Jonathan Rutherford
List of compositions
Score and Parts of all Titles available on request
(see Contact Information at bottom of page)
Concertos:
- ´Double Concerto´ for Accordion and Saw and String Quartet (2002) duration 45 minutes
Brass Quintet:
- ´Gospelsong´ for Brass Quintet (1998) duration 15 minutes
- ´The Last Flower´ for Brass Quintet, Synthesizer, Reciter and 3 Female Backing Singers (1998) duration 12 minutes
Wind Ensemble:
- ´The Pied Piper of Hamelin´ for Wind Octet and Reciter (1978) duration 19 minutes
Chamber Music:
- ´Requiescat´ for Soprano, clarinet and piano (1978) duration 8 minutes
- ´My Cat Jeoffry´ for String Quartet and Horn (1987) duration 25 minutes
- Rhapsody for Violoncello and Piano (1991) duration 19 minutes
- String Quartet no. 1 (1995) duration 28 minutes
- ´GospelSong´ for Brass Quintet (1998) duration 15 minutes
- ´An Intake of Breath´ for Saw, Violin and Soprano (1999) duration 23 minutes
- Oboe Quartet (1999) duration 16 minutes
- Rilke String Quartet (1995) duration 10 minutes
- Lament for Saw and Accordion (2001) duration 6 minutes
- Double Concerto for Accordion and Saw and String Quartet (2002) duration 45 minutes
- Little Minuet for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Violin and Piano (2002) duration 5 minutes
- Piano Quintet In Memoriam Janet Owen Thomas (2002) duration 8 minutes
Chamber Orchestra:
- ´The Star Child in Solitude´ (Part One) (version without Mezzo-Soprano) (1983) duration 30 minutes
Violoncello and Piano:
- Rhapsody for Violoncello and Piano (1991) duration 19 minutes
Opera:
- ´The Nightingale and the Rose´ (1965-8; 1973; 1989) (one act) duration 60 minutes
- ´The Star Child´ (1979-85) (three acts) duration 187 minutes (Act One 67 minutes - Act Two 75 minutes - Act Three 45 minutes) (WITHDRAWN)
Piano:
- Assorted Piano Pieces including the ´Weather Partita´ (1963-1981)
- ´The Hardy Sailor´ (1968; rev; 1989)
- Sonata in A major (1963; revised 1989) duration 16 minutes
- Sonatina in D flat major (1963; revised 1989) duration 8 minutes
- Suite in D flat major (1963; revised 1989) duration 5 minutes
- Suite in E flat major (1966; revised 1990) duration 19 minutes
- Sonata (1969; revised 1990) duration 19 minutes
- Sonata (´Courtly Dance´) (2000-2001) duration 30 minutes
- Sonata (2002) duration 29 minutes
Piano (four hands):
- Symphony four hands at one piano (1988) duration 55 minutes
Symphony Orchestra:
- ´The Pied Piper of Hamelin´ (with Reciter) (1978) duration 19 minutes
- Variation from ´Bouquet for Lennox´ (1983) duration 1½ minutes
- Symphony (1988) duration 55 minutes
- Scherzo (1988) duration 7 minutes
- ´Final Parting´ (with Choir) (1996) duration 7 minutes
Oboe:
- Oboe Quartet (oboe and String Trio) (1999) duration 16 minutes
- Scherzo Arabesque for oboe and piano (2001) duration 8 minutes
Violin:
- Sonata for Violin solo (1975) duration 18 minutes
- ´An Intake of Breath´ for Saw, Violin and Soprano (1999) duration 24 minutes
Organ:
- ´Fantasy on Salve Regina´ celebrating the 650th anniversary of Little St Mary's Church, Cambridge (2002) duration 7 minutes
Solo Vocal:
- ´The Whole Garden will Bow´ for Baritone and Piano (1975) duration 35 minutes
- ´All Skies Fall´ for Rock Singer and Piano (1976) duration 30 minutes
- ´O Sweet Spontaneous Earth´ for solo Mezzo-Soprano (1977) duration 8 minutes
- ´The Star Child in Solitude´ (Part One) for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Orchestra (1983) duration 30 minutes
- ´Behold This Dreamer´: fourteen songs for Soprano, Clarinet, Viola and Piano (1986)
- ´From Rilke´s Book of Hours´ for Mezzo-Soprano and Violoncello and Piano (1996) duration 10 minutes
- ´From Rilke´s Book of Hours´ (as above without Violoncello) (1996) duration 10 minutes
- ´An Intake of Breath´ for Saw, Violin and Soprano (1999) duration 24 minutes
- ´An Intake of Breath´ for Counter-Tenor, Saw and Piano (1999) duration 3 minutes
- ´Journey of the Magi´ for 3 Basses (2001) duration 5 minutes
Choral:
- Psalm 13 for Chorus and Triple String Orchestra (1978) duration 14 minutes
- ´The Star Child in Solitude´ (Part Two) for Choir and Orchestra (1983) duration 20 minutes
- ´Final Parting´ for Choir and Violoncello solo and small ensemble (2 versions) (1996) duration 7 minutes
- ´Final Parting´ (as above with orchestra instead of small ensemble (1996) duration 7 minutes
- ´Three Advent Carols´ for Choir and Organ (1998) duration 14 minutes
Arrangements:
- Arrangement of Mahler´s Adagietto from the 5th Symphony for string quartet (1973) duration 6 minutes
- Mahler´s 4th Symphony for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1974) duration 55 minutes
- Bach´s Ricercare a 6 for violin, horn, piano and chamber organ (1978) duration 5 minutes
For Reciter:
´The Pied Piper of Hamelin´ (with Wind Octet) (1978) duration 19 minutes
´The Pied Piper of Hamelin´ (with Orchestra) (1978) duration 19 minutes
´My Cat Jeoffry´ (with String Quartet and Horn (1987) duration 35 minutes
´The Last Flower´ for Brass Quintet, Synthesizer, Reciter and 3 Female Backing Singers (1998) duration 12 minutes
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