Chamber Music
for
Strings

Divertimento for String Quartet
  • composed [ca. 1920?]
  • London: Elkin

Quartet, op. 12 
  • composed [ca. 1900?]
  • ms. in the City of Liverpool Central Library

Quartet, op. 28 
  • composed [ca. 1903?]
  • premiered by Nora Clench, Lucy Stone, Cecilia Gates and Edith Evans on march 24 1908 at Bechstein Hall in London

Quartet, op. 31, F major
  • composed [ca. 1904?]
  • performed by the Rebner Quartet on nov 28 1910, in Berlin

Quartet, no. 1 

  • Prelude
  • Pastorale
  • Scherzo
  • Elegy
  • Rondo retrospectivo

  • premiered by the Philharmonic String Quartet on Jan 30 1919 at an Isidore De Lara concert
    at Steinway Hall, London
  • London: Elkin, 1920 (parts)
  • London: Elkin, 1921 (score)

 

  • 2003 DUTTON CD released:
    String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 4
    Recorded: 3-5/08/2003
    Henry Wood Hall Archaeus Quartet
    Ann Hooley & Bridget Davey
    Elizabeth Turnbull
    Martin Thomas

Quartet, no. 2 

 

 

 

  • dedicated to Percy and Ella Grainger
  • performed by the Alberni String Quartet (Dennis Simons, Howard David, John White and Gregory Baron) on May 1 1964 at Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London;
    sponsored by the Cyril Scott Society
  • London: Elkin 1958
  • ms. photoprints (score and parts) in the Grainger Museum: MG C3/SCO-165
  • 2003 DUTTON CD released:
    String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 4
    Recorded: 3-5/08/2003
    Henry Wood Hall Archaeus Quartet
    Ann Hooley & Bridget Davey
    Elizabeth Turnbull
    Martin Thomas

Quartet, no. 3 
  • premiered by the Aeolian Quartet (Sydney Humphreys, Robert Cooper, Watson Forbes and Derek Simpson)
    on November 9 1961, at Wigmore hall, London
  • London: Elkin, 1960

Quartet, no. 4 

 

  • London: Elkin, 1968
  • 2003 DUTTON CD released:
    String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 4
    Recorded: 3-5/08/2003
    Henry Wood Hall Archaeus Quartet
    Ann Hooley & Bridget Davey
    Elizabeth Turnbull
    Martin Thomas


Quintet
for two violins, viola, two violoncellos
  • composed 1919
  • premiered by the Philharmonic String Quartet, with Warwick Evans, violoncello on May 30 1919 at Wigmore Hall, London

Quintet
for two violins, viola, two violoncellos
  • composed 1953
Serenade for Harmonica and Strings
  • orchestrated by Philip Lane
  • Score and parts, Novello

Trio, no. 1
  • composed 1931

Trio, no. 2
  • composed 1949
  • Mainz: Schott, 1957

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

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