Instrumentation

picc.2.2.2.2 - 4331 - timp - perc(2): t.bells/cyms/tam-t/vib/BD/susp.cym/tamb/SD/TD - harp - strings

Availability

Score 0-571-50574-0 on sale, parts for hire

Programme Notes

Malcolm Arnold Four Cornish Dances The Cornish people have a highly developed sense of humour. Many are sea-faring folk, and it is a land of male voice choirs, brass bands, Methodism, May Days, and Moody and Sankey hymns. The Cornish, despite, or even because of, their great sense of independence have been ruthlessly exploited. The deserted engine houses of the tin and copper mines bear silent witness to this, and these ruins radiate a strange and sad beauty. I hope some of these things are present in this music, which is Cornish through the eyes of a “furrener”. Malcolm Arnold

Four Cornish Dances

St John's Smith Square (London, United Kingdom)

Fulham Symphony Orchestra/Marc Dooley

Four Cornish Dances

St Mary's Church (Nottingham, United Kingdom)

Nottingham Symphony Orchestra/Derek Williams

Four Cornish Dances

BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom)

Andrew Penny/Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Four Cornish Dances

Théâtre de la Sinne (Mulhouse, Alsace, France)

Four Cornish Dances

BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom)

Bryden Thomson/Philharmonia Orchestra