ARTHUR BLISS

Checkmate Suite

25:15

1

I

Prologue: The Players

6:22

2

II

Dance of the Four Knights

4:00

3

III

Entry of the Black Queen

5:46

4

IV

The Red Knight's Mazurka -

2:53

5

V

Ceremony of the Red Bishops -

2:23

6

VI

Finale: Checkmate

3:49

Vernon Handley

Quintet for Clarinet and Strings

29:11

7

I

Moderato

6:34

8

II

Allegro molto

7:25

9

III

Adagietto espressivo - Allegro moderato

9:00

10

IV

Allegro energico

6:10

Janet Hilton clarinet

11

Hymn to Apollo

11:19

Vernon Handley

Music for Strings

27:11

12

I

Allegro moderato, energico -

9:18

13

II

Andante, molto sostenuto

11:12

14

III

Allegro molto

6:39

Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks'*

33:51

15

I

Introdcution and The Shepherd's Holyday -

4:29

16

II

A Hymn to Pan -

2:54

17

III

Pan's Saraband -

1:56

18

IV

Pan and Echo -

3:43

19

V

The Naïads' Music

5:23

20

VI

The Pigeon Song

4:38

Della Jones Mezzo-soprano

21

VII

The Song of the Reapers -

2:08

22

VIII

Finale -

1:39

23

IX

The Shepherd's Night-Song

6:58

David Haslam flute*

Richard Hickox

25-27 March 1986 (Checkmate Suite) & 22 August 1989 (Hymn to Apollo)

31 May and 1 June 1982 (Clarinet Quintet)

28-29 January 1990 (other works)