List of works commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society

The Royal Philharmonic Society has commissioned new works to composers since 1813.[1] Most notable pieces commissioned by the Society are Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No.4 and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.8.[1]

This is a list of compositions commissioned by the RPS or dedicated to the Royal Philharmonic Society (London) since 1813.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

1814

  • L. Berger: Overture
  • Cherubini: Overture

1815

  • Cherubini: Overture in G
  • Cherubini: Symphony in D
  • Ries: Symphony

1816

  • Ries: Bardic Overture
  • Klengel: Piano Quintet
  • Potter: Overture
  • Ries: Symphony No.3 in Eb
  • Müller: Clarinet Quintet
  • J. F. Burrowes: Overture
  • Cherubini: Cantata La Primavera
  • Clementi: Symphony
  • Potter: Septet for piano, flute and strings
  • Fémy: Symphony in E minor

1817

  • Burghersh: Symphony

1819

  • Ries: Scena Sia Luminosa

1821

  • Spohr: Overture in F
  • Bochsa: Septet for harp, wind and double bass

1825

  • Beethoven: Symphony No.9

1832

  • Neukomm: Septet (Fantasia Concertante) for wind and double bass
  • Onslow: Symphony

1833

  • Cramer: Piano Quintet in Bb
  • Moscheles: Grand Septet for piano, strings, clarinet and horn
  • Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 in A (Italian)
  • Hummel: Piano Concerto in F
  • Neukomm: Fantasia Dramatica on Paradise Lost
  • Potter: Symphony in A minor
  • Mendelssohn: Trumpet Overture in C

1834

1835

  • Herz: Piano Concerto in D minor

1836

  • H. R. Bishop: Cantata The Departure from Paradise

1848

  • Spohr: Symphony No.8 in G major

1862

  • Bennett: Overture Paradise and the Peri

1864

  • Bennett: Symphony in G minor

1867

1868

1872

  • Bennett: Prelude Ajax

1875

  • Macfarren: Idyll in Memory of Sterndale Bennett

1881

  • Cowen: Sinfonietta in A minor

1883

  • King: Overture Among the Pines

1885

1886

1887

1895

  • Parry: Symphony No.3 in F (revised)

1896

  • Dvořák: Five Biblical Songs with orchestra

1898

1907

1910

1917

  • German: Song Have you news of my boy Jack?

1950

1958

1963

  • Walton: Variations on a Theme of Hindemith

1966

1969

1970

1971

  • Joubert: Symphony No.2

1975

1982

  • Simpson: Symphony No.8

1985

1987

1989

1992

  • Saxton: Paraphrase on Mozart's Idomeneo

2000

  • Jonathan Cole: Ouroboros

2001

2002

  • Brett Dean: Huntington Eulogy
  • John Woolrich: Darker Still
  • David Gorton: Oblique Prayers, winner of the RPS Composition Prize

2003

2004

  • Brian P. Herrington [de]: Symphonia for the London Sinfonietta, winner of the RPS Composition Prize
  • Phillip Neil Martin: An Outburst of Time for the Cheltenham Festival, winner of the RPS Composition Prize
  • Dai Fujikura: Be

2005[8]

  • Dai Fujikura: Another Place for the Cheltenham Festival, winner of the RPS Composition Prize
  • Lyell Cresswell: Ara Kopikopiko, winner of the RPS Composition Prize

2006[8]

2007[8]

2008[8]

2009[8]

  • Dobrinka Tabakova: Suite in Jazz Style
  • Gwilym Simcock: Contours
  • Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, nor Stone
  • Claudia Molitor: Alert
  • Benjamin Cox: In Memoriam[9]
  • Evis Sammoutis: Night, again, winner of the RPS Composition Prize
  • Sasha Siem: From the White Dictionary, winner of the RPS Composition Prize
  • Tom Arthurs: And Distant Shore, winner of the RPS Composition Prize

2010

  • Martin Suckling: To see the dark between (Aronowitz Ensemble, Wigmore Hall) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Dimitris Economou: Metamorphosis (members of the Philharmonia, Patrick Bailey - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Shiva Feshareki: out of sorts (members of the Philharmonia, Patrick Bailey - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Michael Langemann: Epode for string quartet (Solstice Quartet, Cheltenham Music Festival) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund
  • Christian Mason: Looking for the Land that is Nowhere (Lydia Kavina, theramin, members of the Philharmonia, Patrick Bailey - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize

2011

  • Dario Palermo: The Difference Engine (score for dance work, 12 October 2011) - RPS Drummond Fund
  • Darren Bloom:: Three (Manus Noble - guitar) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund
  • Charlotte Bray: Replay (Festival Academy Soloists: Alexandra Wood - violin, Cian O’Duill - viola, Robin Michael - cello, Huw Watkins - piano, Cheltenham Festival) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund
  • Steven Daverson: Schattenwanderer (Mark van der Wiel - clarinet, members of the Philharmonia, Clark Rundell - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Edward Nesbit: Concerto for violin and ensemble (Maya Iwabuchi - violin, members of the Philharmonia, Clark Rundell - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Mark Simpson: Lethe (Byron Fulcher - trombone, members of the Philharmonia, Clark Rundell - conductor) - RPS Composition Prize

2012

  • Stef Conner: Arranging Old Silks (Philharmonia MOT 2012) - RPS Composition Prize
  • David Curington: Nine Accumulations (Philharmonia MOT 2012) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Philip Dawson: Heath’s Contraption (Philharmonia MOT 2012) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Lauri Supponen: The Dordrecht Humaphone (BBC Singers, Cheltenham Festival 2012) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund

Tom Harrold Locked Horns (Total Brass, 17 May 2012)

2013

  • Poul Ruders: String Quartet No 4 (Premiered at the Barbican centre by the Vertavo Quartet 9 March 2013)
  • Jonathan Lloyd: Old Racket (for strings)

(Premiered on Friday 12 April 2013 at the Barbican Centre by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis)

  • Jonathan Lloyd: New Balls (for winds)

(Premiered on Friday 17 May 2013 at the Barbican Centre by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Gaffigan)

  • Judith Weir: I give you the end of a golden string (premiered on 8 June at the Aldeburgh Festival by Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth)
  • Sally Beamish, Charlotte Bray, Anna Meredith, Thea Musgrave]]: Innocence and Experience (premiered on 9 June at the Aldeburgh Festival by the New London Children's Choir, conducted by Ronald Corp)
  • Harrison Birtwistle: Songs from the Same Earth (premiered on 13 June by tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Andrew West)
  • Julian Philips: Maxamorphosis (score for dance, May 2013) - RPS Drummond Fund
  • Magnus Lindberg: Red House (premiered on 22 June at the Aldeburgh Festival by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Oliver Knussen)
  • Wolfgang Rihm: A Tribute (Über die Linie VIII) (Halle Orchestra, conducted by Mark Elder)
  • Kenneth Hesketh: Forms Entangled, Shapes Collided (score for dance work, Repetition of Change, February 2013) - RPS Drummond Fund
  • Huw Watkins: Little Symphony (David Curtis, conductor; Orchestra of the Swan, 21 June 2013) - Composer in the House.
  • Mark-Anthony Turnage: Frieze (RPS, BBC Radio 3 and New York Philharmonic co-commission - premiere: BBC Proms, 11 August 2013)
  • Tom Coult: (Philharmonia MOT June 2013) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Arne Gieshoff: Ad Bestias (Philharmonia MOT June 2013) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Christopher McAteer: Casement (Philharmonia MOT June 2013) - RPS Composition Prize
  • David Onac: String Quartet No.6 (Carducci Quartet, Cheltenham Music Festival) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund
  • Robert Peate: Pearl (Clare Hammond piano, Presteigne Festival 2013) - RPS Composition Prize, Presteigne Festival Alan Horne Memorial commission
  • Bertie Baigent: Joie de Vivre (RPS Fanfare Commissions; brass players of the NYO, Mathew Coorey - conductor, 11 August 2013)
  • Tom Harrold: Fanfaronade (RPS/IAMA Fanfare Commission; Buzz Brass, 7 November 2013)
  • Benjamin Graves: Le Science de Monsieur Berlioz (Players from GSMD, 1 November 2013)
  • Joshue Kaye: Le Science de Monsieur Berlioz (Players from GSMD, 1 November 2013)
  • Ella Jarman-Pinto: Le Science de Monsieur Berlioz (Players from GSMD, 1 November 2013)
  • Aled Smith: Uncertain Light (Alexandra Dariescu, piano, November 2013)

2014

  • Matthew Kaner: Mosaic (Philharmonia MOT June 2014) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Michael Cutting: I am a strange loop II (Philharmonia MOT June 2014) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Samantha Fernando: Sense of Place (Philharmonia MOT June 2014) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Daniel Kidane: Spear (Kate Romanom clarinet & Richard Uttley, piano, Presteigne Festival 2014) - RPS Composition Prize, Presteigne Festival Alan Horne Memorial commission
  • Tom Stewart: Flying Kites Concentric Ceilings (Fidelio Trio, Cheltenham Festival 2014) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund
  • Dobrinka Tabakova PULSE (score for film in collaboration with film-maker Ruth Paxton, February 2014)
  • Huw Watkins: Remember (Ruby Hughes, soprano; David Curtis, conductor and Orchestra of the Swan, 30 May 2014 Stratford-upon-Avon, Civic Hall) As part of Composer in the House.

2015

  • Ed Scolding: Brut (in collaboration with Peter Groom; BFI Southbank, for SOUND:VISION)
  • Dani Howard: Visions (in collaboration with Victoria Fiore; BFI Southbank, for SOUND:VISION)
  • Joe Jackson: At First Sight (in collaboration with Chloe Wicks; BFI Southbank, for SOUND:VISION)
  • Theo Vidgen: Swan Song for Four Cellos (in collaboration with Sophie Barrott; BFI Southbank, for SOUND:VISION)
  • Sarah Lianne Lewis: Palimpsest (in collaboration with Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo; BFI Southbank, for SOUND:VISION)
  • Huw Watkins: Envoi (Orchestra of the Swan, David Curtis - conductor, for Composer in the House)
  • Nicholas Morrish: Abandonment and Ruin (Kokoro, for Cheltenham Music Festival) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund
  • Samuel Bordoli: As I Lay Dying (Philharmonia players, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Oliver Leith: Craquelure (Philharmonia players, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Nicholas Stuart: Very Small Symphony (Philharmonia players, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Elizabeth Ogonek: Falling Up (Ensemble 360, Music in the Round) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Michael Small: White Space(Fenella Humphreys - violin, for Presteigne Festival) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Jonathan Dove: Nights Not Spent Alone (Kitty Whately - mezzo-soprano, Simon Lepper - piano, for Cheltenham Festival) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists
  • Elena Kats-Chernin: Material Men (Smith Quartet, Queen Elizabeth Hall) - RPS Drummond Fund commission
  • Kerry Andrew: writing on the NHS (London Sinfonietta players, part of Southbank Centre's Notes to the New Government)
  • Jordan Hunt: writing on the power of optimism (London Sinfonietta players, part of Southbank Centre's Notes to the New Government)
  • Gavin Higgins: writing on the impact of the bedroom tax (London Sinfonietta players, part of Southbank Centre's Notes to the New Government)
  • Benjamin Oliver and poet Luke Wright writing on loneliness and isolation (London Sinfonietta players, part of Southbank Centre's Notes to the New Government)
  • Emma-Ruth Richards writing on sex trafficking (London Sinfonietta players, part of Southbank Centre's Notes to the New Government)
  • Naomi Pinnock: Lines and Spaces (Richard Uttley - piano, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival)

2016

  • John Casken: Serpents of Wisdom (Alec Frank-Gemmill - horn, Alasdair Beatson, piano, Wigmore Hall) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists
  • Julian Anderson: Incantesimi (Berlin Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle - conductor)
  • [[Patrick John Jones Locks of the Approaching Storm (Philharmonia players, Diego Masson - conductor, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Desmond Clarke: Xyla (Philharmonia players, Diego Masson - conductor, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Michael Taplin: Lambent Fires (Philharmonia players, Diego Masson - conductor, Royal Festival Hall) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Kurt Schwertsik: Eine Windrose für Mauricio (Narek Hakhnazaryan - cello, Cheltenham Music Festival) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists
  • Hunter Coblentz: Trio (Fidelio Trio, Cheltenham Music Festival) - RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers' Fund
  • David Sawer: April \ March (London Sinfonietta, Andrew Gourlay - conductor, BBC Proms) - RPS Drummond Fund commission
  • Rolf Wallin: (Danish String Quartet, Edinburgh International Festival) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists
  • Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade: Ravens' Cage (Emily Pailthorpe - clarinet, Clare Hammond, piano, for Presteigne Festival) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Sally Beamish: Merula Perpetua (Lise Berthaud - viola, David Saudubray - piano, BBC Proms) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists
  • Dani Howard Ostara: (Ensemble 360, for Music in the Round) - RPS Composition Prize
  • Francisco Coll: Chanson et Bagatelle (Peter Moore - trombone, Richard Uttley - piano) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists
  • Manfred Trojahn: Sonata V (Annelien Van Wauwe - clarinet, Nino Gvetadze - piano) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists
  • Johannes Fischer: Canons and Sparrows (Armida Quartet) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists
  • Michael Nyman: Two Sonnets for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Kathryn Rudge - mezzo-soprano, James Baillieu - piano) - co-commission with BBC for New Generation Artists

References

  1. ^ a b "Commissions - General". RPS. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
  2. ^ "List of Commissions (1813-1849)". Retrieved 25 October 2009.
  3. ^ "List of Commissions (1850-1899)". Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  4. ^ "List of Commissions (1900-1999)". Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  5. ^ "List of Commissions (2000-2004)". Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  6. ^ "List of Commissions (2010-2014)". Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  7. ^ "List of Commissions (2015-Now)". Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Commissions Since 1813 (2005 - 2009)". royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk. London: Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  9. ^ "Benjamin Cox". Mandy. London: The Mandy Network. About me. Retrieved 31 December 2015.