Instrumentation
organ, brass (8 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, tuba), percussion (including vibraphone) and strings.
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Other Information
4 movements: Prelude and Fanfare; Ricercare Scherzo; Postlude
First performance given by the Birmingham School of Music Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mark Foster, in All Saints Church, Cheltenham, as part of the Cheltenham Festival, in a concert to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Gustav Holst, former organist at the church.
´...this is a brilliant work written as a cry from the heart for recognition of the horror of nuclear war.´
BIRMINGHAM EVENING MAIL
´...a fine work laid out with the orchestral clarity that is a salient feature of the composer´s individual style.......this symphony progresses with dignity from despair to a final ray of hope expressed by Downes with an immediacy of communication that lies at the heart of all musical inspiration.´
BIRMINGHAM POST
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