List of compositions by Lord Berners

This is a list of compositions by Lord Berners:

Opera

• Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrament (after Prosper Mérimée; 1923, prod. Paris, 1924, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, revised 1926)

Ballet

• The Triumph of Neptune (10 tableaux; composed for Sergei Diaghilev, scenario Sacheverell Sitwell, choreography George Balanchine; 3 December 1926, Lyceum Theatre, London)
  • Adagio, Variations and Hornpipe arr. for strings from 5th and 6th tableaux
  • Suite for orchestra
• Luna Park (1930; scenario Boris Kochno, choreography George Balanchine, C. B. Cochran's Revue, Palace Theatre, London)
• A Wedding Bouquet (1937; scenario Gertrude Stein, choreography Frederick Ashton; costumes and scenery by Berners himself; 27 April 1937, London, Sadler's Wells Theatre)
• Cupid and Psyche (1938; stage setting Sir Francis Rose, choreography Frederick Ashton, 27 April 1939, Sadler's Wells)
• Les Sirènes (1946; designs by Cecil Beaton; Royal Opera House; the orchestration was entirely the work of Roy Douglas, who was sworn to secrecy)

Film scores

• The Halfway House (1944)
• Champagne Charlie (1945, 2 songs)
• Nicholas Nickleby (1947)

Orchestral

• Trois Morceaux (1916)
  • Chinoiserie
  • Valse sentimentale
  • Kasatchok
• Fantaisie espagnole (1918–19)
  • Prelude
  • Fandango
  • Pasadoble
• Fugue in C minor (1924)
• Adagio, Variations and Hornpipe (arranged for strings from The Triumph of Neptune, 1926)
• Suite (from The Triumph of Neptune)

Piano

• Le Poisson d'or (1914; dedicated to Igor Stravinsky)
• Trois Petites marches funèbres (1914; first performed by Alfredo Casella)
  • Pour un homme d'état
  • Pour un canari
  • Pour une tante à héritage
• Fragments psychologiques (1915)
  • La Haine
  • Le Rire
  • Un Soupir
• Valses bourgeoises (1917, piano duet; performed at the 1923 Salzburg Festival)
  • Valse brillante
  • Valse caprice
  • Strauss, Strauss et Straus [sic]

Songs

• Lieder Album (Heinrich Heine, 1913)
  • "Du bist wie eine Blume" (addressed to a small white pig)
  • "König Wiswamitra"
  • "Weihnachtslied"
• "Trois Chansons" (Georges Jean-Aubry, 1920)
  • "Romance"
  • "L'Étoile filante"
  • "La Fiancée du timbalier"
• Three Songs (1920)
  • "Lullaby" (Thomas Dekker)
  • "The Lady Visitor in the Pauper Ward" (Robert Graves)
  • "The Green-Eyed Monster" (E. L. Duff)
• "Dialogue Between Tom Filuter and his Man, by Ned the Dog-Stealer" (1921)
• Three Songs (1922)
  • "The Rio Grande" (Captain Chanty)
  • "Theodore, or the Pirate King" (John Masefield)
  • "A Long Time Ago" (Halliards Chanty)

References

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