Stanley Bate(1911-59): a Catalogue of the Orchestral and Choral Music

[Dundonnell]

My attempt at a Stanley Bate catalogue There are considerable difficulties because Bate seems to have worked on several works simultaneously so that works took some years to complete. "Piano Concerto No.3" is a designation given to at least two separate works whose manuscripts are in the Library of the Royal College of Music. I am not sure of the exact nature of all those manuscripts which do still exist.

STANLEY BATE: A CATALOGUE OF THE ORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL MUSIC

c.1934:       Symphony No.1 (withdrawn and destroyed)
                    Piano Concerto No.1 (withdrawn)
1935:          Ballet "Eros"
                   Summer Idylle for chamber orchestra   
1936:         Overture
                   Two Preludes for chamber orchestra
1936-37:   Violin Concerto No.1
1936-38:   Concertante for Piano and String Orchestra, op.24
1937:         Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, op.21
                    Suite for Oboe and string orchestra
1938:          Sinfonietta No.1, op.22: 19 minutes    + (Dutton cd)
                    Ballet "Juanita"
1937-39:   Symphony No.2, op.20 (withdrawn but extant)
1938-39:   Ballet "Perseus", op.26: 110 minutes
1940:         Piano Concerto No.2, op.28: 25 minutes   +  (Dutton cd)
                   Symphony No.3, op.29   +  (Dutton cd)
1943:         Violin Concerto No.2, op. 42
                   Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, op.43
1944:         Sinfonietta No.2, op.39
                   Suite "The Fifth Year"
                  "Haneen"-Fantasy on an Arabian Theme for flute, gong and strings, op.50
1944-46:   Viola Concerto, op. 46: 39 minutes   + (Dutton cd)
                   Ballet "Dance Variations" (and orchestral Suite)
1946:         Ballet "Highland Fling"
1947-50:   Violin Concerto No.3, op.58
1951-52:   Piano Concerto No.3, op. 66
1952:         Concerto Grosso for Piano and Strings
1952-55:   Concerto for Harpsichord and small orchestra
1953:         Cello Concerto
1954-44:   Symphony No.4: 37 minutes    +  (Dutton cd)
1955:         Piano Concerto No.4 (lost?)
1957?:       Incantations for soprano and orchestra, op.48
1958:         Piano Concerto No.5 (unfinished)

and       Suite for Violin and Orchestra

[Christo]

I posted before on an intriguing claim made by Bate's first wive, Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks in the essay by Michael Barlow and Robert Barnett: "STANLEY BATE - Forgotten International Composer" published on Musicweb Internationational.

Near the end it says: "Glanville-Hicks claimed he wrote a dozen or more symphonies and thirty or so piano sonatas." Is there any more to be said about it? Does anyone know?