List of compositions by Arnold Bax

Bax in 1922

This is a list of musical compositions by English composer Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953).

Orchestral

Symphonies

• Symphony in F (1907, piano score; 2012–13 completed and orchestrated by Martin Yates)
• Spring Fire, Symphony for Orchestra (1913, sometimes classified as a Tone Poem)
• Symphony No. 1 (1922)
• Symphony No. 2 (1926)
• Symphony No. 3 (1929)
• Symphony No. 4 (1931)
• Symphony No. 5 (1932)
• Symphony No. 6 (1935)
• Symphony No. 7 (1939)

Ballets

• Tamara (1911, orch. 2000)
• From Dusk till Dawn (1917)
• The Truth about the Russian Dancers (1920)

Tone poems

• Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan (1905)
• Into The Twilight (1908)
• In the Faëry Hills (1909)
• Rosc-catha (1910)
• Christmas Eve (1912, revised c.1921)
• Nympholept (1912, orch. 1915, revised 1935)
• The Garden of Fand (1913, orch. 1916)
• In Memoriam (1916)
• November Woods (1917)
• Tintagel (1917, orch. 1919)
• Summer Music (1917, orch. 1921, revised 1932)
• The Happy Forest (1922)
• The Tale the Pine Trees Knew (1931)
• Northern Ballad No. 1 (1927)
• Northern Ballad No. 2 (1934)
• Prelude for a Solemn Occasion (Northern Ballad No. 3) (1927, orch. 1933)
• A Legend (1944)

Concertante

• Symphonic Variations, for piano and orchestra (1918)
• Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra (1920)
• Winter Legends, for piano and orchestra (1930)
• Cello Concerto (1932)
• Saga Fragment, for piano and orchestra (1932)
• Violin Concerto (1938)
• Piano Concertino (1939)
• Morning Song, for piano and orchestra (1946)
• Concertante for Three Solo Wind Instruments and Orchestra (1948/1949)
• Concertante for Orchestra with Piano (Left Hand) (1949)
• Variations on the name Gabriel Fauré for Harp & String Orchestra (1949)

Other orchestral works

• Variations for Orchestra (Improvisations) (1904)
• A Song of War and Victory (1905)
• On the Sea Shore (1908, orch. 1984)
• Festival Overture (1911, revised 1918)
• Dance of Wild Irravel (1912)
• Four Orchestral Pieces (1912–13)
• Three Pieces for Small Orchestra (1913, revised 1928)
• Symphonic Scherzo (1917, revised 1933)
• Russian Suite (1919)
• Mediterranean (1922)
• Cortège (1925)
• Romantic Overture (1926)
• Overture, Elegy and Rondo (1927)
• Three Pieces (1928)
• Overture to a Picaresque Comedy (1930)
• Sinfonietta (1932)
• Saga Fragment (1932)
• Rogue's Comedy Overture (1936)
• Overture to Adventure (1936)
• London Pageant (1937)
• Paean (1938)
• Salute to Sydney (Fanfare) (1943)
• Work in Progress (Overture) (1943)
• Victory March (1945)
• The Golden Eagle (Incidental Music) (1945)
• Two Royal Wedding Fanfares (1947)
• Coronation March (1952)

Chamber

One player

• Valse, for harp (1931)
• Rhapsodic Ballad, for cello (1939)

Two players

• Harp
  • Fantasy Sonata for harp and viola (1927)
  • Sonata for Flute and Harp (1928)
• Violin
  • Violin Sonata No. 0 in G minor (1901)
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1910)
  • Legend, for violin and piano, in one movement (1915)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (1915, revised 1922)
  • Ballad, for violin and piano (1916)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 (1927)
  • Ballad, for violin and piano (1929)
  • Violin Sonata in F (1928)
• Viola
  • Concert Piece for viola and piano (1904)
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1921–1922)
  • Fantasy Sonata for harp and viola (1927)
  • Legend for viola and piano (1929)
• Cello
  • Folk-Tale, for cello and piano (1918)
  • Cello Sonata (1923)
  • Cello Sonatina (1933)
  • Legend-Sonata, for cello and piano (1943)
• Flute
  • Four Pieces for Flute and Piano (1912, revised 1915 & 1945)
  • Sonata for Flute and Harp (1928)
• Clarinet Sonata (1934)

Three players

• Trio in One Movement for Piano, Violin, and Viola (1906)
• Elegiac Trio, for flute, viola, and harp (1916)
• Piano Trio in B flat (1946)

Four players

• String Quartet in A major (1902)
• String Quartet in E major (1903)
• String Quartet No. 1 in G major (1918)
• Piano Quartet, in one movement (1922)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1925)
• String Quartet No. 3 in F (1936)

Five players

• Cello Quintet in G (1908)
• Piano Quintet in G minor (1915)
• Quintet for Harp and Strings, in one movement (1919)
• Oboe Quintet (1922)
• Viola Quintet, in one movement (1933)

Six or more players

• In Memoriam, sextet for cor anglais, harp & string quartet (1916)
• Nonet (1930) for flute, oboe, clarinet, harp, 2 violins, viola, cello and bass
• Octet (1934) for horn, piano and string sextet
• Threnody and Scherzo, octet in two movements (1936) for Bassoon, 2 Vlns, 2 Vlas, Cello, Contrabass & Harp
• Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Harp and String Quartet (1936) - transcription of Sonata for Flute and Harp (1928)

Piano

One piano

• Clavierstücke (Juvenilia) (1897–8)
• Piano Sonata, Op. 1 (1898)
• Piano Sonata in D minor (1900)
• Marcia Trionfale (1900)
• White Peace (arranged by Ronald Stevenson 1907)
• Concert Valse in E flat (1910)
• Piano Sonata No. 1 (1910, revised 1917–20)
• Piano Sonata in F♯ minor (1910, revised, 1911, 1919 & 1921)
• Two Russian Tone-Pictures (1912)
• Nympholept (1912)
• Scherzo for Piano (1913)
• Toccata for Piano (1913)
• From the Mountains of Home (arranged by Peter Warlock) (1913)
• The Happy Forest (1914)
• In the Night (1914)
• Apple-Blossom-Time (1915)
• In a Vodka Shop (1915)
• The Maiden with the Daffodil (1915)
• A Mountain Mood (1915)
• The Princess’s Rose Garden (1915)
• Sleepy-Head (1915)
• Winter Waters (1915)
• Dream in Exile (1916)
• Nereid (1916)
• On a May Evening (1918)
• A Romance (1918)
• The Slave Girl (1919)
• What the Minstrel Told Us (1919)
• Whirligig (1919)
• Piano Sonata No. 2 (1919, revised 1920)
• Burlesque (1920)
• Ceremonial Dance (1920)
• A Country-Tune (1920)
• A Hill Tune (1920)
• Lullaby (1920)
• Mediterranean (1920)
• Serpent Dance (1920)
• Water Music (1920)
• Piano Sonata in E-flat (1921)
• Piano Sonata No. 3 (1926)
• Pæan (c.1928)
• Piano Sonata No. 4 (1932)
• A Legend (1935)
• Piano Sonata in B flat Salzburg (1937)
• O Dame get up and bake your pies (1945)
• Suite on the Name Gabriel Fauré (1945)
• Four Pieces for Piano (1947)
• Two Lyrical Pieces for Piano (1948)

Two pianos

• Fantasia for Two Pianos (1900)
• Festival Overture (arrangement of orchestral work 1911)
• Moy Mell (1916)
• Mediterranean (arranged for three hands by H. Rich 1920)
• Hardanger (1927)
• The Poisoned Fountain (1928)
• The Devil that tempted St Anthony (1928)
• Sonata for Two Pianos (1929)
• Red Autumn (1931)

Film music

• Malta, G. C. (1942)
• Oliver Twist (1948)

Vocal

Choral

• Fatherland (Runeberg, tr. C. Bax) [tenor solo] (1907, revised 1934)
• A Christmas Carol (Anon.) [arranged for SATB by Hubert Dawkes] (1909)
• Enchanted Summer (Shelley) [two soprano solos] (1910)
• Variations sur ‘Cadet Rousselle’ (French trad.) [arranged by Max Saunders] (1918)
• Of a rose I sing a song (Anon.) [SATB, harp, cello, double bass] (1920)
• Now is the Time of Christymas (Anon.) [TB, flute, piano] (1921)
• Mater, ora Filium (Anon.) [SSAATTBB] (1921)
• This Worldes Joie (Anon.) [SATB with SATB divisions] (1922)
• The Boar’s Head (Anon.) [TTBB] (1923)
• I sing of a maiden that is makeless (to "I syng of a mayden", Anon.) [SAATB] (1923)
• To the Name above every Name (Crashaw) [soprano solo] (1924)
• St Patrick’s Breastplate (Anon.) [SATB] (1924)
• Walsinghame (Raleigh) (tenor, obbligato soprano) (1926)
• Lord, Thou hast told us (Washbourne) [hymn for SATB] (1930)
• The Morning Watch (Vaughan) [SATB] (1935)
• 5 Fantasies on Polish Christmas Carols (trans. Śliwiński) [unison trebles] (1942)
• 5 Greek Folksongs (trans. Michel-Dmitri Calvocoressi) [SATB] (1942)
• To Russia (Masefield) [baritone solo] (1944)
• Gloria [SATB] (1945)
• Nunc Dimittis [SATB] (1945)
• Te Deum [SATB] (1945)
• Epithalamium (Spenser) [SATB in unison] (1947)
• Magnificat [SATB] (1948)
• Happy Birthday to you (Hill) [arr. SATB] (1951)
• What is it like to be young and fair? (C. Bax) [SSAAT] (1953)

Songs with orchestra

• 2 Nocturnes [soprano] (1911)
• 3 Songs [high voice] (1914)
• Song of the Dagger (Strettell and Sylva) [bass] (1914)
• The Bard of the Dimbovitza (Strettel and Sylva) [mezzo-soprano] (1914, revised 1946)
• Glamour (O’Byrne) [high voice] (1921, orchestrated by Rodney Newton 1987)
• A Lyke-Wake (Anon.) [high voice] (1908, orchestrated 1934)
• Wild Almond (Trench) [high voice] (1924, orchestrated 1934)
• Eternity (Herrick) [high voice] (1934)
• O Dear! What can the matter be? (trad. arr. Bax) (1918)

Songs with chamber ensemble

• Aspiration (Dehmel) [arranged for high voice w/violin, cello, & piano] (1909)
• My eyes for beauty pine (Bridges) [high voice with string quartet] (c.1921)
• O Mistress mine (Shakespeare) [high voice with string quartet] (c.1921)

Songs with piano

• The Grand Match (O'Neill) (1903)
• To My Homeland (Gwynn) (1904)
• A Celtic Song Cycle (Macleod) (1904)
  • Eilidh my Fawn
  • Closing Doors
  • The Dark Eyes to Mine
  • A Celtic Lullaby
  • At the Last
• When We Are Lost (Arnold Bax) (1905)
• From the Uplands to the Sea (Morris) (1905)
• Leaves, Shadows and Dreams (Macleod) (1905)
• In the Silence of the Woods (Macleod) (1905)
• Green Branches (Macleod) (1905)
• The Fairies (Allingham) (1905)
• Golden Guendolen (Morris) (1905)
• The Song in the Twilight (Freda Bax) (1905)
• Mircath: Viking-Battle-Song (Macleod) (1905)
• A Hushing Song (Macleod) (1906)
• I Fear Thy Kisses Gentle Maiden (Shelley) (1906)
• Ballad: The Twa Corbies [recitation with piano] ('Border Minstrelsy') (1906)
• Magnificat (St. Luke 1.46-55) (1906)
• The Blessed Damozel (Rossetti) (1906)
• 5 Traditional Songs of France (1920)
• I Heard a Piper Piping (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil, Joseph Campbell) (1922)

External links

• Chronological listing of all the completed works of Arnold Bax