• First Performance: 3 June 1967. Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh. Monica Sinclair, Popova; John Shaw, Smirnov; Norman Lumsden, Luka. English Chamber Orchestra, James Lockhart conductor.
• Manuscript: Serge Koussevitzky Foundation Collection. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Full score. Dated ‘30.4.67, Forio d’Ischia’. Also 11 pages of revisions in full score.
Frederick R. Koch Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Manuscript FRKF 604. Autograph sketches. 37 pages.
• Composition: 1960. Orchestral version dates from 1971.
Original version: Tuesday, 21 June 1960. Shrubland Park Hall, Claydon, Ipswich. Sir Peter Pears tenor, Julian Bream guitar.
• Text: Anonymous, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Selected by Christopher Hassall from The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems (edited by Gerald Bullett).
• Manuscript: Private collection of Mrs. Lilias Sheepshanks. Manuscript of original version. Frederick R. Koch Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Manuscript FRKF 633. Autograph manuscript full score of the orchestral version. 23 pages.
Oxford University Press. Vocal score, 1960, 019 3458616. Guitar part edited by Julian Bream.
Oxford University Press. Study score, 1971. Score and parts of the orchestral version are available on hire only.
To which fond love hath charmed me.
Fancying that that harmed me.
And chirping birds are hitherward resorting.
Run ne’er so fast, yet I will follow thee.
Sweet heart, sit down under the shadow’d tree.
‘I never meant to live and die a maid’.
For Winter, Spring and Summer.
And w e were wondrous merry.
When that I lig her by.
Come, fiddler, scrape thy crowd.
That Peggy and I agree.
• Composition: 1980. A revision and arrangement of music for the ballet The First Shoot (1935).
• First Performance: 19 December 1980. Goldsmith’s College, London. The Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Elgar Howarth conductor. Recording session for the Walton documentary At the Haunted End of the Day, directed by Tony Palmer. First transmitted on ITN, Sunday, 19 April 1981.
• First Public Performance: Monday, 7 September 1981. Royal Albert Hall, London. The Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Elgar Howarth conductor.
• Manuscript: Frederick R. Koch Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Manuscript FRKF 594. Autograph full score. 48 pages.
• Publication: Oxford University Press. 1986. Score and parts are available on hire.
• Arrangements: The First Shoot, transcribed for orchestra by Christopher Palmer (c.1991) - Arranged for concert band by Ray Farr. Publication: Warner/Chappell, 2001.
• First Performance: Sunday, 17 September 1916. Cathedral Church of Christ the King, Oxford. Henry Ley organ.
• Manuscript: The British Library, Manuscript Collections, Add. 52384. Titled ‘Choral Prelude on Wheatley’. Dated ‘August 16th. 1916’.
• Recordings: This work has never been recorded for commercial release. A recording was made, at the organ of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, for the Walton documentary At the Haunted End of the Day(1981), directed by Tony Palmer for ITV.
• First Performance: Thursday, 3 June 1976. Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park, London. Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Trevor Platts conductor. For the entrance of the Queen to the Zoological Gardens, at a reception marking the 150th anniversary of the Zoological Society of London. Played again prior to her inaugural opening of the new Lion Terraces.
• Manuscript: The private collection of Lord Solly Zuckerman.
• Arrangement: 1931, from music by Johann Sebastian Bach. A contribution to A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen.
• First Performance: Monday, 17 October 1932. Queen’s Hall, London. Harriet Cohen piano.
• Manuscript: Jewish National and University Library, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Music Department.
• Composition: 1973. This fanfare is intended to be followed immediately by the coronation march Orb and Sceptre.
• First Performance: Thursday, 29 November 1973. Royal Festival Hall, London. Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Lt.-Col. Rodney B. Bashford conductor. The EMI 75th Anniversary Concert.
• Manuscript: Frederick R. Koch Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Manuscript FRKF 615. Autograph full score. Titled “Fanfare for the 75th anniversary of E.M.I.”. 6 pages.
• First Performance: Saturday, 10 October 1981. Wengerner Mühle [the guest house of Dr. Karl-Friedrich Still], Recklinghausen. Members of the Westphalia Symphony Orchestra, Karl Rickenbacher conductor.