List of compositions by Constant Lambert

This is a list of musical works written by Constant Lambert:

Ballets edit

Prize-fight (1 act), 1923–4, London, FP 6 March 1924, rev. 1925, 1927, unpublished. (also version for piano, four hands)
Mr Bear Squash-You-All-Flat (1 act; based on a Russian children's tale), 1923–4, FP Manchester, 22 June 1979, unpublished
Adam and Eve (suite dansée), 1924–5, FP London, 6 June 1932, rev. 1932, unpublished
Romeo and Juliet (2 tableaux), 1924–5, FP Monte Carlo, 4 May 1926 [based on Adam and Eve]
Pomona (1 act), 1926, FP as a Divertimento 16 November 1926; FP as a ballet Buenos Aires, 9 Sept 1927 [incl. material from Adam and Eve]
Horoscope (1 act), 1937, FP London, 27 January 1938
Tiresias (3 scenes), 1950–51, FP London, 9 July 1951, unpublished

Jew Süss (Ashley Dukes, after Lion Feuchtwanger), ?1929, score possibly lost; FP London, 19 Sept 1929; after Domenico Scarlatti (see also Arrangements: Mars and Venus)
Salome (Oscar Wilde), clarinet, trumpet, percussion and cello, 1931, FP London, 27 May 1931
Hamlet (William Shakespeare), flute, two trumpets and percussion, 1944, FP London, 11 Feb 1944, unpublished

Green Fire, rhapsody, ? 1923, unpublished, score probably lost; FP 28 June 1923
The Bird Actors, overture, 1925, FP 5 July 1931; reorchestrated 1927, unpublished [originally for pf 4 hands]
Champêtre, chamber orch, 1926, unpublished in original form [used as Intrada of Pomona; arr. as Pastorale, pf]
Elegiac Blues, 1927 [arr. pf]
Music for Orchestra, 1927; FP 14 June 1929; dedicated to Lord Berners
Aubade héroïque, 1942; FP 21 February 1943; dedicated to Ralph Vaughan Williams on his 70th birthday
Caprice péruvien, orchestra (on themes by Lord Berners from Le carrosse du St Sacrement)

Concerto for piano, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings, 1924, unpublished
Concerto for piano and 9 players, 1930–31; FP 18 December 1931; Arthur Benjamin, piano, conducted by the composer; dedicated to Peter Warlock
see also Arrangements: Concerto for piano and small orchestra (an arrangement of organ concertos by George Frideric Handel)
see also: Vocal and choral: The Rio Grande

Merchant Seamen, patriotic documentary 1940;^[1] orchestral suite arr. 1943, pubd, FP 15 May 1943
Anna Karenina (dir. Julien Duvivier), 1947, unpublished

Alla Marcia, ?1925 [incl. in Romeo and Juliet]
Overture, pf duet, 1925, unpublished [see Orchestra: The Bird Actors]
Suite in 3 Movements, 1925, unpublished; FP 19 March 1925
Tema, ? 1925, unpublished.
Pastorale, 1926, unpublished.
Elegiac Blues, 1927
Sonata, 1928–9; FP 30 October 1929
Elegy, 1938
Trois pièces nègres pour les touches blanches, 4 hands, 1949; FP 17 May 1949; dedicated to Edward Clark

2 Songs (Sacheverell Sitwell), soprano, flute and harp, 1923; FP 6 March 1924
8 Poems of Li-Po, voice, piano or 8 insts, 1926–9; FP 30 October 1929; dedicated to Anna May Wong
The Rio Grande (Sacheverell Sitwell), alto, chorus, piano, brass, strings, percussion, 1927; first broadcast by the BBC 27 February 1928; first concert performance 12 December 1929, Hamilton Harty, piano
Summer's Last Will and Testament (Thomas Nashe: Pleasant Comedy), baritone, chorus and orchestra, 1932–5; FP 29 January 1936
Dirge from Cymbeline (William Shakespeare), tenor and baritone soli, male chorus, strings, 1940; FP 23 March 1947, BBC broadcast; dedicated to Patrick Hadley

Mars and Venus (incidental music for Jew Süss) (after Domenico Scarlatti)
Hommage aux belles viennoises, 1929 (after Franz Schubert)
Les rendezvous, 1933 (after Daniel Auber: L'enfant prodigue)
Bar aux Folies-Bergère, 1934 ballet (arrangement of piano music by Chabrier)
Apparitions, 1936, unpublished. (after Franz Liszt)
Les patineurs, 1937, ballet using music of Giacomo Meyerbeer (Le prophète, L'étoile du nord)
Harlequin in the Street, 1938, unpublished (after François Couperin)
Dante Sonata, piano and orchestra, 1940, unpublished (after Liszt)
The Prospect Before Us, London, 1940, unpublished (after William Boyce)
Comus, 1942 (after Henry Purcell)
Hamlet, London, 1942 (after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Ballabile, 1950 (after Emmanuel Chabrier)
Caprice péruvien, orchestra (after Lord Berners: Le carrosse du St Sacrement)
Concerto for piano and small orchestra (after George Frideric Handel: organ concertos Nos. 2 and 6)
Facade, Suites 1 and 2 arranged for piano duet (William Walton)
Job: A Masque for Dancing (Ralph Vaughan Williams), version for theatre orchestra; FP 1931, ISCM Festival, Oxford
Keyboard pieces by Thomas Roseingrave

William Boyce: 8 symphonies, string orchestra, wind ad lib
Boyce: The Power of Music, The Cambridge Ode, Pan and Syrinx, string orchestra, wind ad lib
Henry Purcell: The Fairy-Queen, collab. Edward J. Dent, unpublished