Instrumentation

Piano, strg qtet and string orchestra.

Availability

Score 0571506461 on sale, parts for hire

Reviews

"It is an immediately arresting, powerfully assertive work, with that same tinglingly exuberant virtuosity and rich texture of string writing that characterize 'Les illuminations' (also 1939), plus something of a baroque grandeur." Michael Greenhalgh, Sound Scrutiny, December 1982

Young Apollo

Snape Maltings Concert Hall (Snape, Suffolk, United Kingdom)

Britten Sinfonia/Helen Charlston

Young Apollo

Kulturpalast (Dresden, Sachsen, Germany)

Kirill Gerstein/Donald Runnicles/Dresdner Philharmoniker

Young Apollo

Bridgewater Hall (Manchester, United Kingdom)

Pavel Kolesnikov/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra