Unabashedly romantic… reinforcing the primary power of melody as one of the essential foundations of musical expression.
Paul A.Snook, Fanfare
List of Works
Orchestral
- Duration: c.9 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.40 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.5 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.12 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.32 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.3 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
Piano
- Duration: c.4 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.4 minutes; a short piece written to commemorate Barber’s death in 1981.
- Duration: c.26 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.3 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.3 minutes. A bluesy improvisation from 1988.
- Duration: c.3 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.3 minutes. A short early work included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.
- Duration: c.10 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.8 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.7 minutes, written in 1991. Included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.
- Duration: c.5 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.9 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.17 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.17 minutes, written in 1996. Included on Lionel’s piano album Andalusian Fantasy.
- Duration: c.5 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.7 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.6 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.6 minutes. An introspective piece in Latin rhythms from 2000, included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.
- Duration: c.2 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.3 minutes. A ‘song without words’, composed in 2001, included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.
- Duration: c.23 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.23 minutes, composed in 2003; included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.
- Duration: c.24 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.24 minutes, completed in 2010; included on Lionel’s piano album Sunlight and Storms.
- Duration: c.4 minutesInstrumentation: piano solo
Duration c.4 minutes, a homage to Ravel composed in 2020 during Covid lockdown.
Two Pianos
- Duration: c.6 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
Piano, Four Hands
- Duration: c.5 minutesInstrumentation: 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 minutesInstrumentation: 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 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.7 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.7 minutesInstrumentation: 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 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
Cello
- Duration: c.32 minutesInstrumentation: 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.
- Duration: c.15 minutesInstrumentation: 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 minutesInstrumentation: 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 minutesInstrumentation: 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 minutesInstrumentation: 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
- Duration: c.9 minutesInstrumentation: clarinet and piano
Duration c.9 minutes; an early work, from 1984; it has been performed by Anna Hashimoto and Andrew Saunders.
Flute
- Duration: c.4 minutesInstrumentation: 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 minutesInstrumentation: wind quintet
Duration c.5 minutes; originally for solo piano; an arrangement made in 2012 at the request of flautist Christopher Britton.