List of compositions by John Woolrich


This is a list of compositions by contemporary English composer John Woolrich.

Brass and wind

  • Call to the Mirrors
  • Fanfare
  • Sennets and Tuckets

Chamber ensemble

  • A Book of Studies sets I and II
  • A Cabinet of Curiosities
  • A door just opened on a street
  • A Dramolet, for clarinet, cello and piano
  • A Farewell, for clarinet, viola and piano
  • A Leap in the Dark
  • A Parcel of Airs
  • A Presence of Departed Acts, for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
  • A Shadowed Lesson
  • A Short Story
  • A Still Tragic Dance
  • Adagissimo, for piano quartet
  • After the Clock
  • Another Journey Calls
  • Badinerie
  • Caprichos
  • Contredanse
  • Cutting a Caper
  • Dartington Doubles
  • Debricollage
  • Disparition
  • Duendecitos
  • Ending Up
  • Envoi, for viola and small ensemble
  • Exploit in White, for brass quintet
  • Fantazia, for viol consort
  • Favola in Musica I, for oboe, clarinet and piano
  • Favola in Musica II, for oboe, soprano saxophone and percussion
  • From the Book of Disquiet
  • From the Shadow
  • Going a Journey
  • In the Mirrors of Asleep
  • In the Stones, for string quartet
  • Kleine Wanderung
  • Leaving Home, for oboe quintet
  • Lending Wings
  • Morendo
  • Music from a House of Crossed Desires
  • My Box of Phantoms, for oboe quartet
  • Oboe Quintet
  • Pluck from the Air, for piano quintet
  • Quick Steps
  • Quiddities
  • Scamander
  • Scherzi di Fantasia
  • Sestina, for piano quartet
  • Songs and Broken Music
  • Spalanzani's Daughter
  • Stealing a March
  • Stone Dances
  • String Quartet No. 1
  • String Quartet No. 2
  • String Trio
  • Suite from Bitter Fruit
  • Swan Song
  • The Death of King Renaud, for string quintet
  • The Devil in the Clock
  • The Iron Cockerel Sings
  • The Lost Day of Return
  • The Night will not draw on, for piano trio
  • The path is winding
  • The Turkish Mouse, for oboe and piano
  • The Voices of Dust
  • The Way Out Discovered
  • Three Arias for Oboe and Six Viols
  • Three Fantasias for Six Viols
  • Totentanz
  • Toward the Black Sky, for piano trio
  • Unweaving
  • Villanesca
  • Watermark, for violin and bass clarinet
  • Zibaldone

Chamber orchestra

Choral

Instrumental

  • A Sort of Heaven, for violin and piano
  • Darker Still, for flute and piano
  • Dum Spiro, Spero, for accordion
  • Elegy, for cello and piano
  • Four Pieces for Cello and Piano
  • Im Ruhigen Tal, for violin and piano
  • Keepsake, for solo cor anglais
  • Locus Solus, for piano
  • Ostinato, for piano
  • Pianobooks I-XV
  • ....that is Night, for violin and piano
  • The Kingdom of Dreams, for oboe and piano
  • The wakeful Night, for clarinet in A
  • Three Capriccios for Oboe
  • Three Pieces for Viola
  • Three Pieces for Violin
  • Through a Limbeck, for solo viola
  • ....with land in Sight, for solo cello

Music theatre

  • Bitter Fruit

Orchestral

  • A Capriccio to Calliope Herself
  • A Litany, for oboe and strings
  • Accord
  • Concerto for Cello
  • Concerto for Oboe
  • Concerto for Viola
  • Concerto for Violin
  • Falling Down, for double bassoon and orchestra
  • Fanfarronada
  • Si Va Facendo Notte, for clarinet and strings
  • Tales of Transformation
  • The Barber's Timepiece
  • The Elephant from Celebes
  • The Ghost in the Machine
  • The Street of Crocodiles, for piano, trumpet and strings
  • The Theatre Represents a Garden: Night
  • The Tongs and the Bones
  • Whitel's Ey

String orchestra

  • Another Staircase Overture
  • Blue Drowning
  • Capriccio
  • Italian Songs
  • It is Midnight, Dr Schweitzer
  • To the Silver Bow, for viola, bass and strings
  • Ulysses Awakes
  • Variation on 'Sellinger's Round'

Vocal

  • A Paper of Black Lines
  • A Singing Sky
  • Ariadne Laments
  • Berceuse
  • Black Riddle
  • Cascades
  • Five Italian Songs
  • Four Concert Arias
  • Four Songs after Hoffmann
  • Good Morning – Midnight
  • Harlequinade
  • Here is My Country
  • La Cantarina
  • Light and Rock
  • Malicious Observer
  • Once there was not
  • Ophelia Songs
  • Serbian Songs
  • The Sea and its Shore
  • The Unlit Suburbs
  • The Voices
  • Three Cautionary Tales
  • Three Macedonian Songs
  • Three Purcell Songs, arranged for high voice and strings
  • Three Songs for alto and six viols
  • Three Songs for mezzo and strings
  • To Witness her Goodbye
  • Twisting that Lock