List of compositions by John Woolrich

This is a list of compositions by contemporary English composer John Woolrich (born 1954).

Brass and wind

• Call to the Mirrors (2014)
• Fanfare (1994)
• Sennets and Tuckets (1998)

Chamber ensemble

• A Book of Studies sets I and II (1993)
• A Cabinet of Curiosities (1993)
• A door just opened on a street (from A Book of Inventions)
• A Dramolet, for clarinet, cello and piano (2008)
• A Farewell, for clarinet, viola and piano (1992)
• A Leap in the Dark (1994)
• A Parcel of Airs (from A Book of Inventions)
• A Presence of Departed Acts, for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2002)
• A Shadowed Lesson (1993)
• A Short Story (from A Book of Inventions)
• A Still Tragic Dance (from A Book of Inventions)
• Adagissimo, for piano quartet (1997)
• After the Clock (1989)
• Another Journey Calls (from A Book of Inventions)
• Badinerie (from A Book of Inventions)
• Caprichos (1997)
• Contredanse (1991)
• Cutting a Caper (2001)
• Dartington Doubles (1988)
• Debricollage (from A Book of Inventions)
• Disparition (from A Book of Inventions)
• Duendecitos (from A Book of Inventions)
• Ending Up (from A Book of Inventions)
• Envoi, for viola and small ensemble (1997)
• Exploit in White, for brass quintet (2001)
• Fantazia, for viol consort (1994)
• Favola in Musica I, for oboe, clarinet and piano (1990)
• Favola in Musica II, for oboe, soprano saxophone and percussion (1992)
• From the Book of Disquiet (2005)
• From the Shadow (1994)
• Going a Journey (2006)
• In the Mirrors of Asleep (2007)
• In the Stones, for string quartet (2004)
• Kleine Wanderung (from A Book of Inventions)
• Leaving Home, for oboe quintet (2003)
• Lending Wings (1989)
• Morendo (from A Book of Inventions)
• Music from a House of Crossed Desires (1996)
• My Box of Phantoms, for oboe quartet (1998)
• Oboe Quintet (1998)
• Pluck from the Air, for piano quintet (2013)
• Quick Steps (1990)
• Quiddities (2005)
• Scamander (from A Book of Inventions)
• Scherzi di Fantasia (from A Book of Inventions)
• Sestina, for piano quartet (1997)
• Songs and Broken Music (1993)
• Spalanzani's Daughter (1983)
• Stealing a March (2000)
• Stone Dances (1980)
• String Quartet No. 1 (1995)
• String Quartet No. 2 (2000)
• String Trio (1996)
• Suite from Bitter Fruit (2002)
• Swan Song (2015)
• The Death of King Renaud, for string quintet (1991)
• The Devil in the Clock (2012)
• The Iron Cockerel Sings (1998)
• The Lost Day of Return (2004)
• The Night will not draw on, for piano trio (2008)
• The path is winding (from A Book of Inventions)
• The Turkish Mouse, for oboe and piano (1988)
• The Voices of Dust (from A Book of Inventions)
• The Way Out Discovered (1997)
• Three Arias for Oboe and Six Viols (2001)
• Three Fantasias for Six Viols (2001)
• Totentanz (from A Book of Inventions)
• Toward the Black Sky, for piano trio (1997)
• Unweaving (from A Book of Inventions)
• Villanesca (from A Book of Inventions)
• Watermark, for violin and bass clarinet (2002)
• Zibaldone (from A Book of Inventions)

Chamber orchestra

• A Curtain Tune (1996)
• Arcangelo (2002)
• Between the Hammer and the Anvil (2008)
• Cantilena (1997)
• Come and Go (2005)
• Concerto for Orchestra (1999)
• Speed the Going (1998)
• Through paths and turnings (2013)

Choral

• A Book of Elegies (1996)
• A Quality of Loss (2014)
• A world is growing green (2016)
• Earth Grown Old (2003)
• Far from Home (1993)
• Little Walserings (1999)
• Over the Sea (1993)
• Paradise (2000)
• Spring in Winter (2001)
• That saying goodbye at the edge of the dark (2016)
• The Old Year (1999)
• The Rolling Years (2000)
• This Change (2003)
• Three Choruses (1998)

Instrumental

• A Sort of Heaven, for violin and piano (2013)
• Darker Still, for flute and piano (2002)
• Dum Spiro, Spero, for accordion (2001)
• Elegy, for cello and piano (2001)
• Four Pieces for Cello and Piano (1994)
• Im Ruhigen Tal, for violin and piano (1993)
• Keepsake, for solo cor anglais (2000)
• Locus Solus, for piano (1998)
• Ostinato, for piano (2019)
• Pianobooks I-XV (1991–2016)
• ....that is Night, for violin and piano (1995)
• The Kingdom of Dreams, for oboe and piano (1989)
• The wakeful Night, for clarinet in A (2019)
• Three Capriccios for Oboe (2001)
• Three Pieces for Viola (1993)
• Three Pieces for Violin (2001)
• Through a Limbeck, for solo viola (2002)
• ....with land in Sight, for solo cello (1994)

Music theatre

• Bitter Fruit (1999–2000)

Orchestral

• A Capriccio to Calliope Herself (2000)
• A Litany, for oboe and strings (1998–99)
• Accord (1999)
• Concerto for Cello (1998)
• Concerto for Oboe (1996)
• Concerto for Viola (1993)
• Concerto for Violin (2008)
• Falling Down, for double bassoon and orchestra (2009)
• Fanfarronada (2002)
• Si Va Facendo Notte, for clarinet and strings (1992)
• Tales of Transformation (2004)
• The Barber's Timepiece (1986)
• The Elephant from Celebes (2005)
• The Ghost in the Machine (1990)
• The Street of Crocodiles, for piano, trumpet and strings (2005)
• The Theatre Represents a Garden: Night (1991)
• The Tongs and the Bones (2014)
• Whitel's Ey (2008)

String orchestra

• Another Staircase Overture (1994)
• Blue Drowning (2005)
• Capriccio (2009)
• Italian Songs (2009)
• It is Midnight, Dr Schweitzer (1992)
• To the Silver Bow, for viola, bass and strings (2014)
• Ulysses Awakes (1989)
• Variation on 'Sellinger's Round' (2013)

Vocal

• A Paper of Black Lines (2008)
• A Singing Sky (2009)
• Ariadne Laments (1994)
• Berceuse (1990)
• Black Riddle (1984)
• Cascades (1983)
• Five Italian Songs (1984)
• Four Concert Arias (1994)
• Four Songs after Hoffmann (1981)
• Good Morning – Midnight (2002)
• Harlequinade (1983)
• Here is My Country (1995)
• La Cantarina (1989)
• Light and Rock (1988)
• Malicious Observer (1995–96)
• Ophelia Songs (1988)
• Serbian Songs (1988)
• The Sea and its Shore (2004)
• The Unlit Suburbs (1998)
• The Voices (2014)
• Three Cautionary Tales (1990–94)
• Three Macedonian Songs (1984)
• Three Purcell Songs, arranged for high voice and strings
• Three Songs for alto and six viols (2001)
• Three Songs for mezzo and strings (2003)
• To Witness her Goodbye (1995)
• Twisting that Lock (1997)