| Orchestral Works by Ernst Bacon | |||||
| Title | Description | Premier | Remarks | Score Available from | Recording |
| Bearwalla | A funny piece - 4 minutes | Traditional tunes | Fleisher Collection | ||
| Black and White Songs | 5 songs for Orchestra and Baritone - 12 minutes | Rochester Civic Orchestra, Gut Harrison, cond. George Houston, solo | Traditional text and tunes | Fleisher Collection | |
| Concerto Grosso | 4 movements. 19 minutes | Stanford University Symphony, E. Bacon, cond. 1957 | Also playable as a quintet | Fleisher Collection | |
| Elegy | Elegy on an ancient Venetian melody - 9 minutes | Memorial concert, Marin Symphony, E, Bacon, cond. 1957 | Written on the death of Gastone Usigli | Fleisher Collection | |
| Enchanted Isle, The (1945) | Characters and episodes in Shakespeare's "Tempest" - 22 minutes | G. Schirmer | |||
| Erie Waters | Short suite, 4 movements - 13 minutes | Utica Symphony | Americana (easy) | Fleisher Collection | |
| Fables | 6 Fables for Narrator and Orchestra - 23 minutes | NY Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Robert Shaw, cond. Edward Everett Horton, Narrator, 12/15/1953 | Text by John Edmunds and E. Bacon. | Fleisher Collection | |
| Ford's Theatre (1943) | A cycle on Lincoln's last days, based on Paul Horgan's play, "Death Mr. President" - 32 minutes | Southern Symphony, Carl Bamberger, cond. 4/4/1946 | G. Schirmer | Abraham Lincoln Portraits. Nashville Symphony Chorus
& Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559373-74) |
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| From These States (1951) | Orchestral suite - 30 minutes | NBC Symphony, Columbia University Festival, L. Barzin, cond. 5/12/1946 | The people's song as seen through climate, industry, amusement, travel and geography | G. Schirmer | |
| Great River Symphony | Symphony in episodes for Narrator and Orchestra - 30 minutes | Dallas Symphony Orchestra, W. Hendl, cond. 2/11/1957 | Text by Paul Horgan. Episodes in the course and history of the Rio Grande | Fleisher Collection | |
| Midnight Special | 4 songs for medium voice and Orchestra - 8 minutes | San Francisco Federal Orchestra, E. Bacon, cond. 1936 | Traditional text and tunes | Fleisher Collection | |
| Muffin Man, The | Large Orchestra - 5 Minutes | Several lively and humourous variations on the children's song, introducing the instruments of the orchestra. | G. Schirmer | ||
| My River | 5 songs for medium voice and Orchestra - 10 minutes | Texts of Emily Dickinson | Fleisher Collection | ||
| Nantucket Fling | Orchestra - 6 minutes | Fleisher Collection | |||
| Prelude and Fugue | 7 minutes | American Music Festival, Rochester Civic Orchestra, Howard Hanson, cond. 5/1/1925 | Fleisher Collection | ||
| Remembering Ansel Adams | Elegy for strings and clarinet | San Jose Symphony,George Cleve, cond. 1986 | Elegy to Bacons lifelong friend Produced by Master Musicians Collective | Fleisher Collection | Remembering Ansel Adams (CRI 779) |
| Riolama (10 Places for Piano and Orchestra | Concerto (2 piano reduction available) 25 minutes | Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Karl Kritz, cond. E. Bacon, solo | A series of tone paintings of places, real and imagined | Fleisher Collection | |
| Smokey Mountain Scherzo (1937) | 2nd Movement from Symphony #2 | G. Schirmer | |||
| Songs of Eternity | 4 songs for Baritone or contralto and Orchestra - 11 minutes | San Francisco Federal Orchestra, E. Bacon, cond. 1936 | Text by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman | Ernst Bacon Society | |
| Symphony No. 1 (1930) | 4 movements (2 Piano score available) 30 minutes | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, I. Dobrowen, cond. Jan 5 1934 | Awarded Pulitzer Fellowship, 1932 | G. Schirmer | |
| Symphony No. 2 (1937) | 4 movements (2 Piano score available) 25 minutes | Illinois Symphony Orchestra, E. Bacon, cond. Studebaker Theatre, Chicago, 2/5/1940 | G. Schirmer | ||
| Symphony No. 4 | 5 movements - 26 minutes | Incomplete | Ernst Bacon Society | ||
| Twilight | 3 songs for low voice and Orchestra - 8 minutes | San Francisco Federal Orchestra, E. Bacon, cond. 1936 | Text of Walt Whitman | Fleisher Collection | |