Catalogue of Works

Orchestral Works

As You Like It arr. Christopher Palmer
Poem for orchestra after Shakespeare, arranged from the film-score
soprano, 3.2.2.2-4.2.2.0-timp.3perc(IIIopt)-2hp(IIopt)-hpschd/cel-str
10 minutes
score and parts on hire

As You Like It: Suite arr. Carl Davis
picc.1.2.2.2-4.2.0.0-timp.3perc-hpschd-hp-str
10 minutes
score and parts on hire

Battle of Britain: Suite arr. Colin Matthews
Music for the film, adapted for concert use
2.2.2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-str
11 minutes
score and parts on hire

Capriccio Burlesco (1968)
picc.2.2.ca.Ebcl.2.bcl.2.cbn-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-str
8 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 0 19 368117X

Crown Imperial: Coronation March (1937)
3(III+picc).2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbn-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc-hp-org(opt)-str
9 minutes (uncut version); 7 minutes (cut version)
original (uncut) version score and parts on hire, revised version score and parts on hire, study score (revised version) on sale 019 3681250

Crown Imperial: Coronation March
arr. Vilem Tausky
2.2.2.2-4.2.3.1(opt)-timp.2perc-hp-str
7 minutes
score and parts on hire

Crown Imperial: Coronation March
arr. David Stone for amateur orchestra
2.2.2.1-2.2.2.btbn.0-timp.3perc-pno duet(opt)-str
7 minutes
score and parts available from Goodmusic

Escape Me Never (1934)
Ballet music from the film
2.2.2.2-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-str
3 minutes
score and parts on hire

Escape Me Never: Suite arr. Christopher Palmer
3(II&III+picc).2(II+ca).2(II+bcl).2-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc-2hp-pno/cel-str
10 minutes
score and parts on hire

Façade Suite for Orchestra No.1 (1926)
2.2(II+ca).2.2-4(2opt).2.1.1-timp.3perc-str
Polka; Valse; Swiss Jodelling Song; Tango-Pasodoble; Tarantella-Sevillana
with the option of including the 'Special Suite' of Popular Song and Old Sir Faulk
10 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 368148X

Façade Suite for Orchestra No.2 (1938)
2.2.ca.asax(opt).2.2-2.2.1.0-perc-str
Fanfare; Scotch Rhapsody; Country Dance; Noche Espagnole; Popular Song; Old Sir Faulk
9 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 36815 6

Façade Suite for Orchestra No.3
arr. Christopher Palmer
2(I&II+picc).2(II+ca).2(II+bcl).sax.2-2.2.1.1-timp.4perc-pno/cel-str
Hornpipe; Daphne (Song); March; Through Gilded Trellises; Water Party Waltz; The Wind's Tambourine (Something Lies Beyond the Sheen)
6 minutes
score and parts on hire

The First Shoot (1935)
Transcription by Christopher Palmer from the arrangement for brass band of the ballet music performed during C B Cochran's revue, 'Follow the Sun'
3.2.3.2-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc-pno-hp-str
10 minutes
score and parts on hire

Four Dances from Façade arr. Walter Goehr
2fl(I&II+picc)(1opt).ob.2cl(II+opt asax)(1opt).bsn(opt)-2hn(opt).2tpt.3tbn(2opt)-timp(opt).perc(opt).xyl(opt)-hp(opt)-strings or strings and piano
Polka; Tango; Tarantella; Popular Song
8 minutes
score and parts on hire

Galop Final (1949)
arr. Christopher Palmer from short score of intended finale for ballet Devoirs de Vacances
2(I&II+picc).2(I&II+ca).2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.2perc-hp-str
2 minutes
score and parts on hire

Hamlet (1947)
Music for the film from William Shakespeare's play, directed and produced by Sir Laurence Olivier (first showing 6 May 1948)
The following arrangements have been made for concert use:

Funeral March from Hamlet
arr. Muir Mathieson
2.2.2.2-4.2.3.1(opt)-timp.2/3perc-hp-str
6 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3682184

Hamlet and Ophelia: a poem for orchestra
arr. Muir Mathieson
2.2.2.2-4.2.3.0-timp.2perc-cel-hp-str
14 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3682257

Hamlet: A Shakespeare Scenario
arr. Christopher Palmer
speaker (mvts 2 & 5 only), 3.3.Ebcl.3.3-4.3.3.1-timp.4perc-2hp(IIopt)-pno/cel.hpschd-str
Prelude; Fanfare & Soliloquy; The Ghost; Hamlet & Ophelia; The Question; The Mousetrap; Death of Ophelia; Retribution & Threnody; Finale (Funeral March)
the conductor may make his own selection of movements to be performed
45 minutes
score and parts on hire

Henry V (1943-44)
Music for the film from William Shakespeare's play, directed and produced by Sir Laurence Olivier (first showing 22 November 1944)
The following arrangements have been made for concert use:

Henry V Suite
arr. Muir Mathieson
2(I&II+picc).2(II+ca).2.2-4.2.2.1(opt)-timp.3perc-hp-str
Overture; Passacaglia: The Death of Falstaff; Charge and Battle; Touch her soft lips and part; Agincourt Song
16 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3682303

Henry V arr. Watson
narrator, 2 high voice choruses (optional), orchestra: 1(+picc).1(+ca).2(I+bcl).1-1.1.0.0-perc-pno(+hpschd)-0.0.0.2.0
41 minutes
score and parts on hire

Two Pieces from Henry V (1944)
strings
5 minutes
score and parts on hire, score and parts on sale:
study score 0 19 368236 2, violin I 019 3682370,
violin II 0 19 368238 9, viola 019 3682397,
cello 0 19 368240 0, double bass 019 3682419

Henry V - A Shakespeare Scenario
arr. Christopher Palmer
narrator, SATB chorus, boys' choir (optional) and orchestra:
3.3.3.2-4.4.3.1-timp.4/5perc-2hp-hpschd.pno.cel.org(opt)-str
Prologue; Interlude - At the Boar's Head; Embarkation; Interlude - 'Touch her soft lips and part'; Harfleur and The Night Watch; Agincourt; Interlude - At the French Court; Epilogue
50 minutes
score, vocal score and parts on hire, score on sale:
019 3385317 - The William Walton Edition vol 23

Henry V Suite (with chorus)
arr. Malcolm Sargent
SATB chorus, 3.3.3.3-4.3.3.1-timp.perc-hp-hpschd-str
London 1600 and Overture: 'The Globe Playhouse'; Passacaglia: The Death of Falstaff; Touch her soft lips and part; Agincourt Song
12 minutes
score and parts on hire

Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten (1969)
The theme is taken from Britten's Piano Concerto No.1 in D
3.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbn-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-str
15 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3682443

Introduction and National Anthem (1953)
2(II+picc).2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbn-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc-2hp-str
2 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3685663, set of parts on sale 019 3685671

Johannesburg Festival Overture (1956)
3.2.ca.3.3-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-str
7 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3682508

Johannesburg Festival Overture
arr. Vilem Tausky
1(+picc).2.ca.2.2-4.2.3.1(opt)-timp.perc-hp-str
7 minutes
score and parts on hire

Macbeth (1941-42):Fanfare and March
arr. Christopher Palmer
from the incidental music to Shakespeare's play, Macbeth
4(III&IV+picc).4(III+ca).2.2-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-pno-str
5 minutes
score and parts on hire

Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence
arr. Christopher Palmer from Walton's music for the film of George Bernard Shaw's play, directed and produced by Gabriel Pascal (first showing 21 March 1941
3(II&III+picc).3(III+ca).3(III+bcl).3(III+cbn)-4.3.3.1-timp.5/6perc-2hp-pno(+cel)-str
9 minutes
score and parts on hire

March: History of the English Speaking Peoples (1959)
For the ABC TV series based on Winston Churchill's 'A History of the English Speaking Peoples'
picc.3.2.ca.2.1.cbn-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc-hp-str
4'30''
score and parts on hire

Music for Children (1940)
arrangement of Duets for Children
2(I&II+picc).2(I&II+ca).2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.2perc-hp-str
14 minutes
score and parts on hire

Orb and Sceptre: Coronation March (1952-53)
3(III+picc).2.ca.3(III+bcl).2-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-org(opt)-str
9 minutes
score and parts on hire

Orb and Sceptre: Coronation March
arr. Roy Douglas
2(II+picc).2.2.2-4(2opt).2.3.1(opt)-timp.2-4perc-hp-str
8 minutes
score and parts on hire

Partita for Orchestra (1957)
3(III+picc).2.ca.3(III+bcl).3(III+cbn)-4.3.3.1-timp.4perc-cel-hp-str
15 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3683350

Portsmouth Point: an Overture (1924-25)
3.2.ca.3(III+bcl).3(III+cbn)-4.3.3.1-timp.2/3perc-str
6 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3683407

Portsmouth Point: an Overture (reduced version)
arr. Constant Lambert
picc.1.1.2.1-2.2.1.0-timp.1/2perc-str
6 minutes
score and parts on hire

Prelude and Fugue: 'The Spitfire' (1942)
Music taken from the film The First of the Few, directed and produced by Leslie Howard
2(II+picc).2(IIopt).2.2(IIopt)-4.2.3.1-timp.perc-hp-str
8 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3683504

Prelude for Orchestra: 'Granada' (1962)
3(III+picc).3(III+ca).3.2.cbn-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-str
6 minutes
score and parts on hire

Prologo and Fantasia (1981-82)
3(III+picc).3(III+ca).3(III+bcl).3(III+cbn)-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-pno-str
6 minutes
score and parts on hire
study score on sale from Allegro Music 019 3683539

The Quest (1943)
Music for the ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton
For Complete Ballet Music (performing version, ed. Christopher Palmer) see 'Ballet Music' section below
The following arrangement has been made for concert use:

The Quest: Ballet Suite arr. Vilem Tausky
2(II+picc).2(II+ca).2.2-4.2.3.0-timp.1/2perc-hp-cel.keyed glock-str
15 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3683555

Richard III (1955)
Music for the film of William Shakespeare's play, directed and produced by Sir Laurence Olivier (first showing 13 December 1955)
The following arrangements have been made for concert use:

Monologue arr. Christopher Palmer
2.2.2.3-4.3.3.0-timp.perc-hpschd-hp-str
4 minutes
score and parts on hire

Prelude: Richard III arr. Muir Mathieson
2.2(II+ca).2.bcl(opt).2-4.2.3.1(opt)-timp.2perc-hp-str
8 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3683458

A Shakespeare Scenario
arr. Christopher Palmer
3.3.3.3-4.3.3.1-timp.4perc-2hp-pno(+hpschd&cel)-str
Prelude; Coronation; The Wooing; The Prince of Wales; Elegy; The Princes in the Tower; Nightmare; Bosworth Field; Death of Richard and Finale
40 minutes
score and parts on hire

A Shakespeare Suite arr. Muir Mathieson
2.2(IIopt).2.2(IIopt)-4(III&IVopt).2.3(opt).0-timp.2/3perc-hp(opt)-str
11 minutes
score for sale 019 3683709
parts for sale: violin I 019 3683717, violin II 019 3683725, viola 019 3683733, cello 019 3683741, double bass 019 368375X, set of wind parts 019 3683970
Full set of parts 019 3683962

A Winter Journey arr. Edward Watson
2(II + picc).2.2.2 - 2.2.2.0 - timp (opt).2 perc.harp(opt).str
6'
0 193355620

Scapino: A Comedy Overture (1940 rev. 1950)
3(III+picc).2.ca.3(III+bcl).2-4.3.3.1-timp-3perc-hp-str
8 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 368361X

Siesta (1926)
1(+picc).1.2.1-2.0.0.0-str
5 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3684004

Sinfonia Concertante (original version) (1927)
Orchestra with piano continuo
picc.2.2.ca.1.bcl.2.cbn-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc-pno-str
19 minutes
score and parts on hire
Walton Edition, volume 13 - contains both 1927 and 1943 versions - score on sale 0-19-368311-3

Sinfonia Concertante (revised version) (1943)
Orchestra with piano obbligato
picc.2.2.ca.2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.2perc-pno-str
18 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3684063
Walton Edition, volume 13 - contains both 1927 and 1943 versions - score on sale 0-19-368311-3

Sonata for String Orchestra (1971)
Arranged by the composer from his String Quartet in A minor
Preferably no fewer than 6.4.4.4.3
25 minutes
score and parts on hire, score and parts on sale: study score 019 3684276, violin I 019 3684284, violin II 019 3684292, viola 019 3684306, cello 019 3684314, double bass 019 3684322

Symphony No.1 (1932-35)
2(II+picc).2.2.2-4.3.3.1-2timp.2perc-str
43 minutes
score and parts on hire
Full score on sale 019 3684187 - The Walton Edition vol 9

Symphony No.2 (1957-60)
picc.3.3.ca.Ebcl.3.bcl.3.cbn-4.3.3.1-timp.4perc-2hp-pno.cel-str
27 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3684217
Full score on sale 9780193683105 - The Walton Edition Volume 10 ed. Hulme

Three Sisters: Suite from the Film (1969)
Music from the film of Anton Chekhov's play, directed by Sir Laurence Olivier and produced by John Goldstone
picc.3.2.2.2-4.3.3.1-timp.4perc-hp-cel.pno-str
10 minutes
score and parts on hire

Troilus and Cressida: Symphonic
Suite from the Opera arr. Christopher Palmer
picc.2.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbn-4.4.3.1-timp.5perc-2hp-cel.pno-str
Prelude and Seascape; Scherzo; The Lovers; Finale
40 minutes
score and parts on hire

Variations on a Theme by Hindemith (1962-63)
The theme is taken from the second movement of Hindemith's Cello Concerto
picc.3.3.ca.2.bcl.2.cbn-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-str
23 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3684500

Varii Capricci (1975)
Free transcription for orchestra of the Five Bagatelles for Guitar
3(III+picc).2.ca.3.3-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-cel-hp-str
14 minutes
score and parts on hire, study score on sale 019 3684535

A Wartime Sketchbook arr. Christopher Palmer
Based on the scores from the films: The Foreman went to France; The Next of Kin; Went the Day Well?; The Battle of Britain
3.2.3.2-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-pno-str
Prologue; Bicycle Chase; Refugees; Scherzo (Gay Berlin); Foxtrot; Lovers; Striptease; Epilogue
20 minutes

The Wise Virgins: Suite from the Ballet (1940)
Music from ballet based on the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (Matthew XXV), arranging J S Bach's music
picc.2.2.ca.2.2-4.2.3.0-timp-hp-str
What God hath done is rightly done; Lord hear my longing; See what his love can do; Ah! How ephemeral; Sheep may safely graze; Praise be to God
16 minutes
score and parts on hire, piano reduction on hire
Full score on sale 019 3613840

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Concertos

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1955-56)
2(II+picc).2(II+ca).2(II+bcl).2(II+cbn)-4.2.3.1-timp.3perc-hp-cel-str
27 minutes
• piano reduction on sale 019 368121 8
• score and parts on hire

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1928-29, rev. 1961)
2(II+picc).1.ca.2(II+bcl).2-4.2.3.0-timp-hp-str
23 minutes
• score - Walton Edition vol 12 (ed. Wellington) - includes both 1929 and 1962 versions
on sale 019 368130 7
• version for viola and piano (ed. Wellington) on sale 019 368131 5
• score and parts on hire

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1936-39 rev. 1943)
2(II+picc).2(II+ca).2.2-4.2.3.0-timp.2perc-hp-str
30 minutes
• piano reduction (arr. Franz Reizenstein) on sale 019 3684713
• score and parts on hire

Façade: Suite for Harmonica and Orchestra arr. Roy Douglas
2.2(1opt).2.2(1opt)-2.3(2opt).0.0-timp.perc-str
Polka; Tango; Swiss Jodelling Song; Popular Song
11 minutes
score and parts on hire

Five Bagatelles arr. Russ
solo guitar, 2(II+picc).2(II+ca).2(II+bcl).2-2.2(I+Dtpt).0.0-timp.4perc-str
10 minutes
score and parts on hire

Sonata for Violin and Orchestra
arr. Christopher Palmer
3(III+picc).2(II+ca).3(III+bcl).2-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc-hp-pno/cel-str
24 minutes
score and parts on hire

Two pieces for Violin and Orchestra
arr. Christopher Palmer
2.1.2.1-2.1.0.0-perc-hp-str
5 minutes
score and parts on hire

Brass Ensemble and Concert Band Music

Anniversary Fanfare (1973)
9tpt.4ttbn.3btbn-timp.3perc
1 minute
The composer notes on the manuscript that this fanfare is to be immediately followed by the Coronation March Orb and Sceptre
score on sale 019 3681005, set of parts on sale 019 3681129

Battle of Britain: Suite arr. Edward Watson
sopct.4ct(solo).3ct(1repiano).flugel.3hn.2baritone.2tbn.btbn.euph.Ebbass.Bbbass-3perc
11 minutes
score and parts on hire

A Birthday Fanfare (1981)
7 trumpets & percussion
35 seconds
score on sale 019 3681145, set of parts on sale 019 3681153

Crown Imperial: Coronation March
arr. Christopher Palmer
4tpt.4hn.3tbn.tba-org-timp.3perc-hp(opt)
6 minutes
score and parts on hire

Façade arr. Robert O'Brien
picc.6fl.2ob.13cl.2acl.2bcl.2asax.tsax.barsax.2bn-9ct.4hn.3tbn.6baritone.euph.6tba-timp.5perc-string bass
Fanfare and Scotch Rhapsody
5 minutes
score and parts available from Archive Service, Allegro Music
Jodelling Song
5 minutes
score and parts available from Archive Service, Allegro Music
Old Sir Faulk
5 minutes
score and parts available from Archive Service, Allegro Music
Polka
5 minutes
score and parts available from Archive Service, Allegro Music
Popular Song
5 minutes
score and parts available from Archive Service, Allegro Music

Façade Suite arr. Gout
2tpt.hn.tbn.tba
6 minutes
score and parts on hire

Fanfare for a Great Occasion
arr. Malcolm Sargent
A number of fanfares from Hamlet grouped together
3tpt.4hn.3tbn.tba-timp.perc
1 minute
score and parts available from Archive Service, Allegro Music

The First Shoot arr. Christopher Palmer
Arranged for brass band from the C B Cochran ballet
sopct.8ct.flugel.3hn.2baritone.2tbn.btbn.2euph.2Ebbass.2Bbbass-timp.perc
10 minutes
score and parts on hire

Henry V arr. Edward Watson
narrator, brass band
sopct.solo ct.3ct(1repiano).flugel.3hn(Isolo).2baritone.2tbn.btbn.euph.Ebbass.Bbbass-timp.3perc
35 minutes
score and parts on hire

Henry V Suite arr. Don Phillips
2picc.2fl.2ob.ca.Ebcl.3cl.bcl.4sax(AATB).2bn-3ct.Ebtpt.tpt.4hn.3tbn.baritone.bass-timp.3perc-hp
Overture, The Globe Playhouse; Passacaglia; The Death of Falstaff; Charge and Battle; Touch her soft lips and part; Agincourt Song
16 minutes
score and parts on hire

Introduction and National Anthem (1980 and 1953)
2(II+picc).2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbn-4.6.6.1-timp.2perc-2hp-str
4 minutes
score and parts on hire

March for Concert Band arr. Gilbert Vinter
from Prelude for Orchestra
picc.2fl.2ob.ca.3cl.2bn.cbn-4hn.3tpt.3tbn.tba-timp.perc-hp-str
5 minutes
score and parts available from Archive Service, Allegro Music

Miniatures for Wind Band Set 1
arr. Bram Wiggins
arranged from Music for Children
picc(opt).2fl.2ob(IIopt).3cl.acl.bcl.bn.2asax-2hn.2tpt.2tbn.2euph/tsax.tba-timp.perc-string bass
score on sale 019 3682672, set of parts on sale 019 3682958

Miniatures for Wind Band Set 2
arr. Bram Wiggins
arranged from Music for Children
picc(opt).2fl.2ob(IIopt).3cl.acl.bcl.bn.2asax-2hn.2tpt.2tbn.2euph/tsax.tba-timp.perc-string bass
score on sale 019 3685078, set of parts on sale from Allegro Music 019 3685353

Orb and Sceptre: Coronation March
arr. Eric Ball
sopct.2ct(solo).2ct(ripieno).4ct.flugel.3hn.2baritone.2tbn.btbn.2euph.2Bbbass.2Ebbass-timp.perc
8 minutes
score on sale 019 368537X, set of parts on sale 019 3685388

Prelude and Fugue: 'The Spitfire'
arr. Crees
3picc tpt.3tpt.flugel.4hn.3tbn.2euph.2tba-timp.perc
7 minutes
score and parts on hire

Prelude and Fugue: 'The Spitfire'
arr. Elgar Howarth
picc tpt.2ct.2tpt.4hn.3tbn.tba-timp.2perc
8 minutes
score and parts on hire

A Queen's Fanfare (1959)
Ebtpt.7Bbtpt.2tbn.2btbn
40 seconds
score on sale 019 3681862
set of parts on sale 019 3681994

Richard III arr. Edward Watson
sopct.ct(solo).3ct(1repiano).flugel.3hn.2baritone.2tbn.btbn.2euph.Ebbass.Bbbass-timp.3perc
20 minutes
score and parts on hire

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