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List of Works

Orchestral

  • Duration: c.9 minutes
    Instrumentation: The score contains much divisi and is suited to performance by larger forces, or a minimum 6/6/4/4/2.

    Duration c.9 minutes, completed 1985. Recorded by Royal Ballet Sinfonia and Paul Murphy. Requires minimum strength 6/6/4/4/2.

    Recordings: 1  

  • Duration: c.40 minutes
    Instrumentation: 2 Fl (2nd doubling Picc), 2 Ob (2nd doubling CA), 2 Cl, 2 Bsn, 4 Hn, 2 Trpt, 3 Trbn, Tba, Timp, Hp, Strings

    Duration c.40 minutes, completed 1989. Premiered by Lorraine McAslan with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Adrian Lucas at the 2002 Worcester Three Choirs Festival. Recorded by Lorraine McAslan with Barry Wordsworth and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 14

  • Duration: c.5 minutes
    Instrumentation: The score contains much divisi and requires a minimum strength of 6/6/4/4/2.

    Duration c.5 minutes, written 1991. Premiered by William Boughton and the English String Orchestra at Malvern. Requires minimum strength of 6/6/4/4/2.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 4

  • Duration: c.12 minutes
    Instrumentation: 3 Fl 3rd doubling Picc, 2 Ob, CA, 2 Cl, BCl, 3 Bsn, 4 Hn, 3 Trpt, 3 Trbn, Tba, Timp, BD, Cym, SD, T-T, Xyl, (3 players), Hp, Strings

    Duration c.12 minutes, a symphonic poem for full orchestra completed in 1997. Recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic under Petr Vronský.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 3

  • Duration: c.32 minutes
    Instrumentation: 2 Fl, 2 Ob (2nd doubling CA), 2 Cl, 2 Bsn, 4 Hn, 2 Trpt, 3 Trbn, Timp, SD, Hp, Strings

    Duration c.32 minutes, written 1999. Recorded by Raphael Wallfisch with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Martin Yates.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 6

  • Duration: c.3 minutes
    Instrumentation: The score contains much divisi and requires a minimum strength of 6/6/4/4/2.

    Duration c.3 minutes; the composer’s 2004 arrangement of the second of his Two Cuban Dances for piano. Recorded by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Paul Murphy. Requires minimum strength of 6/6/4/4/2.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 1

Piano

  • Duration: c.4 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.4 minutes; a short piece written to commemorate Barber’s death in 1981.

     

  • Duration: c.26 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.26 minutes, an early collection, completed 1987. Premiered by Jack Gibbons at St. John’s, Smith Square, London. Included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 4

  • Duration: c.3 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.3 minutes. A bluesy improvisation from 1988.

     

  • Duration: c.3 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.3 minutes. A short early work included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.

    Recordings: 1  

  • Duration: c.10 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.10 minutes, composed 1990. A virtuoso piece steeped in the world of the flamencos of Andalucia, and the work from which Lionel's piano album Andalusian Fantasy takes its title.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 6

  • Duration: c.8 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.7 minutes, written in 1991. Included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.

    Recordings: 1  

  • Duration: c.5 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.5 minutes, written in 1991. Two song-like pieces in Cuban rhythm, included on Lionel's piano album Sunlight and Storms. The composer has made several arrangements: for violin & piano, for piano duet, for strings and for wind quintet.

    Recordings: 1  

  • Duration: c.9 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.9 minutes, composed in 1994. First broadcast in the composer’s own performance on BBC Radio 3. The work is included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.

    Recordings: 1  

  • Duration: c.17 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.17 minutes, written in 1996. Included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 2

  • Duration: c.5 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.5 minutes. Written to a private commission in 1997, and first performed by the composer at a concert of his own work at St. John’s College, Oxford. Included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 1

  • Duration: c.7 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.7 minutes, composed in 1998 and first performed by the composer at St. John’s College, Oxford. It is included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 1

  • Duration: c.6 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.6 minutes. An introspective piece in Latin rhythms from 2000, included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.

    Recordings: 1  

  • Duration: c.2 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.3 minutes. A ‘song without words’, composed in 2001, included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 1

  • Duration: c.23 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.23 minutes, composed in 2003; included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 1

  • Duration: c.24 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.24 minutes, completed in 2010; included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 1

  • Duration: c.4 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano solo

    Duration c.4 minutes, a homage to Ravel composed in 2020 during Covid lockdown.

     

Two Pianos

  • Duration: c.6 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano duo

    Duration c.6 minutes, written in 1978 while the composer was a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

      Reviews: 2

Piano, Four Hands

  • Duration: c.5 minutes
    Instrumentation: piano four hands

    Duration c.5 minutes. Originally for solo piano; the duet arrangement was made in 1998 at the request of French pianist François Doublier.

     

Violin

  • Duration: c.13 minutes
    Instrumentation: violin and piano

    Duration c.13 minutes; written while Sainsbury was a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

     

  • Duration: c.40 minutes
    Instrumentation: 2 Fl (2nd doubling Picc), 2 Ob (2nd doubling CA), 2 Cl, 2 Bsn, 4 Hn, 2 Trpt, 3 Trbn, Tba, Timp, Hp, Strings

    Duration c.40 minutes, completed 1989. Premiered by Lorraine McAslan with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Adrian Lucas at the 2002 Worcester Three Choirs Festival. Recorded by Lorraine McAslan with Barry Wordsworth and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 14

  • Duration: c.7 minutes
    Instrumentation: violin solo

    Duration c.7 minutes, written in 1993. Recorded by British violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck on EM Records, and by Czech violinist Vít Mužík on Navona Records.

    Recordings: 2   Reviews: 7

  • Duration: c.7 minutes
    Instrumentation: violin and piano

    Duration: c.7 minutes, written in 2000. Premiered by Rupert Marshall-Luck and Matthew Rickard at the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

     

  • Duration: c.3 minutes
    Instrumentation: violin and piano

    Duration c.3 minutes; the composer’s 1992 arrangement of the second of his Two Cuban Dances for piano. Recorded on EMI by Tasmin Little.

    Recordings: 1  

Cello

  • Duration: c.32 minutes
    Instrumentation: 2 Fl, 2 Ob (2nd doubling CA), 2 Cl, 2 Bsn, 4 Hn, 2 Trpt, 3 Trbn, Timp, SD, Hp, Strings

    Duration c.32 minutes, written 1999. Recorded by Raphael Wallfisch with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Martin Yates.

    Recordings: 1   Reviews: 6

  • Duration: c.15 minutes
    Instrumentation: cello solo

    One of the composer’s most recent compositions, a three-movement work, c.15 minutes duration, composed during Covid lockdown in 2020.

     

String Quartet

  • Duration: c.25 minutes
    Instrumentation: string quartet

    One of the composer’s most recent compositions, a four-movement work, c.25 minutes duration, completed in 2018.

     

Violin & Cello Duo

  • Duration: c.18 minutes
    Instrumentation: violin and cello

    One of the composer’s most recent compositions, a three-movement work, c.18 minutes duration, written in 2022.

     

Guitar

  • Duration: c.13 minutes
    Instrumentation: guitar solo

    Duration c.15 minutes, written to a commission from the guitarist Craig Ogden, who gave the first performance at the 2007 Gloucester Three Choirs Festival.

     

Clarinet

Flute

  • Duration: c.4 minutes
    Instrumentation: flute solo

    Duration c.4 minutes; written while the composer was a student at the Guildhall School of Music in London.

     

Wind Quintet

  • Duration: c.5 minutes
    Instrumentation: wind quintet

    Duration c.5 minutes; originally for solo piano; an arrangement made in 2012 at the request of flautist Christopher Britton.

     

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