- General information
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Composition date:
1973 - 1979
- Duration: 15 mn
- Publisher: Faber Music, Londres, nº 50639
- Opus: 18
- Commission: BBC pour les Promenade Concerts 1979.
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Composition date:
1973 - 1979
- Type
- Instrumental ensemble music [Triple wind orchestra (or larger)]
Detailed formation
- 4 flutes (also 1 piccolo), 2 oboes, 1 English horn, 4 clarinets (also 1 Eb clarinet), 3 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, 1 timpani, 6 percussionists, 1 harp, 1 guitar (also 1 mandolin [ad lib.] ), 1 piano, 1 celesta, 12 violins, 12 second violins, 10 violas, 8 cellos, 6 double basses
Premiere information
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Date:
6 September 1979
Location:Londres, BBC Prom, Royal Albert Hall
Performers:l'orchestre symphonique de la BBC, direction : Michael Tilson Thomas.
- Création de la première partie le 24 janvier 1974 à Boston, par le Boston Symphony Orchestra, direction : Michael Tilson Thomas.