Geoffrey Burgon : Work List

• Orchestra
  •  Alleluia Nativitas (1970) - 15 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2(2pic)222[cb]/4231/timp.perc/hp.pf/str

  •  Bleak House: Suite (1991) - 12 minute(s)

    Orchestration   101(bcl)1/1.cnt[=tpt].0.0/[hp]/str

  •  Brideshead Variations (1981) - 18 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2(I=pic).2(I=ca).0.2/2200/hp/str

  •  Cantus Alleluia (1973) - 15 minute(s)

    Orchestration   1+pic.2.1.1/2211/2perc/pf/str

  •  The Chronicles of Narnia: Suite (1991) - 14 minute(s)

    Orchestration   1(pic)101/1100/perc/str
    (brass band)

  •  Concerto for String Orchestra (1963) - 15 minute(s)

    Orchestration   str

  •  A Different Dawn (1999) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   perc/cel/str

  •  Goldberg's Dream (Running Figures) (1975) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   1(pic)110/1110/perc/hmn/hpd/pf/str(1.0.1.1.0)

  •  The Golden Fish (1964) - 3 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   [Narrator]

    Orchestration   2222/4320/timp/str
    (4tpts/hn/4tbn/tba[timp])

  •  Industrial Dreams 21 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2+pic.2+cor.2.2+cbsn/4.2.2+btbn.1/timp.4perc/pf.hp/str

  •  Martin Chuzzlewit: Suite (1994) - 24 minute(s)

    Orchestration   1(pic)1(ca)1(bcl)1/1000/perc(timp)/str

  •  Testament of Youth: Suite (1991) - 10 minute(s)

    Orchestration   [timp]/str

• Soloist(s) and Orchestra
  •  Acquainted with Night (1965) - 15 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   countertenor

    Orchestration   timp/hp/str

  •  Canciones del Alma (1975) - 15 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   2 Countertenors [=2 Mezzo Sopranos]

    Orchestration   str(4.4.2.2.1)

  •  Cello Concerto (2009) - 21 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   cello

    Orchestration   1.1(ca).1+bcl.1+cbn/2210/perc/hp.mba.vib/str

  •  City Adventures (1996) - 27 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   percussion

    Orchestration   2(pic).2(ca).2(bcl).asx.2(cbn)/4.2.2+btbn.1/timp.perc/str

  •  Fantasia on R.E.X. (1997) - 9 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   cello

    Orchestration   2(2pic).2(ca).2+bcl.2/4.2(flg).2+btbn.1/timp.perc/hp.pf/str

  •  Irene's Song 4 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   soprano [=tenor]

    Orchestration   fl/tpt/hp/pf/str

  •  Merciless Beauty (1996) - 19 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   countertenor

    Orchestration   1(pic).1(ca).1(bcl).ssx.1/2100/perc/hp/str

  •  Piano Concerto (1997) - 18 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   piano

    Orchestration   2(2pic)2(ca)3(Eb:bcl)2(cbn)/4.2.2+btbn.1/timp.4[=5]perc/[pf]/str

  •  Three Mysteries (2003) - 55 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Treble, Mezzo soprano, 2 Tenors, Baritone, Bass Baritone

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   fl.hp/chamber organ/3perc/str

  •  Title Divine (1986) - 20 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   soprano

    Orchestration   3(2pic)3(ca)3(bcl)3(cb)/4331/timp.2perc/hp/pf(cel)/str

  •  Trumpet Concerto: The Turning World (1993) - 18 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   trumpet

    Orchestration   perc/str(min 8.6.4.4.2)

  •  Viola Concerto: Ghosts of the Dance (2008) - 18 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   viola

    Orchestration   2(pic).1+ca.1+bcl.asx.2(cbn)/2200/Drum Kit/Drum Set/str

  •  A Vision (1991) - 25 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   tenor

    Orchestration   str

  •  The World Again (1983) - 23 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   soprano

    Orchestration   3(2pic)3(ca)3(bcl)3(cbn)/4331/timp.4perc/hp.pf/str

• Works for Band/Wind/Brass Ensemble
  •  The Chronicles of Narnia Suite (1991) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Brass Band
    (1(pic)101/1100/perc/str)

  •  Fanfare on one note (1985) - 3 minute(s)

    Orchestration   4hn.3tpt.3tbn.tba

  •  Gending (1968) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2(pic)23(Ebcl)2+cbn/4.2+pictpt.3.1/amp cel[=pf]/timp.4perc

  •  On the Street (2009) - 13 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Alto Saxophone

    Orchestration   2+pic.2+ca.3+bcl.2asx+tsx+barsx.2/4331/timp.3perc

  •  Paradise Dances (1994)

    Orchestration   brass band

• Large Ensemble (7 or more players)
  •  Minterne Dances (2009)

    Soloist(s)   Clarinet, Flute, Harp

    Orchestration   vn.vn.va

• Soloist(s) and Large Ensemble (7 or more players)
  •  Almost Peace (1995) - 10 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   countertenor [=mezzo soprano]

    Orchestration   cl(bcl)/tpt.tbn/perc/va.db

  •  The Calm (1974) - 20 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   countertenor

    Orchestration   2tpt/hp/2vn/tape
    (Violin; tpt/hp/str)

  •  Epitaph for Sir Walter Raleigh (1968) - 20 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   soprano, mezzo soprano, baritone [=tenor], bass

    Orchestration   1(pic)11(bcl)1/1000

  •  Five Sonnets of John Donne (1967) - 21 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano, Mezzo soprano

    Orchestration   111(bcl)0/1000/timp/pf/vc

  •  This Endris Night (1972) - 30 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   tenor

    Orchestration   brass ensemble/timp

• Works for 2-6 Players
  •  Four Guitars (1977) - 11 minute(s)

    Orchestration   4gtr

  •  Four Horns (1977) - 10 minute(s)

    Orchestration   4hn

  •  Gloria (1973) - 4 minute(s)

    Orchestration   pic.ob.cl/hn/pf/vc

  •  Little Missenden Variations (1984) - 5 minute(s)

    Orchestration   ca.cl.bsn.hn

  •  Oboe Quartet (1977) - 13 minute(s)

    Orchestration   ob/vl.vla.vcl

  •  String Quartet 'Dancers in a Landscape' (1999) - 21 minute(s)

    Orchestration   String Quartet

  •  At Trafalgar (2005) - 5 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   baritone; piano, tenor

    Orchestration   tenor, baritone, piano

  •  The Wanderer (1998)

    Soloist(s)   Clarinet

    Orchestration   Clarinet; srt4tet

  •  Worldës Blissë (1971) - 6 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Countertenor/Oboe

• Solo Works (excluding keyboard)
  •  Six Studies (1980) - 14 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Cello

  •  Six Studies (arr. for viola)

    Orchestration   vla

  •  Three Nocturnes (1974)

    Orchestration   Harp

• Solo Keyboard(s)
  •  Aslan's Theme from The Chronicles of Narnia (1988) - 2 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Piano

  •  Brideshead Variations (pf) (1985) - 18 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Organ

  •  Fun in the Insect World (1965) - 7 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Piano

  •  Theme from Brideshead Revisited (1982) - 2 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Piano

  •  Waiting

    Orchestration   pf

• Chorus a cappella / Chorus plus 1 instrument
  •  Adam Lay Y-Bounden (2008)

    Chorus   SSAA chorus

    Orchestration   organ

  •  And There Was War in Heaven (1970) - 3 minute(s)

    Chorus   Boys voices or sopranos

    Orchestration   org

  •  Ave Verum (2006)

    Chorus   SSA chor

    Orchestration   pf[org]

    Arranger / Editor   Langley/Abbott/Tilley

  •  But Have Been Found Again (No.2 from Canciones entre alma y el esposo) (1983) - 7 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Christ's Love (2000) - 10 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Conditor alme siderum (2010)

    Orchestration   SATB/org

  •  Death be not proud (2005) - 5 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Organ [Trumpet]

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Dos Coros (1975) - 12 minute(s)

    Chorus   twelve solo voices

    Orchestration   twelve solo voices

  •  Farewell Earth's Bliss (1966) - 6 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   six solo voices

    Orchestration   six solo voices

  •  The First World (1992) - 5 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Five Alleluias (1970) - 10 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   six solo voices

    Orchestration   [6 brass]

  •  Five Love Songs (1992) - 12 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  A God and Yet a Man (1984) - 2 minute(s)

    Chorus   SSAATTBB

  •  The Golden Eternity (1970) - 17 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   hp.pf

  •  In a Dark Time (1992) - 5 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Laudate Dominum (1980) - 6 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   org

  •  Love me brought (2010)

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   pf (rehearsals only)

    Arranger / Editor   Simon Taranczuk

  •  Magic Words (2000) - 18 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (1979) - 9 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   2 Sopranos [=2 trebles]

    Orchestration   [tpt]/org/[str]
    ([tpt]/org/[str])

  •  Mai Hamama (1970) - 6 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   six solo voices

    Orchestration   six solo voices

  •  The Names of the Hare (1985) - 4 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Noche Oscura (1974) - 5 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   six solo voices

    Orchestration   six solo voices

  •  Now as she long aspired (No.4 from Canciones entre alma y el esposo) (2008) - 5 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Nunc Dimittis (a cappella version) (1979) - 3 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Nunc dimittis (accompanied version) (1979) - 3 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Trumpet, Soprano

    Orchestration   [org]/str

  •  Of flowers and emeralds sheen (No.3 from Canciones entre alma y el esposo) (2004) - 4 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Prayer to St Richard (1989) - 2 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  A Prayer to the Trinity (1972) - 4 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Rejoice, my love, with me (No.5 from Canciones entre alma y el esposo) (1975)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Shirtless Stephen and the Children's Crusade (2002) - 8 minute(s)

    Chorus   children's voices

    Orchestration   perc/pf

  •  Sleep (1973) - 9 minute(s)

    Chorus   5 solo voices

    Orchestration   5 solo voices

  •  The Song of the Creatures (1987) - 12 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   org

  •  Songs between the soul and the bridegroom (Canciones entre alma y el esposo) (2008) - 25 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Songs of the Creation (1989) - 25 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   org

  •  Te Deum (2002) - 6 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Organ

    Chorus   SATB

  •  This World From (1979) - 6 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   org

  •  Three Elegies (1964) - 6 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

  •  Where can your hiding be? (No.1 from Canciones entre alma y esposo) (2008)

    Chorus   SATB

• Chorus and Orchestra/Ensemble
  •  Alleluia Psallat (2002) - 10 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   1+pic.1+ca.1+bcl.1+cbn/422+btbn.1/timp.2perc/str

  •  The Fall of Lucifer (1977) - 26 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Baritone, Countertenor, Tenor

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   fl(pic)/hp.org/2vn.vc.db

  •  First Was The World (1994) - 10 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   countertenor [=mezzo soprano]

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   2(pic)2(ca)22/423(btbn)1/timp.2perc/hp/str

  •  Hymn to St Thomas of Hereford (1981) - 13 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   22(ca)02/3230/timp.perc/str
    (Org/[timp])

  •  Orpheus (1982) - 55 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Bass, Soprano, Tenor

    Chorus   TB

    Orchestration   fl(pic).cl(bcl)/hn/perc/hp/str

  •  Requiem (1976) - 45 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   soprano, tenor, countertenor [=mezzo soprano, tenor]

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   2(2pic)2(ca)22(cbn)/4331/hp/pf(cel)/ch org(grand org)/2timp.5perc/str

  •  Revelations (1984) - 1 Hour(s) 2 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   2(2pic)2(ca)2(bcl)2(cb)/4321/timp.2perc/hp/str
    (perc/org)

  •  Think On, Dredful Domesday (1969) - 22 minute(s)

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   1(pic)110+cbn/1.1.0+btbn.0/timp.2perc/pf.cel[=hp]/str(no vn)

  •  Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (1970) - 3 minute(s)

    Chorus   children's voices

    Orchestration   rec/perc/pf

  •  Veni Spiritus (1979) - 25 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   soprano, baritone

    Chorus   SATB

    Orchestration   2(2pic)222/4231/timp.2perc/str

• Solo Voice(s) and up to 6 players
  •  At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners (1971) - 5 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano

    Orchestration   [trp]/org

  •  Cantata on Mediaeval Latin Texts (1964) - 7 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Countertenor

    Orchestration   fl.ob.bn

  •  Dira vi amoris terror (1973) - 3 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Countertenor

  •  Heavenly Things (2001) - 10 minute(s)

    Orchestration   baritone/pf

  •  Hymn to Venus (1966) - 15 minute(s)

    Orchestration   Mezzo soprano/pf

  •  Joan of Arc (1970) - 30 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   narrator, Baritone, Narrator/Speaker, 3 Sopranos, Tenor

    Orchestration   fl/perc/hp/vc

  •  Julia's Theme from Brideshead Revisited 3 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Soprano [=Tenor]

    Orchestration   pf

  •  Lunar Beauty (1986) - 12 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   medium voice

    Orchestration   gtr [=pf]

  •  Lunar Beauty (1986) - 12 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Baritone

    Orchestration   piano

  •  Lunar Beauty (1986) - 12 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   medium voice

    Orchestration   piano

  •  Nearing the Upper Air (1988) - 10 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Countertenor

    Orchestration   2rec/hpd/vc
    (2fl)

  •  The Road of Love (2006)

    Soloist(s)   soprano

    Orchestration   vn.vn.va.vc

  •  Songs of Mary (1970) - 12 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   mezzo soprano, Viola

    Orchestration   pf

  •  Songs, Lamentations, and Praises (1979) - 43 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   2 Sopranos

    Orchestration   cl/perc/gtr/tape

  •  This Ean Night (1972) - 3 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2 Countertenors

  •  Threnody (1971) - 12 minute(s)

    Soloist(s)   Tenor

    Orchestration   hpd.pf(amplified)

• Opera and Music Theatre
  •  Blood Wedding (1988)

  •  Macbeth (1986)

  •  Murder in the Cathedral (1987)

  •  Nicholas Nickleby (2001) - 1 Hour(s) 10 minute(s)

    Orchestration   1010/0110/str(1.0.1.1.1)

• Dance
  •  The Golden Fish (1964) - 18 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2232/4231/perc/str [=4tpt.hn.4tbn.tba.[timp]

  •  Running Figures (1975) - 20 minute(s)

    Orchestration   1110/1110/perc/pf/str(1.0.1.1.0); tp

  •  Songs, Lamentations and Praises (1979) - 45 minute(s)

    Orchestration   cl/2perc/gtr/tp

  •  Step at a Time (1976) - 27 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2vc/tp

  •  The Trial of Prometheus (1988) - 25 minute(s)

    Orchestration   2+pic.2+ca.2(Ebcl)+bcl.2+cbn/432+btbn.1/timp.3perc/hp/pf/str

• Music for Film / TV
  •  9/11: A Tale of Two Towers (2002)

  •  The Agency (1991)

  •  The Archer's Tale (1979)

  •  As You Like It (1978)

  •  Bank on IBM

  •  Bewitched (1983)

  •  Bleak House (1985)

  •  Brideshead Revisited (1981)

  •  The Changeling (1973)

  •  Children of the North (1990)

  •  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Dawn Treader (1989)

  •  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (1988)

  •  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair (1990)

  •  Cider with Rosie (1998)

  •  The Death of the Heart (1985)

  •  The Dogs of War (1988)

  •  Dr Who / The Seeds of Doom (1976)

  •  Dr Who and the Terror of the Zygons (1975)

  •  A Foreign Field (1993)

  •  The Forsyte Saga (2002)

  •  Goodbye Days (1984)

  •  Happy Valley (1986)

  •  How Many Miles to Babylon (1981)

  •  Island at War (2004)

  •  The Letter (1969)

  •  Longitude (2000)

  •  Love's Labours Lost (1975)

  •  Marks (1982)

  •  Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)

  •  Mass for Man (Ballet for TV) (1984)

  •  Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

  •  Robin Hood (1991)

  •  Rolling Home (1982)

  •  Silent Witness (1996)

  •  Soft Targets (1982)

  •  Sophia and Constance (1988)

  •  Sunflowers

  •  Testament of Youth (1979)

  •  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979)

  •  Traction Engines

  •  The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974)

  •  The Turning World (1996)

  •  Turtle Diary (1985)

  •  When Trumpets Fade (1998)

  •  Z for Zachariah (1983)