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Robin Holloway

Chronological List of Works

Year Op Work
1962 1 Garden Music for 9 players
1964 2 Concertino No.1 for small orchestra
1964-65 3 Three Poems of William Empson for mezzo-soprano and ensemble
1965 4 Music for Eliot's 'Sweeney agonistes' for 6 players and speakers
1965-66 5 In Chymick Art cantata for soprano, baritone and 9 players (Edward Benlowes)

6 Concerto for organ and wind

7 Four Housman Fragments for soprano and piano
1966-69 8 First Concerto for Orchestra
1967 9 Melodrama for speaker, small male chorus, and ensemble (Sylvia Plath)

10 Concertino No.2 for small orchestra
1968 11 Divertimento No.1 for amateur orchestra and piano
1968-69 12 Tender Only to One for soprano solo (Stevie Smith)
1970 13 Scenes from Schumann for orchestra

14 The Wind Shifts for high voice and strings (Wallace Stevens)
1971 15 Banal Sojourn for high voice and piano (Stevens)

16 Fantasy-Pieces for piano and 12 instruments
1972 17 Evening with Angels for 16 players

18 Divertimento No.2 for wind nonet

19 Georgian Songs for bartione and piano
1972-73 20 Cantata on the Death of God for soloists, speaker, SATB chorus, organ and orchestra

21 Five Little Songs about Death for mezzo-soprano or contralto solo (Stevie Smith)
1973 22 Five Madrigals for unaccompanied chorus
1973-74 23 Domination of Black for large orchestra

23a Diptych

23b Summer Rain

23c Night Hunt
1974 24 Lights Out for baritone and piano (Edward Thomas)

25 In the Thirtieth Year for tenor and piano (J.V. Cunningham)

26 Author of Light for contralto and piano (Jacobean texts)

27 The Leaves Cry for soprano and piano (Stevens and Christina Rosetti)
1974-75 28 Sea-Surface Full of Clouds cantata for soloists, choir, and chamber orchestra
1975 29 Homage to Weill: Concertino No.3 for 11 players
1976 30 Clarissa Opera in two acts

30a Clarissa Symphony for soprano, tenor and orchestra

30b Clarissa Sepquence for soprano and orchestra (1995)

31 Romanza for violin and small orchestra
1977 32 This is Just to Say for tenor and piano

33 Nursery Rhymes for soprano and wind quintet

33a Nursery Rhymes: Divertimento No.3 for soprano and wind quintet

33b Conundrums: Divertimento No.4 for soprano and wind quintet (1979)

33c A Medley of Nursery Rhymes and Conundrums for mezzo-soprano and piano(1986)

34 The Rivers of Hell for 7 players

35/1 The Blue Doom of Summer for high voice and harp (Ronald Firbank)

35/2 Willow Cycle for tenor and harp (Elizabethan texts)

36 Hymn for Voices for unaccompanied chorus

37 From High Windows for baritone and piano (Philip Larkin)

38/1 The Consolation of Music for unaccompanied chorus
1978 38/2 He-She-Together for unaccompanied chorus (James Joyce)


Killing Time for soprano solo
1978-79 39 The Noon's Repose for tenor and harp (Eliot/Stevens/Marvell)

40 Second Concerto for Orchestra

41 Serenade in C for octet
1979-80 42 First Idyll for small orchestra

43 Horn Concerto

44 Aria for 14 players
1980 45 Ode for 4 winds and strings
1980-81 46 Wherever We May Be for soprano and piano
1981 47 Somata for Violin Solo

48 Brand dramatic ballad for soloists, chorus, organ, and orchestra

49 The Lover's Well for baritone and piano (Geoffrey Hill)
1981-82 50 War Memorials for brass band
1982 51 Women in War revue for 4 female soloists and piano


Suite for Saxophone

52 Serenata Notturna for 4 horns and small orchestra
1982-83 53 Showpiece: Concertino No.4 for 14 players

54 Second Idyll for small orchestra
1983-84 55 Seascape and Harvest for orchestra

56 Viola Concerto for viola and small orchestra
1983 57 Serenade in Eb for wind quintet and string quintet
1984 58 Moments of Vision cycle for speaker and 4 players

59 Romanza for oboe and string orchestra


On Hope cantata for soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, and string quartet (ms)

60a Souvenirs de Monsalvat for piano four-hands


Since I believe Anthem for a cappella choir (Robert Bridges)
1984-85 61 Ballad for harp and small orchestra

63 Bassoon Concerto for bassoon and small orchestra
1985 62/1 First Partita for solo horn

62/2 Second Partita for solo horn


Concertino No.4 ½ Signature for "BBC Young Musician of the Year" for ensemble (ms)
1986 64 Serenade in G for string septet

64a Serenade in G for string orchestra

64b Serenade in G for string sextet

65 Organ Fantasy

66 Inquietus for small orchestra
1987 67 Brass Quintet: Divertimento No.5
1988 68 Double Concerto for clarinet, saxophone and two chamber orchestras


Panorama for orchestra
1989 60 Wagner Nights Waltz-sequence for orchestra
1990
The Spacious Firmament for chorus and orchestra (Dryden/Blake/Tennyson)

70 Violin Concerto

71 Entrance: Carousing: Embarkation for symphonic band

72 Hymn to the Senses for large chorus (John Fuller)

73 Serenade for Strings in E
1991 74 Summer Music: Concertino No.5 for mixed sextet
1991-95 75 Boys and Girls Come Out to Play Opera Buffa in two acts

75a Overture on Nursery Rhymes for chamber orchestra

76 Winter Music for six players
1991 77 Lord, what is man? for unaccompanied chorus (Crashaw)
1992
Love will find out the way for soprano and chamber ensemble
1993 78 Third Idyll: Frost at Midnight for chamber orchestra


A Singing Telegram for Amelia Freedman for string sextet or septet


Berceuse with Burlesque for piano quartet (ms)


Bourée Fantasque Orchestral Arrangement of Chabrier
1993-94 79 Trio for clarinet, viola and piano
1981-94 80 Third Concerto for Orchestra
1994 81 The Blackbird and the Snail for narrator and piano (Walter de la Mare)
1996 82 Clarinet Concerto
1996-97 83 Double-bass Concerto
c.1984-97 84 Peer Gynt
1997 85 Scenes from Antwerp for orchestra
1992-97 86 Gilded Goldbergs for two pianos
1999
8 Haydn Minatures

87 Viola Sonata
1996-99 88 Symphony

89 i. Woefully arrayed motet for choir and organ (anon/? Skelton)
ii. Felicity motet for choir and organ (Traherne)
2000 90 no.i Ballade for piano


no.ii Nocturne for piano


(to be continued)

91 Sonata for solo 'cello

92 Serenade in Bb for wind octet
1993-2001 93 Missa Caiensis for choir and organ
[Kyrie; Sanctus and Benedictus; Agnus, written 1993: Gloria; Credo, written 2001]
2002
Orchestration of Debussy's en blanc et noir

94 Various pieces for solo trumpet, 2 trumpets, trumpet and organ

95 Christmas Sequence for choir and organ

96 Spring Music for 6 players

97 String Quartet no. 1

98 Four-Piece Suite for organ
2004
99 Serenade in D flat for 4 players

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for choir and organ

100 String Quartet no. 2
2004-?6
101 Fourth Concerto for Orchestra

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