Concertante - Instrumental


Concerto in D, Op.10
for piano and orchestra        

  1. Adagio maestoso  [10.53]
  2. Intermezzo:  Andante espressivo – Cadenza – Andantino [10.02]
  3. Finale:  Vivace [9.40]
  • composed 1900
  • duration: [30.35]
  • HM:  Grainger Museum [MG C2/SCO-46]
  • Notes:  CS showed it to Paderewski c1901, but he never played it. 
  • “Destroyed”, according to Scott (MYI, 83-4).  One melody from it was incorporated into S.302
  • Performing edition realized & completed by Martin Yates, 2012

Concerto
for violoncello and orchestra, Op.19        

Largo misterioso – Quasi cadenza – Andante cantabile – Allegro con brio

  • 1902                            
  • Duration: 20.52
  • Note:  completed & revised by Martin Yates, 2012
  • Cello part edited by Raphael Wallfisch, 2012

Concerto no.1 in C major
for piano and orchestra

  1. Allegro maestoso – Allegro – Molto tranquillo – Andante quasi allegretto – Allegro [12’46”]
  2. Adagio  [7’55”]
  3. Allegro poco moderato – Estatico – Andante e improvizatore – A tempo  [10’00”]
  • Orchestration:    2.1.2.2 / 0.0.0.0 / timp / perc (2) / hp / cel / strs
  • 1913-14    
  • 1922    Schott [30764], 2-pf reduction
  • score and parts on hire from Schott        
  • duration: [30.42]   [25’ CS]

Concerto
for violin and orchestra            

  1. Larghetto                                           4’12”
  2. Adagio – Allegro con spirito            7’12”
  3. Largo                                                4’44”
  4. Allegro                                             5’46”
  • Orchestration:    2(=picc).2.2.2 / 4.2.3.1 / timp / perc / hp / strs / vln solo
  • c1925
  • Schott [ED 12828], pf reduction        [25’ CS]
  • Schott, FS (hire)    [21’55”]

Concerto
for violin, violoncello and orchestra        

  • 1926
  • Note:  written for May and Beatrice Harrison

Concerto
for two violins and orchestra          

  • 1931
  • [25’ CS]

Concertino,
for two pianos and orchestra            

  • c1931                                    
  • Duration: [16’ CS]
  • performed by the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, conducted by Sir Dan Godfrey with Esther Fisher and Scott, soloists, on Dec. 16, 1931.
  • London: Hawkes & Son, 1932
  • whereabouts of score and parts unknown

Concerto
for violoncello and orchestra            

  1. Molto tranquillo – Allegro  [16’41”]
  2. Intermezzo pastorale.  Andante molto sostenuto     [ 3’59”]
  3. Rondo giocoso.  Maestoso [6’22”]
  • Orchestration:  2.2.2.2 / 4.2.3.0 / timp / perc / hp / cel(pf) / strs / vc solo
  • May 11, 1937                        
  • Duration: [27’08”]   [25’ CS

Concerto
for harpsichord and orchestra                  

  1. Allegro vigoroso – A tempo ma poch. meno mosso – Sostenuto tranquillo – Molto moderato – Quicker, con moto - Vigoroso    
  2. Pastorale orientale.  Andante    
  3. Finale.  Allegro con spirito – Cantabile con grazia – Nearly twice as quick    
  • Orch:  1.0.1.1 / 0.0.0.0 / hp / pf / str
  • 1937        Elkin            
  • Duration: [25’ CS]
  • 2008 (rev.2009)     Novello (FS)        [c18’, Novello FS]    
  • FP:  July 5, 2013 / Michael Laus, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (Laus cond.)

Concerto
for oboe and string orchestra                

  1.  Molto vigoroso – Andante  [7’53”]
  2.  Pastorale.  Tranquillo  [9’01”]
  3.  Rondo giocoso.  Allegro non troppo [5’03”]
  • 1946              
  • Elkin            
  • Duration: [21’57”

Concertino,
for flute, bassoon and string orchestra

Con moto tranquillo – Tranquillo e poco rubato – With more movement – Poco maestoso e sostenuto – Broader in tempo e sostenuto – Andante (but don’t drag) – Vigoroso – Quasi tempo primo – Pochissimo meno mosso – Maestoso e poco rubato – Quasi cadenza: Tranquillo – Double as quick – Maestoso e rubato – Con moto

  • (in one movement)    [MS:  32p/254b]
  • March 4, 1951            
  • unpublished
  • MS:  holograph in the University of Michigan library system
  • Note:  Facsimile score available through the Fleisher Collection.

Concerto no.2,
for piano and orchestra          

  1. Con moto e poco rubato  [9’46”]
  2. Molto tranquillo  [4’49”]
  3. Energico  [5’43”]
  • Orch:  3.2.ca.2.3 / 4.3.3.0 / timp / perc (2) / hp / strs / pf solo
  • 1958                
  • Schott (hire)        
  • Duration: [20.18]

Early One Morning: Poem,
for piano and orchestra    

  1. Andantino – Senza misura – Allegretto – Tempo moderato – Tempo poco più mosso –        
  2. Tempo agitato – Idealmente e poco meno mosso – Tempo più tranquillo al fine
  • June 1930         
  • 1931        Winthrop Rogers / Boosey & Hawkes [7020],
  • 2-pf reduction
  • rev. Sept. 1958         
  • 1962        Boosey & Hawkes [18602], 2-pf reduction
  • Note:  The two versions are almost identical in the 2-pf reductions.  Differences lie in the orchestration.    
  • duration: 13’54”   [16’ CS]

2004 CHANDOS CD released: 
Cyril Scott Orchestral Works, Volume 2
Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Philharmonic/ Martyn Brabbins


The Melodist and the Nightingales  [Der Musikant und die Nachtigallen],
for violoncello and orchestra

  • c1929
  • Orchestration:    2.1.2.3 / 4.(3).0.0 / timp / perc / hp / pf / strs / vc solo
  • score on hire Schott         [16’ CS]

Passacaglia festevole,
for two pianos and orchestra  

  • c1935**
  • Duration: [20’ CS]
  • Lost?

Philomel, for violoncello and orchestra            

  • c1925
  • Early version of S71?