Prologo e fantasia

for orchestra

General Information – Instrumentation – Manuscript – Publication – Recordings

General Information:

Composition:
1981–2. This was Walton's last major work.

First Performance:
20 February 1982. Royal Festival Hall, London. National Symphony Orchestra (of Washington, D.C.), Mstislav Rostropovich conductor.

Duration:
About 6 minutes

Tempi:

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C100

Instrumentation:

3 flutes (third doubling piccolo), 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, 3 percussion (side drum, bass drum, cymbals, xylophone) – harp – piano – strings

Manuscript:

Frederick R. Koch Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Manuscript FRKF 610. Manuscript full score. Partly full score, partly draft, with a few photocopied pages in a copyist's hand. 47 pages.

Publication:

Oxford University Press. Study score, 1984, 019 3683539. Score and parts are available on hire.
            [Purchase online from SheetMusicPlus.com: Study score]

Recordings:

WilliamWalton.net – Catalogue of Works – Orchestral Music