• Composition: 1957
• First Performance: 30 January 1958. Severance Hall, Cleveland. Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conductor.
• Duration: About 16 minutes
• Movements: I. Toccata-Brioso - II. Pastorale siciliana-Andante comodo - III. Giga burlesca-Allegro gioviale
• Dedication: To George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra
• Craggs Catalogue Number: C67
• Instrumentation: 3 flutes (third doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, cor anglais, 3 clarinets (third doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (third doubling contrabassoon) – 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba – timpani, 4 percussion (snare drum, military drum, bass drum, cymbals, tambourine, castanets, triangle, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone) – celesta – harp – strings
• Manuscript: Frederick R. Koch Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Manuscript FRKF 631. Autograph full score. 113 pages.
• Publication: Oxford University Press. Study score, 1958, 019 3683350. Score and parts are available on hire.
• Recordings:
Orchestra | Conductor | Year | Compact Disc | Timing |
Philharmonia Orchestra | Sir William Walton | 1959 | EMI Classics 65006 | 15’48” |
Cleveland Orchestra | George Szell | 1959 | EPIC 62753 | 15’12” |
London Philharmonic | Leonard Slatkin | 1990 | RCA Victor 60813-2 | 16’04” |
London Philharmonic | Bryden Thomson | 1991 | Chandos CHAN 8959 | 17’34” |
English Northern Philharmonia | Paul Daniel | 1994 | Naxos 8.553180 | 17’26” |