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London, Maida Vale Studios: Beamish, Taylor, Hayes and Lim

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2013

Paul Conway
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In an uncommonly enterprising programme, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Garry Walker, presented a world première, a UK première, a London première and a first professional performance in the same Maida Vale Studio concert on 25 January 2013, recorded for future broadcast on Radio 3's afternoon schedules. Despite the inclement weather, all four composers were present, and they all spoke briefly but engagingly about their piece. Though roughly of the same generation, each composer offered a refreshingly contrasting approach to orchestral writing in the present century.

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First Performances
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Tempo , Volume 67 , Issue 265 , July 2013 , pp. 79 - 80
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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References

1 An effect so reminiscent of the opening of the ‘Introduzione’ section from Davies's own Hymn to St Magnus for chamber ensemble with mezzo-soprano obbligato of 1972 as to be, perhaps, a personal tribute to the dedicatee of A Cage of Doves.

2 John Joubert, ‘On Setting Yeats’ Byzantium', in The Musical Times 123 (1982), pp. 249–50.

3 Tippett, Michael, Tippett on Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 106Google Scholar.