general information

composition date
1980
duration
15 min
editor
Schott
Commission
Mim-On Contemporary Music Composition Festival
Libretto (details, author)

d'après James Joyce

type

Concertant music (Violin and orchestra)

detailed formation

Soloist
violin

3 flutes (also piccolo, alto flute), 3 oboes (also English horn), 3 clarinets (also Eb clarinet, bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, timpani, 4 percussionists, 2 harp, celesta, 16 violins, 14 second violins, 12 violas, 10 cellos, 8 double basses, contrabassoon

information about the creation

date
May 24, 1980

Japon, Tokyo

interpreters

Ida Kavafian : violon, orchestre symphonique Tokyo Metropolitan, direction : Tadaaki Otaka.

observations

Première des trois œuvres composées d'après Finnegans Wake de Joyce : Far calls, coming far !A Way a Lone, Riverrun.


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