'Flighty, filigree energy.’   The Guardian

Instrumentation

2.afl.2.2.bcl.2(II=cbsn) – 4331 – timp – perc(2): vib/glsp/ 2 susp.cym/6 tom-tom/tamb/sleighbells/siz.cym/tam-t/BD – harp – pno – strings

Availability

score and parts for hire

Reviews

‘The music had a flighty, filigree energy, but was haunted by dark string melodies, as if the embers of far-off fireworks were suspended over a churning sea.’
The Guardian (Tom Service), 22 June 2005

 

Fanfare and Flourish (with fireflies)

Bridgewater Hall (Manchester, United Kingdom)

Hallé Orchestra/Oliver Knussen

Fanfare and Flourish (with fireflies)

broadcast of Aldeburgh Festival premiere

BBC Radio 3 (United Kingdom)

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner

Fanfare and Flourish (with fireflies)

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

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oliver Knussen