Chamber Music with Voices

 (La) Belle dame sans merci
  (ca. 1907)
  • vocal duet and piano
  • text by John Keats
  • premiered by Jessica Rayne, William Raymond and Scott
    on March 20 1907 at Stafford House

 (La) Belle dame sans merci
  (ca. 1914)
  • baritone solo, chorus and orchestra
  • text by John Keats
  • dedicated to Roy Henderson
  • composed 1915-17
  • premiered by the Leeds Festival Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham with Roy Henderson, soloist on Oct 3 1934 at Leeds Festival Town Hall, Lees, London
  • London: Universal Music Agencies, 1934

 Have Ye Seen Him Pass By?
  • voice, string quartet, piano and harp
  • composed ca 1964
  • Ms. parts in the Britten-Pears Library

 Idyll
  • voice, flute
  • text by Cyril Scott
  • London: Elkin, 1923

Idyllic Fantasy
  • voice, oboe and violoncello
  • text by Cyril Scott
  • dedicated to Astra Desmond
  • performed by Desmond on May 12 1919
    Wigmore Hall, London
  • London: Elkin, 1921
  • Ms. in the Royal Academy of Music Library

 Rat-Catcher
  • male quartet or chorus and flute
  • dedicated to the De Reszke Singers
  • London: Boosey, 1924

Rima's Call to the Birds
  • soprano and string quartet
  • Text by W.H. Hudson
  • Dedicated to Gertrude Johnson
  • Performed by Brosa Quartet
    with Johnson, soloist: 1927; Wigmore Hall, London

 (Two) Villanelles
 • Villanelle of Autumn
 • Villanelle of Spring
  • vocal quartet, viola and piano
  • composed 1911
  • Ms. photoprints in the Grainger Museum: MG C3/SCO-258

Compiled with thanks to Laurie J. Sampsel and her book:  Cyril Scott: A Bio-Bibliography

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