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Chronology
1612 – Orlando Gibbons – The Silver Swan
1717-23 – J.S. Bach – Sonata for violin in F minor BWV 1018
1718 – Handel – Acis and Galatea
1727 – J.S. Bach – St Matthew Passion
1733 – Pergolesi – La serva padrona
1741 – J.S. Bach – Goldberg Variations
1748 – Handel – Solomon
1752 – Dominico Scarlatti – Sonata in D Major (KK443, L418)
1782 – Mozart – Adagio from Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments
1783 – Mozart – Quartet in D minor K421
1826 – Beethoven – String Quartet in C# minor, op 131
1844 – Frederic Chopin – Berceuse in D flat major, Op 57
1846 – Felix Mendelssohn – “He Watching Over Israel” from Elijah
1853 – Robert Schumann – Five Romances for Cello (lost)
1856 – Brahms – Geistliches Lied op 30
1893 – Brahms – Intermezzo in C major from Four Piano Pieces op 119
1901 – Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius
1905-6 – Vaughan Williams – Norfolk Symphony (lost)
1906 – Josef Suk – Asrael Symphony
1907 – Edgard Varese – Bourgogne (lost)
1909 – Scott Joplin – Solace
1911 – George Butterworth – “The Lads in Their Hundreds”
1912 – Max Reger – Scherzo (from Eine Romantische Suite op 125)
1914 – Hubert Parry – “Dolly (No 2)” from Shulbrede Tunes
1918 – John Ireland – “Chelsea Reach” from Three London Pieces
1919 – Ivory Gurney – Lights Out
1920 – Arthur Bliss – Conversations
1921 – Camille Saint Saens – Oboe Sonata in D, Op 166
1922 – Ezra Pound – Fiddle Music first suite
1925 – Alban Berg – Chamber Concerto
1927 – Frank Bridge – Enter Spring
1931 – Samuel Barber – Dover Beach
1931 – Havergal Brian – Symphony No 2
1931 – Constant Lambert – Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments
1931 – R O Morris – Canzoni Ricertati
1931 – Jean Sibelius – Surusoitto for organ, op 111b
1932 – Ezra Pound – Cavalcanti
1933 – Jean Sibelius – Symphony No 8 (lost)
1936 – Constant Lambert – Summers Last Will and Testament
1939 – Benjamin Britten – Violin Concerto, op 15
1940 – Percy Grainger – The Immovable “Do”
c1945 – King Palmer – Hackney Carriage
1946 – Paul Bowles – “Once a Lady Was Here” from Secret Words
1947 – Paul Bowles – Concerto for Two Pianos
1947 – Andrzej Panufnik – Lullaby
1948 – Arthur Honegger – Concerto da Camera
1951 – Ronald Binge – Elizabethan Serenade
1951 – Constant Lambert – Tiresias
1951 – Bruce Montgomery – An Oxford Requiem
1951 – Shostakovich, Fugue in Ab, from 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op 87
1952 – Samuel Barber – Knoxville, Summer of 1915
1952 – Gerry Mulligan Quartet – “Bernie’s Tune”
1953 – Malcolm Arnold – Symphony No 2
1954 – Artie Shaw – “Yesterdays”
1955 – Dave Brubeck – “The Duke”
1956 – Humphrey Lyttleton – “Bad Penny Blues”
1956 – Shelly Manne & Friends West Side Story
1957 – Nina Simone – “Mood Indigo” from Little Girl Blue
1957 – Peggy Lee – “The Folks Who Live on the Hill” from The Man I Love
1959 – Bruce Montgomery – Carry On Suite arranged by David Whittle
1960 – The Jazz Five – The Five of Us
1961 – Acker Bilk – Stranger on the Shore
1961 – Bill Evans Trio – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
1963 – Havergal Brian – Symphony No 21
1963 – The Novoltones – Left Bank Two
1963 – Malcolm Williamson – Serenade from Our Man in Havana Suite
1964-5 – Havergal Brian – Symphony No 22
1965 – Belle Gonzales – Poets Set in Jazz
1965 – Stan Tracey – Jazz Suite Under Milk Wood
1967 – Stan Getz – Sweet Rain
1967 – Ron Goodwin – “Gypsy Fiddler” from Gypsy Fire
1968 – The Beatles – “Martha My Dear” from The White Album
1968 – Cilla Black: Step Inside Love
1968 – Luciano Berio – Sinfonia
1969 – Peter Maxwell Davies – Eight Songs for a Mad King
1969 – Alvin Lucier – I am sitting in a room
1969 – Wallace Southam – Songs of a Sunday Composer
1970 – Lawrence Durrell – Ulysses Come Back
1970 – Anne Murray – Snowbird
1971 – David Bowie – “Life on Mars” from Hunky Dory
1971 – Elliott Carter – String Quartet No 3
1971 – Gordon Langford – March From The Colour Suite
1971 – Judee Sill – “The Lamb Ran Away With the Crown”
1973 – Lindsey Buckingham – “Stephanie” from Buckingham-Nicks
1973 – Dr Hook & the Medicine Show – “Cover of the Rolling Stone”
1973 – Jaki Whitren – “Give Her the Day” from Raw but Tender
1973 – Wizzard – Wizzard Brew
1974 – Jerry Goldsmith – Chinatown
1974 – Joni Mitchell – “Free Man in Paris” from Court and Spark
1974 – Robert Wyatt – “Sea Song” from Rock Bottom
1974-5 – Anthony Burgess – Symphony No 3
1976 – Starbuck – “Moonlight Feels Right”
1976 – Steely Dan – “Dont Take Me Alive” from The Royal Scam
1976 – Warren Zevon – “Veracruz” from Excitable Boy
1977 – Chris Rainbow – Looking Over My Shoulder
1979 – Beach Boys – “Good Timin'” from LA (Light Album)
1979 – Chris Rainbow: White Trails
1979 – Michael Hurd – Concerto da Camera
1980 – Peter Skellern – “Cold Feet” from Still Magic
1981 – The Pretenders – “I Go to Sleep” from Pretenders II
1982 – Anthony Burgess – Blooms of Dublin
1982 – Scott Johnson – John Somebody
1982 – Pat Metheny: “Are You Going With Me?” from Offramp
1984 – Steve Khan/Donald Fagen – “Reflections”
1985 – John Adams, The Chairman Dances
1986 – Astor Piazzolla, Gary Burton – The New Tango
1987 – Stephen Sondheim – “Any Moment” from Into The Woods
1988 – Tracy Chapman – “Baby Can I Hold You” from Tracy Chapman
1990 – Alvin Lucier – Nothing is Real: Strawberry Fields Forever
1990 – The Waterboys – “A Man is in Love” from Room to Roam
1993 – John Tavener – The Lord’s Prayer
1994 – Steve Reich – Nagoya Marimbas
1997 – Prefab Sprout – “A Prisoner of the Past” from Andromeda Heights
1998 – Lemon Jelly – “A Tune for Jack” from LemonJelly.Ky
1999 – Charlie Haden – “Wafarin’ Stranger” from The Art of Song
2000 – Sally Beamish – String Quartet No 2 “Opus California”
2000 – Georg Friedrich Hass – In vain
2001 – Karen Tweed – May Monday
2001 – Black Mighty Orchestra – Ocean Beach (Cybophonia Remix)
2002 – Richard Thomas/Stewart Lee – Jerry Springer The Opera
2004 – Keane – Hopes and Fears
2005 – Kate Bush – Endless Sky of Honey
2005 – Maceo Parker – “To be or not to be” from Schools In
2006 – Klazz Brothers – “Cuban Sugar” from Symphonic Salsa
2006 – Amy Winehouse – “Love is a Losing Game” from Back to Black
2010 – Tunng – “October” from And Then We Saw Land
2011 – Iiro Rantala – “Tears for Esbjorn” from Lost Heroes
2011 – The Waterboys – An Appointment with Mr Yeats

2012 – Richard Rodney Bennett – A Colloquy with God
2014 – Clean Bandit – “Rather Be” from New Eyes
2014 – Jonathan Dove – For an Unknown Soldier

Index

John Adams 1985 Kingsley Amis 1951 George Antheil 1922 Malcolm Arnold 1951 1953

J.S. Bach 1717-23 1727 1741 1826 Chet Baker 1952 Samuel Barber 1931 1952 Beach Boys 1979 Sally Beamish 2000 The Beatles 1967 1968 1969 1973 Beethoven 1826 Richard Rodney Bennett 2012 Alban Berg 1925 1939 Luciano Berio 1968 Acker Bilk 1960 1961 Ronald Binge 1951 Cilla Black 1968 Black Mighty Orchestra 2001 Arthur Bliss 1920 David Bowie 1971 2004 Paul Bowles 1946 1947 Johann Brahms 1853 1856 1893 Havergal Brian 1931 19631964-5 Frank Bridge 1927 Benjamin Britten 1939 Dave Brubeck 1954 Lindsey Buckingham 1973 Basil Bunting 1752 Anthony Burgess 1974-5 1982 Gary Burton 1967 1986 Geoffrey Bush 1951 1958-9 Kate Bush 2005 George Butterworth 1911

Elliott Carter 1971 Tracy Chapman 1988 Frederic Chopin 1844 1909 Chic Corea 1967 Clean Bandit 2014 Edmund Crispin 1951 1958-9

Peter Maxwell Davies 1969 Miles Davis 1954 1961 Ray Davies 1981 Jonathan Dove 2014 Dr Hook & the Medicine Show 1973 Lawrence Durrell 1970

Edward Elgar 1901 Duke Ellington 1931 1954 1957 Ralph Elman 1967 Bill Evans Trio 1961 Gil Evans 1954

Donald Fagen 1976 1984 Gabriel Faure 1844

David Geffen 1971 1974 Stan Getz 1967 Orlando Gibbons 1612 Mike Gibbs 1967 Jerry Goldsmith 1974 2001 Belle Gonzalez 1965 1965 Ron Goodwin 1967 Gorecki 1947 Percy Grainger 1940 Barry Gray 1967 Graham Greene 1963 Ivor Gurney 1919 1979

Georg Friedrich Haas 2000 Charlie Haden 1999 Mark Haddon 1971 George Frederic Handel 1718 1748 W H Harris 2012 Jascha Heifitz 1967 Heinz Holliger 1853 Arthur Honegger 1948 A E Houseman 1911 Michael Hurd 1919 1979

Vincent D’Indy 1907 John Ireland 1918 Steven Isserlis 1853

The Jazz Five 1960 Joseph Joachim 1853 1856 Scott Johnson 1982 Scott Joplin 1909 Josquin 1826 James Joyce 1982

Keane 2004 Hans Keller 1982 Steve Khan 1984 Klazz Brothers 2006

Constant Lambert 1782 1931 1936 1951 1957 Phillip Lambro 1974 Gordon Langford 1971 Peggy Lee 1957 1981 Stewart Lee 2002 Lemon Jelly 1998 Les Six 1948 1954 Roger Lewis 1982 Bill Loughborough 2001 Alvin Lucier 1969 1982 Humphrey Lyttleton 1956

Robert Macfarlane 1844 Gene MacLelland 1970 Gustav Mahler 1968 Henry Mancini 1998 2001 Shelly Manne 1956 2001 George Martin 1956 1967 Joe Meek 1956 Felix Mendelssohn 1846 Pat Metheny 1982 Darius Milhaud 1954 Henry Miller 1970 Joni Mitchell 1974 Modern Jazz Quartet 2001 Thelonious Monk 1984 Bruce Montgomery 1951 1958-9 R O Morris 1931 Mozart 1782, 1783 Gerry Mulligan Quartet 1952 Anne Murray 1970

New York Polyphony 2012 David Owen Norris 1914 1931 The Noveltones 1963

King Palmer 1945 Andrzej Panufnik 1947 Maceo Parker 2005 Hubert Parry 1914 Avro Part 1939 Harry Partch 2001 Johnny Pearson 1998 Penderecki 1947 Pergolesi 1733 Astor Piazzolla 1986 2001 Ezra Pound 1922 1932 Prefab Sprout 1997 Elvis Presley 1970 The Pretenders 1981 Andre Previn 1956

Chris Rainbow 1977 1979 Iiro Rantala 2011 Maurice Ravel 1967 2001 Max Reger 1912 Steve Reich 1982 1994 Joshua Rifkin 1909 Eric Rogers 1958-9 Olga Rudge 1922

Saint Saens 1921 Leonard Salzedo 1965 Erik Satie 1922 Dominico Scarlatti 1752 Arnold Schoenberg 1907 1912 1925 1954 1969 Clara Schumann 1853 Robert Schumann 1853 Mike Scott 2011 William Shakespeare 1974-5 Artie Shaw 1954 Dmitri Shostakovich 1951 Jean Sibelius 1931 1933 Judee Sill 1971 Shel Silverstein 1973 Nina Simone 1957 Robert Simpson 1963 Peter Skellern 1980 Starbuck 1976 Stephen Sondheim 1987 Wallace Southam 1965 1965 1969 1970 Steely Dan 1976 1984 Igor Stravinsky 1907 Josef Suk 1906

John Tavener 1993 Tchaikovsky 2006 Edward Thomas 1844 1919 Richard Thomas 2002 Stan Tracey 1965 Tunng 2010 Karen Tweed 2001 Judie Tzuke 2014

Edgard Varese 1907 Ralph Vaughan Williams 1905-6 Antonio Vivaldi 1922

Peter Warlock 1931 The Waterboys 1990 2011 Jimmy Webb 1998 Anton Webern 1925 Kurt Weill 1984 Jaki Whitren 1973 John Williams 2001 William Carlos Williams 1932 Malcolm Williamson 1963 Amy Winehouse 2006 Wizzard 1973 Roy Wood 1973 Robert Wyatt 1974

W B Yeats 2011

Warren Zevon 1976

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