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List of compositions by Constant Lambert

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Constant Lambert in a portrait by Christopher Wood (1926)

This is a list of musical works written by Constant Lambert:

Ballets

  • Prize-fight (1 act), 1923–4, London, FP 6 March 1924, rev. 1925, 1927, unpublished. (also version for piano, four hands)
  • Mr Bear Squash-You-All-Flat (1 act; based on a Russian children's tale), 1923–4, FP Manchester, 22 June 1979, unpublished. (New edition and script by Giles Easterbrook, 2001)
  • Adam and Eve (suite dansée), 1924–5, FP London, 6 June 1932, rev. 1932, unpublished
  • Romeo and Juliet (2 tableaux), 1924–5, FP Monte Carlo, 4 May 1926
  • Pomona (1 act), 1926, FP as a Divertimento 16 November 1926; FP as a ballet Buenos Aires, 9 Sept 1927
  • Horoscope (1 act), 1937, FP London, 27 January 1938
  • Tiresias (3 scenes), 1950–51, FP London, 9 July 1951, unpublished

Incidental music

Orchestral

  • Green Fire, rhapsody, ? 1923, unpublished, score probably lost; FP 28 June 1923
  • The Bird Actors, overture, 1925, FP 5 July 1931; reorchestrated 1927, unpublished
  • Champêtre, chamber orch, 1926, unpublished in original form
  • Elegiac Blues, 1927
  • Music for Orchestra, 1927; FP 14 June 1929; dedicated to Lord Berners
  • Aubade héroïque, 1942; FP 21 February 1943; dedicated to Ralph Vaughan Williams on his 70th birthday
  • Caprice péruvien, orchestra (on themes by Lord Berners from Le carrosse du St Sacrement)

Concertante

  • Concerto for piano, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings, 1924, unpublished. (New edition Giles Easterbrook and Edward Shipley, 1988)
  • Concerto for piano and 9 players, 1930–31; FP 18 December 1931; Arthur Benjamin, piano, conducted by the composer; dedicated to Peter Warlock
  • see also Arrangements: Concerto for piano and small orchestra (an arrangement of organ concertos by George Frideric Handel)
  • see also: Vocal and choral: The Rio Grande

Film scores

  • Merchant Seamen, patriotic documentary 1940; orchestral suite arr. 1943, pubd, FP 15 May 1943
  • Anna Karenina (dir. Julien Duvivier), 1947, unpublished

Piano

  • Alla Marcia, ?1925
  • Overture, pf duet, 1925, unpublished
  • Suite in 3 Movements, 1925, unpublished; FP 19 March 1925
  • Tema, ? 1925, unpublished.
  • Pastorale, 1926, unpublished.
  • Elegiac Blues, 1927
  • Sonata, 1928–9; FP 30 October 1929
  • Elegy, 1938
  • Trois pièces nègres pour les touches blanches, 4 hands, 1949; FP 17 May 1949; dedicated to Edward Clark

Vocal and choral

Arrangements

Editions

References

  1. Mr Bear Squash You All Flat, Royal Opera House Collection, 2001
  2. Stephen Lloyd. Notes to Hyperion CDA67545 (2005)
  3. IMDB: Merchant Seamen

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