet/piano (from set of three songs)

2009
*A Celebration Trio: violin, clarinet & piano

All works published by Novello & Co./Music Sales, London, unless otherwise indicated
* = Commercial recording here or abroad