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Choral Music with Orchestra
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| Ballad
of Fair Helen of Kirkonnel, op 8 |
- baritone and orchestra
- text: Anonymous
- re-scored by Balfour Gardiner in May-June 1911
- dedicated to Frederic Austin
- composed 1900
- performed by the Queen's Hall Orchestra
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
with Frederic Austin, soloist
on June 6, 1905 at Bechstein Hall, London
- London: Elkin, 1925photoprints of ms. in the Grainger Museum
- full score MG C3-SCO-69A and incomplete set of parts MG C3/SCO-69A:1
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| La
belle dame sans merci |
- Baritone solo, chorus and orchestra
- Text by John Keats
- Composed 1915-17
- Published 1934, London: Universal Music Agencies
- Premiered by Leeds Festival Chorus and
The London Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
with Roy Henderson soloist at Leeds Festival
Leeds Town Hall, Leeds
- piano reduction available from Cyril Scott Estate
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| Festival
Overture |
- Orchestra, Organ and Chorus
- Revision of Princess Maleine Overture
- Composed 1929
- Dedicated to Percy Grainger
- Premiered by BBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Sir Adrian Boult 1934:
Queen's Hall, London
- Published by Elkin
- score & parts on hire from Novello
- Ms. full score, parts and chorus parts: MGF C2/SCO-70
and photoprint of full scores: MG C3/SCO-70)
in the Grainger Museum
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| Hymn
of Unity |
- Solo voices, chorus and orchestra
- Text by Cyril Scott (1947) Libretto and score available from:
Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music,
- email: smithk@library-phila.gov
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| Magnificat |
- Chorus, orchestra, soli and organ
- composed November 1899
- Dedicated to Percy Grainger, Roger Quilter, Eric and Agnes Harben, Hans and Carrie Lüthy
- Ms. piano score (by Percy Grainger) in the Grainger Museum:
MG C2/SCO-113
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Mirabelle
A Quaint Cantata
- Lullabye
- Colloquy
- Six years Old, Come Friday
- parents' Lament
- Told While Spinning
- Mirabelle's Love Plaint
- Mirabelle Is a Baggage, We Know
- Seven Swains
- To The Wedding
- Tragedy
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- Solo voices, chorus and string orchestra; or a cappella
- Text by Cyril Scott London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1932, (vocal score)
- score and parts on hire
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| Mystic
Ode |
- Men's or mixed chorus ad. lib. and chamber orchestra
- Text by Cyril Scott under pseudonym Arkwright Lundycomposed 1932London: Elkin,1933 (vocal score)
- score and parts on hire from Novello
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| Nativity
hymn |
- Solo voices, chorus and orchestra
- Text by Richard Crashaw
- Intended to be preceded by Christmas Overture
- Optional ending for NoëlPerformance planned for April 3 1914 but war intervened
- London: Stainer & Bell, 1923 (vocal score)
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Noël
Christmas
Overture
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- Orchestra with choral and organ finale
- orchestral overture with optional choral ending Nativity Hymn
- Performed by the Queen's Hall Orchestra
- conducted by Sir Henry Wood, Sept. 20, 1932
at Promenade Concert at Queen's Hall, London.
- Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne, 1931
- score and parts on hire
- Ms. of full score available from Schott: London
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| Ode
to Great Men |
- Solo tenor/narrator, orchestra and women's chorus
- text from Ecclesiastics (chapter 44),
- J.R. Lowell and Shelly
- composed 1936
- Premiered with Basil Maine, soloist,
on Sept 24 1936 at the Norwich Musical Festival in Norwich.
- London: Elkinscore and parts on hire from Novello
- Ms. photoprints of full score in the Grainger Museum: MG C3/SCO-98A
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Princess
Maleine,
Overture, op. 18 |
- orchestral overture with chorus and organ
- revision of original orchestral version
- later revised as Festival Overture
- Performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Chorus conduced by Franz Schreker on April 22 1912, Vienna
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| Summerland |
- mixed voices, orchestra
- text by Cyril Scott; German translation by R.S. Hoffmann.
- Wien: Universal-Edition, 1935, (vocal score)
- score and parts on hire
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