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c.1892 Canadian boat song [song] author unknown LOST voice, piano
?1895-96 I shot an arrow [song] Longfellow LOST voice, piano
Today and tomorrow [song] Gunby Hadath LOST voice, piano
Wanderer’s night song [song] Goethe trans Morley LOST voice, piano
[title unknown] [song] Gunby Hadath LOST voice, piano
?1896 Anthem author unknown LOST choir
c.1899 Requiem excerpts from New Testament and Hymns Ancient and Modern LOST bar, chor, orch
?1900-02 Tragic prelude LOST orch
?1902-03 Pantalon and Columbine Op.2 later inc in English suite 1LOST small orch – 9´
?1902-04 English suite 1 [from Pantalon and Columbine (II and III only)] Op.12 [6 movements] 2012 – Symphonies 22–24, English Suite 1 – Naxos 1979 – The Complete Early Orchestral Works – Cameo Classics orch – 25½´
?1903-04 Legende Op.4 LOST orch – 15´
String quartet movementsLOST
1903 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Op.5 [song] Shakespeare Sonnet 18 (pub 1609) 1982 – Sain Records 1977 SATB
Burlesque variations on an original theme Op.3 2009 – Havergal Brian: Orchestral Music, Volume One – Toccata Classics 1980 – The Complete Early Orchestral Works – Cameo Classics orch – 27´
1904-06 Hero and Leander Op.8 [symphonic poem] LOST orch
?1904-06 Sorrow song Op.6 [song] Samuel Daniel 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics alto or bar, pno
The message Op.6 [song] Donne 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics alto or bar, pno
Farewell Op.6 [song] Bishop Heber 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics alto or bar, pno
1904 For valour Op.7 in C major [concert overture; 1 movement] rev 1906 2017 – The Vision of Cleopatra – Dutton Vocalion 1997 – Symphonies Nos. 11 and 15 – Naxos 1979 – The Complete Early Orchestral Works – Cameo Classics orch – 12½´
c.1904,1944–45 Psalm 23 Op.9 Book of Common Prayer, trans Miles Coverdale (1535) reconstructed 1944-45 2002 – Elgar and the English Choral Tradition – Classico Records 1974 – Havergal Brian: The First Commercial Recordings – Heritage Records 1974 – Havergal Brian: Symphony No. 22 and other works – Klassic Haus Restorations ten, chor, orch – 15½´
1905 By the waters of Babylon Op.11 Psalm 137 rev 1909LOST bar, SATB chor, orch – 25´
Stars of a summer night Op.1 [song] Longfellow 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SSAATTBB
1906-07 [title unknown] [work for cello and piano] LOST cello, piano
?1906-07 Let God arise Psalm 68 LOST soli, chor, orch
1906 Soliloquy upon a dead child [song] Cumberland 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records sop or ten, pno
Little sleeper [from Soliloquy upon a dead child] Op.13a [song] Hafiz trans Richard le Galliene rev 1972 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records sop or ten, pno
Day and night Op.13b [song] Cumberland 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records tenor, piano
When I lie ill Op.13b [song] Cumberland 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records tenor, piano
If I could speak Op.13b [song] Cumberland 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records tenor, piano
[title unknown] [song] author unknown prob. Cumberland LOST tenor, piano
A faery song Op.13c [song] Yeats 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records mezzo, piano
Come o’er the sea [song] Moore 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SATB
Lullaby of an infant chief [song] Scott 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SATB
Soul star [song] Bantock (orig Philip Marston - lost) SATB
In a fairy boat [rondel] Weller 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SSAA
Tell me, thou soul of her I love Op.13d/1 [song] Thomson 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SATB
Twilight Op.13d/2 [song] author unknown poss. Longfellow LOST SATB
Carmilhan Op.14 Longfellow LOST soli, chor, orch
1907-08 A Fantastic Symphony in E [4 movements] dismantledLOST orch
1907 Fantastic variations on an old rhyme [from A Fantastic Symphony mvt I] [1 movement] 2017 – The Vision of Cleopatra – Dutton Vocalion 1994 – Symphonies Nos. 20 and 25 – Naxos 1979 – The Complete Early Orchestral Works – Cameo Classics orch – 11½´
Scherzo and slow movement [from A Fantastic Symphony mvts II, III] LOST orch
The vision of Cleopatra Op.15 [cantata (Tragic poem)] Cumberland original full score lost; re-orchestrated in contemporary Brian style by John Pickard 2014 2017 – The Vision of Cleopatra – Dutton Vocalion SMAT soli, chors, orch – 40´
1908-09 The soldier’s dream Campbell LOST orch; or voices, orch
[title unknown] [work for chorus and orchestra] Scott LOST chor, orch
1908 Festal dance [from A Fantastic Symphony mvt IV] [1 movement] 2014 – Symphonies 5 _Wine of Summer_, 19 & 27 – Dutton Vocalion 1992 – Symphonies Nos. 17 and 32 – Naxos 1979 – The Complete Early Orchestral Works – Cameo Classics orch – 5´
Fairies’ song [song] Cumberland (orig. Philip Marston - lost) 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SSAA
c.1908 J. S. Bach: Friede uber Israel from Cantata 34 O ewiges Feuer tenor and piano
1910 Why dost thou wound and break my heart? [song] Herrick 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics tenor, piano
The mad maid’s song [song] Herrick orch score lost 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records mezzo, pno or orch
The night piece [song] Herrick orch score lost 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records tenor, pno or orch
In memoriam [symphonic poem; 1 movement] 1992 – Symphonies Nos. 17 and 32 – Naxos 1979 – The Complete Early Orchestral Works – Cameo Classics orch – 20´
Daybreak [song] Longfellow 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SATB
?1910s/20s Tell me, where is fancy bred [song] Shakespeare from The Merchant of Venice 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SSAA
1911-12 Doctor Merryheart [Comedy overture 1] [1 movement] 1993 – Symphonies Nos. 11 and 15 – Naxos 1979 – The Complete Early Orchestral Works – Cameo Classics 1959 – Studio Broadcasts: symphonies 9 & 11, Doctor Merryheart – Dutton Vocalion orch – 17½´
1912 Choral pieces for female voices and orchestra (or piano) »Go, happy rose« Herrick LOST SSAA, orch
Choral pieces for female voices and orchestra (or piano) »Requiem for the rose« Herrick 2017 – The Vision of Cleopatra – Dutton Vocalion 1979 – The Complete Early Orchestral Works – Cameo Classics SSAA, orch – 9½´
Choral pieces for female voices and orchestra (or piano) »The hag« Herrick 2017 – The Vision of Cleopatra – Dutton Vocalion 1979 – The Complete Early Orchestral Works – Cameo Classics SSAA, orch – 2½´
1913 Pilgrimage to Kevlaar [ballad] Heine trans Todhunter LOST chor, orch
1914 The maiden and the flower garden [children’s operetta] Cumberland children's operettaLOST voices, piano
Three dances [from The maiden and the flower garden] LOST orch
The owl [song] author unknown female voices
Hie upon hielands [trad. ballad] trad LOST male voices
Legend of Altenahr [song] author unknown male voices
Marching along [song] author unknown LOST male voices
Meg Merrilies [song] Keats Old Meg she was a gypsy male voices
Sands of Dee [Sands o’ Dee] Kingsley mixed voices
Clown’s song [song] Shakespeare from Twelfth night (c1600), Act 5, scene 1 ‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’ partsong
The curate and the mulberry-tree [song] author unknown LOST partsong
The knight’s leap [song] author unknown LOST partsong
The sweetest dream [song] author unknown LOST partsong
Sympathy [song] author unknown LOST partsong
Will you buy any rope? [song] author unknown LOST partsong
Love’s remorse [song] author unknown LOST partsong?
A child’s prayer [song] Betham-Edwards SA, piano
Goodbye to summer [song] Allingham SA, piano
Grace for a child in C major [‘… a two-part easy school song’ - HB] Herrick Noble numbers (1647) no 95 Another grace for a child 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SA, piano – 1´
If I had but two little wings [song] Coleridge SA, piano
The little boy found [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SA, piano
The little boy lost [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SA, piano
The moon [song] Cumberland SA, piano
The river [song] Cumberland SA, piano
Spring – sound the flute [song] Blake SA, piano
Summer has come, little children in D major [song] Cumberland SA, piano – 2´
He was a rat [song] anon SATB
The dream [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
The echoing green [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
Infant joy [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
The lamb [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
Laughing song [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
Little white lily [song] MacDonald SSA, piano
Pastoral: the shepherd [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience SSA, piano
A song of willow [song] Shakespeare SSA, piano
Spring – sound the flute [song] Blake SSA, piano
Violets [song] Herrick SSA, piano
A gypsy song [song] Jonson LOST SSAA
Ye spotted snakes [song] Shakespeare SSAA
And will he not come again? [song] Shakespeare SSAA, piano
The blossom in C major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano
The chimney sweeper in G major - E flat [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics unison or solo, piano – 3´
The fly in C major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 1´
The little black boy in A minor - A major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 4´
The mountain and the squirrel [song] Emerson Fable for children 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 2´
Piping down the valleys wild in C major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics unison or solo, piano – 2´
What does little birdie say? [song] Tennyson from Sea dreams (1860) 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records unison or solo, piano – 1´
Robin redbreast [song] author unknown LOST unison, piano
The lost doll [song] Kingsley 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records voice, piano
Red May [military march] LOST orch
1915 English suite 2 »Night portraits« [6 movements] LOST orch
The fairy palace [song] Drayton SSA, piano
O mistress mine [song] Shakespeare partsong
Legend LOST orch
[title unknown] [work for orchestra] LOST orchestra
1916 Razamoff [symphonic drama] unfinishedLOST orch
Three illuminations Brian 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva 1981 – The Complete Piano Music – Cameo Classics pno, optional spkr – 5´
Three comedy dances LOST orch
1917-29 The Tigers [burlesque opera; prologue, 3 acts] Brian 1983 – _The Tigers_ – Testament soli, chor, orch – 180´
1918 The phantom wooer [song] Beddoes SATB
Love is a merry game [song] Temple Keble 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
On parting [song] Temple Keble 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
When the sun goes down [song] Temple Keble 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records voice, piano
Two scenas Barber LOST bar, pno or orch
1918-19 The defiled sanctuary [song] Blake from posthumous Miscellaneous Poems and Fragments 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics medium voice, piano
Lady Ellayne [song] Temple Keble 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics medium voice, piano
Renunciation [song] Temple Keble 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics medium voice, piano
1919-20 Four miniatures 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva 1981 – The Complete Piano Music – Cameo Classics 1933 – The Vision of Cleopatra – Dutton Vocalion piano – 9½´
1919 A wish [song] author unknown LOST 2 voices, piano
The birds [song] Blake 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva alto or bar, pno
Ah! County guy! [serenade] Scott equal voices
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree [song] Herrick 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SA, piano
Spring, the sweet spring [song] Nash SA, piano
To daffodils [song] Herrick SA, piano
Fear no more the heat of the sun [song] Shakespeare 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SATB
It was a lover and his lass [song] Shakespeare SSA
Under the greenwood tree [song] Shakespeare SSA
Pack clouds away [song] Heywood SSA, piano
Absence [song] anon SSAA
Call for the robin redbreast [song] Webster LOST voice, piano
Care-charmer sleep [song] Samuel Daniel 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
Hymn to Diana [song] Jonson LOST voice, piano
The land of dreams [song] Blake from posthumous Miscellaneous Poems and Fragments 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
Music, when soft voices die [song] Shelley LOST voice, piano
On a poet’s lips I slept [song] Shelley LOST voice, piano
The poet’s dream [song] author unknown LOST voice, piano
Sonnet: my lute [song] Drummond LOST voice, piano
When icicles hang by the wall [song] Shakespeare from Love’s Labours Lost 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
?1919 Legend 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1984 – Music for Violin and Piano – Classical Elegance 1981 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics vln, pno – 6½´
1919-21 English suite 3 [5 movements] also arr piano - lost 2010 – Symphonies 10, 30, Concerto for Orchestra, English Suite 3 – Dutton Vocalion orch – 18´
Take, O take those lips away [song] Shakespeare from Measure for Measure 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
?1919-27 Symphony 1 »The Gothic« in D minor [2 parts, 6 movements] text in Part 2: Te Deum laudamus 2011 – _The Gothic_ Symphony – Hyperion 1989 – The Best of Marco Polo – Marco Polo 1989 – ‘Gothic’ Symphony – Naxos 1966 – Aries 1966 – Symphony No. 1 _The Gothic_ – Testament SATB soli, child chor, 2 dble chors, orch – 105´
1920-21 The soul of steel [song] C. M. Masterman 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
1921-25 Tales of olden times [3 preludes] destroyed by HBLOST small orch
1921 Full fathom five [song] Shakespeare 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SSAA, piano
Fanfare from The Grotesques [from The Tigers] full score lostLOST brass and perc
Fanfare [from Fanfare from The Grotesques] realised MacDonald 1977 brass and perc – 0½´
1921-22 Symphonic variations »on Has anybody here seen Kelly?« [from The Tigers Prologue, Scene 1] 2009 – Havergal Brian: Orchestral Music, Volume Two – Toccata Classics 1981 – Symphonic Movements from The Tigers – Heritage Records 1981 – Masters of the English musical renaissance – Forlane orch – 12´
Wild horsemen [from The Tigers Prologue, Scene 2] [symphonic dance ] 1981 – Symphonic Movements from The Tigers – Heritage Records 1981 – Masters of the English musical renaissance – Forlane orch – 9´
Green pastures [from The Tigers Act II, Scene 4] [symphonic dance] 1981 – Symphonic Movements from The Tigers – Heritage Records 1981 – Masters of the English musical renaissance – Forlane orch – 10´
Gargoyles [from The Tigers Act III, ballet 1] [symphonic dance] 1981 – Symphonic Movements from The Tigers – Heritage Records 1981 – Masters of the English musical renaissance – Forlane orch – 10´
Lacryma [from The Tigers Act III, ballet 2] [symphonic dance] 1981 – Symphonic Movements from The Tigers – Heritage Records 1981 – Masters of the English musical renaissance – Forlane orch – 10´
Shadow dance [from The Tigers Prelude to Act III, Scene 3] 1981 – Symphonic Movements from The Tigers – Heritage Records 1981 – Masters of the English musical renaissance – Forlane orch – 5´
Symphonic variations »on Has anybody here seen Kelly?« [from The Tigers Prologue, Scene 1] arr Ronald Stevenson piano
c.1922-23 Far from thee [song] Taylor LOST voice, piano
Go, happy rose [song] Herrick LOST voice, piano
I know, and you! [song] Bowles LOST voice, piano
A proposal [song] author unknown LOST voice, piano
Since love is dead [song] Bowles 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1982 – Havergal Brian: Songs, _Legend_ for violin and piano – Toccata Classics voice, piano
Stars of destiny [song] author unknown LOST voice, piano
The twilight house [song] Bowles LOST voice, piano
Where shadows flee [song] author unknown LOST voice, piano
?1920s Overture »Buster Keaton« unfinishedLOST orch
1924 Introit Amen [sic] [chorus on ‘Amen’] 1975 – Havergal Brian 13 Part Songs – British Music Society Environs SATB
O happiness, celestial fair [choral canon] Hannah More SATB
Shall I then be spared? [choral canon] Hannah More SATB
Sweet solitude [choral canon] Hannah More SATB
Vital spark of heavenly flame [choral canon] Pope SSAA
Double fugue in E flat 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva 1981 – The Complete Piano Music – Cameo Classics piano – 15´
Prelude and fugue in C minor 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva 1981 – The Complete Piano Music – Cameo Classics piano – 8½´
Prelude and fugue in D minor/major 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva 1981 – The Complete Piano Music – Cameo Classics piano – 9½´
?1924 English suite 4 »Kindergarten« [9 movements] 2012 – Violin concerto, symphony 13 – Dutton Vocalion 1977 – George Heriot’s First School Orchestra – privately issued orch – 14´
1925 Vaughan Williams: Sancta civitas LOST vocal score
Mine be a cot beside the hill [song] Rogers LOST SA, piano
Blow, blow thou winter wind [song] Shakespeare from As You Like It 1982 – Sain Records SATB
Come away, death [song] Shakespeare TbarB, piano
1926 Elgar: unidentified work LOST piano
?1926 At candlelight [song] Gunby Hadath LOST voice, piano
Song of betrothal [song] Gunby Hadath LOST voice, piano
Without you [song] Gunby Hadath LOST voice, piano
1930s Basil Maine: Te Deum LOST chor, orch
1930-31 The battle song [symphonic poem] completed only in sketchLOST brass band
The battle song [from The battle song] realised John Pickard 1997 2002 – Heritage – Doyen Recordings brass and perc
Symphony 2 in E minor [4 movements] 2015 – Symphonies Nos. 2 & 14 – Dutton Vocalion 1996 – Symphony No. 2, Festival Fanfare – Naxos 1979 – Aries orch – 48´
c.1930 Arne: Overture to oratorio Judith
J. C. Bach: Overture to opera La clemenza di Scipione
J. C. Bach: Overture to tragic opera Amadis de Gaule
Berlioz: March to the Scaffold Execution
Glinka: overture Ruslan and Ludmila
Gluck: overture Alceste
Gluck: Overture to the opera Iphigenie in Aulis
Handel: Overture to the opera Aelius (Ezio)
Handel: Overture to the opera Rodelinda
Spontini: Marche Triomphale from Olimpie
Spontini: Overture to the Lyric Tragedy of Olympia (Olimpie)
Spontini: Pas de Cinq I and Pas de Cinq 2 from Olimpie
Wagner: Huldigungsmarsch
Wagner: Kaisermarsch
1931-32 Symphony 3 in C sharp minor [4 movements] 1988 – Symphony No. 3 – Hyperion 1974 – Aries orch – 53½´
1932-33 Symphony 4 »Das Siegeslied« in C major [3 movements] Psalm 68, ‘Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered…’, sung in German Psalm 68 'Let God arise' 1992 – Symphonies Nos. 4 and 12 – Naxos 1974 – Aries sop, dble chor, orch – 48´
?1933 Prelude author unknown LOST sop, dble chor
1934 Violin concerto 1 LOST vln, orch
Prelude »John Dowland’s fancy« 2011 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 1 – Stone Records 1997 – The Complete Piano Music – Athene Minerva 1981 – The Complete Piano Music – Cameo Classics piano – 3½´
1935 Violin concerto 2 in C major [3 movements] 2012 – Violin concerto, symphony 13 – Dutton Vocalion 1993 – Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 18 – Naxos 1969 – Aries vln, orch – 38´
?1935 [title unknown] [work for organ] LOST organ
1937 Handel: Dear Adonis from Venus and Adonis 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records voice, piano
Handel: Transporting joy from Venus and Adonis 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records voice, piano
Symphony 5 »Wine Of Summer« [1 movement] Lord Douglas 2014 – Symphonies 5 _Wine of Summer_, 19 & 27 – Dutton Vocalion 1976 – Aries bar, orch – 21´
1937-44 Prometheus unbound [lyric drama; 2 acts] Shelley parts 1 and 2 set complete LOST 25 soli, 4 chors, orch
Chorus [from Prometheus unbound Chorus from Act I] [song] Shelley unaccompanied
Three semichoruses [from Prometheus unbound Act II scene 2] [song] Shelley 1,3 unacc; 2 acc fl, hp – 15´
?1944 LegendLOST vlc/bclar, pno
?1947 Adagio e dolente fragmentLOST vlc, pno
Dierdre of the Sorrows [opera] J. M. Synge unfinished, destroyedLOST
1948 Symphony 6 »Sinfonia Tragica« [from Dierdre of the Sorrows Prelude] 2014 – Symphonies 6, 28, 29, 31 – Naxos 1973 – Havergal Brian and Arnold Cooke Symphonies – Lyrita 1966 – A Tribute to Robert Simpson – Classical Recordings Quarterly Editions orch – 19´
The tinker’s wedding [Comedy overture 2] [1 movement] 2012 – Violin concerto, symphony 13 – Dutton Vocalion 1987 – Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 7–9 and 31 – EMI Classics orch – 7´
Symphony 7 in C major [4 movements] 1987 – Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 7–9 and 31 – EMI Classics orch – 40½´
1949 Symphony 8 in B flat minor [1 movement] 2016 – Symphonies 8, 21, 26 – Naxos 1977 – Sir Charles Groves - British Music – Warner Classics 1977 – Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 7–9 and 31 – EMI Classics 1971 – Aries orch – 23´
1950-51 Turandot, prinzessin von China [music drama; 3 acts] Schiller abridged by the composer; set in German; no English translation soli, orch – 155´
Three pieces from Turandot [from Turandot, prinzessin von China Act I] extracted by HB, 1962 2009 – Havergal Brian: Orchestral Music, Volume Two – Toccata Classics orch – 19´
Minuet and funeral march [from Turandot, prinzessin von China Act II, Scene 1; Act III, Scene 2] trans MacDonald and Stevenson 1973 1981 – The Complete Piano Music – Cameo Classics piano
Turandot Suite [from Turandot, prinzessin von China Acts II and III] [6 pieces] arr MacDonald 1975 2009 – Havergal Brian: Orchestral Music, Volume Two – Toccata Classics orch – 23´
1951 Symphony 9 in A minor [3 movements] 1977 – Sir Charles Groves - British Music – Warner Classics 1977 – Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 7–9 and 31 – EMI Classics 1971 – Aries 1959 – Studio Broadcasts: symphonies 9 & 11, Doctor Merryheart – Dutton Vocalion orch – 27´
1951-52 The Cenci [music drama; overture, 8 scenes] Shelley abridged by the composer soli, orch – 103´
Preludio tragico [from The Cenci Overture] 2009 – Havergal Brian: Orchestral Music, Volume Two – Toccata Classics orch – 14´
Flourish [from The Cenci opens Scene 3 fanfare] 4 trumpets
Fanfare [from The Cenci Scene 3 (Banqueting scene)] arr MacDonald 1976 – The 20th Century Album – Decca 1976 – British Music for Brass – Decca brass and perc
Fanfare [from The Cenci Scene 7 (Hall of Justice)] arr MacDonald brass and perc
1953 English suite 5 »Rustic scenes« [4 movements] 2009 – Havergal Brian: Orchestral Music, Volume One – Toccata Classics 1974 – Havergal Brian: The First Commercial Recordings – Heritage Records 1974 – Havergal Brian: Symphony No. 22 and other works – Klassic Haus Restorations orch – 22´
1953-54 Symphony 10 in C minor [1 movement] 2010 – Symphonies 10, 30, Concerto for Orchestra, English Suite 3 – Dutton Vocalion 1972 – Havergal Brian: The First Commercial Recordings – Heritage Records 1972 – Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 10 and 21 – Klassic Haus Restorations orch – 20´
1954 Symphony 11 [3 movements] 1993 – Symphonies Nos. 11 and 15 – Naxos 1959 – Studio Broadcasts: symphonies 9 & 11, Doctor Merryheart – Dutton Vocalion orch – 29´
Elegy [symphonic poem] 2009 – Havergal Brian: Orchestral Music, Volume One – Toccata Classics orch – 14´
1955-56 Faust [prologue, 4 acts] Goethe (part 1), abridged by the composer; set in German; no English translation soli, orch – 150´
Prologue in Heaven [from Faust Prologue im Himmel] 2 ten, bar, 2 bass, orch – 18´
Prelude [from Faust Act II Prelude Durch die Luft] orch – 3´
Abend [from Faust Prelude to Act II, Scene 2] orch
Night ride of Faust and Mephistopheles [from Faust Act IV, Scene II Nacht-Offen Feld] 2009 – Havergal Brian: Orchestral Music, Volume Two – Toccata Classics orch – 4´
Gretchen songs [from Faust Act II] 2012 – The complete Havergal Brian songbook - volume 2 – Stone Records sop, orch – 6´
Cathedral scene [from Faust Act III, Scene 2 Dom] sop bass soli, SATB chor, org, orch – 14´
1957 Symphony 12 [1 movement] 1992 – Symphonies Nos. 4 and 12 – Naxos 1966 – Aries orch – 12´
Agamemnon [music drama; 1 act] Aeschylus abridged and adapted by the composer from Blackie’s Everyman translation; in English soli, SATB chor, orch – 39½´
1959 Symphony 13 in C major [1 movement] 2012 – Violin concerto, symphony 13 – Dutton Vocalion 1976 – Aries orch – 18´
1959-60 Symphony 14 in F minor [1 movement] 2015 – Symphonies Nos. 2 & 14 – Dutton Vocalion 1969 – Aries orch – 21½´
1960 Symphony 15 in A major [1 movement] 1997 – Symphonies Nos. 11 and 15 – Naxos 1976 – Aries orch – 20½´
Symphony 16 [1 movement] 1973 – Havergal Brian and Arnold Cooke Symphonies – Lyrita orch – 17½´
1960-61 Symphony 17 [1 movement] 1992 – Symphonies Nos. 17 and 32 – Naxos 1976 – Aries orch – 14´
1961 Symphony 18 [3 movements] 1993 – Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 18 – Naxos 1974 – Aries orch – 15½´
Symphony 19 in E minor [3 movements] 2014 – Symphonies 5 _Wine of Summer_, 19 & 27 – Dutton Vocalion 1976 – Aries orch – 19´
1962 The jolly miller [Comedy overture 3] [1 movement] 1993 – Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 18 – Naxos orch – 4½´
Symphony 20 in C sharp minor [3 movements] 1994 – Symphonies Nos. 20 and 25 – Naxos 1976 – Aries orch – 25½´
1963 Symphony 21 in E flat [4 movements] 2016 – Symphonies 8, 21, 26 – Naxos 1972 – Havergal Brian: The First Commercial Recordings – Heritage Records 1972 – Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 10 and 21 – Klassic Haus Restorations orch – 28´
1964 Cello concerto [3 movements] 2010 – Works for Cello and Orchestra – Dutton Vocalion vlc, orch – 20½´
Concerto for orchestra in E flat [1 movement] 2010 – Symphonies 10, 30, Concerto for Orchestra, English Suite 3 – Dutton Vocalion orch – 15´
Symphonic movement unfinished, destroyedLOST orch
1964-65 Symphony 22 »Symphonia brevis« [2 movements] 2012 – Symphonies 22–24, English Suite 1 – Naxos 1974 – Havergal Brian: The First Commercial Recordings – Heritage Records 1974 – Havergal Brian: Symphony No. 22 and other works – Klassic Haus Restorations 1971 – Aries orch – 9½´
1965 Symphony 23 [2 movements] 2012 – Symphonies 22–24, English Suite 1 – Naxos 1973 – Aries orch – 13½´
Symphony 24 in D major [1 movement] 2012 – Symphonies 22–24, English Suite 1 – Naxos 1973 – Aries orch – 17´
1965-66 Symphony 25 in A minor [3 movements] 1994 – Symphonies Nos. 20 and 25 – Naxos 1976 – Aries orch – 25´
1966 Symphony 26 [2 movements] 2016 – Symphonies 8, 21, 26 – Naxos 1976 – Aries orch – 16½´
Symphony 27 in C minor [3 movements] 2014 – Symphonies 5 _Wine of Summer_, 19 & 27 – Dutton Vocalion orch – 22´
1967 Symphony 28 »Sinfonia in C minor« in C minor [4 movements] 2014 – Symphonies 6, 28, 29, 31 – Naxos 1973 – Aries orch – 15´
Symphony 29 in E flat [4 movements] 2014 – Symphonies 6, 28, 29, 31 – Naxos orch – 19½´
Oedipus Coloneus [opera] Sophocles trans Sir George Young unfinished, prob destroyedLOST
Symphony 30 in B flat minor [2 movements] 2010 – Symphonies 10, 30, Concerto for Orchestra, English Suite 3 – Dutton Vocalion orch – 15½´
Festival fanfare [1 movement] orig Fanfare for the orchestral brass 1996 – Symphony No. 2, Festival Fanfare – Naxos 1977 – Fanfare: British Music for Symphonic Brass Ensemble – Chandos brass – 1½´
1968 Symphony 31 [1 movement] 2014 – Symphonies 6, 28, 29, 31 – Naxos 1987 – Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 7–9 and 31 – EMI Classics orch – 13´
Legend »Ave atque vale (Hail and farewell)« [1 movement] 2009 – Havergal Brian: Orchestral Music, Volume One – Toccata Classics orch – 8´
Symphony 32 in A flat [4 movements] 1992 – Symphonies Nos. 17 and 32 – Naxos orch – 22½´