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Strutt, Clive (b. April 19, 1942, Aldershot, Hampshire). British composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works that have been performed in Europe and elsewhere.
Mr. Strutt studied composition with Sir Lennox Berkeley at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1961–64, where he also studied orchestration with Leighton Lucas from 1962–64.
Among his honors are the Manson Bequest from the Royal Academy of Music (1964, for Symphony No. 1 in E minor), the Carolan Award in the Celtic harp competition in Dinan (1986, for Hibernian Rhapsody) and two prizes in the Dr. William Baird Ross competition for church music in Scotland (Second Prize, 1987, for The White Island; Third Prize, 1990, for A Glastonbury Carol). His music has been performed in Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Russia, the UK, and the USA.
Amoris, Lomond Music and Phylloscopus publish some of his music and most of his unpublished scores are available through the Scottish Music Centre.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: candjstrutt@tiscali.co.uk
Street address: Mr. Clive Strutt, Manse Bay, S. Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands KW17 2TJ, Scotland, UK
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: The Tragedy of Man (opera, libretto by the composer, after Imre Madách [translated by J.C.W. Horne]), mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, cast (boy soprano, 2-3 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, 3/5 altos, countertenor, 4/18 tenors, 4 baritones, 3/12 basses, 1-2 bassi profondi), 50 mixed voices, on-stage ensemble (harmonica, 2 guitars, 2 mandolins, cimbalom, celesta, organ/electronic organ, organ/harmonium, ondes Martenot, concertina/piano accordion, harpsichord), large orchestra, 1985
ORCHESTRAL: William Cobbett (concert overture), 1963, revised 1975; Symphony No. 1 in E minor, large orchestra, 1964; Symphony No. 2 in C minor (texts by Publius Vergilius Maro, the composer, syllable "ah"), 4 mixed voices, orchestra, 1965, revised 1991; Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, 'Visions of Albion' (text by William Blake), tenor, boys' chorus, 8 mixed voices, large orchestra, 1967; Threnody – The Funeral of Youth (imaginary ballet suite after Rupert Brooke), 1970 (two suites were arranged for harp); King Richard II (concert overture), 1973; Pluto (symphonic poem), large orchestra, 1973; Strange Philosophy (fantasy), cimbalom, orchestra, 1973; Symphony No. 5 in D, large orchestra, 1973; Communion Service for the Day of St. Magnus, Earl of Orkney, and Martyr, 1982 (version of movements 1, 13, 16-17 of choral work; also version of movements 6, 20 for male cantor, orchestra, 1982); Lines, Circles, Scenes, Letters, Characters (symphonic fantasy), panpipes, orchestra (8 winds, 6 brass, harp, 2 guitars [2nd + Hawaiian guitar], piano [+ celesta], harpsichord, timpani, 7 percussion, strings), 1983; Suite of Three Folksong Medleys, clarinet, symphonic band, 1984; At the Tomb of the Sea-Eagles (text from the syllable "om"), 5 mixed voices, large orchestra, 1986; Symphony No. 4, 'Kenosis', large orchestra, 1986; Céilidh (concert overture), 1987; Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, 'Eclogues from a Vanished Land', 1987; Fantasia on the 'Palestine Song' of Walther von der Vogelweide, symphonic band, 1989; Russian Folksong Suite, string orchestra, 1989; A Wessex Suite, string orchestra, 1992; Byzantine Suite in the Ottoman Style, orchestra (10 winds, 8 brass, clàrsach [Celtic harp], piano, electronic keyboard, timpani, 5 percussion, strings), 1993; Preludio and Presto Finale, piano, large orchestra, 1994 (also version for 2 pianos); Reminiscences of Troldhaugen (sinfonia concertante after the sketches for Concerto No. 2 in B minor by Edvard Grieg), piano, orchestra, 1997; Symphony No. 8, 'Orkney Choral Symphony' (texts by Robert Rendall, Harriet Campbell, Ann Scott-Moncrieff, James Morrison, Edwin Muir, John Skea), 4 mixed voices, orchestra (12 winds, 11 brass, harp, organ, timpani, 7 percussion, strings), 1999; Symphony No. 7 in G minor, 'Athonite' (text from the Resurrection Apolytikia [Greek Orthodox liturgy]), boys' chorus, 4 male voices, large orchestra, 2003; Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'The Fountain of Tears' (text by Federico García Lorca [English translation]), soprano, baritone, children's chorus, 4 mixed voices, guitar, large orchestra, 2004
CHAMBER MUSIC: String Quartet No. 1, 1959–60, revised 2003, 2007; Rondo, oboe, piano, 1962; Prelude, violin, 1963; Soliloquy, viola, 1963; String Quartet No. 2, 1963, revised 1991; Capriccio, violin, 1964; Ballade, violin, 1965; Sonata, trombone, piano, 1965; Fantasia, 2 flutes, English horn, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, 1967; Suite No. 1 from Ballet 'The Funeral of Youth', harp, 1972 (suite from orchestral work); Suite No. 2 from Ballet 'The Funeral of Youth', harp, 1972 (suite from orchestral work); The Georgia Bagatelles, oboe d'amore, piano, 1976; Chaconne, clàrsach/harp, 1981; Helvetia Suite, oboe, oboe d'amore, English horn, 1982; Jig, clàrsach, 1982; Mirror Canon, clàrsach, 1982; Suite of Seven Dance Miniatures, flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, French horn, 1982; Hibernian Rhapsody, clàrsach, 1983; Russian Folksong Suite, 2 flutes, oboe, 3 clarinets, alto saxophone, bassoon, any C-bass instrument, 1989; English Folksong Suite, oboe, oboe d'amore, English horn, bass oboe, 1990; Sabbath Polka (Polish Folk-Cabaret Song), English horn, bass shawm, 2 clarinets, sackbut, guitar, violin, cello, piano, 1990; Studies in Orkney Folk Music, English horn, violin, viola, cello, 1992; Introduction and Protiazhnahyah, bass oboe/bassoon, piano, 1993; Variations on the Hymn Tune 'Repton' of Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848–1918), clàrsach, 1993; Bosnian Folk-Tune Suite, 2 descant recorders, treble recorder, tenor recorder, bass recorder, 1994; String Quartet No. 3, 'from "The Frieze of Life (Edvard Munch)"', 1999; Variations on the Hymn Tune 'St. Catherine's Court' of the Hon. Richard Strutt (1848–1927), flute, oboe, bassoon/cello, violin, piano, 2005
CHORAL: Madrigals, Book I – 'For Music' (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1967; Amergin (text from an unknown medieval source [English translation]), mixed chorus, string orchestra, 1968; Madrigals, Book II – 'Wind Flowers' (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1968; Madrigals, Book III – 'Flowers of Gold' (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1968; Madrigals, Book IV – 'Flowers of Gold Sonnets' (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1968; Madrigals, Book V (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1968; Communion Service for the Day of St. Magnus, Earl of Orkney, and Martyr (texts from Christian liturgical sources [English translations], "Kyrie eleison"), male cantor, mixed chorus, organ, 1982 (also versions of movements 1, 13, 16-17 for orchestra; of movements 6, 20 for male cantor, orchestra); Madrigals, Book VI – 'The Silence of Love' (texts by Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas), mixed chorus, 1984; Madrigals, Book VII – 'Requiescat' (text by Oscar Wilde), mixed chorus, 1984; Masters in This hall (Christmas carol, after the French melody Chartres, text by William Morris), soprano/boy soprano, mixed chorus, organ, 1984; Festal Eucharist in honour of Saint Olaf, King and Martyr: Missa 'Sine Nomine' pro translationi Sancti Olavi (texts from the Bible [English translation], Christian liturgical sources [English translations], Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), bass, male celebrant, mixed chorus, French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, organ, vibraphone, 1985
CHORAL: The Litany of Dunkeld (text from Reliques of Ancient Scottish Devotion, adapted by the composer), bass, 6 mixed voices, 1987; Star Carol (text by the composer), mixed chorus, 1987; La Tapisserie de Sainte Geneviève (Prologue to a Gnostic Symphony) (text by Charles Péguy), mixed chorus, harp, 1987; The White Island (anthem, text by Robert Herrick), mixed chorus, 1987; Bearing Myrrh and Spices Sweet (text from a Greek source [translated by J. Brownlie]), mixed chorus, 1988; A Glastonbury Carol (text by the composer), mixed chorus, 1989; Hymn to Brahman Supreme (text from the Shvetashvatara Upanishad [translated by Swami Prabhavanandra, Frederick Manchester]), 4 female voices, 1989; Logia (from 'The Gorikai' of Kawate Bunjiro) (text by Kawate Bunjiro [English translation]), mezzo-soprano, alto, 4 altos, alto flute, flute, English horn, 2 celli, piano, vibraphone, 1989; The Song of Rūmī (text by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī [English translation]), 4 female voices, 1989 (also version for mixed chorus incorporated into The Song of Rūmī and Two Poems from the 'Divan Shamsi Tabriz'); The Song of Rūmī and Two Poems from the 'Divan Shamsi Tabriz' (text by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī [English translation]), mixed chorus, 1989 (incorporates a version of The Song of Rūmī); Three Hymns in Praise of St. Magnus (text from a medieval Latin source), 4/7 mixed voices, 1989
CHORAL: Respond (Confractorium): 'Fiat, Domine, Misericordia' (texts from a Latin source, the Gallican Rite from the Stowe Missal), mixed chorus, 1990; Trecanum (text from Mozarabic Chant [English translation]), mixed chorus, 1990; Madrigals, Book VIIIa – 'Voces Intimæ' (texts by Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas), mixed chorus, 1991 (also version as Madrigals, Book VIIIb – 'Voces Intimæ', countertenor, 2 tenors, baritone, 1993); Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Evening Canticles), boy soprano, 3 mixed voices, 1992; Is not this the Fast that I choose (text from the Book of Isaiah [English translation]), mixed chorus, organ, 1993; Refrain & Hymn for Feasts of the Holy Cross (texts from the liturgy "Crux fidelis", an anonymous source, hymn Pange lingua gloriosi prœlium certaminis by Venantius Fortunatus), mixed chorus, 1993; Two Bosnian Folksongs (texts from traditional Croatian sources), mixed chorus, 1994; Seven Basque Christmas Carols (texts from traditional Basque sources [translated by Sabine Baring-Gould, J. O'Connor, John Gray], Matthew Bridges, adapted by Richard Terry, an anonymous 16th-century British source), 8 mixed voices, 1995; Wilderness (text by Gwenllian Armour), mixed chorus, 1995
CHORAL: Behold! The Mountain of the Lord (text from the Book of Isaiah [Scottish paraphrase]), mixed chorus, 1996; Praeludium & Trisagion (after Johann Sebastian Bach, text from the Coptic Liturgy of St. Basil [English translation]), soprano, mezzo-soprano, 3 mixed voices, cello, 1996; Shuraya (Antiphon before the Apostles) (text from the Nestorian Liturgy of the Catechumens [English translation]), 7 mixed voices, 1996; Turgama (Hortatory Hymn before the Apostle) (text from the Nestorian Liturgy of the Catechumens [English translation]), mixed chorus, 1996; Hymn to the Creative Word (text from an Orthodox Christian hymn [translated by Antony McGuckin]), mixed chorus, 1997; Seven Scottish Christmas Carols (texts from an anonymous 17th-century source [translated by Arthur Geddes], William Dunbar, A.F. Bayly, adapted by the composer), 4/6 mixed voices, 1997; Christmas Lullaby: 'Sleep, Baby, sleep' (text by John Addington Symonds, adapted by the composer), mixed chorus, 1998
VOCAL: Six Japanese Songs (texts by Keichū, Mabuchi, Naoyoshi, Taku Boku, Banri [all English translations]), alto, oboe, 1963; Five Japanese Songs (texts by Toson Shimazaki, Rofu Miki, Fuyuhiko Kitagawa [all English translations]), soprano, flute, clarinet, 1967 (also version for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, 1987); Japanese Sketches: Book I – 'Winter Haiku' (texts by Oemaru, Kobayashi Issa, Shohaku, Chine-jo, Onitsura, Sōkon, Ransetsu, Shirao, Masaoka Shiki [all translated by Peter Beilenson]), mezzo-soprano, flute (+ alto flute, bass flute), oboe (+ English horn), clarinet (+ E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet), bassoon, French horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, marimba, 1986; Karakoram Highway (text by Kathleen Jamie), soprano, English horn, 1987; Japanese Sketches: Book II – 'Spring Haiku' (texts by Chosu, Bora, Roka Shonin, Hokushi, Kobayashi Issa, Kyōroku, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki [all translated by Peter Beilenson]), mezzo-soprano, flute (+ alto flute, bass flute), oboe (+ English horn), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), bassoon, French horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, marimba, 1989 (also version for mezzo-soprano, alto flute, 2 celli, piano, vibraphone, 1990); Japanese Sketches: Book III – 'Summer Haiku' (texts by Ryōta, Kobayashi Issa, Matsuo Bashō, Hokushi, Ryuho [all translated by Peter Beilenson]), soprano, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, 1993; A Chorister in Avalon (text by Humbert Wolfe), soprano, piano, 1995; The Unknown Goddess (song-cycle, text by Humbert Wolfe), mezzo-soprano, piano, 1996; Japanese Sketches: Book IV – 'Autumn Haiku' (texts by Yosa Buson, Meisetsu, Seibi, Chora, Matsuo Bashō, Rikei, Takarai Kikaku, Kobayashi Issa, Masaoka Shiki, Oemaru, Chasei, Raizan [all translated by Peter Beilenson]), soprano (+ wind chimes), shakuhachi (bamboo flute) (+ flute, piccolo), marimba/pentatonic African G-flat folk marimba, 2007; Three Athonite Impressions (text by Vincent Berquez), mezzo-soprano, piano, 2007
PIANO: Sonata No. 1 in B minor, 1964; Sonata No. 2 in D minor, 1969; 36 Variations & Fugue on a theme of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1979; Sonata No. 3, 1992; Preludio and Presto Finale, 2 pianos, 1994 (version of work for piano, large orchestra)
ORGAN: Estampie on Two French Tunes, 1993
DIDACTIC MUSIC: Prise de la Bastille (Scene for Schoolchildren) (text by Hugo, Comte de Montbéliard), 5 children's voices, 2 children's choruses, glockenspiel, any unpitched drum, güiro, 1967
(Last updated on August 16, 2007)
