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- Symphony No.1
- The Burning of the Leaves (version for Baritone and Orchestra)
- 2011 Concertante Variations (Presteigne Concerto) for Wind Quintet, Timpani and Strings
- Angry Lament
- Sixteen Sunrises
- Symphony No.5
- Symphony No.2
- Sea-Change
- The Flight of Icarus
- Channel Firing
- Partita
- Symphony No.3
- The Spindle of Necessity
- Piano Concerto
- Tenebrae
- Symphony No. 5
- In Sea-Cold Lyonesse
- Binyon Songs (version for Baritone and Orchestra)
- Forbidding Mourning
- The Art of Beginning
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- Black Castles
- The Flight of Icarus
- Agamemnon’s Tomb
- Aurora
- The Borders of Sleep – Nine Poems by Edward Thomas
- Channel Firing
- Eden
- Orion
- The Phagotus of Afranio
- Piano Sonata
- Sonata for Violin and Piano
- A Starlit Dome
- String Quartet No.2
- String Quartet No.3
- String Quartet No.4
- Symphony No.3
- Tenebrae
- String Quartet No.2
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- Spindle of Necessity
- Gaia Symphony
- Tsunami
- Men of Stone – Symphonic Suite for Brass Band
- Wildfire
- Sea-Change
- Piano Concerto
- Valedictions
- Snowbound
- Insomnia
- John Pickard: Chamber Music CD
- Binyon Songs
- Mass in Troubled Times Programme Note
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- Review of Gaia Symphony
- The Flight of Icarus
- Reviews of Norrköping Symphony Orchestra CD of The Flight of Icarus, The Spindle of Necessity and Channel Firing
- The Burning of the Leaves
- BIS Record CD of Piano Concerto, Sea-Change & Tenebrae – International Record Review
- BBC Music Magazine – Piano Concerto, Sea-Change and Tenebrae
- Tenebrae reviewed on MusicWeb International.com
- BIS Records CD of Piano Concerto Sea Change Tenebrae Classica
- Guardian review String Quartets Nos 1 and 5
- Classical Lost and Found review string quartets nos 1 and 5
- International Record Review String Quartets Nos 1 and 5
- Toccata New Chamber Music, Volume 2.
- BBC Review Toccata Classics Chamber Music Volume Two
- Musical Opinion – an overview of The Symphonies of John Pickard
- In concert – Bristol University SO / John Pickard – The Vision of Cleopatra
- Reviews of String Quartet No.4
- Chamber Music and Tenebrae reviewed in German
- String Quartet No.5 – Brodowski Quartet at Purcell Room
- Quartets 2 -4
- Athene-Minerva CD of Piano music
- Negative reviews of The Flight of Icarus
- Orion and The Borders of Sleep
- Agamemnon’s Tomb
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John Pickard’s music is published by Bardic Edition and available through Schott Music
Works marked with an asterisk have audio samples. Works marked with a double asterisk have scores and audio samples.
1983-1984 Symphony No.1 for Orchestra
1985-1987 Symphony No.2 for Orchestra
1987 Piano Sonata **
1988-89 Sea-Change for Orchestra
1990 The Flight of Icarus ** for Orchestra
1993 Partita for String Orchestra
1995-1996 Symphony No.3 for Orchestra
1997-1998 The Spindle of Necessity * for Trombone solo and Orchestra
1999-2000 Piano Concerto
2008 Tenebrae ** for Orchestra
2010-12 (0rchestrated 2011, 2015) Binyon Songs (version for Baritone and Orchestra) for Baritone and Orchestra
2011 The Burning of the Leaves (version for baritone and orchestra)
2011 Concertante Variations (Presteigne Concerto) for Wind Quintet, Timpani and Strings
2013 Sixteen Sunrises for Orchestra
2013 Angry Lament for Open score: four lines (which may be taken by different instrumental combinations) · Keyboard(s) · Drum(s) and Tam-tam(s)
2014 Symphony No. 5 for Orchestra
2015 Forbidding Mourning for String Orchestra
2015 In Sea-Cold Lyonesse for Orchestra
2018 The Art of Beginning for Orchestra