Op.51 - Symphony No.4

Category		Orchestral > Symphonies
Composed		1989-1990
Duration (approx)		27 minutes
Parts		Small orchestra (27 players): 1(=picc). 2(II=ca). 0.2 - 2000 - strings (6.5.4.3.2)
Notes		Also versions of fourth movement as Three to Tango, Op.51a.
Related Works		Op.51c - Five to Tango Op.51b - Four to Tango Op.51f - It takes two Op.51d - One to Tango Op.51e - Thirty to Tango Op.51a - Three to Tango
Recording(s)		Cantiga, September Music, Introit, Symphony No.4
Publisher		Faber Music
Commission		English Chamber Orchestra with funds from the Arts Council of Great Britain
First performance		28 May 1991
Venue		Barbican Hall, London
Orchestra / Ensemble		English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor		Mark Wigglesworth
Review		Arnold Whittall, The Gramophone, August 1994
		… has an unselfconscious robustness of rhythms that sets up many associations - Nielsen via Simpson, Stravinsky via Tippett, Janacek, even John Adams.