Patric Standford

Orchestral

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

Symphony No.1 'The Seasons - An English Year' (1972)
Duration: 30'
Publisher: Edition Peters

3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timp.4perc.hp.str

First performance: Orchestra della Teatro Communale, Trieste,

cond. Bruno Ruggaci, October 1972

UK Premiere: London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Elgar Howarth, May 1973

First broadcast: BBC Northern Orchestra, cond. Brian Wright, May 1979

Award: Premio Citta di Trieste, 1972
BMS Recording 2012: Royal Scottish National Orchestra/David Lloyd-Jones

A Christmas Carol Symphony (Symphony No.2) (1978)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: Edition Peters
2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timp.perc.hp..str
(reduced orchestra version without trombones, with 2 horns, 1 trumpet)
First performance/broadcast: BBC Concert orchestra, cond. Ashley Lawrence, December 1979

Symphony No 3 ‘The Prayer of Saint Francis’ (1982/1997)
Duration: 25'
Publisher: Edition Peters
A masque in five scenes for chorus and orchestra
SATB Chorus; 3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timp. 6perc. cimb(or hp). pf. str.
Text: Saint Francis of Assisi - Language: Italian
First performance: Choir and Orchestra of the Hungarion Radio,
cond. Tamas Vasary, Liszt Acadamy of Music, Budapest, December 1997
Award: First International Composers' Competition, 1997, First Prize
Recording: Hungariton in association with the Kodály Foundation

Symphony No 4 ‘Taikyoku’ (1976)
Duration: 20'
Publisher: Edition Peters
2 pianos and 6+ percussion players
First performance: Royal College of Music Ensemble,
cond. Edwin Roxburgh, 1977
First broadcast: Howard Shelley and Hilary Macnamara (pianos), Lontano, cond. Nicholas Cleobury, 1982
Award: Evelyn Glennie Percussion Award, 1993

Symphony No. 5 (1985)
Duration: 30'
Publisher: Edition Peters

soprano; 3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timp. 3perc. hp. str

Commission: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, 1985

First performance: Joan Rodgers (soprano), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Brian Priestman,

Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, January 1986

Saracinesco - an aerial landscape (rev. 2008)
Duration: 12'
Publisher: Edition Peters

3.3.3.3/4.2.3.1/ timp. 4 perc. hp. pno. str

First performances by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, 1977/8, cond. George Hurst

Prelude to a Fantasy: The Naiades (1980)
Duration: 10'
Publisher: Edition Peters

3.3.3.3/4.2.3.1/ timp. 4perc. hp. celeste. str

BMS Recording 2012: Royal Scottish National Orchestra/David Lloyd-Jones

Ballet Suite 'Celestial Fire' (1969)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: Edition Peters

2.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/ timp. perc. str

Commission: Stafford Arts Festival

First perf/broadcast: BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra, Belfast,

March 1971

Ballet ‘Reflections’ (1980)
Duration: 45'
Publisher: RTS
2.2.2.2/4.2.3.1/ timp. pno.perc. str
Commission: Staffordshire County Music Department and Reflex Dance Company
First performance: Lichfield Civic Theatre, May 1980

A West End Overture (1998)
Duration: 10'
Publisher: Edition Peters
3.3.3.2/4.3.3.1/t.4 perc.pno.str.
Commission: Yorkshire Youth Orchestra
First performance: Dewsbury Town Hall, cond. by John Pryce-Jones, August 1998

The Emperor's Orchestra: a musical story for children

Duration: 25'

Publisher: Edition Peters

Narrator: 2.1.2.1/2.2.1.0/T.1perc.str

Commission: Northern Orchestral Enterprises Ltd.

First performances: Ian Lavender and the Northern Chamber

Orchestra, cond. John Pryce-Jones: 22 March 2001

Five Epigrams (1968 rev. 1995)
Duration: 8'
Publisher: Edition Peters

1.1.1.1/ str.

Dedication: Darius Mihaud

First performance: New Cantata Orchestra, St. Cere Festival, France, cond. James Stobart, 1968

First broadcast: BBC Radio 3, Northern Sinfonia, cond. Bryden Thomson, May 1979

A Jersey Suite (1994)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: RTS

2.2.2.1/2.2.2.0/perc.str.

Commission: States of Jersey Instrumental Services

First performance: Jersey Youth Orchestra, St. Helier's Fort Regent, cond. Helen Sherrah-Davies, July 1994

Nocturne (1967)
Duration: 7'
Publisher: Novello

2fl, ob, 3cl, bn, 2hn, 3tb, pf, timp, str.

Commission: London College of Music, Junior Orchestra

Notte (1968)
Duration: 12'
Publisher: Novello
1.2.0.1/2hn. str: (3.3.2.2.1)
Commission: James Stobart
First performance: New Cantata Orchestra, Radio Vatican, Rome,
cond. James Stobart, 1968

SOLO INSTRUMENT & ORCHESTRA

Cello Concerto (1974, rev. 2004)
Duration: 25'
Publisher: Edition Peters

2.2.3.2/2.1.1.1/timp.3perc.hp.str.

First performance: Ross Thompson (cello), Guildhall School of Music Symphony Orchestra, City University, February 1976

First broadcast: Raphael Wallfisch (cello), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Brian Wright, March 1979
BMS Recording 2012: Raphael Wallfisch/Royal Scottish National Orchestra/David Lloyd-Jones

Dialogues for Cimbalom and Chamber Orchestra (1981)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: RTS

1.1.3.0/hn.hp.str.

Written for Agnes Szákaly

First performance: Christopher Bradley (cimbalom), Huddersfield

University Orchestra, cond. Barry Webb, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, November 1986

Concertino for harpsichord and small orchestra (1999)
Duration: 14'
Publisher: Edition Peters

2.2.3.1/2 hns. perc.hp.str.

For Alan Cuckston

STRING ORCHESTRA

Cantico della Creature (1969 rev. 1982)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: Edition Peters
Medium voice and strings
Text: Saint Francis of Assisi - Language: Italian

Folksongs (Set 1) (1983)
Duration: 12'
Publisher: Edition Peters

First performance: BBC Radio 3, Northern Sinfonia,

cond. John Georgiadis, March 1984
(‘To my musical friends in Hungary’)

Folksongs (Set 2) (1990)
Duration: 14'
Publisher: Edition Peters

British folk songs and dances
for Ursula Vaughan Williams

War Memorial (1992)
Duration: 10'
Publisher: Edition Peters

An elegy for large string orchestra
In memoriam Sir John Barbirolli

SYMPHONIC WIND ORCHESTRA

The Castle of Otranto; Prelude to a Gothic Story (1996)
Duration: 14'
Publisher: RTS

First performance: Yorkshire Wind Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, March 1998

Prelude and Fugue (1998)
Duration: 10'
Publisher: RTS

A concert overture for large wind orchestra

A Symphony for Christmas (1978, arr. 1998)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: Edition Peters

In a 'classical' four movement design

A Vaudeville Suite (1997)
Duration: 20'
Publisher: RTS

A light hearted suite in six movements.

First performance: Keiron Anderson and the Yorkshire Wind Orchestra, Halifax, April 1998

BRASS BAND

A Symphony of Carols (1978, arr. 1990)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: Edition Peters

In four movements.

CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA

Christus Requiem (1972, revised 2008)
Duration: ca. 60'
Publisher: Edition Peters
An oratorio for Easter
Narrator, Children's Chorus; Soli STBar; SATB Chorus;
3.2.2.3/2.3.3.1/timp. 4perc. hp. org. str.
Text: Various sources -
English/Latin/Hebrew/French/German/Russian/Czech
First performance of original version:
Guildhall School of Music, cond. John Alldis,
St. Paul's Cathedral, London, March 1973
Award: Yugoslavian Solidarity Prize, Skopje, 1974

Toward Paradise (1981-2)
Duration: 30'
Publisher: RTS
SATB Chorus; 3.3.4.3/4.3.3.1/timp. 4perc. pf. org(opt). str
Text: from Dante's Divine Comedy - Language: Italian
First performance: Choir and Orchestra of the Radio Suisse Romande, cond. Richard Hickox, Geneva, June 1986
Award: Ernest Ansermet Prize, City of Geneva

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Chamber

CHAMBER MUSIC (3 or more players)

String Quartet No 1 (The Unreturning Spring)
Duration: 16'
Publisher: Edition Peters

First perf/broadcast: BBC Radio 3, Dartington Quartet, 1970

String Quartet No 2 'In Memoriam' (1973/2002)
Duration: 17'
Publisher: RTS

In memorian Gianfrancesco Malipiero

First performance: Arriaga Quartet,Wigmore Hall, London, 1974

Award: Clements Memorial Prize, 1975

String Quartet No 3 ‘Florestan e Eusibius’ (2005)
Duration 18’
Publisher: RTS

Bagatelles for string quartet (1969)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: Novello

Commissioned by Maguerite Swan for performance by

North London peripatetic teachers to audiences of children.

A London Suite (1979)
Publisher: M8CH

str.qt (designed for elementary players)

Holiday Memories (1979)

str.trio (designed for elementary players)
Publisher: M8CH

String Quintet (1995)
Duration: 10'
Publisher: RTS

Three pieces for Lesley Adamson and friends: 2 vn, 2 va, vc

Fantasy Quintet - clarinet and string quartet (1998)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: Edition Peters

Award: First prize, International Clarinet Fest '99, Ostend

First performance: Hedwig Swimberge (clarinet) with the

Arco Baleno Quartet, Ostend Conservatoire of Music, July 1999

Five French Folksongs for wind quintet (2004)
Duration 12’
Publisher: Edition Peters
For the Nash Ensemble
First performance: Nash Ensemble,
Kings Hall, Ilkley, December 2005

Cartoons (1984)
Duration: 12'
Publisher: Edition Peters

ob, cl, bn

Commission: Donaxis Ensemble

First performance: Leodian Reed Trio, Leeds College, 1984

Suite Humoresque (1987)
Duration: 18'
Publisher: Edition Peters

ob, cl, bn, pf

Commission: Donaxis Ensemble

First performance: Michael McKenna (oboe) Simon Butterworth (clarinet) David Chatwin (bassoon) and Keith Swallow (piano)

Harrogate Festival, 1987

A Music Hall Suite (1994)
Duration: 9'
Publisher: Edition Peters
Fanfare; Waltz; Elegy; Promenade; Scherzoso

wind qt: fl.ob.clar.bsn

Divertimento for Woodwind (1995)
Duration: 10'
Publisher: Edition Peters

wind qt: fl.ob.clar.bsn or bass clarinet

Miniatures: Four pieces for three flutes (1995)
Duration: 10'
Publisher: Edition Peters

for Carla E. Hinrichsen

A Comedy Suite (1995)
Duration: 12'
Publisher: Edition Peters

An arrangement of 'Cartoons' for
saxophone qt: 2 a-sax,t-sax,b-sax

Serenata for 2 guitars, clarinet, violin and viola (2006)
Duration ca 20’
Publisher: RTS
For the Pennine Chamber Ensemble

Taikyoku (1976)
Duration: 20'
Publisher: Edition Peters

2 pianos and 6+ percussion players

First performance: Royal College of Music Ensemble,

cond. Edwin Roxburgh, 1977

First broadcast: Howard Shelley and Hilary Macnamara (pianos), Lontano, cond. Nicholas Cleobury, 1982

Award: Evelyn Glennie Percussion Award, 1993

Piano Trio (1970)
Duration: 25'
Publisher: Novello

First performance David Martin (violin); Florence Hooton (cello),

Ian Lake (piano)

Conway Hall, London, 1970

First broadcast: Dumka Trio, 1976)

Sonata for Brass (1973, rev. 1997)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: Edition Peters

2 tpt, hn, tb, tba

First performance: Guildhall School of Music Brass Ensemble, London 1973

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Instrumental

STRINGS

Sonata for violin and piano (2008)
Publisher: RTS

Vn, pf

For the violinist Anne Park

Six Preludes for guitar (2007/8)
Publisher: Edition Peters
for Neil Darwent

Divertimento (1986)
Publisher: Edition Peters

vn (ed. Yfrah Neaman), pf

First performance: Nicholas Ward and Nicola Meecham,

Leeds University, 1986

Gavotte from Divertimento
Publisher: Bosworth

in the Composer Series 6 - First series for violin and

piano ed. Richard Deering

Peasant Songs (1970)
Publisher: Novello

Five pieces based on Hungarian, Rumanian and Russian songs

vn, pf

Sonata for solo violin (1974)
Publisher: Novello

Written for Yfrah Neaman and the 1974 Carl Flesch

International Violin Competition

Three Pieces for Cello and Piano (1971, rev. 1990)
Publisher: Edition Peters

Fêtes; Coronach; Capriccio

vc, pf.

Three Pieces for Violin and Piano ( rev. 1999)
Publisher: Edition Peters

Paraphrase; Arioso; Caprice

for Duncan Druce

Siciliano (1970)
Publisher: Lengnick

vn, pf

Serenade for violin and guitar (1977, revised 1997)
Publisher: Edition Peters

vn, gtr
For Duncan Druce and David Taplin

WOODWIND, BRASS

Tristan's Song (1999)
Publisher: RTS

oboe and piano (also arr. ob, strings)

for Nick Williams

The Winged Messenger (2001)
for solo oboe
(an arrangement of Fanfaronade for Nick Williams)
Publisher: Edition Peters

Folksongs (1995)
Publisher: Edition Peters

clarinet and piano

Sonatina (after Bartók) (1996)
Publisher: RTS

clarinet and piano

Four Miniatures (1995)
Publisher: Edition Peters

for three recorders; 1 d-rec, 2 tr-rec

for Carla Hinrichsen

Fanfaronade
Publisher: Edition Peters
for solo Bb Trumpet
written for Colin Casson

Invocation for tuba and piano (1989)
Publisher: RTS

also arr. for tba and str. orch

Sonatine (1970) for treble recorder and piano (or harpsichord)
Publisher: S&B

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Keyboard

PIANO, ORGAN

Improvisations (on an irritating tune) (2008)
Publisher: Edition Peters
An Italian folkdance used by Liszt and Milhaud
pf.

For the 90th birthday of James ('Jimmy') Gibb.

Variations (1969) for piano
Publisher: Novello

Commission: Ian Lake

First performance: Ian Lake, Wigmore Hall, London, 1970

First broadcast: BBC Radio 3, Keith Swallow, 1972

Six Preludes for piano (1972)
Publisher: Edition Peters

First perf/broadcast: Rhondda Gillespie, 1975

Prelude No 4 from Six Preludes
Publisher: Bosworth

in the Composer Series 3 - Intermediate Piano Collection ed. Richard Deering

Piano Sonata No 1 (1974)
for Neil van Allen
First performance for CBC, Canada, December 1975
Unpublished

Piano Sonata No 2 (1978)
First performance: Peter Levitt, Purcell Room, London, 1979
Unpublished

Bourrée (after J.S.Bach) (1986)
Publisher: Edition Peters

pf.

Faeries (1992)
Publisher: Fentone

A Suite of six piano pieces

Five Inventions on Danish Folksongs (1992)
Publisher: Edition Peters
for Ulla Vangsgaard
pf.

Two Nocturnes for piano
Publisher: Edition Peters

An homage to Gabriel Fauré
for Sir Ernest Hall

Metamorphosis (1969)
Publisher: Novello

org.

Dedication: Walter and Valérie Emery

First performance: Simon Preston, Tewksbury Abbey, 1970

Chorale Prelude O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden (1973)
Publisher: Edition Peters

org.

from Christus Requiem

Meditation on the Birth of Christ (1976)
Publisher: Edition Peters

org.

for Edmund Rubbra's 75th birthday

Passacaglia (1997)
Publisher: Edition Peters

org.

Arrangement of Heinrich Biber's Passacaglia for solo violin

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Percussion

Toccata for 10 percussion players
Publisher: RTS

First performance: Trent Park College, 1974

Two Pieces for three timpani
Publisher: RTS

First performance: Alison Smith, Bretton Hall College, 1986

Two Pieces for Cimbalom (1979)
Publisher: RTS

Written for Agnes Szákaly

First performance: Budapest 1980

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Voice

SOLO VOICE(S) & ENSEMBLE/PIANO

Five Valentine Songs (1984)
Duration: 10'
Publisher: RTS

High voice and Piano

Text: anonymous 17th c. poems - Language: English

First performance:

Gitanjali (1965)
Duration: 12'
Publisher: RTS

Medium voice; fl, cl, hn, hp, vn, va, vc

Text: Rabindranath Tagore - Language: English (trans.)

First performance: Noelle Barker and the Park Lane Ensemble,

ICA, London, March 1966

The Inheritor (1984)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: RTS

Soprano or Tenor; string quartet

Text: 7 poems from Aspects by Ursula Vaughan Williams

Language: English

First performance: Paul Agnew (tenor), Allegri Quartet, Holywell

Music Room, Oxford, October 1993

Nursery Songs (1979)
Duration: 12'
Publisher: RTS

Soprano, Baritone; ob(or fl), pf

Text: traditional children's verses - Language: English

Wayward Thoughts (1968)
Duration: 10'
Publisher: RTS

Five songs for Baritone and Piano

Text: Herrick, Playford, Wever - Language: English

First perf/broadcast: BBC Radio 3, Graham Titus (baritone), 1977

CHORAL

Ancient Verses: Three Poems for Chorus and Percussion (1978)
Duration: 14'
Publisher: Edition Peters

SATB Chorus: 4 percussion players

Texts: Seneca the younger; Angelo Poliziano; Phaedrus - Language: Latin

First performance: Ellerhein Chamber Choir of Tallinn, cond. Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonia, March 1983

Ave Maris Stella
Duration: 5'
Publisher: Edition Peters

SSA a capella

Language: Latin

Mass for Hildegard of Bingen
Duration: 15'
Publisher: Edition Peters

SATB a capella

Language: Latin

First performance: Abbey of Bingen-am-Main, 1989

O Sacrum Convivium
Duration: 8'
Publisher: Edition Peters

Six-part motet for the feast of Corpus Christi

Language: Latin

Stabat Mater (from Christus Requiem)
Duration: 10'
Publisher: Novello

SSATBB a capella

Language: Latin

Three Motets (in memoriam Benjamin Britten)
Duration: 15'
Publisher: Edition Peters

SSATBB a capella

Ave verum corpus

Flos florum

Alma redemptoris mater

dedication: Gyorgy Gulyas and the Kodaly Choir of Debrecen, Hungary

Two Songs: Lullaby & A Bell Song
Duration: 6'
Publisher: Edition Peters

SSA a capella

Language: English

Responses for Tenebræ: 18 votive motets for Passiontide (2010)
Total duration: 45'
Publisher: Edition Peters
SSATBB a cappella
First performance of two motets: BBC Singers, April 2010

CHRISTMAS CAROLS

This Day
Duration: 6'
Publisher: Edition Peters
SATB a cappella
For the Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir
First performed Wakefield Cathedral, December 2003

A Star Shone Bright
Duration: 3'
Publisher: Edition Peters
SATB a cappella

A Heav'nly Song
Duration: 3'
Publisher: Edition Peters
SATB a cappella

Coventry: a carol
Duration: 3'
Publisher: Edition Peters
SSA a cappella

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Books

WRITING

Projects: A course in musical composition

Publisher: Stainer & Bell, London, 1992

Villon: a curious tragedy

A libretto in three acts

Publisher: Redcliffe Edition, London, 1982

The secret lives of the great composers

Publisher: RTS, Wakefield - in preparation

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