Andrew Downes - Toccata for Small Orchestra

Toccata for Small Orchestra

Instrumentation

2 oboes, 2 horns, strings

Other Information

Commissioned by the Academy of St Philip´s Orchestra.
First performed at the Vienna Youth Festival as part of the first-prize winning programme by the orchestra. Subsequent performances in Salzburg and broadcast on Austrian Radio. British performances by the same orchestra in Birmingham Cathedral; Great Witley Church; the Holywell Music Room, Oxford; and also at Manchester University by the University Chamber Orchestra. Performers of this work include the Birmingham Festival Choral Society Orchestra as part of the Birmingham Festival Choral Society´s ´Towards the Millennium´ Concert Series (March 1999); the Portsmouth New Music Orchestra (October 1999); and by the Haybridge Community Orchestra, Worcestershire (April and June 2005).