Concerto for Double String Orchestra
composer: Sir Michael Tippett
Premiere: 21 April 1940 London, Morley College · South London Orchestra · Michael Tippett, conductor
Orchestra instrumentation: str(minimum players per orchestra: 4.4.4.4.2)
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 23' 0''
Year of composition: 1938/39
Edition: performance material - Register: Streichorchester
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This is one of the great English works for string orchestra, in direct line with those by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten, but also Bartók and Stravinsky. Tippett uses folk songs and Elizabethan dance rhythms to create a joyous and jazzy score in three movements which shows off the radiant sound of a string orchestra. At the heart of the work is a beautiful slow movement featuring a Welsh folk song played first by the solo violin.
Recordings
Remembering Tippett · Recordings from the 1940s (2005)
Sir Michael Tippett- Concerto for Double String Orchestra
- String Quartet No.2 in F sharp
- Fantasy Sonata for piano
Tallis: Spem in alium
Phyllis Sellick (piano); Zorian Quartet; Orchestra / Walter Goehr (conductor); Morley College Choir / Michael Tippett (conductor)
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NMC D103
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