Motorcycle Michael, Op. 9 (narrator & chamber orchestra)
Derek B. Scott

Browse Works

Salisbury Plain, Op. 1 (horn & piano)
Pagan Overture, Op. 2 (orchestra)
North Country Variations (withdrawn)
Guitar Concerto (withdrawn)
Danny Deever, Op. 13 (voice & chamber ensemble)
Five Yeats Songs, Op. 14 (voice & piano)
Motorcycle Michael, Op. 9 (narrator & chamber orchestra)
Scherzo, Op. 4 (double bass & piano)
Sinfonietta (withdrawn)
Songs Of Innocence And Experience, Op. 11 (voices - SAATTB minimum)
Suite, Op. 12 (harpsichord)
Three Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 5 (voice & piano)
Chacony, Op. 24 (orchestra)
Fugal Overture, Op. 6 (orchestra)
Brannigan's Journey, Op. 30 (Tone Poem No. 1)
Kirkliston Waltz, Op. 31 (orchestra)
Lament, Op. 8 (full orchestra)
La Marseillaise, Op. 20
Symphony No. 1, Op. 23 (brass band)
Symphony No. 2, Op. 26 (brass band)
Airs & Dances, Op. 28 (Highland bagpipe & brass band)
Former Beauties, Op. 0 (baritone voice & piano)
Wilberforce, Op. 10 (operetta)
The Silver Sword, Op. 15 (voices & chamber ensemble)
The Warning Song, Op. 18 (dramatic cantata)
Three Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 5 (voice & piano quintet)
Four Yeats Songs, Op. 22 (voice & piano quintet)
Wilberforce March Op. 10a (brass band)
Five Yeats Songs, Op. 14 (voice & string quartet)
Brass Quintet, Op. 7
Clear the Decks! Op. 21 (jazz band)
Perpetuum Mobile, Op. 29 (brass band)
Past & Present, Op. 33 (voice & piano)
Three Love Songs, Op. 19 (voice & piano)
Three Love Songs, Op. 19 (voice & piano quintet)
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 17
3 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 27 (piano)
The Isle of Skye, Op. 16 (Highland bagpipe)
Dafydd y Garreg Wen, Op. 25 (brass band)
Suite Grotesque, Op. 32 (orchestra)
Dafydd y Garreg Wen, Op. 25 (orchestra)
Clear the Decks! Op. 21 (orchestra)
String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 34 (Quartetto spensierato)
Apathetic Trio, Op. 3 (clarinet, horn & piano)
2 Folksongs in the Dorian Mode (1971–73)
String Quartet No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 35 (Quartetto nostalgico)
Descant Recorder Sonata (1970)
4 Pop Songs (1968)
28 Pop Songs (1967)
L'Eritrea, Op. 36
14 Pop Songs (1966)
2 Songs for Europe
3 Burns Songs (voice & pf.)
Serenade, Op. 48
Telescope (1973)
Three Old-Time Dances (1977–80)
12 Miscellaneous Songs
5 Yeats Songs, Op. 14
Midsommervisen, Op. 37
Former Beauties (voice + piano quintet)
Past & Present, Op. 33 (voice + piano quintet)
The Silver Sword, Op. 39 (Tone Poem No. 2)
Symphony No. 1 in A-flat Major, Op. 23
Symphony No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 26
String Quartet No. 4 in E Major, Op. 38
Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 40
Airs & Dances, Op. 28 (Bagpipe & Orchestra)
4 Part-Songs (1972–80)
Fibrillation Fantasy, Op. 41
Pavane, Op. 42
The Warning Song (Tone Poem No. 4), Op. 44
Wilberforce (Tone Poem No. 3), Op. 43
Salisbury Plain (Horn + Orch)
Reminiscence, Op. 45 (1971, rev. 2022)
Dance Suite No. 2: The 1960s Part One
Dance Suite No. 2: The 1960s Part Two
Dance Suite No. 1, part one
Dance Suite No. 1, part two
12 Little Preludes for Piano (1968)
Impromptu for piano (1968)
Valse à la Chopin (1972)
2 Funeral Chorale Preludes (1972)
Classical Sonata in the Style of Haydn (1972)
Chorale Fugue for Organ (1972)
Clear the Decks! (Boogie for Piano), Op. 21 (1991)

Instrumentation

Clarinet
1
Flute
1
Percussion
2
Piano
2
Piccolo
1
Strings
1
VV
1
Harmonica

Additional Information

For narrator, young audience and chamber orchestra (words by Steve Davis). It is composed for the same forces as those used by Saint-Säens in his Carnival of the Animals.

First performed by Johnny Morris and Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra.

Details

Year
Publisher
Composer
Score file
Motorcycle Michael Op 9.pdf
Minutes
15

Recordings

Recording format id
1
Title
Motorcycle Michael, Op. 9 Excerpt
Media link
motorcycle-michael-op-9-excerpt