Work
Symphony - The Islands
for orchestra
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A full-length symphony for large orchestra in three movements. It takes its title from the sequence of three sonnets The Islands by the New Zealand poet Charles Brasch. The music mirrors the unsettled air of the poetry and contrasts violence with delicacy and beauty as a metaphor for our times.
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Contents note
- Recitative and Appassionata
- Gongs, Echoes and Chants
- "And none knows..."
Performance history
09 May 1996: performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra cond. John Hopkins; Christchurch Town Hall
Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lucas Vis and recorded live at The Aotea Centre, Auckland, New Zealand in July 1996