The 1967 Leicestershire Schools Music Festival included a number of LSSO commissions and in May that year Ridout's dance drama Funeral Games for a Greek Warrior made its debut at De Montfort Hall. In July 1967 the LSSO made its first commercial disc for the Pye Golden Guinea label and Ridout responded to a request for a short work for inclusion on the disc by composing a lively Concertante Music. The work's debut took place on a record rather than at a public concert. Concertante Music was then taken on the LSSO tour of Denmark and Germany in September 1967 (see external video link below). Andrew Plant's monograph 'The Higher Storie: Alan Ridout's music for counter-tenor' is the only in-depth study of the composer that has yet been undertaken. Selected works Ridout was a prolific composer; the complete list of his works runs to 100 pages. Choral On Christ's Nativity for choir SATB (1954) St. John Passion for tenor, bass, chorus and organ (1962) Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (St. John's service) for choir SATB and organ (1962) O most merciful Redeemer for choir SATB (1965) Sacred Songs for Treble Voices (1st set) for boys' choir and organ (1965) The Beatitudes for 4-part treble voices (1966) Let us with a gladsome mind for mixed choir and organ (1967) Communion Service for choir and congregation (1968) Sacred Songs for Treble Voices (3rd set) for boys' choir and organ (1969) The History of the Flood to 6 voices and to a poem by John Heath-Stubbs (1971) Songs of Advent for unison voices and organ (1987) Through the Day for 2-part treble voices and organ (1989) Samuel! Cantata for treble, baritone and bass soli, mixed choir and organ (1993) Canticle of Joy for countertenor and tenor solo, mixed choir and orchestra (1994) Vocal Whom time will not reprieve, four songs for countertenor and viola (1989) Orchestral For a ?complete list of his orchestral works, see Symphony No. 1 (1958) Concerto for Orchestra (1959) Three Pictures of Picasso (1962) Symphony No. 2 (1964) Symphony No. 3 (for wind, brass and percussion) (1965) Funeral Games for a Greek Warrior for orchestra and children's choir (1966) Concertante Music (1967) Symphony No. 4 (for wind, brass and percussion) (1967) Symphony No.5 Sinfonia da chiesa for women's voices and orchestra (1969) Concerto for double bass and strings (1974) Concertino for bassoon and strings (1975) Concertino for trumpet and strings