Symphony No.2, Op.17

Category		Orchestral > Symphonies
Composed		1976-1979
Duration (approx)		35 minutes
Parts		3(III=picc).3(III=ca). 3(II+III=bcl). 3(III=cbsn) - 4331- timp(2) - perc(3): 4 tam-t/BD/3 tom-t/TD/bongos/4 susp. cym/glsp/vib/mar/xyl/3 bells/crot - cel - harp - strings (ideally 16.14.12.12.8)
Recording(s)		Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6
Publisher		Faber Music
First performance		13 May 1982
Venue		St John's Smith Square, London
Orchestra / Ensemble		Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor		Simon Rattle
Review		Bayan Northcott, Telegraph, May 1982
		… a score almost every page of which glows with an ingenious and felt musicality, and in which, all too unusually these days, its basic idea - a finely wrought melody for bassoon - is also its most personal and memorable invention.