List of compositions by John Woolrich

This is a list of compositions by contemporary English composer John Woolrich (born 1954).

Brass and wind

 * Call to the Mirrors (2014)
 * Fanfare (1994)
 * Sennets and Tuckets (1998)

Chamber ensemble

 * A Book of Studies sets I and II (1993)
 * A Cabinet of Curiosities (1993)
 * A door just opened on a street (from A Book of Inventions)
 * A Dramolet, for clarinet, cello and piano (2008)
 * A Farewell, for clarinet, viola and piano (1992)
 * A Leap in the Dark (1994)
 * A Parcel of Airs (from A Book of Inventions)
 * A Presence of Departed Acts, for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2002)
 * A Shadowed Lesson (1993)
 * A Short Story (from A Book of Inventions)
 * A Still Tragic Dance (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Adagissimo, for piano quartet (1997)
 * After the Clock (1989)
 * Another Journey Calls (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Badinerie (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Caprichos (1997)
 * Contredanse (1991)
 * Cutting a Caper (2001)
 * Dartington Doubles (1988)
 * Debricollage (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Disparition (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Duendecitos (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Ending Up (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Envoi, for viola and small ensemble (1997)
 * Exploit in White, for brass quintet (2001)
 * Fantazia, for viol consort (1994)
 * Favola in Musica I, for oboe, clarinet and piano (1990)
 * Favola in Musica II, for oboe, soprano saxophone and percussion (1992)
 * From the Book of Disquiet (2005)
 * From the Shadow (1994)
 * Going a Journey (2006)
 * In the Mirrors of Asleep (2007)
 * In the Stones, for string quartet (2004)
 * Kleine Wanderung (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Leaving Home, for oboe quintet (2003)
 * Lending Wings (1989)
 * Morendo (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Music from a House of Crossed Desires (1996)
 * My Box of Phantoms, for oboe quartet (1998)
 * Oboe Quintet (1998)
 * Pluck from the Air, for piano quintet (2013)
 * Quick Steps (1990)
 * Quiddities (2005)
 * Scamander (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Scherzi di Fantasia (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Sestina, for piano quartet (1997)
 * Songs and Broken Music (1993)
 * Spalanzani's Daughter (1983)
 * Stealing a March (2000)
 * Stone Dances (1980)
 * String Quartet No. 1 (1995)
 * String Quartet No. 2 (2000)
 * String Trio (1996)
 * Suite from Bitter Fruit (2002)
 * Swan Song (2015)
 * The Death of King Renaud, for string quintet (1991)
 * The Devil in the Clock (2012)
 * The Iron Cockerel Sings (1998)
 * The Lost Day of Return (2004)
 * The Night will not draw on, for piano trio (2008)
 * The path is winding (from A Book of Inventions)
 * The Turkish Mouse, for oboe and piano (1988)
 * The Voices of Dust (from A Book of Inventions)
 * The Way Out Discovered (1997)
 * Three Arias for Oboe and Six Viols (2001)
 * Three Fantasias for Six Viols (2001)
 * Totentanz (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Toward the Black Sky, for piano trio (1997)
 * Unweaving (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Villanesca (from A Book of Inventions)
 * Watermark, for violin and bass clarinet (2002)
 * Zibaldone (from A Book of Inventions)

Chamber orchestra

 * A Curtain Tune (1996)
 * Arcangelo (2002)
 * Between the Hammer and the Anvil (2008)
 * Cantilena (1997)
 * Come and Go (2005)
 * Concerto for Orchestra (1999)
 * Speed the Going (1998)
 * Through paths and turnings (2013)

Choral

 * A Book of Elegies (1996)
 * A Quality of Loss (2014)
 * A world is growing green (2016)
 * Earth Grown Old (2003)
 * Far from Home (1993)
 * Little Walserings (1999)
 * Over the Sea (1993)
 * Paradise (2000)
 * Spring in Winter (2001)
 * That saying goodbye at the edge of the dark (2016)
 * The Old Year (1999)
 * The Rolling Years (2000)
 * This Change (2003)
 * Three Choruses (1998)

Instrumental

 * A Sort of Heaven, for violin and piano (2013)
 * Darker Still, for flute and piano (2002)
 * Dum Spiro, Spero, for accordion (2001)
 * Elegy, for cello and piano (2001)
 * Four Pieces for Cello and Piano (1994)
 * Im Ruhigen Tal, for violin and piano (1993)
 * Keepsake, for solo cor anglais (2000)
 * Locus Solus, for piano (1998)
 * Ostinato, for piano (2019)
 * Pianobooks I-XV (1991–2016)
 * ....that is Night, for violin and piano (1995)
 * The Kingdom of Dreams, for oboe and piano (1989)
 * The wakeful Night, for clarinet in A (2019)
 * Three Capriccios for Oboe (2001)
 * Three Pieces for Viola (1993)
 * Three Pieces for Violin (2001)
 * Through a Limbeck, for solo viola (2002)
 * ....with land in Sight, for solo cello (1994)

Music theatre

 * Bitter Fruit (1999–2000)

Orchestral

 * A Capriccio to Calliope Herself (2000)
 * A Litany, for oboe and strings (1998–99)
 * Accord (1999)
 * Concerto for Cello (1998)
 * Concerto for Oboe (1996)
 * Concerto for Viola (1993)
 * Concerto for Violin (2008)
 * Falling Down, for double bassoon and orchestra (2009)
 * Fanfarronada (2002)
 * Si Va Facendo Notte, for clarinet and strings (1992)
 * Tales of Transformation (2004)
 * The Barber's Timepiece (1986)
 * The Elephant from Celebes (2005)
 * The Ghost in the Machine (1990)
 * The Street of Crocodiles, for piano, trumpet and strings (2005)
 * The Theatre Represents a Garden: Night (1991)
 * The Tongs and the Bones (2014)
 * Whitel's Ey (2008)

String orchestra

 * Another Staircase Overture (1994)
 * Blue Drowning (2005)
 * Capriccio (2009)
 * Italian Songs (2009)
 * It is Midnight, Dr Schweitzer (1992)
 * To the Silver Bow, for viola, bass and strings (2014)
 * Ulysses Awakes (1989)
 * Variation on 'Sellinger's Round' (2013)

Vocal

 * A Paper of Black Lines (2008)
 * A Singing Sky (2009)
 * Ariadne Laments (1994)
 * Berceuse (1990)
 * Black Riddle (1984)
 * Cascades (1983)
 * Five Italian Songs (1984)
 * Four Concert Arias (1994)
 * Four Songs after Hoffmann (1981)
 * Good Morning – Midnight (2002)
 * Harlequinade (1983)
 * Here is My Country (1995)
 * La Cantarina (1989)
 * Light and Rock (1988)
 * Malicious Observer (1995–96)
 * Ophelia Songs (1988)
 * Serbian Songs (1988)
 * The Sea and its Shore (2004)
 * The Unlit Suburbs (1998)
 * The Voices (2014)
 * Three Cautionary Tales (1990–94)
 * Three Macedonian Songs (1984)
 * Three Purcell Songs, arranged for high voice and strings
 * Three Songs for alto and six viols (2001)
 * Three Songs for mezzo and strings (2003)
 * To Witness her Goodbye (1995)
 * Twisting that Lock (1997)