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Symphony No.4, Op.51

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 Five to Tango, Op.51c
Four to Tango, Op.51b
It takes two (cello, piano), Op.51g
It takes two (violin, piano), Op.51f
One to Tango, Op.51d
Tango for Counterpoise, Op.51h
Thirty to Tango, Op.51e
Three to Tango, Op.51a
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.