Original Works

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Adonai ma-adam for solo soprano and mixed choir

1972

(see also: Three Hebrew choruses)


Amarantha: opera in seven scenes

1993 | 82'00"

Libretto by the composer based on a short story by D W Steele.








Cradle Song for voice and piano

1948

(see also: Four early songs). Words by William Blake


Dance for orchestra

1951

(withdrawn; source of the last movement of Piano Concerto no. 2)



Divertimento for Orchestra (withdrawn)

1958

1. Scherzando; 2. Interlude; 3. Lento; 4. Fugato; 5. Valse (movements 1, 2 & 5 re-used in Divertimento; movements 3&4 in Cantilenas and Interludes)


Divertimento Piccolo

1987 | 16'23"

1. Scherzando; 2. Interlude; 3. Valse



Four Early Songs for high voice and piano

1948 & 1949 | 14'30"

1. Meeting at night (Browning); 2. Cradle song (Blake); 3. Solfeggio (wordless); 4. Piping down the valleys wild (Blake)


Four Traditional African Lyrics for high voice and piano

1975 | 12'00"

1. The sorrow of Kodio; 2. Idyll; 3. Serenade; 4. Cuckold contented. Adaptations by Leon Damas and Miriam Koshland.


Hashkivenu for solo soprano and baritone and mixed choir

1973

(see also: Three Hebrew Choruses)


Meeting at Night for voice and piano

1948

(see also: Four Early Songs)


Movements for Strings

1962 | 15'00"



Music for Violin and Piano

1956-57 | 17'00"




Preludes for Piano

1947-49 | 37'16"





Seven years in Tibet: Suite from the film score

1955 | 20'30"

1. Prologue; 2. The Flight; 3. The Offering; 4. The Trek; 5. The Road to Lhasa; 6. The Dance in the Potala; 7. Climbing in the mist; 8. The Oracle; 9. Chinese March; 10. The Summer-Palace Dance


Solfeggio for voice and piano

1949

See also: Four early songs


Stop all the clocks: four songs on poems by W H Auden

1998 | 17'48"

1. Stop all the clocks; 2. The composer; 3. Their lonely betters; 4. Refugee blues



Suite for Strings

1952-54 | 14'00"




The Creation: a Negro sermon for mixed chorus a capella

2000 | 20'00"

Text by James Weldon Johnson. (With rehearsal piano)


The Creation: a Negro sermon for chorus and orchestra

2005-06 | 20'00"

Text by James Weldon Johnson.


Three Hebrew Choruses

1972-73 | 9'30"

1. Adonia ma-adam; 2. Hashkivenu; 3. Laila mistareia


Together we shall stand/ Dumisani

1994 | 4'00"

Anthem for choir and piano or organ; Text by Thomas Rajna (English) and S C Satyo (Xhosa)


Valley Song

Opera. Libretto by Guy Willoughby and Thomas Rajna, based on the play by Athol Fugard.






 

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