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Edmund Rubbra
Person · male · United Kingdom · Northampton · born 1901 · died 1986 · recording since 1976
British composer (1901-1986)
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Also known as 埃德蒙·魯布拉
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1900s
1970s
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Debut release: Symphony No. 10 / Improvisations on Viginal Pieces / A Tribute
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1980s
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Album: Four Medieval Lyrics, Amoretti, Five Spenser Sonnets, Sinfonietta
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1990s
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Album: Symphony no. 4 / Piano Concerto in G / Soliloquy for Cello & Orchestra
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2000s
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Album: Inscape / Four Mediaeval Latin Lyrics / Song of the Soul / Advent Cantata / Veni Creator Spiritus
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Album: Sinfonia concertante / A Tribute / The Morning Watch / Ode to the Queen
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Album: String Quartet No. 2 / Amoretti / Ave Maria / Piano Trio No. 1
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Biography
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Biography
Edmund Rubbra (; 23 May 1901 – 14 February 1986) was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of his fame in the mid-20th century. The best known of his pieces are his eleven symphonies. Although he was active at a time when many people wrote twelve-tone music, he decided not to write in this idiom; instead, he devised his own distinctive style. His later works were not as popular with the concert-going public as his previous ones had been, although he never lost the respect of his colleagues. Therefore, his output as a whole is less celebrated today than would have been expected from its early popularity. He was the brother of the engineer Arthur Rubbra.
Early life
He was born Charles Edmund Rubbra at 21 Arnold Road, Semilong, Northampton. His parents encouraged him in his music, but they were not professional musicians, though his mother had a good voice and sang in the church choir, and his father played the piano a little, by ear. Rubbra's artistic and sensitive nature was apparent from early on. He remembered waking one winter's morning when he was about three or four years old, and noticing something different about the light in his bedroom; there was light where there was usually shadow, and vice versa. When his father came into the room, Edmund asked him why this was. His father explained that there had been a fall of snow during the night, and so the sunlight was reflecting off the snow and entering Edmund's bedroom from below, instead of above, thus reversing the patterns of light and shade. When Rubbra was much older he came to realise that this 'topsy-turveydom', as he called it, had caused him to often use short pieces of melody which would sound good, both in their original form and when inverted (so that when the original melody goes up a certain amount, the inverted one goes down the same amount). He then set these two melodies together, but slightly offset from one another, so that the listener hears the melody going up, say, then an echo where it goes down instead.
Another childhood memory which Rubbra identified as later affecting his music, took place when he was nine or ten. He was out walking with his father on a hot summer Sunday. As they rested by a gate, looking down at Northampton, he heard distant bells, 'whose music seemed suspended in the still air', as he put it. He was lost in the magic of the moment, losing all sense of the scenery round about him, just being aware of "downward drifting sounds that seemed isolated from everything else around". He traces the 'downward scales that constantly act as focal points in [his] textures' to this experience.
Rubbra took piano lessons from a local woman with a good reputation and a piano with discoloured ivory keys. This instrument contrasted starkly with the piano on which Rubbra practised, which was a new demonstration upright piano, lent to his family by his uncle by marriage. This uncle owned a piano and music shop, and prospective buyers would come to Rubbra's house, where he would demonstrate the quality of the piano by playing Mozart's Sonata in C to them. If the sale went through, the Rubbra family was given commission, and a new demonstration piano took the place of the one sold.
In 1912, Rubbra and his family moved a little more than quarter of a mile away to 1 Balfour Road, Kingsthorpe, Northampton, moving again four years later so that his father could start his own business selling and repairing clocks and watches. At this house, above the shop, Edmund had the back bedroom for his work, but the stairs were not wide enough to allow the piano to be brought up, so the window frame of his room had to be removed to get the piano in from outside.
Education and career
Rubbra started composing while he was still at school. One of his masters, Mr. Grant, asked him to compose a school hymn. He would have been very familiar with hymn tunes, as he attended a Congregational church and played the piano for the Sunday School. He also worked as an errand boy whilst he was still at school, giving some of his earnings to his parents.
At the age of 14, he left school and started work in the office of Crockett and Jones, one of Northampton's many boot and shoe manufacturers. Edmund was delighted to be able to accrue a number of stamps from parcels and letters sent to this factory, as stamp-collecting was one of his hobbies. Later, he was invited by an uncle, who owned another boot and shoe factory, to come and work for him. The idea was that he would work his way up from the bottom of the company, with a view to ownership when his uncle, who had no sons of his own, died. Edmund, influenced by his mother's lack of enthusiasm for the idea, declined. Instead, he took a job as a correspondence clerk in a railway station. In his last year at school he had learned shorthand, which was an ideal qualification for this post. He also continued to study harmony, counterpoint, piano and organ, working at these things daily, before and after his clerk's job.
Rubbra's early forays into chamber music composition included a violin and piano sonata for himself and his friend, Bertram Ablethorpe, and a piece for a local string quartet. He used to meet with the keen young composer William Alwyn, who was also from Northampton, to compare notes.
Rubbra was deeply affected by a sermon he heard given by a Chinese Christian missionary, Kuanglin Pao. He was inspired to write Chinese Impressions – a set of piano pieces, which he dedicated to the preacher. This was the beginning of a lifelong interest in things eastern.
At the age of 17, Rubbra decided to organise a concert devoted entirely to Cyril Scott's music, with a singer, violinist, cellist and himself on the piano, at the Carnegie Hall in Northampton Library. This proved to be a very important decision which would change his life. The minister from Rubbra's church attended the concert, and secretly sent a copy of the programme to Cyril Scott. The result of this was that Scott took Rubbra on as a pupil. Rubbra was able to obtain cheap rail travel because of his job with the railway, so he was able to get to Scott's house by train, paying only a quarter of the usual fare. After a year or so, Rubbra gained a scholarship to University College, Reading. Gustav Holst became one of his teachers there. Both Scott and Holst had an interest in eastern philosophy and religion, inspiring Rubbra to take a further interest in the subject.
Holst also taught at the Royal College of Music and advised Rubbra to apply for an open scholarship there. His advice was followed and the place was secured. Before Rubbra's last term at the college, he was unexpectedly invited to play the piano for the Arts League of Service Travelling Theatre on a six-week tour of Yorkshire, since their usual pianist had been taken ill. He accepted this offer despite this meaning that he missed his last term. The tour provided him with invaluable experience in playing and composing theatre music, which he never regretted and which stood him in good stead for his later dramatic work. In the mid-1920s Rubbra used to earn money playing piano for dancers from the Diaghilev Ballet. At around this time he became firm friends with Gerald Finzi.
In 1941, Rubbra was called up for army service. After 18 months he was given an office post, again because of his knowledge of shorthand and typing. While he was there, he ran a small orchestra assisted by a double-bass player from the BBC orchestra. The War Office asked him to form a piano trio to play classical chamber music to the troops. Rubbra was happy to oblige, and the trio, with William Pleeth the cellist, Joshua Glazier violinist and himself on the piano took six months acquiring a repertoire of chamber music. "The Army Classical Music Group", was formed and later expanded to seven people. On one occasion an overzealous entertainment officer thought there would be a better audience by advertising with big posters for "Ed Rub & his seven piece Band". They travelled all over England and Scotland and then to Germany, with their own grand piano which, with its legs removed for transport, became a seat for them in the back of the transport lorry.
After the war, on 4 August 1947 (the Feast of St Dominic), Rubbra became a Roman Catholic, writing a special mass in celebration. Also at this time, the University of Oxford was forming a faculty of music. They invited Rubbra to be a lecturer there. After much thought, he accepted the post. From 1947 to 1968 Rubbra was a lecturer at the Music Faculty and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. The army trio kept meeting, playing at clubs and broadcasting, for a number of years, but eventually Rubbra was too busy to continue with it.
It is a measure of the high esteem in which Rubbra was held in the 1940s, that his Sinfonia Concertante and his song Morning Watch were played alongside such works as Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, Kodály's Missa Brevis and Vaughan Williams's Job, at the 1948 Three Choirs Festival.
When Vaughan Williams heard that the University of Durham was going to confer an Honorary D.Mus on Rubbra in 1949, he wrote him a very short letter: "I am delighted to hear of the honour which Durham University is conferring on itself."
Rubbra received a request from the BBC to write a piece for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The result was Ode to the Queen, for voice and orchestra, to Elizabethan words. In connection with the same occasion, he was invited by Benjamin Britten to contribute to a collaborative work, a set of Variations on an Elizabethan Theme. He initially accepted, but later withdrew; Britten then asked Arthur Oldham and Humphrey Searle to take his place.
On Rubbra's retirement from Oxford, in 1968, he did not stop working; he merely took up more teaching at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where his students included Michael Garrett and Christopher Gunning. Neither did he stop composing. Indeed, he kept up this activity right until the end of his life: he started a 12th Symphony in March 1985, less than a year before his death, but only one page of manuscript short score (bearing the opus number 164) was completed. He died in Gerrards Cross on 14 February 1986.
Ronald Stevenson summed up the style of Rubbra's work rather succinctly when he wrote, "In an age of fragmentation, Rubbra stands (with a few others) as a composer of a music of oneness".
Sir Adrian Boult commended Rubbra's work by saying that he "has never made any effort to popularize anything he has done, but he goes on creating masterpieces".
Personal life
Rubbra was married three times, firstly in 1925 to his landlady Lilian Duncan. This marriage was never consummated and in 1933 Rubbra married Antoinette Chaplin, a French violinist. They toured Italy together, as well as giving recitals in Paris and radio broadcasts. They had two sons, Francis (1935–2012) and Benedict (1938–2024, painter), with the marriage lasting into the late 1950s.
In the 1930s Rubbra was a pacifist and vegetarian but gave up vegetarianism during World War II, whilst he was in the army, out of fear of starvation. Although he became a devout Catholic through a mid-life conversion, he was also interested in Eastern thought and mysticism, going through a Buddhist phase.
In 1975, Rubbra married Colette Yardley, with whom he had had one son (born 1974) called Adrian. Colette was at the time of Adrian's birth married to Rubbra's neighbour Hugo Yardley.
Compositions
Rubbra did not base his composition on formal rules, preferring to work from an initial idea and discover the music as he composed. His style is more concerned with the melodic lines in his music than with the chords, and this gives his music a vocal feel. He found his method of composition, working from a single melodic idea and letting the music grow from that, to be very exciting.
Symphonies
It was not until 1937 that Rubbra's first symphony was completed. Symphonies 2, 3 and 4 followed in quick succession, the fourth being completed in March 1942. He described them as being 'different facets of one thought', since each was a reaction to the last.
His fifth Symphony was started in August 1947. Enough time had elapsed since the fourth Symphony, to allow this new symphony to be unrelated. Grover recognises a "sense of relaxation engendered by a greater flexibility in the handling of materials" which sets this work apart from earlier symphonies. The sixth and seventh symphonies followed in 1954 and 1957.
Rubbra's last four symphonies again show a change of approach. He himself identified this when he said, "in much of my later music a particular musical interval rather than a key underlies the building of the structure". These symphonies were composed between 1968 and 1979. All are available on CD. Richard Hickox recorded the complete cycle of symphonies on Chandos Records.
Vocal music
The vast majority (42 of 59 works) of Rubbra's choral works have religious or philosophical texts, in keeping with his interest in these subjects. His first choral work was his Op. 3, written in 1924, and his last was Op. 164, written in 1984, only two years before his death. He wrote for children's voices and madrigals, as well as producing masses and motets, including the Nine Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72, setting the responsories for Maundy Thursday in an intensely dramatic manner. In 1948, he composed Missa Sancti Dominici, Op. 66, to celebrate his conversion to Roman Catholicism. The reason for this particular title is that he was received into the church on the Feast of St. Dominic, 4 August. His Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A flat is still performed in Anglican cathedrals and larger parish churches.
Rubbra's songs are not well known, but, again they spanned his whole composing lifetime: Rosa Mundi, Op. 2, was the first published, in 1921; Fly Envious Time, Op. 148, was the last, in 1974, being inscribed "in Memoriam Gerald Finzi". Fewer than half of them have the piano specified for their accompaniment, though only one is unaccompanied. The others have string quartet, string orchestra or harp as their chosen accompaniment, except for the three songs published as Ode to the Queen, which have full orchestral accompaniment.
Chamber music
Although Rubbra was a fine pianist, his works for solo piano occupy only a minor part of his output. He did, however, write diverse chamber music throughout his career. He considered that his Violin Sonata, Op. 31, which he wrote in 1932, was the first of his compositions to be taken seriously in the musical world. His First String Quartet was composed only a year later. For a long time Rubbra was not satisfied with this piece, although Ralph Vaughan Williams was very interested in it. Finally he thoroughly revised it, and published it in 1946, with an inscription to Vaughan Williams, and destroyed the original finale. Three other string quartets followed at long intervals. The last was written in 1977 in memory of Bennett Tarshish, a young American admirer of Rubbra's work, who died in his thirties. This piece shows the same method of reliance on a certain interval or intervals (here the seventh) instead of a particular key, which is also evident in Rubbra's later symphonies.
The Cello Sonata of 1946 was dedicated to William Pleeth (the cellist in The Army Classical Music Group) and his wife. It was sometimes performed by Jacqueline du Pré, who was a pupil of William Pleeth. Rubbra's Second Piano Trio, Op. 138, was first performed by the members of The Army Classical Music Group, who got together again especially for this performance in 1970, though Glazier had now been replaced by Gruenberg.
The repertoire for recorder was both augmented and enhanced by several works composed by Rubbra. Foreman considers that these pieces are "significant for their demonstration of an idiomatic recorder style which successfully places the instrument as an equal with other instruments". This recorder music was written for Carl Dolmetsch, son of Arnold Dolmetsch, and almost every piece makes reference to 16th-century music, for example, Passacaglia sopra 'Plusieurs Regrets' for treble recorder and harpsichord.
Other chamber works in Rubbra's oeuvre include those for oboe, cor anglais and viola.The Quartets have all appeared on the Dutton Epoch label.
Other works
Incidental music for several plays formed a small but significant part of Rubbra's output. The longest of these is the unpublished score for Macbeth. In 1933, he wrote a one-act opera, still in manuscript, which he originally called Bee-bee-bei, but renamed The Shadow. It reflects his interest in the East, as it is set in Kashmir.
All three of his works for brass instruments were commissioned. One of them, Variations on "The Shining River", was a test piece for the Brass Band Championships of Great Britain, 1958, held in the Royal Albert Hall.
Rubbra's last completed work was his Sinfonietta for large string orchestra, Op. 163, which was commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra, for performance in 1986 as part of the tricentennial celebrations of the founding of New York. The dedication is "For Adrian and Julian", Julian [Yardley] (b. 1942) being Adrian's elder brother and Rubbra's stepson following his marriage to Adrian and Julian's mother in 1975. The Sinfonietta received excellent press reviews .
Rubbra is also well known for his 1938 orchestration of Johannes Brahms's piano work Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. He also orchestrated Rachmaninov's Prelude in G minor, though when this was recorded by Frederick Fennell and the London Pops Orchestra in 1959 for 'Mercury', he was not given due credit on the LP sleeve or label.
Orchestral
Symphonies
Symphony No. 1, Op. 44 (1935–37)
Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 45 (1937, rev. 1945-6 and 1949-1950)
Symphony No. 3, Op. 49 (1938–39)
Symphony No. 4, Op. 53 (1940–42)
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat, Op. 63 (1947–48)
Symphony No. 6, Op. 80 (1953–54)
Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 88 (1956–57) (dedicated to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and premiered by them with Andrzej Panufnik conducting)
Symphony No. 8, Op. 132, Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin (1966–68)
Symphony No. 9, Op. 140, Resurrection (also known as Sinfonia Sacra) (1968–72) ([1])
Symphony No. 10, Op. 145, da Camera (1974)
Symphony No. 11, Op. 153, à Colette (1980)
Sinfonietta for large string orchestra, Op.163
A Tribute, Op. 56 (1942) for the celebration of Ralph Vaughan Williams's 70th birthday
Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, Op. 50
Overture Resurgam (Plymouth 1942), Op. 149
Concertante
Piano
Piano Concerto, Op. 30 (1932, premiered 1933, then withdrawn)
Sinfonia Concertante in C, Op. 38 (1934–36, rev. early 1940s)
Piano Concerto in G, Op. 85 (1956)
Violin
Violin Concerto in A, Op. 103
Improvisation for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 89
Viola
Viola Concerto in A, Op. 75
Cello
Soliloquy, Op. 57 for cello, two horns, timpani and strings
Instrumental
Violin Sonatas
Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 11
Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 31
Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 133
Cello Sonata in G, Op. 60
Meditationi sur Coeurs Désolés (for Recorder and Harpsichord or Flute or Oboe and Piano), Op. 67
Oboe Sonata in C, Op. 100
Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn (for solo Viola), Op. 117
Sonatina for Treble Recorder and Harpsichord, Op. 128
Fantasia on a Chord: for Treble Recorder, Harpsichord and Viola da Gamba (ad lib.), Op. 154
Duo for Cor Anglais and Piano, Op. 156
Chamber
String Quartets
String Quartet No. 1 in F minor, Op. 35
String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 73
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 112
String Quartet No. 4, Op. 150
Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 68, in one movement
Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 138
Fantasia on a Theme of Machaut, Op. 86, for Flute, Harpsichord, and String Quartet
Lyric Movement for String Quartet and Piano, Op. 24
Choral
Dormi Jesu, Op. 3
Five Motets, Op. 37 for unaccompanied SATB choir
Five Madrigals, Op. 51 for unaccompanied SATB choir
Missa Cantuariensis, Op. 59 for double choir
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A flat, Op. 65 for chorus and organ
Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op. 66 (Rubbra's first Roman Catholic mass and the result of his conversion)
Three Motets, Op. 76 for unaccompanied SATB choir
Nine Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72 (a, b and c, three sets of three written over a period of time)
Song Of The Soul (in intimate communication and union with the love of God) for mixed chorus and string orchestra, harp and timpani, Op. 78
Festival Gloria, Op. 94 for unaccompanied SATB choir
Cantata di Camera: Crucifixus pro Nobis, Op. 111 (1961), for solo tenor, SATB choir and chamber ensemble
That Virgin's Child Most Meek, Op. 114
And when the builders Op. 125 for SATB choir and organ
Missa Brevis, Op. 137 for treble voices and organ
For chorus and orchestra
The Morning Watch, Op. 55
Song of the Soul, Op. 78
Inscape (Gerard Manley Hopkins), Op. 122
Veni Creator Spiritus, Op. 130
Piano music
Sonatina, Op. 19
Introduction & Fugue, Op. 19c
Prelude and fugue on a theme by Cyril Scott (also played on organ), Op. 69
Nine teaching pieces, Op. 74 (requires a second pianist)
Introduction, Aria and Fugue, Op. 104
Eight preludes, Op. 131
Four studies, Op. 139
Invention on the name of Haydn, Op. 160
Fantasy-fugue, Op. 161
Fukagawa (without opus)
Nemo fugue (without opus)
Songs
Two Songs, Op. 2 (1921)
1. Easter
2. Rosa Mundi
Two Songs with String Quartet, Op. 3
1. Tears
2. A Litany
Two Songs, Op. 4
1. The Mystery
2. Jesukin
O My Deir Hert, Op. 5
Two Songs with String Quartet, Op. 7
1. Rejection
2. Entrez-y-Tous en Sûreté
Four Songs, Op. 8
1. A Cradle Song
2. There Is a lady
3. Who Is Sylvia?
4. Orpheus
Three Songs, Op. 13
1. Out in the Dark
2. Hymn to the Virgin
3. It Was A Lover
Two Songs, Op. 14
1. The Night
2. Slow Spring
Rune of Hospitality, Op. 15
Two Songs, Op. 17
1. A Prayer
2. Invocation to Spring
Rhapsody, Op. 18
A Duan of Barra, Op. 20
Soontree, Op. 21
Two Songs, Op. 22
1. Take, O Take Those Lips Away
2. Why So Pale and Wan
The Song of the Laverock, Op. 23
Ballad of Tristram, Op. 26
A Widow Bird State Mourning, Op. 28
Four Mediaeval Latin Lyrics, Op. 32
1. Rondel: Tempus Est Iocundum
2. Plaint: Dum Estas Inchoatur
3. Pastoral: Ecce, Chorus Virginum
4. Lament: Planctus
In Dark Weather, Op. 33
Five Spenser Sonnets, for tenor and strings, Op. 42 (1935)
Amoretti: Five Sonnets, Op. 43
Nocturne, Op. 54
Three Psalms, Op. 61
1. O Lord, Rebuke Me Not
2. The Lord Is My Shepherd
3. Praise Ye the Lord
O Excellent Virgin Princess, Op. 77
Ode To The Queen, for soprano and orchestra, Op. 83 (1953)
1. Sound Forth, Celestial Organs
2. Fair As Unshaded Light
3. Yet Once Again Our Measures Move
Two Sonnets by William Alabaster, for baritone, viola and piano Op. 87 (1957)
1. Upon the Crucifix
2. On the Reed of Our Lord's Passion
No Swan So Fine, Op. 91
Cantata Pastorale, Op. 92
The Jade Mountain, Op. 116
1. A Night Thought On Terrace Tower
2. On Hearing Her Play the Harp
3. An Autumn Night Message
4. A Song of the Southern River
5. Farewell To a Japanese Buddhist Priest Bound Homeward
Salve Regina, Op. 119
Fly Envious Time, Op. 148
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 21 | 82.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 33 | 91.2th |
| Studio albums | 28 | 98th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 31 | 96.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 10 | 26.4th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (33 release groups · 28 studio albums)
Albums · 28
1986 · studio album
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A1Sonata for Oboe and Piano: Placido, teneramente, ma con moto - Lento, assai espressivo e tranquillo10:20A2Sonata for Oboe and Piano: Allegro mosso, scherzando - Epilogue: Tranquillo, mesto, ma con moto10:01B1Sonata for Oboe and Piano in C major, op. 100: Con moto4:51B2Sonata for Oboe and Piano in C major, op. 100: Elegy: Lento3:16B3Sonata for Oboe and Piano in C major, op. 100: Presto2:55B4Three Pieces: Chansonette (Andantino con moto)3:26B5Three Pieces: Orientale (Grazioso e con moto)5:42B6Three Pieces: À la Campagne (Lento ma non troppo)3:33Four Medieval Lyrics, Amoretti, Five Spenser Sonnets, Sinfonietta
1989 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 59:26
1Four Medieval Latin Lyrics, op. 32: Rondel: Tempus est iocundum2:372Four Medieval Latin Lyrics, op. 32: Plaint: Dum estas inchoatur3:273Four Medieval Latin Lyrics, op. 32: Pastoral: Ecce, chorus virginum1:274Four Medieval Latin Lyrics, op. 32: Lament: Vel confossus cariter5:515Five Spenser Sonnets, op. 42: Sonnet II: Unquiet thought, whom at the first I bred5:066Five Spenser Sonnets, op. 42: Sonnet IV: New year forth looking out of Janus’ gate2:457Five Spenser Sonnets, op. 42: Sonnet VI: Be nought dismayed that her unmovèd mind4:448Five Spenser Sonnets, op. 42: Sonnet XLIII: Shall I then silent be or shall I speak?4:099Five Spenser Sonnets, op. 42: Sonnet LXVIII: Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day1:5610Amoretti (Five Spenser Sonnets, 2nd Series), op. 43: Sonnet LXXVIII: Lacking my love I go from place to place2:4911Amoretti (Five Spenser Sonnets, 2nd Series), op. 43: Sonnet LXX: Fresh Spring, the herald of love’s mighty king1:3312Amoretti (Five Spenser Sonnets, 2nd Series), op. 43: Sonnet LXXXIX: Like as the culver, on the barèd bough3:3813Amoretti (Five Spenser Sonnets, 2nd Series), op. 43: Sonnet XXXVII: What guile is this, that those her golden tresses3:2614Amoretti (Five Spenser Sonnets, 2nd Series), op. 43: Sonnet XL: Mark when she smiles with amiable cheer2:0715Sinfonietta, op. 163: Andante con moto ma non flessibile7:4216Sinfonietta, op. 163: Lento6:091993 · studio album
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1Lenten Cantata: Part 17:432Lenten Cantata: Part 211:093I Sing of a Maiden2:374A Song for Easter1:585The Cup of Blessing1:216My Beloved Spake3:077Three Motets, op. 76: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men1:388Three Motets, op. 76: There Is a Spirit4:009Three Motets, op. 76: Except the Lord Build the House1:2310Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: Kyrie1:5911Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: Gloria3:2712Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: Credo5:0213Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: Sanctus1:0814Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: Benedictus1:2715Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: Agnus Dei1:5416Three Hymn Tunes, op. 114: St. Colette (Prayer to Jesus)2:4817Three Hymn Tunes, op. 114: St. Non’s (That Virgin’s Child)2:0918Three Hymn Tunes, op. 114: Mater misericordiae (Queen of Mercy)1:5619Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A-flat, op. 65: Magnificat3:5020Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A-flat, op. 65: Nunc dimittis1:58Violin Concerto / Viola Concerto
1994 · studio album
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1Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 103: 1. Allegro13:262Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 103: 2. Poema - lento ma non troppo9:373Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, op. 103: 3. Allegro giocoso5:004Concerto in A for Viola and Orchestra, op. 75: 1. Introduzione: quasi una fantasia9:545Concerto in A for Viola and Orchestra, op. 75: 2. Molto vivace5:206Concerto in A for Viola and Orchestra, op. 75: 3. Collana musicale - Andante moderato9:49Symphony no. 4 / Symphony no. 10 / Symphony no. 11
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 58:23
1Symphony no. 4, op. 53: I. Con moto12:562Symphony no. 4, op. 53: II. Intermezzo: Allegretto grazioso5:033Symphony no. 4, op. 53: IIIa. Introduzione: Grave e molto calmo4:434Symphony no. 4, op. 53: IIIb. Allegro maestoso5:395Symphony no. 10, op. 145: I. Lento e liberamente4:446Symphony no. 10, op. 145: II. Scherzando ma grazioso3:497Symphony no. 10, op. 145: III. Lento5:298Symphony no. 10, op. 145: IV. Molto adagio1:029Symphony no. 11, op. 15314:581996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:23:34
Disc 11String Quartet no. 1 in F minor, op. 35: I. Allegro moderato7:482String Quartet no. 1 in F minor, op. 35: II. Lento10:033String Quartet no. 1 in F minor, op. 35: III. Vivace3:304String Quartet no. 2 in E-flat major, op. 73: I. Allegro moderno9:225String Quartet no. 2 in E-flat major, op. 73: II. Schertzo polimetrico2:476String Quartet no. 2 in E-flat major, op. 73: III. Cavatina7:207String Quartet no. 2 in E-flat major, op. 73: IV. Allegro4:40Disc 21String Quartet no. 3, op. 112: I. Largo ma molto flessible - Allegretto9:202String Quartet no. 3, op. 112: II. Adagio7:473String Quartet no. 3, op. 112: III. Allegro leggiero4:324String Quartet no. 4, op. 150: I. Andante moderato, ma liberamente - Allegretto scherzando - Cantabile e grazioso9:075String Quartet no. 4, op. 150: II. Adagio e con molta espressione7:18Symphony no. 9 "Sinfonia Sacra" / The Morning Watch
1996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 56:54
1The Morning Watch, op. 5512:562Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": Prelude3:183Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Crux fidelis" (Chorus) -3:534Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Almighty Lord we pray thee" (Chorale) -2:245Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Now in the place where he was crucified" (Narrator) -8:256Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Peter went forth" (Narrator) -8:597Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Regina coeli" (Chorus) -3:128Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "And behold, two of them went" (Narrator) -0:259Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": Conversation piece3:5010Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "And Jesus led them" (Narrator) -4:4211Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Viri Galilaei" (Narrator) -4:50Symphony no. 2 / Symphony no. 6
1996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:07:33
1Symphony no. 6, op. 80: I. Lento (Sempre flessibile) - Allegretto9:242Symphony no. 6, op. 80: II. Canto: Largo e sereno8:283Symphony no. 6, op. 80: III. Vivace impetuoso5:524Symphony no. 6, op. 80: IV. Poco andante - Allegro moderato9:435Symphony no. 2, op. 45: I. Lento rubato9:516Symphony no. 2, op. 45: II. Scherzo: Vivace assai5:487Symphony no. 2, op. 45: III. Adagio tranquillo10:088Symphony no. 2, op. 45: IV. Rondo: Allegretto amabile - Coda: Presto8:19Symphony no. 1 / A Tribute / Sinfonia concertante
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:11:13
1Symphony no. 1, op. 44: I. Allegro moderato e tempestoso9:562Symphony no. 1, op. 44: II. Perigourdine. Allegro bucolico e giocoso5:443Symphony no. 1, op. 44: III. Lento19:044A Tribute, op. 564:385Sinfonia concertante, op. 38: I. Fantasia. Lento con molto rubato - Allegro12:386Sinfonia concertante, op. 38: II. Saltarella. Allegro vivace5:217Sinfonia concertante, op. 38: III. Prelude and Fugue. Lento - ♩ = 5613:52Symphony no. 4 / Piano Concerto in G / Soliloquy for Cello & Orchestra
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:06:39
1Symphony no. 4, op. 53: I. Con moto13:032Symphony no. 4, op. 53: II. Intermezzo: Allegretto grazioso (sempre delicato)3:423Symphony no. 4, op. 53: III. Introduzione: Grave e molto calmo10:234Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in G major, op. 85: I. Corymbus (Adagio: calmo e quasi improvisatore)9:085Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in G major, op. 85: II. Dialogue (Lento e solenne)9:036Concerto for Piano & Orchestra in G major, op. 85: III. Danza alla rondo (Allegretto gioioso)9:087Soliloquy for Cello & Orchestra, op. 5712:12Symphony no. 3 / Symphony no. 7
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:10:44
1Symphony no. 3, op. 49: I. Moderato9:162Symphony no. 3, op. 49: II. Allegro5:473Symphony no. 3, op. 49: III. Molto adagio ma liberamente9:054Symphony no. 3, op. 49: IV. Tema con 7 variazioni e una fuga10:495Symphony no. 7 in C, op. 88: I. Lento e molto espressivo12:186Symphony no. 7 in C, op. 88: II. Vivace e leggiero9:287Symphony no. 7 in C, op. 88: III. Passacaglia and Fugue. Lento14:01Symphony no. 5 / Symphony no. 8 / Ode to the Queen
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 1:04:31
1Symphony no. 8, op. 132: I. Moderato8:552Symphony no. 8, op. 132: II. Allegretto con brio6:343Symphony no. 8, op. 132: III. Poco lento9:014Ode to the Queen, op. 83: I. Sound forth celestial organs6:425Ode to the Queen, op. 83: II. Fair as unshaded light4:366Ode to the Queen, op. 83: III. Yet once again, let us our measures move1:597Symphony no. 5, op. 63: I. Adagio9:258Symphony no. 5, op. 63: II. Allegro moderato5:519Symphony no. 5, op. 63: III. Grave7:0410Symphony no. 5, op. 63: IV. Allegro vivo4:24Inscape / Four Mediaeval Latin Lyrics / Song of the Soul / Advent Cantata / Veni Creator Spiritus
2000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 56:22
1Song of the Soul (in intimate communication and union with the love of God), Op. 788:482Four Mediaeval Latin Lyrics, Op. 32: I Rondel: Allegro vivace e sempre leggiero`2:263Four Mediaeval Latin Lyrics, Op. 32: II Plaint: Lento3:074Four Mediaeval Latin Lyrics, Op. 32: III Pastoral: Giocoso1:245Four Mediaeval Latin Lyrics, Op. 32: IV Lament: Lento5:186Inscape Op. 122: I Pied Beauty: Andantino, ma con moto2:567Inscape Op. 122: II The Lantern out of Doors: Lento6:218Inscape Op. 122: III Spring: Allegro moderato3:149Inscape Op. 122: IV God's Grandeur: Largo e grandioso -3:4910Inscape Op. 122: V Epilogue: Andantino (con moto)0:3911Veni Creator Spiritus Op. 1307:1612Advent Cantata: Natum Maria Virgine, Op. 136: Recitative: Lento assai -2:4913Advent Cantata: Natum Maria Virgine, Op. 136: Aria (L'istesso tempo)1:5714Advent Cantata: Natum Maria Virgine, Op. 136: Acrostic Hymn: Con moto -3:1715Advent Cantata: Natum Maria Virgine, Op. 136: Chorale: Andante e sereno3:012001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 25 tracks · 1:09:28
1Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A-flat major, op. 65: I. Magnificat4:202Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A-flat major, op. 65: II. Nunc dimittis2:013Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: I. Kyrie1:434Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: II. Gloria3:385Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: III. Credo5:266Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: IV. Sanctus1:087Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: V. Benedictus1:198Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66: VI. Agnus Dei1:499Prelude and Fugue, op. 694:5310Tenebrae Motets, op. 72: First Nocturn: I. In monte Oliveti2:1111Tenebrae Motets, op. 72: First Nocturn: II. Tristis est anima mea2:5612Tenebrae Motets, op. 72: First Nocturn: III. Ecce vidimus eum3:4213Tenebrae Motets, op. 72: Second Nocturn: I. Amicus meus2:3514Tenebrae Motets, op. 72: Second Nocturn: II. Judas mercator pessimus2:0415Tenebrae Motets, op. 72: Second Nocturn: III. Unus ex discipulis2:2516Tenebrae Motets, op. 72: Third Nocturn: I. Eram quasi agnus innocens2:5217Tenebrae Motets, op. 72: Third Nocturn: II. Una hora non potuistis2:0218Tenebrae Motets, op. 72: Third Nocturn: III. Seniores populi2:2819Meditation for Organ, op. 793:0620Missa Cantuariensis, op. 59: I. Kyrie3:1121Missa Cantuariensis, op. 59: II. Credo5:2722Missa Cantuariensis, op. 59: III. Sanctus1:2023Missa Cantuariensis, op. 59: IV. Benedictus1:3024Missa Cantuariensis, op. 59: V. Agnus Dei2:2725Missa Cantuariensis, op. 59: VI. Gloria in excelsis2:552001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 44 tracks · 5:26:19
Disc 11Symphony no. 1, op. 44: I. Allegro moderato e tempestoso9:562Symphony no. 1, op. 44: II. Perigourdine. Allegro bucolico e giocoso5:443Symphony no. 1, op. 44: III. Lento19:044Symphony no. 2, op. 45: I. Lento rubato9:515Symphony no. 2, op. 45: II. Scherzo: Vivace assai5:486Symphony no. 2, op. 45: III. Adagio Tranquillo10:087Symphony no. 2, op. 45: IV. Rondo: Allegretto amabile - Coda: Presto8:19Disc 21Symphony no. 3, op. 49: I. Moderato9:162Symphony no. 3, op. 49: II. Allegro5:473Symphony no. 3, op. 49: III. Molto adagio ma liberamente9:054Symphony no. 3, op. 49: IV. Tema con 7 variazioni e una fuga10:495Symphony no. 4, op. 53: I. Con moto12:486Symphony no. 4, op. 53: II. Intermezzo: Allegretto grazioso5:017Symphony no. 4, op. 53: IIIa. Introduzione: Grave e molto calmo4:438Symphony no. 4, op. 53: IIIb. Allegro maestoso5:32Disc 31Symphony no. 5, op. 63: I. Adagio9:252Symphony no. 5, op. 63: II. Allegro moderato5:513Symphony no. 5, op. 63: III. Grave7:044Symphony no. 5, op. 63: IV. Allegro vivo4:245Symphony no. 6, op. 80: I. Lento (Sempre flessibile) - Allegretto9:246Symphony no. 6, op. 80: II. Canto: Largo e sereno8:287Symphony no. 6, op. 80: III. Vivace impetuoso5:528Symphony no. 6, op. 80: IV. Poco andante - Allegro moderato9:43Disc 41Symphony no. 7 in C, op. 88: I. Lento e molto espressivo12:182Symphony no. 7 in C, op. 88: II. Vivace e leggiero9:283Symphony no. 7 in C, op. 88: III. Passacaglia and Fugue. Lento14:014Symphony no. 8, op. 132: I. Moderato8:555Symphony no. 8, op. 132: II. Allegretto con brio6:346Symphony no. 8, op. 132: III. Poco lento9:01Disc 51Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": Prelude3:182Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Crux fidelis" (Chorus) -3:533Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Almighty Lord we pray thee" (Chorale) -2:244Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Now in the place where he was crucified" (Narrator) -8:255Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Peter went forth" (Narrator) -8:596Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Regina coeli" (Chorus) -3:127Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "And behold, two of them went" (Narrator) -0:258Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": Conversation piece3:509Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "And Jesus led them" (Narrator) -4:4210Symphony no. 9, op. 140 "Sinfonia Sacra": "Viri Galilaei" (Narrator) -4:5011Symphony no. 10, op. 145: I. Lento e liberamente4:4412Symphony no. 10, op. 145: II. Scherzando ma grazioso3:4913Symphony no. 10, op. 145: III. Lento5:2914Symphony no. 10, op. 145: IV. Molto adagio1:0215Symphony no. 11, op. 15314:58Sinfonia concertante / A Tribute / The Morning Watch / Ode to the Queen
2001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:02:42
1Sinfonia Concertante, op. 38: I. Fantasia. Lento con molto tubato12:382Sinfonia Concertante, op. 38: II. Saltarella. Allegro vivace5:213Sinfonia Concertante, op. 38: III. Prelude and Fugue. Lento13:524A Tribute, op. 564:385The Morning Watch, op. 5512:566Ode to the Queen, op. 83: I. Sound forth celestial organs6:427Ode to the Queen, op. 83: II. Fair as unshaded light4:368Ode to the Queen, op. 83: III. Yet once again, let us our measures move1:59Violin Concerto / Improvisations for Violin and Orchestra
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 57:05
1Improvisation for Violin and Orchestra, Op.8912:252Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, Op.50: I. Farnaby's Conceit3:243Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, Op.50: II. His Dreame2:334Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, Op.50: III. His Humour2:185Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, Op.50: IV. Loth to Depart3:126Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, Op.50: V. Tell Me, Daphne2:447Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op.103: I. Allegro14:368Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op.103: II. Poema (Lento Ma Non Troppo)10:419Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op.103: III. Allegro Giocoso5:12Symphony no. 6 / Symphony no. 8 / Soliloquy
2007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:12:36
1Symphony no. 6, op. 80: I. Lento-allegretto9:132Symphony no. 6, op. 80: II. Canto (Largo e sereno)8:113Symphony no. 6, op. 80: III. Vivace impetuoso5:414Symphony no. 6, op. 80: IV. Poco andante - Allegro moderato9:355Symphony no. 8, op. 132 (Hommage à Teihard de Chardin): I. Moderato9:256Symphony no. 8, op. 132 (Hommage à Teihard de Chardin): II. Allegretto con brio6:127Symphony no. 8, op. 132 (Hommage à Teihard de Chardin): III. Poco lento9:188Soliloquy for Cello & Orchestra, op. 5715:01Missa cantuariensis / Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici
2007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 46:55
1Missa cantuariensis, op. 59 (1946) ‘Canterbury Mass’: I Kyrie3:392Missa cantuariensis, op. 59 (1946) ‘Canterbury Mass’: III Credo8:003Missa cantuariensis, op. 59 (1946) ‘Canterbury Mass’: IV Sanctus2:044Missa cantuariensis, op. 59 (1946) ‘Canterbury Mass’: V Benedictus2:115Missa cantuariensis, op. 59 (1946) ‘Canterbury Mass’: VI Agnus Dei2:596Missa cantuariensis, op. 59 (1946) ‘Canterbury Mass’: VII Gloria in Excelsis2:597Dormi Jesu, op. 3 (1924)1:348That Virgin’s Child Most Meek, op. 114, no. 2 (1967)3:219Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66 (1948) ‘St Dominic Mass: I Kyrie2:3810Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66 (1948) ‘St Dominic Mass: II Gloria3:5511Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66 (1948) ‘St Dominic Mass: III Credo7:1012Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66 (1948) ‘St Dominic Mass: IV Sanctus2:0113Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66 (1948) ‘St Dominic Mass: V Benedictus1:5514Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, op. 66 (1948) ‘St Dominic Mass: VI Agnus Dei2:29String Quartet No. 2 / Amoretti / Ave Maria / Piano Trio No. 1
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:02:15
1String Quartet No. 2 In e Flat Major, Op. 73: I. Allegro Moderato8:372String Quartet No. 2 In e Flat Major, Op. 73: II. Scherzo Polimetrico – Vivace Assai2:333String Quartet No. 2 In e Flat Major, Op. 73: III. Cavatina – Adagio Tranquillo7:394String Quartet No. 2 In e Flat Major, Op. 73: IV. Allegro4:005Amoretti, Op. 43: I. Sonnett LXXVIII3:256Amoretti, Op. 43: II. Sonnett LXX1:297Amoretti, Op. 43: III. Sonnett LXXXIX3:488Amoretti, Op. 43: IV. Sonnett XXXVII3:309Amoretti, Op. 43: V. Sonnett XL1:4510Ave Maria Gratia Plena: I. O My Deir Hert2:0611Ave Maria Gratia Plena: II. O Excellent Virgin Princess2:2112Piano Trio In 1 Movement, Op. 68: Andante Moderato e Molto Flessibile9:3413Piano Trio In 1 Movement, Op. 68: Episodio Scherzando3:4614Piano Trio In 1 Movement, Op. 68: Tema – 3 Meditazione – Coda7:42String Quartets Nos. 1, 3 And 4
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 54:27
1String Quartet No. 1 in F minor, Op. 35: I. Allegro moderato7:112String Quartet No. 1 in F minor, Op. 35: II. Lento8:303String Quartet No. 1 in F minor, Op. 35: III. Vivace (revised 1946 version)3:244String Quartet No. 3, Op. 112: I. Largo ma molto flessibile - Allegretto8:535String Quartet No. 3, Op. 112: II. Adagio6:096String Quartet No. 3, Op. 112: III. Allegro leggiero4:117String Quartet No. 4, Op. 150: I. Andante moderato, ma liberamente - Allegretto scherzando7:598String Quartet No. 4, Op. 150: II. Adagio e con molta espressione8:10British Works for Cello and Piano, Volume 3
2014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 59:05
1Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, op. 60: I. Andante moderato8:102Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, op. 60: II. Vivace flessibile3:193Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, op. 60: III. Adagio11:084Sonata for Cello and Piano in C major: I. Adagio – Allegro appassionato4:275Sonata for Cello and Piano in C major: II. Adagio5:076Sonata for Cello and Piano in C major: III. Allegro molto5:027Sonata for Cello and Piano in A minor: I. Tempo moderato8:198Sonata for Cello and Piano in A minor: II. Adagio5:419Sonata for Cello and Piano in A minor: III. Allegro7:52The Complete Chamber Music & Songs With Harp
2016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:07:22
13 Songs, Op. 13: No. 2, Hymn to the Virgin2:3622 Songs, Op. 2: No. 2, Rosa Mundi2:243Deep River (Arr. E. Rubbra for Harp)2:494Pezzo ostinato, Op. 1028:0552 Songs, Op. 4: No. 1, The Mystery1:1462 Songs, Op. 4: No. 2, Jesukin1:3974 Songs, Op. 8: No. 2, Orpheus1:508Transformations, Op. 14113:219The Jade Mountain, Op. 116: No. 1, A Night Thought on Terrace Tower2:4010The Jade Mountain, Op. 116: No. 2, On Hearing Her Play the Harp1:0811The Jade Mountain, Op. 116: No. 3, An Autumn Night Message1:2412The Jade Mountain, Op. 116: No. 4, A Song of the Southern River1:0413The Jade Mountain, Op. 116: No. 5, Farewell to a Japanese Buddhist Priest Bound Homeward3:2214Improvisation, Op. 1245:0115Discourse, Op. 1276:5216Nocturne, Op. 67 Pt. 23:5617Prelude for Harp7:572016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 24 tracks · 1:13:08
1Nine Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72 First Nocturne: I. In monte Oliveti2:522Nine Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72 First Nocturne: II. Tristis est anima mea3:393Nine Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72 First Nocturne: III. Ecce vidimus eum4:574Three Motets, Op. 76: I. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men2:105Three Motets, Op. 76: II. There is a Spirit5:346Three Motets, Op. 76: III. Except the Lord Build the House1:437Nine Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72 Second Nocturne: I. Amicus meus2:368Nine Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72 Second Nocturne: II. Judas mercator pessimus2:109Nine Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72 Second Nocturne: III. Unus ex discipulis3:1710Five Motets, Op. 37: I. Eternitie2:4411Five Motets, Op. 37: II. Vain Wits and Eyes1:2412Five Motets, Op. 37: III. A Hymn to God the Father3:4613Five Motets, Op. 37: IV. The Search2:0214Five Motets, Op. 37: V. A Song3:4315Nine Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72 Third Nocturne: I. Eram quasi agnus innocens3:2516Nine Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72 Third Nocturne: II. Una hora non potuistis3:0317Nine Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72 Third Nocturne: III. Seniores populi2:3718Missa Cantuariensis, Op. 59: I. Kyrie3:5819Missa Cantuariensis, Op. 59: II. Responses1:5520Missa Cantuariensis, Op. 59: III. Credo7:0921Missa Cantuariensis, Op. 59: IV. Sanctus1:3222Missa Cantuariensis, Op. 59: V. Benedictus1:3723Missa Cantuariensis, Op. 59: VI. Agnus Dei2:0524Missa Cantuariensis Op. 59: VII. Gloria in excelsis3:10English Music for Oboe and Piano
2017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:06:42
1Sonata for Oboe and Piano, op. 100: I. Con moto5:142Sonata for Oboe and Piano, op. 100: II. Elegy, lento3:273Sonata for Oboe and Piano, op. 100: III. Presto3:224Sonata for Oboe and Piano, op. 85: I. Allegretto grazioso6:405Sonata for Oboe and Piano, op. 85: II. Andantino espressivo5:226Sonata for Oboe and Piano, op. 85: III. Allegro giocoso4:447Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano: I. Theme1:398Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano: II. Oration1:369Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano: III. March1:1810Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano: IV. Exercises1:0711Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano: V. Commination1:1412Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano: VI. Chorale2:4213Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano: VII. Waltz1:2714Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano: VIII. Polka1:2215Temporal Variations for Oboe and Piano: IX. Resolution1:4316Sonata for Oboe and Piano: I. Placido, teneramente, ma con moto6:5217Sonata for Oboe and Piano: II. Lento, assai espressivo e tranquillo5:0918Sonata for Oboe and Piano: III. Allegro mosso8:3419Sonata for Oboe and Piano: IV. Epilogo. Tranquillo, mesto, ma con moto3:10Sinfonia Concertante, op. 38 / Violin Concerto, op. 103
2017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:12:33
1Sinfonia concertante, op. 38: I. Fantasia11:282Sinfonia concertante, op. 38: II. Saltarella4:503Sinfonia concertante, op. 38: III. Prelude and Fugue13:294Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Cyril Scott, op. 694:435Consolation6:346Violin Concerto, op. 103: I. Allegro14:277Violin Concerto, op. 103: II. Poema. Lento11:358Violin Concerto, op. 103: III. Allegro giocoso5:27The Jade Mountain: Songs by Edmund Rubbra
2023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 34 tracks · 1:12:47
1Rosa mundi, op. 22:342Cradle Song, op. 8 no. 11:163Nod2:034Orpheus with his Lute, op. 8 no. 21:305Who is Silvia?, op. 8 no. 31:336Out in the dark, op. 13 no. 12:367It was a lover, op. 13 no. 31:488The Night, op. 142:489Rune of Hospitality, op. 151:4510A Duan of Barra, op. 201:4811A Widow Bird Sate Mourning, op. 281:5512A Prayer, op. 17 no. 11:3113Two Songs, op. 22: No. 1. Take, O take those lips away1:3514Two Songs, op. 22: No. 2. Why so pale and wan?1:1815In Dark Weather, op. 332:4616Invocation to Spring, op. 17 no. 21:0617Two Sonnets by William Alabaster, op. 87: I. Upon the Crucifix3:1118Two Sonnets by William Alabaster, op. 87: II. On the Reed of Our Lord's Passion3:5619Two Songs, op. 4: No. 1. The Mystery1:0120Two Songs, op. 4: No. 2. Jesukin1:3121A Hymn to the Virgin, op. 13 no. 22:2222The Jade Mountain, op. 116: I. A Night Thought on Terrace Tower2:1623The Jade Mountain, op. 116: II. On Hearing Her Play the Harp1:1024The Jade Mountain, op. 116: III. An Autumn Night Message1:1325The Jade Mountain, op. 116: IV. A Song on the Southern River1:1526The Jade Mountain, op. 116: V. Farewell to a Japanese Buddhist Priest bound Homeward2:4327Nocturne, op. 542:0928Salve, Regina, op. 1193:0729No Swan So Fine, op. 912:0030Fly Envious Time, op. 1482:5931Three Psalms, op. 61: No. 1. Psalm 64:5232Three Psalms, op. 61: No. 2. Psalm 233:0633Three Psalms, op. 61: No. 3. Psalm 1501:4734Dear Liza, op. 72:172023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:12:32
1Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major: I. Allegro vivace10:282Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major: II. Variations13:053Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major: III. Allegro con brio6:534Variations for Piano & Orchestra: I. Lento espressivo - Vivo4:385Variations for Piano & Orchestra: II. Tempo I - Tempo commodo - Allegro giusto6:066Variations for Piano & Orchestra: III. L'istesso tempo - Lento sostenuto4:307Piano Concerto, Op. 30: I. Andante moderato10:078Piano Concerto, Op. 30: II. Larghetto e tranquillo11:179Piano Concerto, Op. 30: III. Molto vivace5:28
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| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
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| 1976 | Symphony No. 10 / Improvisations on Viginal Pieces / A TributeSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 7 tracks · 38:361Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, op. 50: I. Farnaby's Conceit3:31 2Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, op. 50: II. His Dreame2:29 3Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, op. 50: III. His Humour2:20 4Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, op. 50: IV. Loth to Depart3:49 5Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, op. 50: V. Tell Me, Daphne2:56 6A Tribute, op. 566:06 7Symphony no. 10, op. 145 "Sinfonia da Camera"17:25 | Compilation | 1976 | |
| 2001 | Rune of HospitalitySearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 29 tracks · 1:17:321Four Last Songs: Procris2:38 2Four Last Songs: Tired2:23 3Four Last Songs: Hands, Eyes and Heart1:32 4Four Last Songs: Menelaus4:44 5Two Sonnets by William Alabaster: Upon the Crucifix4:05 6Two Sonnets by William Alabaster: On the Reed of our Lord's Passion4:09 7Prelude 12:49 8Prelude 22:49 9Four poems by Fredegond Shove: Motion and Stillness1:41 10Four poems by Fredegond Shove: Four Nights3:40 11Four poems by Fredegond Shove: The New Ghost4:51 12Four poems by Fredegond Shove: The Water Mill3:23 13Prelude 30:52 14Prelude 42:27 15The Mystery0:54 16Rosa Mundi2:27 17Ave Maria Gratia Plena: O my deir Hert1:45 18Ave Maria Gratia Plena: O excellent Virgin Princess1:56 19Prelude 52:04 20Prelude 64:13 21Silent Noon4:35 22Orpheus with his lute1:43 23Rune of Hospitality1:44 24A Duan of Barra1:47 25Prelude 71:40 26Prelude 81:27 27Three Psalms: O Lord, rebuke me not4:48 28Three Psalms: The Lord is my shepherd2:58 29Three Psalms: Praise ye the Lord1:28 | Compilation | 2001 | |
| 2008 | Elgar: Cello Concerto / Priaulx Rainier: Cello Concerto / Rubbra: Cello SonataSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 8 tracks · 1:13:251Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85: I. Adagio - Moderato7:16 2Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85: II. Lento - Allegro molto4:24 3Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85: III. Adagio4:51 4Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85: IV. Allegro, ma non troppo10:57 5Cello Concerto19:57 6Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 60: I. Andante moderato9:09 7Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 60: II. Vivace flessibile3:23 8Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 60: III. Tema & 6 variations - Fugue13:28 | Compilation | 28 October 2008 | |
| 2011 | Peter Grims (scenes) / The Rape of Lucretia / Michelangelo & John Donne Sonnets / Violin Concerto / Piano Concerto / Berkeley / RubbraSearch SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | 1 July 2011 |
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| 1992 | Symphony No 2 / Symphony No 7 / Festival OvertureSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 8 tracks · 1:17:461Symphony No. 2 in D: 1. Lento - rubato9:58 2Symphony No. 2 in D: 2. Scherzo (Vivace Assai)5:41 3Symphony No. 2 in D: 3. Adagio tranquillo10:54 4Symphony No. 2 in D: 4. Rondo7:55 5Festival Overture Op. 627:19 6Symphony No. 7 in C: 1. Lento e molto espressivo - Allegro moderato11:21 7Symphony No. 7 in C: 2. Vivace e leggiero9:39 8Symphony No. 7 in C: 3. Passacaglia & Fugue: Lento14:59 | 1992 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Edmund Rubbra head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 21 | 82.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 33 | 91.2th |
| Studio albums | 28 | 98th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 31 | 96.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 10 | 26.4th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Awards & honours
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portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Rubbrabiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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Image: Photographie de Rubbra issue de l'article de "The Gramophon" de janvier 1949 (Vol. XXVI, n°308) par W. S. Meadmore. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q958880 · MusicBrainz: 7bab1f57-2d17-4817-a5c2-085aaf96c4bf
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