LIST OF SELECTED IMPORTANT WORKS: by Dimitri Kennaway

TITLE / OPUS NO.  / DATE

Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op. 10 (1940)
London, 1943 (CPNM Recital)

String Quartet No. l, Op. 14 (1944)
Blech String Quartet, London 1945 (LCMC Concert)

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 15 (1944)
Blech String Quartet - Players' Theatre, London, March 1946

The Aftermath, for tenor, off stage trumpet, timpani and string orchestra, Op. 17 (1947) - to words by Robert Nichols
Parry Jones/Kathleen Merritt Orch./Kathleen Merritt, at Wigmore Hall, London, 15th April 1947 (Gerald Cooper Concert)

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 18 (1947)
Blech String Quartet, Wigmore Hall, London, 8th October 1947

String Quartet No. 4, Op. 21 (1948)
Amadeus String Quartet - RBA Galleries, London, 8th March 1949

May Day, a Panorama for full orchestra, Op. 22 (1948)
Liverpool Phil. Orch./Hugo Rignold, Liverpool, 17th Jan. 1950

Violin Concerto Op. 24 (1951), 'in memory of the Six Million'
Max Rostal/LPO/Frankel - BBC Studios, Maida Vale, 19th June 1951 (LCMC/BBC Festival of Britain Concerts)

Piano Quartet, Op. 26, (1953)
Robert Masters Quartet - Wigmore Hall, London, 4th June 1953 (Coronation Week Concert Series)

Clarinet Quintet, Op. 28 (1956)
BBC commission for Cheltenham Festival f.p. Gervase de Peyer/Allegri String Quartet, Cheltenham Festival 16th July 1956

Symphony No. 1, Op. 33 (1958)
Westphalia Symphony Orch./Hubert Reichert, Lunen, Germany, 25th March 1959

Five Bagatelles (Cinque Pezzi Notturni) for 11 instruments, Op. 35 (1959)
(broadcast) Portia Ensemble/Maria Korchinska (Hp.) BBC Third Programme, 18th February 1961

Serenata Concertante for piano trio and orchestra, Op. 37 (1960)
Kölner Trio (Max Rostal (Vn.);Heinz Schröter (PNo. ); Gaspar Cassado (Vc.) - Renscheid, Germany, 1960

Symphony No. 2, Op. 38 (1962)
BBC S.O./Frankel - Cheltenham Festival, 13th July, 1962

Symphony No. 3, Op. 40 (1964)
Westphalia S.O./Hubert Reichert - Recklinghausen, 1964

String Quartet No. 5, Op. 43 (1965)
BBC commission for Cheltenham Festival f.p. Dartington String Quartet, Cheltenham Town Hall, 15th July 1965

Symphony No. 4, Op. 44 (1966)
New Philharmonia Orchestra/Frankel - BBC broadcast, 18th Dec 1966

Viola Concerto, Op. 45 (1967)
Herbert Downes/RPO/Norman del Mar - Cheltenham Festival 10th July 1967

Symphony No. 5, Op. 46 (1967)
Westphalia S.O./Hubert Reichert - Recklinghausen, June 1967 (Ruhrfestspiele)

Symphony No. 6, Op. 49 (1969)
New Philharmonia/Denis Vaughan - BBC studio concert, Broad casting House, 23rd March, 1969

Symphony No. 7, Op. 50 (1970)
LSO/Previn - Royal Festival Hall,, 4th June 1970

Overture to a Ceremony, Op. 51 (1970)
New Philharmonia/Edward Downes - Royal Albert Hall, 24th November, 1970 (Royal Concert - St Cecilia's Day)

Symphony No. 8, Op. 53 (1971)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Sir Charles Groves - Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 7th December 1971

Pezzi Melodici for small orchestra, Op. 54, (1972)
Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra/Lawrence Hudson - Stroud, 19th October 1972

Marching Song - three-act opera, Op. 52 (1973 - last completed work)
f.p. BBC studio broadcast, Radio 3, Scottish National Junior Chorus/BBC Scottish S.O./Groves, 3rd October 1983

PERFORMING MATERIALS

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FRANKEL ENQUIRIES

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