Selected Compositions
- Fantasias on an In nomine of John Taverner (1962; For a large orchestra dividing into several chambers ensembles to be performed)
- Eight Songs for a Mad King (1968; for singer/narrator/actor and chamber ensemble)
- Missa super l'homme armé (1968, rev. 1971; for male or female speaker or singer and ensemble)
- Ave Maris Stella (1975; chamber ensemble)
- The Door of the Sun for Viola Solo, J.132 (1975)
- Symphony No. 1 (1973–76; orchestra)
- The Martyrdom of St Magnus (1977; chamber opera)
- The Lighthouse (1979; chamber opera)
- Black Pentecost (1979; quasi-symphony: mezzo-soprano, baritone, & orchestra)
- Cinderella (1980; children's opera)
- Symphony No. 2 (1980)
- Image, Reflection, Shadow (1982; ensemble)
- Symphony No. 3 (1984)
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1985; dedicated to Isaac Stern who gave the first performance on 21 June 1986 at the St. Magnus Festival in the Orkney Islands)
- Symphony No. 4 (1989)
- Caroline Mathilde (1991; ballet)
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 5 for violin, viola, and string orchestra, J.245 (1991)
- A Spell for Green Corn: The MacDonald Dances (1993; violin, orchestra)
- Symphony No. 5 (1994)
- The Doctor of Myddfai (1996; opera)
- Symphony No. 6 (1996)
- Job (1997; singers, orchestra)
- Mr Emmet Takes a Walk (2000; chamber opera)
- Symphony No. 7 (2000)
- Symphony No. 8 (Antarctic Symphony) (2001)
- Naxos Quartets (2001–2007; string quartet)
- Midhouse Air for Violin and Viola
- Homerton (2010; for the choir of Homerton College, Cambridge)
- Kommilitonen! (2011; opera)
- Symphony No. 9 (2012)
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