every piece makes reference to 16th-century music, for example, Passacaglia sopra 'Plusieurs Regrets''' for treble recorder and harpsichord. Other chamber works in Rubbra's oeuvre include those for oboe, cor anglais and viola.The Quartets have all appeared on the Dutton Epoch label. Other works Incidental music for several plays formed a small but significant part of Rubbra's output. The longest of these is the unpublished score for Macbeth. In 1933, he wrote a one-act opera, still in manuscript, which he originally called Bee-bee-bei, but renamed The Shadow. It reflects his interest in the East, as it is set in Kashmir. All three of his works for brass instruments were commissioned. One of them, Variations on "The Shining River", was a test piece for the Brass Band Championships of Great Britain, 1958, held in the Royal Albert Hall. Rubbra's last work was his Sinfonietta for large string orchestra, Op. 163, which was commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra of New York, for performance in 1986, as part of the tricentennial celebrations of the founding of New York. The dedication is "For Adrian and Julian", Julian [Yardley] (b. 1942) being Adrian's elder brother and Rubbra's de facto stepson following his marriage to Adrian and Julian's mother in 1975. The Sinfonietta received excellent press reviews . Rubbra is also well known for his 1938 orchestration of Johannes Brahms's piano work Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. He also orchestrated Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor, though when this was recorded by Frederick Fennell and the London Pops Orchestra in 1959 for 'Mercury', he was not given due credit on the LP sleeve or label. Partial list of works Orchestral Symphonies Symphony No. 1, Op. 44 (1935–37) Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 45 (1937, rev. 1950) Symphony No. 3, Op. 49 (1938–39) Symphony No. 4, Op. 53 (1940–42) Symphony No. 5 in B-flat, Op. 63 (1947–48) Symphony No. 6, Op. 80 (1953–54) Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 88 (1956–57) (dedicated to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and premiered by them with Andrzej Panufnik conducting) Symphony No. 8, Op. 132, Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin (1966–68) Symphony No. 9, Op. 140, Resurrection (also known as Sinfonia Sacra) (1968–72) () Symphony No. 10, Op. 145, da Camera (1974) Symphony No. 11, Op. 153, à Colette (1980) Sinfonietta for large string orchestra, Op.163 A Tribute, Op. 56 (1942) for the celebration of Ralph Vaughan