The most profound influences on Stevenson’s music have been the twin (and very
different) examples of Busoni and Percy Grainger, the power of folk music
(especially Scottish) and the grand tradition of pianism and virtuosity
descending from Liszt through Busoni, Medtner,
Paderewski and Rachmaninoff.

Selected list of works

(Stevenson’s works run into the hundreds, especially in
piano music and songs - this list concentrates on the larger items and those
that are published

Concertante works: Fantasia for piano and string orchestra, 1946; Piano
Concerto No.1 ‘A Faust Triptych’, 1959-60; Simple Variations on Purcell’s
Scotch Tune for clarinet and string orchestra, 1967; Vocalise Variations on
themes from Les Troyens for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, 1969; Piano Concerto
No.2 ‘The Continents’, 1970-72; Violin Concerto ‘The Gypsy’, 1973-79;
Corroboree for Grainger for piano, concert band and percussion, 1989; Cello
Concerto ‘The Solitary Singer’ (1992-94)

Orchestra and String Orchestra: Berceuse symphonique, 1951; Scots Dance
Toccata, 1965; Young Scotland Suite, 1976; Recitative and Air (arr. strings, 1980)

Chamber Music: Sonata for violin and piano, 1947; 4 Meditations for string
quartet, 1964; Nocturne ‘Homage to John Field’ for clarinet and piano, 1965;
Duo-Sonata for harp and piano, 1971; Recitative and Air (violin or viola or
cello or bassoon and piano, 1974; also for string quartet, 1987); Variations
and Theme for cello and piano, 1974; Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, duo for 2
guitars, 1983; Fantasy Piano Quartet ‘Alma Alba’, 1985; Bergstimmung for horn
and piano, 1986; The Harlot’s House, ballet after Oscar Wilde for free-bass accordion, timpani and percussion, 1988; String Quartet
‘Voces Vagabundae’, 1990; Wind Quintet, 2000

Piano Music: 3 Sonatinas, 1945-48; Fugue on a Fragment of Chopin, 1949 (also
for 2 pianos, 1953), A 20th-Century Music Diary, 1956-59; Prelude, Fugue and
Fantasy on Themes from Busoni’s Faust, 1949-59; Passacaglia on D-S-C-H,
1960-62; A Modern scottish Triptych (Keening Sang for a Makar, Heroic Song for
Hugh MacDiarmid, Chorale-Pibroch for Sorley MacLean), 1959-67; South Uist
Hebridean Folksong Suite, 1969; Peter Grimes Fantasy, 1971; 3 Scottish Ballads,
1973; Sonatina serenissima (in memoriam Benjamin Britten), 1973-77; Norse Elegy for Ella Nygard, 1976-79; Symphonic Elegy for Liszt,
1986; Motus Perpetuus Temporibus Fatalibus, 1987-88; Beltane Bonfire, 1989; A
Carlyle Suite, 1995; Le Festin d’Alkan, petit concert, 1988-97

Other solo instruments: Variations on a theme of Pizzetti for solo violin,
1961; Prelude and Fugue on a 12-note theme of Liszt, for organ, 1961; Sonata
for harpsichord, 1968; Fantasia polifonia for harp, 1983-84; Scots Suite for
solo violin, 1984

Choral music: Songs into Space (Whitman), 1962; A Medieval Scottish triptych,
1967; Anns an Airdre, as an Doimhne, 1968; Ballatis of Luve, 1971; In Memoriam
Robert Carver, 12-part motet, 1987; Peace Motets, 1984-87; Coral recitative and
Psalm 23, 1990-92

Songs: There are over 300 individual songs, including major collections of
settings of Hugh MacDiarmid, William Soutar and James Joyce. The following are
just the major cycles - Songs of Innocence (Blake), 1947-48; Vietnamese
Miniatures (Ho Chi Minh), 1966; Border Boyhood (MacDiarmid), 1970; The Infernal
City (MacDiarmid), 1970-71; 9 Haiku, 1971; Songs of Quest (Davidson), 1974;
Hills of Home (RLS), 1975; Lieder ohne Buchstaben (A.D.Hope), 1982; A Child’s
Garden of Verses (RLS), 1985; The Gangrel Fiddler (Gordon), 1987

Transcriptions (for piano unless otherwise indicated):
Wiegenlied aus Wozzeck, 1953; Grainger, Hill-Song No.1, 1960; Suite from
Paderewski’s ‘Manru’, 1961; 9 Songs of Francis George Scott, 1963; Grainger,
Green Bushes, 1963; Quartettino (Busoni’s Sonatina No.3 arr for string
quartet), 1965; Ysaye: 6 Sonatas for solo violin realized as piano Sonatas,
1981-82; L’Art nouveau du Chant applique au piano (22 songs by various
composers arr as studies in Bel Canto pianism), 1980-86; Nielsen, Commotio,
1986; Mahler, Adagio from Symphony No.10, 1987; Van Dieren, string quartet realized as piano sonata, 1987; Grieg, Den bergtekne, 1990; Purcell: Hornpipe, 1995