Arthur Bliss

(1891-1975)

Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)

English composer who became Master of the Queen's Music.

An initially experimental style gave way to a rather more traditionally English romantic character.

Alongside Music for Strings, the Piano Concerto ranks amongst his best known works.

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A Colour Symphony

Adam Zero

Adam Zero - Suite

Antiphonal Fanfare for three brass choirs

Baraza (from Men of Two Worlds, 1945)

Cello Concerto

Checkmate

Checkmate - Suite

Christopher Columbus: Suite

Clarinet Quintet

Concerto for Two Pianos

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

Conversation No. 5: In the Tube at Oxford Circus

Discourse for Orchestra

Elegiac Sonnet

Fanfare for the Lord Mayor of London

Hymn to Apollo

Introduction and Allegro

Meditations on a Theme by John Blow

Mêlée Fantasque

Men of Two Worlds (4 excerpts, 1945)

Metamorphic Variations

Miracle in the Gorbals

Music for Strings

Oboe Quintet, Op. 21

Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks'

Pastoral for Clarinet and Piano

Piano Concerto in B flat major

Piano Sonata

Seven Waves Away

String Quartet in A major

String Quartet No. 1 in B flat major

String Quartet No. 2 in F minor

Study (1927)

Study, Op. 16, No. 2: Adagio ma non troppo

Study, Op. 16, No. 3: Allegro

Suite for Piano

The return from town

The Rout Trot

Theme and Cadenza for violin

Things to Come - Music from the film

Things to Come - Suite

Things to Come: March

Three Songs

Toccata

Viola Sonata Op. 91

War in the Air: Theme

Wedding Fanfare

Welcome the Queen

When I was one-and-twenty

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