Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence

for orchestra

arranged by Christopher Palmer

General Information – Instrumentation – Publication – Recordings

General Information:

Arrangement:
Arranged by Christopher Palmer, 1988, from the music for the film Major Barbara (1941).

First Performance:
Tuesday, 15 March 1988. Barbican Centre, London. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Elmer Bernstein conductor.

Duration:
About 10 minutes

Movements:

I.   Titles —
II.   Undershaft's factory and his 'garden suburb' —
III.   Love-scene —
     IV.   End Titles and Play-out

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C41a

Instrumentation:

3 flutes (second and third doubling piccolos), 3 oboes (third doubling cor anglais), 3 clarinets (third doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (third doubling contrabassoon) – 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba – timpani, 5 or 6 percussion (bass drum, snare drum, field drum, cymbals, triangle, woodblock, tam-tam, glockenspiel, whip, anvil, vibraphone, xylophone, castanets, tambourine) – 2 harps – piano (doubling celesta) – strings

Publication:

Oxford University Press. Full score, 019 3682176. Score and parts are available on hire.
            [Purchase online from SheetMusicPlus.com: Full score]

Recordings:

Orchestra Conductor Year Compact Disc Timing
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Sir Neville Marriner 1990 Chandos CHAN 8870 10'31"

 

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