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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)
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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.
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