1883 - Fantasia Overture (unfinished)
1882-84 - The Moss Rose, cantata (Royal Albert Hall [West Theatre], London, 10th December 1885)
1885 - Cior Mhor, overture (Crystal Palace, London, 27th October 1885)
1886-87 - Land of the Mountain and the Flood, concert overture, Op.3 (Crystal Palace, London, 5th November 1887)
1887 - Lord Ullin's Daughter, cantata, Op.4 (Crystal Palace, London, 18th February 1888)
The Ship o' the Fiend, orchestral ballad, Op.5 (St James's Hall, London, 21st February 1888)
1886-88 - Bonny Kilmeny, cantata, Op.2 (Queens Street Hall, Edinburgh, 13th December 1888)
1888 - The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow, orchestral ballad, Op.6 (Crystal Palace, London, 13th October 1888)
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, cantata, Op.7 (City Hall, Glasgow, 18th December 1888)
1889 - The Cameronian's Dream, cantata, Op.10 (Queens Street Hall, Edinburgh, 27th January 1890)
1890 - Psalm VIII, for chorus and organ (2nd International Industrial Exhibition, Meggetland, Edinburgh, 1st May 1890)
1891 - Queen Hynde of Caledon, cantata, Op.13 (City Hall, Glasgow, 28th January 1892)
1894 - Jeannie Deans, opera (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 15th November 1894)
1896 - Highland Memories, orchestral suite, Op.30 (Crystal Palace, London, 13th March 1897)
1897 - Diarmid, opera, Op.34 (Covent Garden Theatre, London, 23rd October 1897)
1900 - The Masque of War and Peace, for soloists, chorus and orchestra (Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 13th February 1900)
1904 - Prue, comic opera (unfinished)
1905 - The Golden Girl, light opera (lost) (Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham, 5th August 1905)
The Wreck of the Hesperus, cantata (Coliseum Theatre, London, 28th August 1905)
Untitled ballet ('Invented by E.W. Royce')
1908 - The Pageant of Darkness and Light, for soloists, chorus and orchestra (Agricultural Hall, London, 4th June 1908)
1900-09 - Four Dances, for orchestra
1912 - Livingstone the Pilgrim, for soli, chorus and organ (Royal Albert Hall, London, 19th March 1913)
The Sailor and the Nursemaid, musical sketch (Aldwych Theatre, London, 27th June 1912)
1896-1913 - Four Scottish Traditional Border Ballads (Kinmont Willie; The Jolly Goshawk; Lamkin; The Death of Parcy Reed), for chorus and orchestra (Nos.1-3, Victoria Hall, Sheffield, 19th April 1921; No.4, Queen's Hall, London, 25th March 1925)
also -
Breast of Light, opera, Op.36 (unfinished)
Commercial recordings -
Land of the Mountain and the Flood, concert overture, Op.3 (Hyperion CDA66815 and several others)
The Ship o' the Fiend, orchestral ballad, Op.5 (Hyperion CDA66815)
The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow, orchestral ballad, Op.6 (Hyperion CDA66815)
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, cantata, Op.7 - excerpt (Hyperion CDA66815)
Jeannie Deans, opera - excerpts (Hyperion CDA66815)
Downloads -
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, cantata, Op.7
Highland Memories, orchestral suite, Op.30
Who has been busy ??? ;D
Here are additions, but my list is definitely incomplete:
Chamber
Three Romantic Pieces, vc, pf (1894);
4 other pieces, vc, pf, separately pubd (1914), 2 of these also arr. vn, pf
Str qnt, Eb, 2 vn, va, 2 vc
Jeanie Deans (grand op, 4, J. Bennett, after W. Scott: The Heart of Midlothian), Edinburgh, Lyceum, 15 Nov 1894, GB-Lcm, Lam, vs (1894)
Opera/Incidental
34 Diarmid (grand op, 4, Duke of Argyle after Celtic legends), op.34, London, Covent Garden, 23 Oct 1897 vs (London and New York, 1897)
Breast of Light (Duke of Argyle), inc.
The Masque of War and Peace (L. Parker), London, Her Majesty's, 13 Feb 1900 (1900)
The Golden Girl (light op, B. Hood), Birmingham, Prince of Wales, 5 Aug 1905, MS lost
Additional nos. for The Talk of the Town (Taylor), 1905 (1905);
Prue (light op, 3, C.H. Taylor), inc.
The Pageant of Darkness and Light (stage pageant in 6 episodes, J. Oxenham), 1908 vs (1908)
A Waltz Dream, 1908–9 (1909)
Orchestral
Cior Mhor, ov., London, Crystal Palace, 27 Oct 1885
3 Land of the Mountain and the Flood, ov, op.3, London, Crystal Palace, 5 Nov 1887 (1889)
5 The Ship o' the Fiend, ballade, op.5, London, 21 Feb 1888 (1890)
6 The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow, ballade, op.6, London, Crystal Palace, 13 Oct 1888 (1891)
30 Highland Memories, suite, op.30, 1896, London, Crystal Palace, 13 March 1897 (1897), pf arr. by MacCunn also pubd
Ballet, 1905
Five Dances for orchestra
Piano
28 Six Scottish Dances, op.28, pf (1896)
Valse Gracieuse, pf
Hornpipe, pf
Vocal
The Moss Rose (Krumacher), cant., 1882–4, London, RCM, 1885
Lord Uillin's Daughter (Campbell), 4vv, orch, 1887, London, Crystal Palace, 18 Feb 1888 (1888)
Bonny Kilmeny (Hogg), solo vv, 4vv, orch, op.2, Edinburgh, 13 Dec 1888 (1888)
7 The Lay of the Last Minstrel (Scott), solo vv, 4vv, orch, op.7, Glasgow, 18 Dec 1888 (1888)
10 The Cameronian's Dream (J. Hyslop), Bar, 4vv, orch, op.10, 1889, Edinburgh, 27 Jan 1890 (Edinburgh, 1890)
13 Queen Hynde of Caledon (Hogg), solo vv, 4vv, orch, op.13, 1891, Glasgow, 28 Jan 1892, vs (1892)
Psalm viii, 4vv, org, Glasgow, 1901 (Dundee and Edinburgh, 1901)
The Wreck of the Hesperus (H.W. Longfellow), 4vv, orch, London, Coliseum, 28 Aug 1905 (1905)
Four Scottish Traditional Border Ballads, vs (1913): Kinmont Willie, 4vv, orch; The Jolly Goshawk, 4vv, orch; Lamkin, 4vv, orch; The Death of Parcy Reed, male vv, orch
Livingstone the Pilgrim (S. Horne), 4vv, orch, 1913, vs (1913)
9 partsongs: eight pubd (1887–1914), one in MS
c100 solo songs (1890–1916), mostly pubd in 1890s
As there is very little information on MacCunn otherwise available in print or online, this is both useful and welcome - http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2456/ (http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2456/)
:)
Oh, fascinating stuff. Thanks, Albion.
I am playing piano for a "come and sing day" with Leicester Bach Choir on 28th January at Leicester Grammar school. Audience are invited from 16.30. and the programme is Stanford "Songs of the sea" and MacCunn "Wreck of the Hesperus".
Rob
That's truly enterprising - have you or anyone else heard the MacCunn piece before?
No I haven't. The enterprise is entirely that of the conductor Richard Laing and the Leicester Bach Choir - I have just been asked to play for it but I thought it woth mentioning here. Not having had chance to speak to Richard I'm not sure where he found out about the piece but I am interested to find out.
At an informal concert a couple of years ago I teased the audience by asking them to name the greatest Scottish composer. Silence. I guess the Big Three would have to be McEwen, Mackenzie and MacCunn...
Eugen d'Albert maybe?? Still, I'd rank William B. Wordsworth and Oliver Knussen very high.
Sorry, but we're getting off-topic and beyond our remit here. Back to MacCunn, please.
I'm surprised the audience didn't say MacMillan. Personally I'd agree Mackenzie, McEwan MacCunn without a doubt.
Or even McEwen. Now back to MacCunn.
Friends could always start another thread...
It's a pity that the choral/vocal works haven't had much of an airing. The orchestral works indicate that he was at least a competent and engaging composer. Does anyone here have any knowledge of his cantatas or operas?
Well, fwiw, the vocal score of one of his cantatas is over here (http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Lay_of_the_Last_Minstrel,_Op.7_(MacCunn,_Hamish)) (The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Op.7, 1888)... IMSLP also has his Op.13 "Queen Hynde of Caledon" as well.
Jeannie Deans was broadcast by the BBC, I was a student at the time so I think it must have been the late 1960's. I listened to it; I can't remember if it was the complete opera, but it was certainly a substantial broadcast.
It does ring a distant bell. Sunday afternoons invariably saw me listening to the regular opera broadcast on Radio 3 (or was it the Third Programme then?) whilst ironing shirts ready for the forthcoming week. The BBC often very generously would send a copy of the libretto if you sent them a stamped addressed envelope about a week before the broadcast. Those were the days!
However given that I don't possess a libretto for the opera that's undoubtedly an indication that the complete opera wasn't performed and broadcast.
Now having been saddled with teaching a 1st Year 'Introduction to Logic' course for a couple of years I'm conscious that the previous statement contains a hopelessly bad argument. But we're all grown up here, so let's ignore the logic textbooks!
Alasdair Jamieson in his book: "The Music of Hamish MacCunn" (p. 48) writes that BBC Radio Scotland broadcast a shortened version of "Jeanie Deans" in 1968: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ntoq4bpp7QQC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=Jeanie+Deans+BBC+broadcast&source=bl&ots=S3OrMcbaQb&sig=Ku4iY6mSV0O-f7tleB1ap6FXyac&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHiPu739bRAhWEA8AKHauTBPEQ6AEIOTAG# (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ntoq4bpp7QQC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=Jeanie+Deans+BBC+broadcast&source=bl&ots=S3OrMcbaQb&sig=Ku4iY6mSV0O-f7tleB1ap6FXyac&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHiPu739bRAhWEA8AKHauTBPEQ6AEIOTAG#)
Thanks Gareth for confirmation. That will have been the broadcast I heard.
Thanks for responding about the vocal/choral works. It seems that performances are as rare as hen's teeth, and I suppose they are likely to remain unrecorded. In an age of enthusiastic Scottish nationalism north of the border, that seems a bit odd. I would have thought there was an appetite for all things Scottish, and the subject matter would seem to fit the bill. Record companies are usually quick to capitalize on such situations. :)