Content
- Composer's note
- Anmerkung des Komponisten
- Note du compositeur
- Instrumentation
- Symphony No. 2
Scored for chamber orchestra and dating from 1999, this work is built on MacMillans shorter Piano Sonata of 1985. That work was composed during a bitter Ayrshire winter: the composer recalls the barren trees and hard frozen ground of a landscape that was empty and silent but for the harsh, hollow cry from the rookeries. Throughout the three movements the music conveys a mood of elegy, despair and desolation. In Symphony no 2 the original has been opened up to new forms of expansion, sometimes according to colouristic potential, at other times to dramatic or even originally unseen potential. The first movement is short and preparatory to the more extended second movement. The third movement is a brief postlude, almost an afterthought to what has been heard, during which some of the principal memories of the earlier movements are stated over some quotations from Wagners Tristan und Isolde.
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 666901
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1556
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 666855
for orchestra (chamber orchestra)
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1512
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 616924
Concert overture for orchestra
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1534
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 637731
Hawkes Pocket Scores
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 635853
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1446
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 580062
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1448
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 580064
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1466
for: Chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 635626