This work was commissioned by City University Symphony Orchestra for its 1994-95 season. Japanese gagaku court music and medieval plainsong and organum are its principal sources of inspiration. My aim was to create a symphonic structure of modest scale with the same kind of dramatic, rhetorical quality of some of the polystylistic works of Arvo Pärt and Alfred Schnittke.
World premiere 10/3/1995 St John's Smith Square, London: City University Symphony Orchestra/Matthew Rowe.
Commissioned by Denis Smalley for City University Symphony Orchestra.
Performing materials produced with support from the Holst Foundation.
- ISMN: 9790570683994 (M570683994)