Burnham Wick, Op.73

Category		Orchestral > Other Orchestral Works
Composed		1997
Duration (approx)		15 minutes
Parts		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
Publisher		Faber Music
Commission		Britten Sinfonia
First performance		10 March 1998
Venue		Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham
Orchestra / Ensemble		Britten Sinfonia
Conductor		Nicholas Cleobury
Review		Michael White, The Independent on Sunday, 28 February 1999
		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.