Choral Music with Orchestra

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

 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

 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


 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


 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


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
  • Solo voices, chorus and string orchestra; or a cappella
  • Text by Cyril Scott London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1932, (vocal score)
  • score and parts on hire

 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

 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)

 Noël
 
Christmas Overture
  • 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

 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

 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

 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

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

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