Scoring
2vln.2vla.2vlc
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Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Availability
World Premiere
21/02/1988
Purcell Room, London
Park Lane String Sextet
Composer's Notes
My String Sextet might have the subtitle Train of Thoughts, since it was drawn from the sensations I have always experienced when travelling by train, when the hypnotic continuity of the rhythm of the wheels has induced in me a succession of thoughts.
Therefore this work contains an onomatopoeic element in the rhythmical pattern which is built around a 3-note cell (F-B-E), constantly rotated and frequently transposed and reflected.
Andrzej Panufnik
Reproduction Rights
This programme note can be reproduced free of charge in concert programmes with a credit to the composer
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