Chamber Music by Ernst Bacon
Title Description Premier Remarks Score Available from Recording
A Life Cello and Piano, 22 minutes Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Joel Krosnick, cello, 1986 Written to commemorate moments of the life of his son, Paul. Subito Music "Forgotten Americans" (Arabesque Recordings)
Aliens   Narrator, Oboe, Horn and Piano, 6 minutes   Syracuse University Festival   Poem by Colonel C.E.S. Wood   Fleisher Collection    
Breath of Life, The From the "Way of Life" (Lau Tzu, translated by Witter Bynner). 5 Apothegms for narrator and string quartet 15 minutes Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, 3/10/1952 Ernst Bacon Society
Buncombe County   Violin and Piano, 4 minutes   Joseph Szigeti, Carnegie Hall   From Apalachia. Written for Joseph Szigeti   Ernst Bacon Society    
Burnt Cabin Branch Flute and Piano, 1 1/2 minutes Original melodies in folk manner (easy) Broude
Cockfight, The   2 Oboes and Piano or 2 Clarinet and Piano, 2 minutes       Two instruments in cocky contention   Broude    
Cockfight, The 2 Oboes and Piano or 2 Clarinet and Piano, 2 minutes Two instruments in cocky contention Broude
Come Up From the Fields, Father   Narrator, Oboe, Horn and Piano, 5 minutes   Syracuse University Festival   Poem by Walt Whitman   Ernst Bacon Society    
Dusk Over the Marsh Flute and Piano, 6 minutes Ernst Bacon Society
Flower of Night, The   Cello and Piano       Based on a Bacon song setting of a poem by Eichendorff   Ernst Bacon Society    
Four Octettes for Brass Granite Boys, Joshua Ebener Fry, The Little Black Train, The Rolling Years Ernst Bacon Society
Holbert's Cove   Violin and Piano, 4 minutes       From Appalachia. Written for J. Heifetz.   Ernst Bacon Society    
Koschatiana Viola or Cello and Piano, 4 minutes Based on a Bacon song setting of a poem by Eichendorff Ernst Bacon Society
Okefenoke   Clarinet and Piano, 2 minutes       Original melodies in folk manner   Broude    
Old Airs From Many Countries Woodwind combinations, 10 pieces, 20 minutes Chapin School Ensemble, New York, 5/7/1964 Derived from fragments of folk songs G. Schirmer
Peterborough Suite   Suite for Viola and Piano, 19 minutes   MacDowell Dinner, Temple Emanuel, NY, 1952   Sections: The Farm, The 11:38 daily, The Rill, Monadnock at Dusk and Glad Day   Ernst Bacon Society    
Piano Quintet String Quartet and Piano, 22 minutes Syracuse University Ensemble, Harvard Club, Boston, 1946 Based on Shakespeare's "Tempest," 6 movements Ernst Bacon Society
Prologue to "Everyman"   Organ and Cello, 9 minutes       On an ancient Cantus Firmus   Ernst Bacon Society    
Purple Land Based on a Transylvanian tune. For cello and piano Ernst Bacon Society
Railroadin' Man (Salute to Casey Jones)   Various Cello combinations, 15 minutes       Teaching pieces. Commissioned by and dedicated to Einar Holm   Ernst Bacon Society    
Six Trios for Woods Flute (or Oboe), Clarinet and Bassoon, 20 minutes Stanford University Ensemble, 1961 Sections: Frog in the Well, The Vagrant, The Burro, Petticoat Slide, Love Song, The Gilligaloo Ernst Bacon Society
Sonata for Cello and Piano (1948)   Cello and Piano, 22 minutes   Times Hall, New York, E. Bacon and A. Kamp, 1946   In four movements, dedicated to Otto Luening   Ernst Bacon Society   Remembering Ansel Adams (CRI 779)
Sonata for Viola and Piano Viola, Piano, 24 minutes Nanci Severance Commissioned by Marcus Hawks and the Contra Costa Performing Arts Society. Ernst Bacon Society
Sonata for Violin and Piano   Violin, Piano, 27 minutes       Commissioned by Library of Congress for Bacon's 85th birthday   Ernst Bacon Society   Fond Affection (CRI 890)
Song After the Rain Horn and Piano, 3 minutes Written for Wendell Hoss; premiere uncertain Based on an old Transylvanian tune Broude
String Quintet   2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Contra Bass, 20 minutes   Krasner Ensemble, Mitropoulos Festival, Syracuse, NY, 2/9/1951   In four movements   Ernst Bacon Society    
Trio No. 1 Violin, Cello and Piano, 25 minutes National Gallery, Washington, DC, 1980 Commision Ernst Bacon Society
Trio No. 2   Violin, Cello and Piano, 35 minutes   Malan-Sutherland-Miland Trio, Burlingame, CA, 2/1/1987   Commisioned by Louise Davies and Judy Wilbur   Ernst Bacon Society    
Tumbleweeds Violin and Piano, 21 minutes Commissioned by Dorothy Bales. Americana Ernst Bacon Society Remembering Ansel Adams (CRI 779)
Welcome   Suite for cello and piano 14 minutes   Spartanburg, SC Festival, E. Bacon and A. Kamp.   On the birth of Bacon's son, Paul   Fleisher Collection    
Woodchuck, The Bassoon and piano 1 1/2 minutes Original melodies in folk manner (easy) Ernst Bacon Society