Ian Parrott - Selected Works

Selected Works

Stage

• The Black Ram, Opera in 2 acts (1957); libretto by Idris Bell; Welsh text by T. H. Parry-Williams
• Once Upon a Time, Opera (1959)

Orchestral

• Pensieri for string orchestra (1950)
• Family Prelude and Fugue for strings and piano (1958)
• Symphony No. 2 (1960)
• Symphony No. 3
• Partita (1967)
• Harrow March (1970)
• Homage to Two Masters (1970)
• Reaching for the Light for chamber orchestra (1971)
• El Alamein, Symphonic Prelude
• Fanfare Overture
• Luxor, Symphonic Poem
• Romeo and Juliet, Solemn Overture
• Seithenin, Concert Overture
• Suite of Four Shakespeare Dances
• Three Moorish Princesses
• Variations on a Theme of Dufay
• Y fair (Three Ladies Suite)

Wind band

• Land of Song, Fantasia on Welsh Tunes (1969)

Concertante

• Concerto for English horn (cor anglais) and orchestra (1958)
• Concerto breve for cello and orchestra (1963)
• Concerto for trombone and wind band (1968)
• Concertino (1973)
• Concerto for piano and orchestra
• Prelude and Waltz for recorder or flute and string orchestra
• Sinfonia Concertante for recorder, solo violin, string orchestra and percussion
• Suite for violin and orchestra

Chamber music

• Minuet for oboe and piano (1950)
• Aquarelle for clarinet or viola and piano (1952)
• Welsh Airs, Arrangements for 2 descant recorders with piano or harp ad libitum (1955)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1955)
• String Quartet No. 3
• Septete 1962 for flute, clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello and piano (1962)
• String Quartet No. 4 (1963)
• Pantglas for violin and piano (1967)
• Two Dances for flute and piano (1969)
• Fresh about Cook Strait, Wind Quintet No. 2 for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1970)
• Devil's Bridge Jaunt for cello and piano (1974)
• Fanfare and March for 2 trumpets, trombone and tuba (1976)
• Gleaming Brass, for 2 trumpets (or cornets), horn, trombone and tuba (1977)
• Rhapsody for trumpet and organ (1977)
• Fantasy-Sonata for clarinet and piano (1982)
• Kaleidoscope for violin, cello and piano (1985)
• Duetto for violin and viola (1986)
• Autumn Landscape for oboe and piano (1987)
• Duo for 2 guitars (1988)
• Fun Fugato and Awkward Waltz for bassoon and piano (1989)
• Arabesque and Dance for flute and piano (or treble recorder and harpsichord) (1990)
• Fantasising on a Welsh Tune: Dygan Caerws, Trio for recorder or flute, oboe and piano (1995)
• Portraits for treble recorder or flute and piano (1999)
• Rondo giocoso for bassoon and piano (1999)
• Dialogue and Dance for recorder and organ (2002)
• The Choral Preludes for cello and piano

Harp

• Ceredigion, 3 Pieces with Interludes (1962)
• Soliloquy and Dance (1974)

Organ

• Toccata in C major (1965)
• Suite (1977)
• Suite No. 2 (1986)

Piano

• Betinka, Romance (1940)
• Fanatasy and Allegro for 2 pianos (1946)
• Theme and Six Variants (1947)
• Westerham, Rhapsody (1948)
• Aspects (1975)
• Fantasy (1986)
• Theme from a Symphony for piano 4-hands (1986)

Vocal

• I heard a linnet courting for voice and piano (1948); words by Robert Bridges
• In Phaeacia for high voice and piano (1948); words by James Elroy Flecker
• Leaves for voice and piano (1949); words by Elizabeth Ward
• Dafydd y gareg wen for voice and piano (1969)
• Flamingoes for medium voice and piano (1973); words by Jane Wilson
• Two Thoughtful Songs for high voice and piano (1977); words by William Blake and Gerard Manley Hopkins
• No Complaints for voice and piano (1984)
• Eastern Wisdom, 3 Songs for voice and small orchestra (1987); words by Luo Yin, Rabindranath Tagore and from Ecclesiasticus
• Song of Joy for voice and piano (1988)
• Aphorisms and Arias of Death and Life for soprano, baritone and piano (1996)
• Nothing like Grog for voice and piano

Choral

• Psalm 91 for bass solo, chorus, semi-chorus and orchestra (1946); Biblical words
• Carol plygain (Dawn Carol) for mixed chorus and piano (1958)
• Can mewn bar salwn (Song in a Saloon Bar), Part-Song for male voices (tenor, baritone, 2 basses) and piano (1963); words by A. S. J. Tessimond; Welsh words by T. H. Parry-Williams
• The Song of the Stones of Saint David's for chorus and organ (1968)
• Offeren yn arddull canu gwerin (Welsh Folk-Song Mass) for unison chorus, organ or piano and percussion (1974)
• Surely the Lord Is in This Place, Introit for mixed chorus a cappella (1977)
• Money Talks for male chorus and piano (1978); words by A. S. J. Tessimond; Welsh translation by T. H. Parry-Williams
• My Cousin Alice for soprano, tenor, mixed chorus, piano and optional tape of North American birds (1982)
• Anthem of Dedication for mixed chorus and organ (1985)
• The Christ Child (The "Mother Christmas" Carol) for mixed chorus with piano or organ (1987); words by Barbara Bonner-Morgan
• My Sweetheart's Like Venus, Welsh Folk-Song arranged for baritone solo and mixed chorus (1987)
• Master Hughes of Saxe-Gotha (An Unknown Musician) for mixed chorus and piano (1987); words by Robert Browning
• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, Setting for treble voices and organ (1987)
• Adam lay y bounden for unison voices and piano or organ (1990)
• Arglwydd ein Iôr ni (O! Lord Our Sovereign), Psalm 8 for mixed chorus a cappella (1993)

Literary

• Pathways to Modern Music (A. Unwin, 1947)
• A Guide to Musical Thought (Dennis Dobson, 1955)
• Method in Orchestration (Dobson, 1957)
• The Music of "An Adventure" (Regency Press, 1966)
• The Spiritual Pilgrims (Llandybie: C. Davies, 1969)
• Elgar (Dent, 1971)
• The Music of Rosemary Brown (Regency Press, 1978)
• Cyril Scott and His Piano Music (Thames Publishing, 1991)
• The Crying Curlew: Peter Warlock, Family & Influences, Centenary 1994 (Gomer, 1994)
• Parrottcisms: The Autobiography of Ian Parrott (British Music Society, 2003)