Granville Bantock - Select List of Works - Orchestral Works

Orchestral Works

• Two Orchestral Scenes from The Curse of Kehama: (1) Processional, (2) Jaga-Naut (1894, after Robert Southey, Philharmonic Society concert, 1897. The Two Scenes are all that was achieved of a project to complete a cycle of 24 tone poems based on Southey's poem)
• Symphonic Overture with organ, Saul (1894, Chester Cathedral, 1897)
• Russian Scenes, Suite of five pieces for small orchestra (1899)
• Helena: Orchestral Variations on the Theme HFB (The Helena Variations) (1899, dedicated to Helena F. Bantock. "Thoughts and reflections on some of your moods written during a wearisome absence.", Liverpool Orchestral Society, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool)
• English Scenes, Suite of five pieces for small orchestra (1900)
• Comedy Overture, Pierrot of the Minute (1908, after Ernest Dowson)
• Three Dramatic Dances (1909)
• Old English Suite for small orchestra (1909)
• Overture to a Greek Tragedy (1911, after Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus)
• From the Far West for strings (1912)
• In the Far East, Serenade for strings (1912)
• Scottish Rhapsody (1913)
• Scenes from the Scottish Highlands, Suite for strings (1913)
• The Land of the Gael, Suite for strings (1915)
• Coronach for strings, harp and organ (1918)
• Suite from Judith (1918)
• Festal Hymn of Judith (1918)
• The Sea Reivers, an Orchestral Ballad (1920, a discarded scherzo from the Hebridean Symphony)
• Caristiona, A Hebridean Seascape (1920, revised in 1943-44 with The Sea Reivers and published as Two Hebridean Sea Poems)
• Comedy Overture, The Frogs (1935, Aristophanes, Proms, Queen's Hall, 1936)
• Two Marches for the Ceylon Police (1930s?)
• Four Chinese Landscapes (1936)
• Aphrodite in Cyprus, Symphonic Ode (1938–39)
• Macbeth Overture (1940, utilising material from the incidental music)
• Comedy Overture, Circus Life (1941, adapted from the overture to the incidental music for A Marionette Show)
• Overture to a Greek Comedy, The Women's Festival (1941, Aristophanes)
• Two Heroic Ballads. 1: Cuchullan's Lament, 2: Kishmul's Galley (November 1944)
• Comedy Overture, The Birds (1946, after Aristophanes, Birmingham Town Hall, conducted by Dr Christopher Edmunds)
• The Funeral (1946)