Michael Jamieson Bristow 
(LEONARD) CONSTANT LAMBERT (1905-1951)
Born: London (England), August 23 1905 - Died: London (England), August 21 1951
MAJOR WORKS
Prize-Fight, realistic ballet in one act (1923-1924) (revised and rescored 1927) [Hyperion CDA67545]
Mr Bear Squash-You-All-Flat, ballet in one act (based on a Russian children's tale) (1923-1924) [Hyperion CDA66754]
Concerto for piano two trumpets timpani and strings (1924) [Hyperion CDA67545]
Romeo and Juliet, ballet in two tableaux (1924-1925) (first performed: May 04 1926) [Hyperion CDA67545]
The Bird-Actors Overture for orchestra (1925) (first performed: July 05 1031) [Hyperion CDA67545]
Pomona, ballet in one act (1926) (first performed: November 16 1926 as a Divertimento, first performed: September 09 1927 as a ballet) [Hyperion CDA67049]
Eight Poems of Li Po for voice and piano (1926-1929) (first performed: October 30 1929 - instrumental version (seven poems only)) [Hyperion CDA66754]
Music for Orchestra (1927) (first performed: June 14 1929)
Elegiac Blues for piano (1927) [Hyperion CDA67545]
The Rio Grande, for small orchestra and chorus (1927) (first performed: February 27 1928 BBC broadcast, first performed: December 12 1929 in the concert hall) [Hyperion CDA66565]
Piano Sonata (1928-1929) (first performed: October 30 1929) [Hyperion CDA66754]
Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments (1930-1931) (first performed: December 18 1931) [Hyperion CDA66754]
Salomé, incidental music for clarinet, trumpet, percussion and cello, to the play by Oscar Wilde (1931) (first performed: May 27 1931) [Hyperion CDA 67239]
Summer's Last Will and Testament, for chorus and orchestra (1932-1935) (first performed: January 29 1936) [Hyperion CDA66565]
Horoscope, ballet in one act (1937) (first performed: January 27 1938) [Suite available on Helios CDH55099]
Elegy for piano (1938)
Dirge from Cymbeline, for tenor and baritone soli, male chorus and strings (1940) (first performed: March 23 1947 BBC broadcast)
Merchant Seamen, film music (1940) (first performed: May 15 1943 as a suite)
Aubade Héroïque for orchestra (1942) (first performed: February 21 1943) [Hyperion CDA66565]
Hamlet, incidental music for flute, two trumpets and percussion, to the play by William Shakespeare (1944) (first performed: February 11 1944)
Anna Karenina, film music (1947)
Trois Pièces Nègres pour les Touches Blanches for piano duet (1949) (first performed: May 17 1949)
Tiresias, ballet in three scenes (1950-1951) (first performed: July 09 1951) [Hyperion CDA67049]
OTHER WORKS
Green Fire, rhapsody for orchestra (1923?) - score probably lost (first performed: June 28 1923)
Two Songs for soprano flute and harp, on poems by Sacheverell Sitwell (1923) (first performed: March 06 1924)
Suite in three movements for piano (1925) (first performed: March 19 1925)
Tema for piano (composed?)
Jew Süss, incidental music, to the play by Ashley Dukes (after Feuchtwanger) (1929?) - score possibly lost (first performance: September 19 1929)