Ian Venables - Works List

Works List

Chamber music

• Elegy for cello and piano, Op. 2 (1981)
• Elegy (arr. for viola and piano), Op. 2a (1987)
• Three Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 11 (1986)
• Diversions for brass quintet, (jazz ensemble) Op. 13 (1992)
• Sonatina for oboe and piano, Op. 14 (1995)
• Three Bridges Suite for brass decet (jazz ensemble), Op. 18 (1994)
• Triptych for sixteen brass and two percussion, Op. 21 (1993)
• Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 23 (1989)
• Soliloquy for viola and piano, Op. 26 (1994)
• Piano Quintet Op. 27 (1989–1996)
• Poem for cello and piano, Op. 29 (1997)
• String Quartet Op. 32 (1997–1998)
• The Moon Sails Out for cello and piano, Op. 42 (2010)
• It Rains (arr for cello and piano), Op. 33a (2012)

Organ

• Rhapsody for organ, Op. 25 (1996)

Piano

• Sonata (1975) In Memoriam D.S.C.H Op. 1 (revised 1984)
• The Stourhead Follies Four Romantic Impressions Op. 4 (1985)
• Three Short Pieces Op. 5 (1986)
• Impromptu The Rose and the Nightingale Op. 8 (1996)
• Portrait of Janis Op. 9 (2000)
• Caprice Op. 35 (2001)

Choral

• O Sing Aloud to God, Anthem for S.A.T.B and organ, Op. 19 (1993)
• Awake! Awake, the World is Young, Anthem for chorus, mezzo-soprano, brass, percussion and organ, (with optional strings) Op. 34 (1999)
• While shepherds watched their flocks by night, Carol for S.A.T.B and organ, (2001)

Vocal

• Midnight Lamentation for voice and piano, Op. 6 (1974); words by Harold Monro
• Pain for voice and piano, Op. 10 (1991); words by Ivor Gurney
• A Kiss for voice and piano or string quartet, Op. 15 (1992); words by Thomas Hardy
• Easter Song for voice and piano, Op. 16 (1992); words by Edgar Billingham
• At the Court of the Poisoned Rose for voice and piano, Op. 20 (1994); words by Marion Angus
• Love's Voice - Four Venetian Songs, song cycle for tenor and piano, Op. 22 (1995); words by John Addington Symonds

1. Fortunate Isles
2. The Passing Stranger
3. Invitation to the Gondola (also for baritone and piano)
4. Love's Voice

• At Malvern for voice and piano, Op. 24 (1998); words by John Addington Symonds
• Flying Crooked and At Midnight for voice and piano or string quartet, Op. 28 (1997–1998); words by Robert Graves and Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Acton Burnell for tenor, viola and piano, Op. 30 (1997); words by Rennie Parker
• Invite to Eternity, song cycle for tenor and string quartet, Op. 31 (1997); words by John Clare

1. Born upon an Angel's Breast
2. An Invite to Eternity
3. Evening Bells
4. I am

• Six Songs for voice and piano, Op. 33 (1999–2003); words by Jennifer Andrews, Edward Thomas, Ernest Dowson, Charles Bennett, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Theodore Roethke

1. The Way Through
2. It Rains
3. Vitae summa brevis
4. The November Piano
5. Break, break, break
6. The Hippo (also for voice and string quartet)

• Songs of Eternity and Sorrow, song cycle for tenor, string quartet and piano, Op. 36 (2003); words by

A. E. Housman

1. Easter Hymn
2. When Green Buds Hang
3. Oh, Who is That Young Sinner
4. Because I Liked You Better

• Songs for soprano and piano, Op. 37 (2004, 2008); words by John Clare and Elizabeth Jennings

1. Love Lives Beyond
2. Friendship

• On the Wings of Love, six songs for tenor, clarinet and piano, Op. 38 (2006); words by Constantine P. Cavafy,

Federico García Lorca, Jean de Sponde, Emperor Hadrian, Robert Frost and W. B. Yeats

1. Ionian Song
2. The Moon Sails Out
3. Sonnets of Love, No XI
4. Animula Vagula, Blandula
5. Reluctance
6. When You Are Old

• The Pine Boughs Past Music, song cycle for baritone and piano, Op. 39 (2009); words by Ivor Gurney and

Leonard Clark

1. The Wind
2. Soft Rain
3. My Heart Makes Songs on Lonely Roads
4. In Memoriam – Ivor Gurney

• Remember This, Cantata for soprano, tenor, string quartet, piano Op. 40 (2008–2011); words by Andrew Motion
• Songs for baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano, Op. 41 (2011-); words by Philip Larkin, Christopher Scott,

William Francis Bourdillon; Galway Kinnell

1. Cut Grass
2. Frutta di mare
3. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
4. In a Palor Containing a Table

• The Song of the Severn, song cycle for baritone, string quartet and piano, Op. 43 (2013); words by John Masefield,

A.E Housman, John Drinkwater and Philip Worner

1. On Malvern Hill
2. How clear, how lovely bright
3. Elgar's Music
4. Laugh and be merry
5. The River in December