Chamber — Strings

Divertimento for String Quartet

  • composed [ca. 1920?]
  • London: Elkin
  • Duration: 16'

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

  1. Prelude.  Molto moderato – Molto tranquillo    [18p / 176b] 
  2. Pastorale.  Allegro moderato – Tempo tranquillo – Tempo I    [12p / 100b]
  3. Scherzo.  On an Irish Air.  Vivace - Pi mosso - Presto    [10p / 82(114)b]
  4. Elegy.  Andante sostenuto con molto espressione – Poco animato – A tempo primo    [6p / 68b]
  5. Rondo retrospettivo.  Allegro con spirito - Animato    [29p / 230b]
  • 1918-19    1921        
  • Elkin [1239]        [31’49”]    [25’ CS]
  • 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)
Featured
Cyril Scott STRING QUARTETS NOS 1, 2 & 4

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

  1. Allegro moderato e maestoso – Slightly quieter – Quasi andante – Tempo primo        [20p / 238b] 
  2. In memoriam E.M.:  Quasi marche funébre – A shade quicker – Tempo I    [3p / 51b]        
  3. Allegro amabile – Andante con moto – Tempo I    [6p / 116p] 
  4. Allegro con spirito                [16p / 155b]
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SCHOTT
Featured
Schott-score
  • Schott
  • 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
Featured
Cyril Scott STRING QUARTETS NOS 1, 2 & 4

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
Featured
Cyril Scott STRING QUARTETS NOS 1, 2 & 4

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
  • Schott (in prep)
  • Duration: [25’ CS]

Trio, no. 2

  • composed 1949
  • Mainz: Schott, 1957