Paul Paray - Selected Works

Selected Works

Stage

• Yanitza, Scène lyrique d'après une légende albanaise (1911); poem by Georges Spitzmuller
• Artémis troublée, Ballet by Léon Bakst (1911–1912)

Orchestral

• Symphonie d'archets for string orchestra (1919); orchestration of the String Quartet
• Nocturne for chamber orchestra
• Symphony No. 1 (1934)
• Symphony No. 2 (1936)

Concertante

• Fantaisie for piano and orchestra (1909)
• Humoresque for violin and chamber orchestra (1910)

Chamber music

• Piano Trio (1905)
• Sérénade for violin (or flute) and piano (1908)
• Sonata in C minor for violin and piano (1908)
• Humoresque for violin and piano (or chamber orchestra) (1910)
• Nocturne for violin (or cello) and piano (1910)
• String Quartet in E minor (1919)
• Sonata No. 1 in B♭ major for cello and piano (1919)
• Sonata No. 2 in C major for cello and piano

Piano

• Tarantelle
• Scherzetto
• Impromptu
• Vertige
• Incertitude
• Entêtement
• Berceuse
• Valse-caprice (1906)
• Romance (1909)
• Portraits d'enfants (1910)
• Valse sur un thème de Franz Schubert (1911)
• Impressions (1912)

1. Nostalgie
2. Eclaircie
3. Primesaut

• Reflets romantiques (1912)

1. Avec esprit et charme
2. Ardemment
3. En rêvant
4. Avec fougue
5. Souple
6. Léger
7. Tender
8. Energique

• Sept pièces (1913)
• Presto (1913)
• Prélude, scherzo et allegro
• Thème et variations (1913)
• Prélude en fa majeur (1913)
• Allegro (1913)
• Scherzo (1913)
• D'une âme... (1914)
• Pièces pour piano à quatre mains for piano 4-hands (1914)
• Éclaircie (1923)
• Prélude (1930)
• Allegretto
• Prélude en mi bémol mineur
• Prélude en fa mineur
• Sur la mer
• Valse en fa dièse mineur
• Valse en fa mineur
• Vertige
• La vraie furlana

Vocal

• Nuit d'Italie for voice and piano; words by Paul Bourget
• Laurette for voice and piano; words by Alfred de Vigny
• Sépulcre for voice and piano; words by Leon Volade
• Paroles à la lune for voice and piano (1903); words by Anna de Noailles
• Panis Angelicus for voice and cello (1904)
• Dans les bois for voice and piano (1904); words by Gérard de Nerval
• La promesse for voice and piano or orchestra (1910); words by Gabriel Montoya
• La plainte for voice and piano or orchestra (1911); words by Lucien Paté
• Le papillon for voice and piano or orchestra (1911); words by Jean Aicard
• Le champ de bataille (1912); words by Théophile Gautier
• Trois mélodies for voice and piano or orchestra (1912); words by Théophile Gautier

1. Infidélité
2. La Dernière feuille
3. Serment

• Villanelle for voice and piano or orchestra (1912); words by Théophile Gautier
• Chanson violette for voice and piano or orchestra (1913); words by Albert Samain
• Le chevrier for voice and piano or orchestra (1913); words by José-Maria de Heredia
• Il est d'étranges soirs for voice and piano or orchestra (1913) words by Albert Samain
• Viole for voice and piano (1913); words by Albert Samain
• In manus tuas for voice, oboe and organ (1914)
• Quatre poèmes de Jean Lahor for voice and piano or orchestra (1921)

1. Après l'orage
2. Adieux
3. Après le bal
4. Dèsir de mort

• Vocalise-étude for medium voice and piano (1924)
• Le Poèt et la muse for voice and piano; words by E. Thévenet
• L'embarquement pour l'idéal for voice and piano; words by Catulle Mendès
• Mortes les fleurs for voice and piano; words by P. May
• Chanson napolitaine for voice and piano; words by P. May

Choral

• Os Justi, Offertorium for chorus and organ (1903)
• Acis et Galatée, Cantata (1910)
• Jeanne d'Arc, Oratorio (1913); words by Gabriel Montoya
• Salve Regina for chorus a cappella (1929)
• Messe du cinquième centenaire de la mort de Jeanne d'Arc (Mass for the Fifth Centenary of the Death of Joan of Arc) for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1931)
• Nuit tombante for chorus and orchestra
• Pastorale de Noël pour for soloists, chorus and orchestra
• Soleils de septembre for chorus and orchestra