Work
Forest
for orchestra
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About
Composed in 1936, Forest was one of Lilburn’s earilest significant compositions. It won a competition initiated by Percy Grainger for an orchestral piece projecting ‘New Zealand cultural and emotional characteristics.’ The work is a tone poem for orchestra, depicting autumn at Mount Peel in South Canterbury. According to the musicologist Robert Hoskins, ‘we hear Lilburn tracking Sibelius through the shadowy woods, keeping his own distance, but measuring his own hesitancy until he takes his own road.’
Performance history
28 May 2003: Performed by the NZSO, conducted by Kenneth Young
20 Nov 2010: Scottish Connections
Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Judd