List of compositions by Constant Lambert

• Prize-fight (1 act), 1923–4, London, FP 6 March 1924, rev. 1925, 1927, unpublished.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• Mr Bear Squash-You-All-Flat (1 act; based on a Russian children's tale), 1923–4, FP Manchester, 22 June 1979, unpublished.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)[https://rohcollections.org.uk/work.aspx?work=1358 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• Adam and Eve (suite dansée), 1924–5, FP London, 6 June 1932, rev. 1932, unpublished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• Tiresias (3 scenes), 1950–51, FP London, 9 July 1951, unpublished

• 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• Hamlet (William Shakespeare), flute, two trumpets and percussion, 1944, FP London, 11 Feb 1944, unpublished

• Green Fire, rhapsody, ? 1923, unpublished, score probably lost; FP 28 June 1923
• The Bird Actors, overture, 1925, FP 5 July 1931; reorchestrated 1927, unpublished [originally for pf 4 hands]
• Champêtre, chamber orch, 1926, unpublished in original form [used as Intrada of Pomona; arr.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)

• Concerto for piano, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings, 1924, unpublished. (New edition Giles Easterbrook and Edward Shipley, 1988)[https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/67545-B.pdf 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

• Merchant Seamen, patriotic documentary 1940;[https://us.imdb.com/title/tt0211515/#comment IMDB: Merchant Seamen] orchestral suite arr. 1943, pubd, FP 15 May 1943
• Anna Karenina (dir. Julien Duvivier), 1947, unpublished

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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• [http://www.michaeljamiesonbristow.com/constant-lambert-1905-1951 Michael Jamieson Bristow]
• [http://www.mininova.org/tor/1119091 mininova]
• Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954, Eric Blom, ed.

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