Instrumentation
Piano
String Orchestra
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Other Information
First performed by Malcolm Wilson and the Birmingham School of Music String Orchestra, conducted by Geoffrey Duggan, at Birmingham School of Music on December 12th 1977.
´ This work...has emotional strength displayed in short movements of well developed structure. The lay-out, clear and unfussed, uses string textures with a solo piano part of effective proportions. Melodic ideas bearing a broad family relationship tie the five parts, varied though they are, in a bond of dramatic unity.´
THE BIRMINGHAM POST
Arrangement of the work for Piano Quartet, by Cynthia Downes, first performed at the Friends´ Meeting House, Hertford in October, 1997, by ´Contrasts´, with subsequent performances in Birmingham and Holland.
´This proved to be constantly interesting music and delightfully approachable. It has many beauties - melodies and fascinating rhythms - and makes the most of each of the instruments. The performance was vigorous, sensitive and confident, and in response to the audience´s enthusiastic appreciation, the last movement was repeated as an encore at the end of the recital. It confirmed the first impression that further hearings would reveal even greater beauties in the music.´
HERTFORDSHIRE MERCURY
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