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Scoring

3(III=picc).2.corA.2(II=Ebcl).bcl.2.dbn-4.3.3.1-timp.perc:glsp/xyl(4-octave)/crot/tgl/tamb/SD/TD/BD/2susp.cym/cym(clashed)/tam-t/anvil-2harps-cel-strings

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Publisher

Boosey & Hawkes

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

Availability

World Premiere
11/03/2004
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California
San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas
Repertoire Note

For this commission from Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony the composer was requested to create an orchestration of Debussy’s late masterpiece for two pianos, En blanc et noir. Holloway suggested that "these pieces draw their colour, their emotion, simply from the piano. So the orchestration is intended to be an opening out of the music’s physical resonance, not in the manner of Debussy but as a homage and in the spirit of Debussy." Once again, Holloway has taken a lesser-known piece by a great composer and made it more widely accessible to the music-loving audience.

Repertoire Note by Peter Marchbank

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Recommended Recording
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Orchestre National de Lyon/Jun Märkl
(p) and © 2001 Naxos Rights International Ltd
Naxos 8.572583

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