Timothy Baxter (1935) - Selected works

 

Instrumental/ chamber music

 

Quartets/quintets etc.:

String Quintet (2 vln, vla, 2 vc) 

String Quartet        

Birthday Greetings (2 vln, vla, 2 vc and vocal)

Wind Quintet “Music for a Festive Occasion”

Wind Quintet “Adagio for Wind”

 

3 small pieces for strings and cello solo (amateurs):

 

Barcarolle

Berceuse

Intermezzo

 

Duos:

 

Little Suite (Flute/ recorder and guitar/piano/ 3 mvt. for harpsicord)

Adagio for Oboe/Cello and Piano/Harp

Adagio for Sax (Alto Sax and Guitar/Piano)

Pastorale (Flute and Piano)

Rondino (Flute and Piano)

Triptych (Clarinet and Piano)

Oboe Triptych (Oboe and Piano)

In pensive mood (Clarinet and Piano)

In the Shade for Clarinet and Piano/ Oboe and Harp

Oboe in the Shade (Oboe and Piano)

Early Bird (Clarinet and Piano)

Respice Variants for Oboe and Organ/ Alto Sax and Organ

Six Bagatelles (Two Accordions)

Alla Cubana (Two Accordions)

 

Keyboard:

 

Six Bagatelles for Two Pianoes (orig. double keybord)

 

Nativity (piano suite)

Alla Cubana for Two Pianoes

Greek Delight/ Græsk Dans for Piano Duet

Valse Solitaire for Piano Duet

Birthday Greetings (piano and vocal)

King of Glorie, organ solo

Organ Pastorale, organ solo

 

Choir

 

O most merciful, SATB, a capella   

We adore Thee Christ, SATB, a capella

The Lord Jesus Christ, SATB, a capella    

King of Glorie, SATB and organ

An English Mass, SATB, a capella

Lullaby (SATB) a capella / organ

The first Nowell, arr. a capella (SATB)

Chant for Advent

Worthy is He

Alleluia 7

Egils Sange (Danish), SATB (fragment)

 

Songs:

 

Sweet day (Soprano/ mezzo soprano/ baritone and piano)Lullaby from “The Birth of Jesus”, (Soprano and piano)

 

Du er på! (Childrens' song (Danish) with piano/ guitar)

 

Other works:

 

Cantatas: 

 

Respice in me, (Soprano, smaller orchestra/ soprano, organ and strings)

Song of Songs, (Soprano, baritone, SATB choir, piano, harp and perc.)

Prophets of Doom and of Glory, (SATB choir and orchestra) 

Divine Reproaches (Orchestra, 2 choirs and soloists)

 

Musical: 

 

The Birth of Jesus, 2 acts (5 soloists, 4 part girls' choir, actors, dancers and chamber orchestra). Recorded 1979.

 

Ballet: 

 

To everything there is a time (orchestra)

 

Orchestra:

 

Variations upon a theme by Holst 

 

Harlekin Ouverture 

 

Other:

 

Educational music, lithurgical arrangements, impromptus for ballet, instrumentations, arrangements etc.

 

Publishers 

 

Novello, Ascherberg Hopwood And Crew Lt  (L J Cary And Co. Ltd.), The Royal School of Church Music, Saint Martins, Oxford University Press, ABRSM, Queens Temple Publications, Schott Musik and Edition-S-Music-Sound-Art.

 

Prizes

Josiah Parker Prize, 1957

Arthur Hinton Prize, 1958

Corder Memorial Prize, 1959

John E. West Prize, 1959

Patrons Fund Prize, 1964