Timtin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:47 pm
Does anyone know please where to find a complete chronological list of works by Sir Arthur Somervell? Also, has there ever been a detailed biography written about this composer?
From Grove...(selected list)
song cycles
Maud (Tennyson), 1898, GB-Lbl; Love in Springtime (Tennyson, Rossetti, Kingsley), 1901; The Shropshire Lad (Housman), 1904; James Lee’s Wife (Browning), 1907; A Broken Arc (Browning), 1923
choral
Mass, c, 1891; A Song of Praise, 1891; Joan of Arc (M.H. Collet), 1893; The Forsaken Merman (Arnold), 1895; The Power of Sound (Wordsworth), 1895; Elegy (Bridges), 1896; The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson), 1896; Ode to the Sea (L. Binyon), 1897; Ode on the Intimations of Immortality (Wordsworth), 1907; Mass, d, 1907; The Passion of Christ, 1914; Christmas, 1926
orchestral
Helen of Kirkconnell, orch ballad, 1893; In Arcady, suite, 1897; Sym. Variations ‘Normandy’, 1912; Sym. ‘Thalassa’, d, 1912; Pf Conc. ‘The Highland’, 1921; Vn Conc., g, 1932
Grove also mentions: K. Shenton: ‘Sir Arthur Somervell’, Journal of the British Music Society, ix (1987), 45–54
Regards
Fred