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...the brightness of snow
Duration: 10 minutes
Opus: 65
Date: 2013
ORIANA
Information
Re-working, as a stand-alone movement, of the last movement of Symphony No.3 "Fire in the Snow".
"Bright, from fields where the snow lies thick,
From sunk fields to the latch's click
You come; and your eyes, most watchful, glow,
Seeing in the firelight the brightness of snow."
(extract from Fire in the Snow by Vernon Watkins)
Instrumentation
3/1.26+1.2+1.2 | 4.3.3.1 | T+3 | Hp. | Pno./Cel. |stgs
Commissioned by
Alun Francis & Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM
First performance
Premièred by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Jac van Steen at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff in February 2011.
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