title: List of compositions by Constant Lambert
text: # List of compositions by Constant Lambert
  
  This is a list of musical works written by Constant Lambert:
  
  ## Ballets
  
  * Prize-fight (1 act), 1923–4, London, FP 6 March 1924, rev. 1925, 1927, unpublished.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  * Mr Bear Squash-You-All-Flat (1 act; based on a Russian children's tale), 1923–4, FP Manchester, 22 June 1979, unpublished
  * Adam and Eve (suite dansée), 1924–5, FP London, 6 June 1932, rev. 1932, unpublished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  * Tiresias (3 scenes), 1950–51, FP London, 9 July 1951, unpublished
  
  ## Incidental music
  
  * 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  * Hamlet (William Shakespeare), flute, two trumpets and percussion, 1944, FP London, 11 Feb 1944, unpublished
  
  ## Orchestral
  
  * Green Fire, rhapsody, ? 1923, unpublished, score probably lost; FP 28 June 1923
  * The Bird Actors, overture, 1925, FP 5 July 1931; reorchestrated 1927, unpublished [originally for pf 4 hands]
  * Champêtre, chamber orch, 1926, unpublished in original form [used as Intrada of Pomona; arr.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)
  
  ## Concertante
  
  * Concerto for piano, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings, 1924, unpublished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
  
  ## Film scores
  
  * Merchant Seamen, patriotic documentary 1940; orchestral suite arr. 1943, pubd, FP 15 May 1943
  * Anna Karenina (dir. Julien Duvivier), 1947, unpublished
  
  ## Piano
  
  * 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
  
  ## Vocal and choral
  
  * 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
  
  ## Arrangements
  
  * 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
  
  ## Editions
  
  * 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
  