The Carnegie Collection of British Music

The Carnegie Collection of British Music was founded in 1917 by the Carnegie Trust, started by the Scottish-American steel magnate Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), to encourage the publication of large scale British musical works.

typical Carnegie Collection cover 1929

alternate cover 1919

one of the most enduring works 1919

cover with beige paper 1922

McEwen Solway, 1922

History

The series of 60 items started in 1917 and was finished in 1928. wikipedia article
Carnegie also supported the Tudor Church Music series in the 1920s.

Arrangers and Editors

Publishers

• London: Stainer & Bell

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Contents (Alphabetical order of composers)

• Edgar Leslie Bainton (1880–1956): Concerto Fantasia, piano and orchestra (1920); Before Sunrise, symphony for contralto solo, chorus, and orchestra (1922)
• Granville Bantock (1868–1946): Hebridean Symphony (1915, published 1920)
• Herbert Bedford (1867-1945): Night Piece No 2 (The Shepherd), for voice (contralto or mezzo), flute, oboe, and piano (1925)
• Arthur Benjamin (1893–1960): Pastoral Fantasy, for string quartet (1924)
• Rutland Boughton (1878–1960): The Immortal Hour, music-drama (1914, published 1923)
• York Bowen (1884–1961): String Quartet No 2 in D minor, op 41 (1922)[13]
• Ina Boyle (1889–1967) : The Magic Harp, orchestral rhapsody (1919, published 1922)
• Sam Hartley Braithwaite (1883-1947): Snow Picture, for orchestra. (1924); Elegy, for orchestra (1927)[15]
• Frank Bridge (1879–1941): The Sea, suite for orchestra (1910-11, published 1920)
• Alan Bush (1900-1995): String Quartet in A minor, op 4 (1925)
• Lawrance Collingwood (1887-1982): Poeme Symphonique, for orchestra (1918, published 1921)[16]
• Learmont Drysdale (1866-1909): Tam o’Shanter, concert overture (1891, published 1921)
• Thomas Dunhill (1877—1946): The Enchanted Garden, opera in one act, op 65 (1925)
• George Dyson (1883—1964): Three Rhapsodies, for string quartet, op 7 (1920)
• David Evans (1874-1948): Concerto for String Orchestra, op 7 (1928)
• Harry Farjeon (1878–1948): St Dominic Mass, for choir, orchestra, solo soprano, tenor and solo violin, op 51 (1923); Phantasy *Concerto, for piano and chamber orchestra, op 64 (1926)
• Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885–1918): English Pastoral Impressions, suite for orchestra (1921); Three Spiritual Studies, for string orchestra, op 33 (1925)
• Gerald Finzi (1901–1956): A Severn Rhapsody, for chamber orchestra (1924)
• Nicholas Gatty (1874-1946): Prince Ferelon, or, The Princess’s Suitors: a musical extravaganza in one act
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889–1960): The Blue Peter: a comic opera in one act (1925)
• Ivor Gurney (1890–1937): The Western Playland: song-cycle for baritone voice, string quartet and piano (1926); Ludlow and Teme, song-cycle for tenor voice, string quartet and piano (1919)
• W H Harris (1883-1973): The Hound of Heaven, for baritone solo, chorus & orchestra (1919)
• Edward Norman Hay (1889-1943): String Quartet in A major (1920)
• Victor Hely-Hutchinson (1901—1947): Variations, Intermezzo, Scherzo & Finale, for orchestra (1927)
• Gustav Holst (1874-1934): The Hymn of Jesus, for two choruses, semi-chorus and full orchestra, op 37 (1917, published 1919)
• Herbert Howells (1892–1983): Piano Quartet in A minor, op 21 (1918); Rhapsodic Quintet, clarinet quintet, op 31 (1921)
• John Blackwood McEwen (1868–1948): Solway Symphony (1911, published 1922)
• Jeffrey Mark (1898-1965): Scottish Suite, for violins and piano (1928)[17]
• Percy Hilder Miles (1878–1922): String Sextet in G minor (1920)
• Robin Milford (1903–1959): Double Fugue for Orchestra, op 10 (1927)
• Edward Mitchell (1891-1950): Fantasy Overture, for orchestra (with six horns) (1922)
• Reginald Owen Morris (1886–1948): Fantasy, for string quartet (1922)
• Cyril Bradley Rootham (1875—1938): Brown Earth, for chorus and orchestra (1922-3, published 1929); Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, for chorus and orchestra (1927-8, published 1929)
• Alec Rowley (1892–1958): The Princess Who Lost a Tune, ballet-mime (1927)
• Cyril Scott (1879–1970): Nativity Hymn, for chorus and orchestra (1923)
• Cyril Scott (1879–1970): Piano Quintet (1924).
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924): Symphony No 5 in D major (1894, published 1923); The Travelling Companion, opera in four acts, op 146 (1916, published 1925)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958): A London Symphony (1914, published 1920)
• Alfred M Wall (1875–????): Quartet for Piano & Strings in C minor (1920)
• William Walton (1902–1983): Piano Quartet in A minor (1924)
• Peter Warlock (1894–1930): The Curlew, song cycle for tenor solo, flute, English horn, and string quartet (1924)
• Felix Harold White (1884–1945): The Nymph’s Complaint for oboe (or violin), viola & piano. (1922); Four Proverbs, for flute, oboe violin, viola and cello (1925)
• William Gillies Whittaker (1876–1944): Among the Northumbrian Hills, free variations on an original theme for piano and string quartet (1922); A Lyke-Wake Dirge, for chorus and orchestra (1925)
• Stanley Wilson (1899-1953): A Skye Symphony, op 38 (1928)
• Hubert Leslie Woodgate (1900–1961): A Hymn to the Virgin, for baritone solo, men’s voices, strings, piano and organ (1923)

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