David Wynne (composer) - Selected Works

Selected Works

Works published by University of Wales Press, University College Cardiff Press, and at the Welsh Music Information Centre

Stage

• Jack and Jill, opera (1975)
• Night and Cold Peace, opera (1978)
• Cain (1981)

Orchestral

• Symphony No.1 (1952); unperformed
• Elegy for string orchestra (1953)
• Berceuse for string orchestra (1954)
• Prelude, Air and Dance (1955)
• Symphony No.6 (1955)
• Symphony No.2 (1956); commissioned by the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music
• Fantasia No.1 (1957); commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Wales
• Sinfonietta for string orchestra (1958)
• A Welsh Suite (1961)
• Symphony No.3 (1963); premiered at the Caerphilly Festival
• Symphony No.4; incomplete
• Cymric Rhapsody No.1 (1965)
• Prelude (1968)
• Cymric Rhapsody No.2 (1969)
• Divertimento for string orchestra (1974)
• Octad (1977)
• Songs for string orchestra
• Three Pieces for Orchestra

Concertante

• Rhapsody No.1 for violin and orchestra (1957)
• Fantasia Concerto for viola and orchestra (1961)
• Fantasia Concerto for 2 pianos (3 hands) and orchestra (1962); unperformed
• Fantasia for piano and orchestra (1972)

Chamber music

• String Quartet No.1 (1944)
• String Trio (1945)
• Piano Trio No.1 (1946)
• Sonatina for viola and piano (1946)
• Sonata No.1 for violin and piano (1948)
• Sonata for viola and piano (1951)
• Five Short Pieces for clarinet and piano (1956)
• Sonata for trombone and piano (1956)
• Sonata for trumpet and piano (1956)
• Sonata No.2 for violin and piano (1957)
• Quintet for clarinet and string quartet (1959)
• Septet for flute, clarinet, bassoon and string quartet (1961)
• String Quartet No.3 (1966)
• Mosaic for percussion ensemble (1968)
• Piano Trio No.2 (1968)
• Duo for cello and piano (1970)
• Quartet for violin, viola, cello and piano (1971)
• String Quartet No.4 (1972)
• Sextet for woodwind quintet and piano (1977)
• Sonatina for violin and piano (1978)
• Music for percussion ensemble (1979)
• String Quartet No.5 (1980)
• Quartet for oboe, viola, cello and double bass (1982)
• Divertimento for 2 trumpets and 2 trombones
• Postlude for 3 trumpets

Harp

• Prelude and Dance (1963)
• Music (1966)
• Suite of Six Bagatelles

Organ

• Sonata (1965)
• Fanfare (1972)
• Three Short Pieces (1973)

Piano

• Sonata No.1 (1947)
• Rondo Capriccioso for 2 pianos (1952)
• Sonata No.2 (1956)
• Suite of Three Pieces
• Variations and Capriccio for 2 pianos (1965)
• Sonata No.3 (1966)
• Sonata No.4 (1966)
• Six Studies (1973)
• Four Welsh Folk Tunes
• Six Miniatures

Vocal

• Songs of Solitude for high voice and string orchestra with piano (1941)
• Two Songs from a Child's Garden for high voice and piano (1941)
• Y môr ynghwsg (The Sleeping Sea) for high voice and piano (1941)
• 6 Chân i denor a thelyn (6 Songs) for tenor and harp (1950)
• Ebb and Flow for high voice and chamber ensemble (1960)
• Coming Forth by Day for voice and piano (1964)
• Evening Shadows for voice and piano (1971)
• Night-Music for soprano, string quartet and piano (1974)
• Aubade for voice and piano
• A Cradle Song for voice and piano
• Hwiangerdd Wyddelig (Irish Lullaby) for high voice and piano
• Nocturne for low voice and piano
• O rosyn, dos (Go, Lovely Rose) for tenor and piano
• To Music for low voice and piano

Choral

• Night Watch formixed chorus and orchestra (1957)
• Four Songs from the Chinese for female chorus (1963)
• Y gelynnen (The Holly) for female chorus and piano (1963)
• Great Is the Lord for mixed chorus and organ (1967)
• Stafell Gynddylan for mixed chorus (1967)
• Gwirebau (Axioms) for chorus and piano (1969)
• Suite of Six Songs for youth choir and piano (1972)
• A Gwent Symphony "Wentwood Thorn" for female chorus and orchestra (1973)
• The Traveller for tenor and mixed chorus (1973)
• Geni Crist for mixed chorus and organ (1979)
• Two settings of Poems by William Blake for mixed chorus and harp (1980)
• Owain ab Urien, Cantata for male chorus and chamber ensemble