List of compositions by Lord Berners

Lord Berners in 1935

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)
• The Wedding Bouquet (1936; 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)

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^[1] [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" (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

Notes

1. Lane, Philip. "Programme Note: Lord Berners Valses Bourgeoises (1918)". Retrieved 12 February 2015. The third waltz pays tribute (of sorts!) to the music of Johann, Richard and Oscar with near quotes in places, most pointedly with Der Rosenkavalier.