Burnham Wick, Op.73

Small orchestra: 1(=picc).1(=ca).1.1 - 1000 - perc(1): 6 crot/3 timp/3 tuned gong/2 conga/tamb/shaker/tam-t - harp - strings

Britten Sinfonia

There was an attractive new piece by David Matthews, Burnham Wick, that developed the composer’s long preoccupation with translating landscape into sound. Written in memoriam to Michael Tippett [NB: dedication added in 1998], it observed the synthesis of the exotic and the pastoral in Tippett’s music, and those bounding, interrupted dance-figures that sometimes do but don’t take off into sustained flight.