John McCabe - composition discography
John McCabe - composition discographyComposition discography
Orchestral (see also Theatrical)
Caravan for string orchestra
Orchestra Nova / Vass (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7290
The Chagall Windows
Hallé Orchestra / Loughran (LP) HMV ASD 3096
(LP) HMV ED 29 12191
(Cassette) HMV ED 29 12194
(CD) EMI CDM 7 63176 2
(CD) EMI CDM 5 67120 2
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bernard Haitink
[Album: The 75th Anniversary Edition - Volume 2: 1956-1982]
[+ Arnold] (4CDs) LPO -0098
(CD) LPO -0023
Clarinet Concerto
Hilton / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Gamba
[Album: Dedications]
[+ Harper/Hoddinott/Maconchy] (CD) Clarinet Classics CC0034
Concertante Variations on a theme of Nicholas Maw
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra / Donatas Katkus
(CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7133
Concertino for Piano Duet
Wibaut / Rutherford / Frensham Heights School / Latham
(LP) Erase EO 253 S
Limited private edition
Concerto funebre for viola and small orchestra
Bradley / Orchestra Nova / Vass
[Album: British Viola Music]
{+ Alwyn/Holst/Maconchy/D Matthews] (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7186
Concerto for Orchestra
RLPO / Bostock [ + Gregson/Hoddinott] (CD) Classico CLASSCD 384
(10CD) Membran 233316
[Album: The British Symphonic Collection]
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Georg Solti
[Album: The 75th Anniversary Edition - Volume 2: 1956-1982]
[+ Arnold] (4CDs) LPO -0098
(CD) LPO -0023
Domestic Life
John Turner, recorder / Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Gavin Sutherland, conductor
[ Album: English Recorder Concertos ]
[ + Gardner/Lawson/Leighton/Lane/Mellers/Milford/Kay/Dodgson]
(CD) ASV White Line CD WHL 2143
Flute Concerto
Beynon / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Vernon Handley
(CD) Hyperion CDA 67089
Hartmann Variations
Hallé Orchestra / Loughran (LP) HMV ASD 3096
(LP) HMV ED 29 12191
(Cassette) HMV ED 29 12194
(CD) EMI CDM 7 63176 2
Les martinets noirs (Concerto for 2 violins and string orchestra)
Retorica / Orchestra Nova / Vass (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7290
Notturni ed Alba
Gomez / CBSO / Frémaux (LP) HMV ASD 2904
(LP) HMV ED 29 12191
(Cassette) HMV ED 29 12194
(CD) EMI CDM 7 63176 2
(CD) EMI CDM 5 67120 2
Quaife/State Orchestra of Victoria/Mills (CD) Recorded in Melbourne, 1995
Oboe Concerto
Shaw / Orchestra Nova / Vass (CD) Guild GMCD 7383
Piano Concerto No 1
McCabe / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Austin
(CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7179
Piano Concerto No 2 (Sinfonia Concertante)
Tamami Honma / St Christopher Chamber Orchestra / Donatas Katkus
(CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7133
Pilgrim for double string orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Austin
(CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7179
La Primavera (Trumpet Concerto)
Desbruslais/OOTS/Woods
[Album: Psalm]
[+ Saxton, Pritchard] (CD) Signum SIGCD 403
Rainforest II for trumpet and string orchestra
Whelan / Orchestra Nova / Vass (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7290
Red Leaves
Brunel Ensemble / Austin
[Album: Red Leaves]
[+ Lutyens/Saxton/Williamson] (CD) Cala The Edge CACD77005
(CD) Signum SIGCD053
Six-minute Symphony
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra / Donatas Katkus
(CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7133
Sonata on a Motet
St Christopher Chamber Orchestra / Donatas Katkus
(CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7133
Symphony No 1 'Elegy'
LPO / Snashall (LP) Pye TPLS 13005
Reissued 2014
(CD) Naxos 8.571370
Symphony No 2
CBSO / Frémaux (LP) HMV ASD 2904
(CD) EMI CDM 5 67120 2
Symphony 'Of Time and the River'
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Vernon Handley
(CD) Hyperion CDA 67089
Tuning
NYOS / McCabe (Cass.) Alpha CAPS 367
[limited edition]
Reissued 2014
(CD) Naxos 8.571370
Chamber and Instrumental
Bagatelles for two clarinets
Chicago Clarinet Trio
[Album: Chicago Clarinet Trio]
[+ Anweiler/Bermúdez/Combs/DeRoche/Raimi]
(CD) Albany TROY1211
Canto for guitar
Behrend (LP) DG 2530079
Hatzinikolaou (CD) NMC D 184
Clarinet Quintet La Donna (2010/11)
Merrick / Kreutzer Quartet (CD) Guild GMCD 7369
Concerto for Piano and Wind Quintet (1969)
The Fibonacci Sequence (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7125
Dance-Prelude for Oboe d'amore and Piano
Paull / Gainsford (CD) AmorisEdition AR 1003
Dances for Trumpet and Piano
3 movements
Paulin / Vorster (CD) Move MCD 060
Desert III: Landscape
Australian Piano Trio (LP) Pagecoll S-1 (Australia)
Desert IV: Vista, for recorder
Turner
[Album: Requiem] (CD) ASC Prima Facie PFCD 044
Fauvel's Rondeaux (1995/6)
The Fibonacci Sequence (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7125
Merrick / Sheppard Skærved / Shorr (CD) Guild GMCD 7369
Goddess Trilogy for horn and piano
Williams / Covert (CD) Music from Northwestern Vol. 5 *
The Castle of Arianrhod
James / McCabe (LP) Cornucopia [Not issued]
Hawk in Winter Light
Mardi Brass
[Album: ...Something New...]
[+ Jan Bach/Hesford/Nyman/Waddington]
(CD) LIR Classics LIR015
March Sonatina for solo flute
Kathryn Thomas [world première]
[Album: Presteigne Festival 2007] (CD) Presteigne Festival 2007 [private]
Maze Dances for solo violin
Sheppard Skærved (CD) Metier MSV CD92029
Meditation on a Norfolk Ballad
Turner / Manchester Chamber Ensemble (CD) ASC Prima Facie PFCD 037
Movements for Clarinet, Violin and Cello (1964/6)
Merrick / Sheppard Skærved / Heyde (CD) Guild GMCD 7369
Musica Notturna for violin, viola and piano (1964)
[original version]
The Fibonacci Sequence (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7125
[cello edition]
Australian Piano Trio
(LP) Pagecoll S-1 (Australia)
Partita for Solo Cello
J L Webber (LP) L'Oiseau Lyre DSLO 18
[+ L Berkeley/Dalby/Fricker/Rainier/Wood]
(2CD) Lyrita SRCD 304
Laurs (LP) Pagecoll S-1 (Australia)
3 Pieces for Clarinet and Piano
Schweickhardt / Cobb (LP) Coronet 3116 (USA)
Carpenter / McArthur (CD) Herald HAVPCD 152
Puddy / Martineau (CD) Veloce Classics VELCD9503
Martin / Mitchell
[Album: Vibraciones del Alma]
[+ Rabaud/Romero/Weber/Widor/Yuste] (CD)Linn CKD 331
Portraits for Flute and Piano
Threes and Twos
Adrian Ashton (piano) [album: Pocket Pianist for Flute]
(LP/Cassette) Oakland Music
OMPP 4 FA
Postcards for Wind Quintet (1991)
The Fibonacci Sequence (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7125
Pueblo for solo doublebass
Leon Bosch
[Album: The British Double Bass]
[+ L Berkeley/A Bush/Ellis/Jacob/Lutyens/Maconchy/Pitfield/Reynolds/J Walton]
(CD) Meridian CDE 84550
Rainforest I for chamber ensemble
Orchestra Nova / Vass (CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7290
Rounds for Brass Quintet
Hallé Brass Consort (LP) Pye GSGC 14114
Beaux Arts Quintet, Belgium
[Album: Music from Chaucer]
[+ Arnold/M Berkeley/Bourgeois/Gregson]
(CD) BBQ-003 [Belgium]
Sonata for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (1969)
Merrick / Heyde / Schorr (CD) Guild GMCD 7369
Spielend for two violins
Retorica (CD) NMC D182
[Album: English Violin Duos]
[+ Aitchison/Croft/D Matthews/Moeran/Rawsthorne]
Star-Preludes for violin and piano
Sheppard Skærved / Honma (CD) Metier MSV CD92029
String Quartet No 2 (1972)
Camerata Ensemble
[Album: Old City New Image]
[+ Ellis] (CD) Campion Cameo CAMEO 2027
String Quartet No 3
Vanbrugh Quartet (CD) Hyperion CDA67078
String Quartet No 4
Vanbrugh Quartet (CD) Hyperion CDA67078
String Quartet No 5
Vanbrugh Quartet (CD) Hyperion CDA67078
String Quartet No 7 'Summer Eves'
Carducci Quartet
[Album: Into the Ravine]
[+ Berkeley, Williams] (CD) Signum Records SIGCD 350
String Trio (1965)
Cardiff University Ensemble (LP) Argo ZRG 761
Camerata Ensemble
[Album: Old City New Image]
[+ Ellis] (CD) Campion Cameo CAMEO 2027
Keyboard
Afternoons and Afterwards for piano
Nardiello
[Album: Piano Music from the 20th and 21st Centuries]
(CD) CN-127
The Artful Dodger
Harvey (Cassette) Associated Board 1994
Grades 6/7
Aubade (Study No 4)
McCabe (LP) RCA RL 25076
McCabe (CD) British Music Society BMS424CD
Reissued 2015
(CD) Naxos 8.571367
Honma (CD) Metier MSV CD 92071
5 Bagatelles for piano
McCabe (LP) Pye GSGC 14114
(LP) PRT GSGC 2069 reissue
McCabe (CD) British Music Society BMS424CD
Reissued 2015
(CD) Naxos 8.571367
Basse Danse for 2 Pianos
McCabe / Vorster (CD) Recorded Melbourne, 1995
McCabe / Honma
[+ Athanasiadis/Britten/Copland/McPhee/Stravinsky]
(CD) Dutton Epoch CDSA6681
Piano 4 Hands (Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa)
(CD) Quartz QTZ 2088
Capriccio (Study No 1)
McCabe (LP) RCA RL 25076
Reissued 2014
(CD) Naxos 8.571370
Honma (CD) Metier MSV CD 92071
Carol-Preludes for organ: Weinachtenslied (Es kamm ein Engel)
Christmas Eve
On Christmas Day in the Morning
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Es sungen drei Engel
Gen Himmel aufgefahren ist
Winpenny (download) Resonus RES 10144
Dies Resurrectionis for organ
Cook (LP) RCA LVL1 5019
Bowers-Broadbent (LP) Abbey LPB 665 [MONO]
Bonaventure (CD) Delphian DCD34100
Winpenny (download) Resonus RES 10144
Elegy for organ
Higginbottom (LP) Decca Eclipse ECS 626
Esperanza, for organ
Winpenny (download) Resonus RES 10144
Evening Harmonies (Study No 7 - Hommage à Dukas)
Nadiradze (CD) Classical Rec. Co. CRC1115-2
[Prelude to Dreams - Scottish International Piano Competition 2001]
Honma (CD) Metier MSV CD 92071
Fantasy on a theme of Liszt
McCabe (LP) RCA RL 25076
Reissued 2014
(CD) Naxos 8.571370
Caskie (CD) Metier MSV CD92004
Gaudí (Study No 3)
McCabe (LP) RCA RL 25076
McCabe (CD) British Music Society BMS424CD
Reissued 2015
(CD) Naxos 8.571367
Hasegawa (CD) Quartz QTZ 2088
Haydn Variations (1982)
McCabe (CD) British Music Society BMS424CD
Reissued 2015
(CD) Naxos 8.571367
Johannis-Partita, for organ
Winpenny (download) Resonus RES 10144
Miniconcerto for organ and penny whistles
Weir / Blades / Willcocks (LP) Abbey APR 606 [MONO]
Mosaic (Study No 6)
McCabe (CD) British Music Society BMS424CD
Reissued 2015
(CD) Naxos 8.571367
Nocturne, for organ
Winpenny (download) Resonus RES 10144
Le Poisson Magique for organ
Barber (LP) Vista VPS 1025
Winpenny (download) Resonus RES 10144
Prelude, for organ
Winpenny (download) Resonus RES 10144
2 Scenes from Edward II for 2 pianos
McCabe / Vorster (CD) Recorded Melbourne 1995
Piano 4 Hands (Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa)
(CD) Quartz QTZ 2088
Scrunch (Study No 8 - Omaggio a Domenico Scarlatti)
Honma (CD) Metier MSV CD 92071
Sinfonia, for organ
Winpenny (download) Resonus RES 10144
Sonata (Study No 12 - Homage to Tippett)
Tong (CD) Quartz QTZ 2088
Sostenuto (Study No 2)
McCabe (LP) RCA RL 25076
Reissued 2014
(CD) Naxos 8.571370
Honma (CD) Metier MSV CD 92071
Tenebrae for piano
Honma (CD) Metier MSV CD 92071
McCabe (live, Presteigne 2010) (CD) Toccata Classics TOCC 0139
Tunstall Chimes (Study No 10 - Hommage à Ravel)
Browell [British Music Society Piano Awards]
(CD) BMS ENV040CD
John [British Music Society Piano Awards]
(CD) BMS ENV039CD
Powell [British Music Society Piano Awards]
(CD) BMS ENV038CD
Tau Wey [British Music Society Piano Awards]
(CD) BMS ENV037CD
Upon Entering a Painting for piano duet
Piano 4 Hands (Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa)
(CD) Quartz QTZ 2088
Variations (1963) for piano
McCabe (LP) RCA RL 25076
McCabe (CD) British Music Society BMS424CD
Reissued 2015
(CD) Naxos 8.571367
Honma (CD) Metier MSV CD 92071
Brass and Wind Band
Canyons
Guildhall School of Music & Drama Symphonic Wind Ensemble / Gane
(CD) Polyphonic QPRM 127 D
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Band / Rundell
[Album: From Sonnets to Jazz]
[+ Fletcher/Snell/Wilby/Wilson] (CD) Chandos CHAN 4549
Reissued 2007
(CD) Chandos CHAN 10409
Cloudcatcher Fells
Black Dyke Mills Band / Parkes (LP) Chandos BBRD 1032
(CD) Chandos CHAN 8483
(Cassette) Chandos BBRD 1032
(CD) Chandos CHAN 4509 reissue
(30CD) Chandos ANNI 0030
Brass Band de Waldsang / Weide (CD) Heavyweight HR005/D
(Cassette) Heavyweight HR005
Leyland DAF Band / Evans (CD) Doyen DOY CD 008
(Cassette) Doyen DOY MC 008
Brass Band Bienne /Eicher (CD) GMS 8905
Britannia Building Society Band / Snell (CD) Doyen DOY CD 030
(Cassette) Doyen DOY MC 040
Desert II: Horizon
Massed Bands / Snell (CD) Polyphonic QPRL039D
(Cassette) Polyphonic CPRL039D
Britannia Building Society Band / Snell (CD) Doyen DOY CD 030
(Cassette) Doyen DOY MC 040
Images for Brass Band
Sun Life Band / Hurdley (CD) Stanshawe STA 004CD
(Cassette) Stanshawe STA 004T
Britannia Building Society Band / Snell (CD) Doyen DOY CD 030
(Cassette) Doyen DOY MC 040
Overture: Northern Lights
Britannia Building Society Band / Snell (CD) Doyen DOY CD 030
(Cassette) Doyen DOY MC 040
Salamander for brass band
Britannia Building Society Band / Snell (CD) Doyen DOY CD 030
(Cassette) Doyen DOY MC 040
European Brass Band Championships, 1997
(2CD) Doyen DOYCD062
Grimethorpe Colliery Band / Parkes (CD) Chandos CHAN 4549
Choral and Vocal
Amen-Alleluia
Ferris Chorale / Ferris (CD) WFC LIVE! 869914
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
A Cat
Lixenberg/Hatzinikolaou
[Album: The NMC Songbook] (4CD) NMC D150
Coventry Carol
Elizabethan Singers / Halsey (LP) Argo ZRG 5499
(CD) Decca 425 515-2 reissue
Leeds Parish Church / Hunt (LP) Abbey XMS 697
(LP) Abbey MVP 756 reissue
The Evening Watch
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
3 Folksongs
Eaves / King / Kenny (LP) Cameo Classics GOCLP 9020
Alexandra Ensemble (Cassette) Whitetower ENS 153
Catrin Hughes Ensemble (Cassette) Gareth Hughes CATN 1
Blase / Berk / Berg-Seiz
[Album: Clarinet Songs] (CD) cordAria CACD 561
Wells / Turner / Swallow
[Album: Prison Cycle]
[+ A. Bush/Rawsthorne] (CD) Campion CAMEO 2021
Gladestry Quatrains
Gwaithla Brook; Cefn hir
Keith / Lepper
[Album: A Garland for Presteigne] (CD) Metronome CD 1065
Great Lord of Lords
Ferris Chorale / Ferris
[Album: Toward the Unknown Region] (CD) WFC Live! 57506
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
A Hymne to God the Father
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
Irish Songbook
Rogers/Uttley
[Album: Requiem] (CD) ASC Prima Facie PFCD 044
I Sing of a Maiden
Elysian Singers / Laughton
[Album: The Spirit of Christmas Present]
(CD) Meridian CDE 84601
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
The last and greatest Herald
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
Two Latin Elegies
Clapton / Turner / Price / Thompson
[Album: Ancient Sorceries] (CD) Guild GMCD 7348
The Lily-white Rose
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
Mangan Triptych
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
Siberia; Visions
William Byrd Singers / Wilkinson
[Album: Best of the Byrds] (CD) ASC CS CD 58
Reissued 2016
[Album: Requiem]
(CD) ASC Prima Facie PFCD 044
Mary laid her Child
Norwich Cathedral Choir / Nicholas (LP) Abbey LPB 748
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
The Morning Watch
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
Proud Songsters
Sine Nomine / Hollingworth
[Album: Proud Songsters] (CD) Cloister CLOCD0205
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
Requiem Sequence
Rogers/Uttley
[Album: Requiem] (CD) ASC Prima Facie PFCD 044
Scenes in America deserta
King's Singers
[Album: Landscape & Time] (CD) Signum SIGCD090
King's Singers
[Album: The King's Singers Live at the BBC Proms]
(CD) Signum SIGCD150
To us in Bethlem city
King's Singers
[Album: The King's Singers Christmas] (CD) Signum SIGCD502
Upon the High Midnight (3 Nativity Carols)
Worcester Cathedral Choir / Hunt (LP) Abbey LPB 787
Dormi Jesu
William Ferris Chorale / Ferris (CD) WFC 128689
BBC Singers / David Hill
[Album: Visions]
(CD) Naxos 8.573053
Woefully arrayed
Stile Antico (SACD) Harmonia Mundi HMU 07555
[Album: Passion & Resurrection]
Theatrical
Arthur, Part I: Arthur Pendragon (Ballet)
Ballet Suite No 1: Arthur Pendragon
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Austin
(CD) Dutton Epoch CDLX 7179
Edward II (Ballet)
Complete Recording
Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Wordsworth (2CD) Hyperion CDA 67135/6
*(2CD) Hyperion SACDA 67135/6
* Super Audio CDs
Mary, Queen of Scots (Ballet)
Two Dances for Strings and Harp
Northern Chamber Orchestra / Ward
[Album: Manchester Accents] (CD) ASC CS CD45
Reissued 2016
(CD) ASC Prima Facie PFCD 044
TV and Film
Sam - TV Theme Tune
Jack Parnell Orchestra (LP) Music for Pleasure SPR 90035
Fear in the Night [film]
[Hammer Classics] (VHS Video) LumiereLUM2149
Fear in the Night - film extract
Orchestra / Martell (LP) EMI Studio Two TWOA 5001
Hammer House of Horror [TV series]
Growing Pains; Guardian of the Abyss; The Thirteenth Reunion
[Hammer House of Horror DVD set] (4DVD) Carlton 37115 04093
Arrangements
Alwyn: Flute Concerto
Beynon/BBCNOW/Tovey [British FluteConcertos]
(CD) Chandos CHAN 10718
Rawsthorne: Suite for Recorder
Turner/NCO/Lloyd-Jones [Rawsthorne Orchestral Music]
(CD) Naxos 8.553567
* Music from Northwestern is the record label of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Updated and checked 22 July 2016
