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Ballets Prize-fight (1 act), 1923–4, London, FP 6 March 1924, rev. 1925, 1927, unpublished.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hands) Mr Bear Squash-You-All-Flat (1 act; based on a Russian children's tale), 1923–4, FP Manchester, 22 June 1979, unpublished. (New edition and script by Giles Easterbrook, 2001)Mr Bear Squash You All Flat, Royal Opera House Collection, 2001 Adam and Eve (suite dansée), 1924–5, FP London, 6 June 1932, rev. 1932, unpublished Romeo and Juliet (2 tableaux), 1924–5, FP Monte Carlo, 4 May 1926 [based on Adam and Eve] Pomona (1 act), 1926, FP as a Divertimento 16 November 1926; FP as a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Adam and Eve] Horoscope (1 act), 1937, FP London, 27 January 1938 Tiresias (3 scenes), 1950–51, FP London, 9 July 1951, unpublished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FP London, 27 May 1931 Hamlet (William Shakespeare), flute, two trumpets and percussion, 1944, FP London, 11 Feb 1944, unpublished
Orchestral Green Fire, rhapsody, ? 1923, unpublished, score probably lost; FP 28 June 1923 The Bird Actors, overture, 1925, FP 5 July 1931; reorchestrated 1927, unpublished [originally for pf 4 hands] Champêtre, chamber orch, 1926, unpublished in original form [used as Intrada of Pomona; arr.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Concertante Concerto for piano, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings, 1924, unpublished. (New edition Giles Easterbrook and Edward Shipley, 1988)Stephen Lloyd. Notes to Hyperion CDA67545 (2005) 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;IMDB: Merchant Seamen 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 by Gordon Bryan 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
References
Sources Michael Jamieson Bristow mininova Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954, Eric Blom, ed.