JOHN RUSHBY-SMITH.
MUSICAL COMPOSITION
John Rushby-Smith's works have been performed in several major concert venues, including London's South Bank, the Wigmore Hall and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. They have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Swiss Radio, Belgian Radio and National Public Radio (USA), as well as being recorded on LP and CD.
Works include:
Three
Songs (Elizabethan
texts) (1958).
BBC Broadcast 1986 by Susan Kessler (Mezzo-soprano) and Geoffrey
Parsons (Piano). Also broadcast on Swiss Radio. Performed at the
Elgar
Birthplace Museum by
Ian Sloan (tenor) and Robin Hales, 2002.
Toccata
(1961);
Elegy
(1965) for
piano. BBC broadcast by ffrangcon Davies 1968, also performed at the
Cookham
Festival.
Violin
Sonata (1971) BBC broadcast 1980 by Gyorgy Pauk
and Michael Isador, 1st performed by Leonard Friedman & the
composer, Ledlanet (Scotland) 1971. Performed by Marcia
Crayford & pianist, Purcell Room, London, in a Park Lane
Group concert (mid 70s). Presteigne Festival, 26 August 2017
by Benjamin Nabarro and Tim Horton.
Monologue
for
Oboe/Oboe d'Amore
(1970)
performed at the Nottingham
Festival
1971 by its dedicatee Jennifer Paull (Oboe d’Amore). Oboe
version broadcast (early 80s) by John Anderson (BBC
Lunchtime Recital).
Recorded by Jennifer Paull on Amoris CD AI
SC V ll “The
Oboe d’Amore Collection Vol.II) (see Amoris
International). Published by Simrock.
Piano
Sonata (1964) performed by Yonty Solomon at the Wigmore
Hall, London (Park Lane Group Concert) (1974). BBC
Broadcast by Susan Bradshaw (late 70s).
Reverie
for Orchestra (ca 1965) Broadcast by the BBC Concert Orchestra
(several times) conductors: Vilem Tausky, Eric Wetherell. Published
Chandos.
Valse Seriale (ca 1967). Broadcast by the BBC Concert Orchestra (several times) conductors: Vilem Tausky, Eric Wetherell. Published Chandos.
Saxophone
Quartet
(1971)
performed at the Purcell
Room 1972,
the World
Sax Congress Toronto
1972, and broadcast on the BBC in 1974 by the London
Sax Quartet.
Also performed by the Myrrha
Saxophone Quartet at St John’s Smith Square,
the Luxembourg
Saxophone Quartet,
the Berlin Saxophone Quartet and
others. Published by Simrock.
Aspects
of Night for piano duet, commissioned by the Arts Council
and Anne Shasby & Richard McMahon 1971. Performed at the
Wigmore Hall, Warwick Univ (BBC broadcast); in BBC "Concert
Hall", at Manchester University and elsewhere.
Now re-titled Night Music to avoid association with the Lloyd-Webber musical Aspects of Love!
Concerto
Grosso
(1971)
for string orchestra, performed by the Scottish
Baroque Ensemble;
performed and broadcast (BBC)
by the Richard
Hickox Orchestra;
broadcast by the London
Studio Strings (BBC).
Lifespan
for
2 sopranos and multi-channel tape delay. Performed at the St
Bartholemew’s Festival,
London, July 10, 1978. Electric Phoenix: Linda Hirst (soprano), Karen
Jensen (mezzo), the composer (sound projection).
Syzygy
(1974)
for flute and piano performed Susan Milan and Clifford Benson,
Purcell
Room;
BBC
broadcast (same artists) late 70s; performed in the Library
of Congress, Washington D.C.
by Keith Bryan and Karen Keyes; broadcast on National Public Radio
1980. Anna
Noakes and Dina Bennett,Thaxted (1986). BBC
broadcast by Anna Noakes and Dina Bennett (twice) (1986);
Recorded for Sonoton
Pro Nova on LP "Starcycle" (Noakes/Bennett)
- issued 1987.
The
Ladies -
12 cabaret songs for eponymous play by Bettina Jonic, performed in
context by Bettina
Jonic
at the French Institute, London, 1987.
Anima for Solo Viola. Composed for, and first performed by Rivka Golani at the 1984 International Viola Congress, Isle of Man. Subsequently recorded for CBS (Canada). Also performed by Richard Crabtree.
A Dream of Spires for Viola and Piano, first performed at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1992(?) by Rivka Golani and Clifford Benson.
To a Gardener sung by Margaret Field (soprano) with Andrew Ball (piano) at the 1991 Bournemouth International Festival and at the 1992 Exeter Festival.
Justina
& the Nightingale Song
premiered by by Margaret
Field (soprano)
with Andrew
Ball
(piano) at the Bournemouth
International Festival,
1992.
Three
Shelley Songs 1st
performed at the Sheffield
Firth Hall
by Margaret Field and Joyce Woodhead. Later merged with the
following (Love’s Legacy)
Love's
Legacy -
Four settings of Shelley, First performed by Margaret
Field and Joyce Woodhead,
Adrian
Boult Hall, Birmingham;
recorded by Margaret Field (soprano) and Andrew Ball (piano) on
Redcliffe CD
No. RR009 “British Song” (1994)
A Perfect Rose: setting of poem by Charles Tomlinson. Recorded by Margaret Field and Andrew Ball on Walsingham Classics CD “A Garland of Roses” – released 1998.
The Southwell Service – composed for Southwell Minster Choir, director Paul Hale. Broadcast Radio 3 “Choral Evensong” 1997. Released on Cantoris CD “The Lord is my Shepherd” 1998.