James MacMillan (b. 1959)
Symphony No. 2
chamber orchestra
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Details
- For
- chamber orchestra
- Product Type
- Study score
- Author / Composer
- James MacMillan
- Product number
- 666841
- Duration
- 24 Minutes
- Release Year
- 2017
Description
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...
Content
- Composer's note
- Anmerkung des Komponisten
- Note du compositeur
- Instrumentation
- Symphony No. 2