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ANDREW DOWNES PUBLISHED
WORKS
ORCHESTRAL Small Orchestra; Chamber Orchestra; String Orchestra:-
TOCCATA FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA Opus 26 (1982) 4' View
Score
(2 oboes, 2 horns, strings)
Commissioned by the Academy of St Philip's Orchestra, who first performed the
work on 11th July 1982 at Burg Güssing,
Burgenland, at the Vienna Youth Festival as part of their first-prize winning
programme. The orchestra gave subsequent
performances in Salzburg and on Austrian Radio. British performances by the
same orchestra were given in Birmingham Cathedral, Great Witley
Church and the Holywell Music Room, Oxford. The work
has subsequently been performed by the Manchester University Chamber Orchestra
(March 1987); the Birmingham Festival Choral Society Orchestra as part of the
Birmingham Festival Choral Society's 'Towards the Millennium' Concert Series
(March 1999); the Portsmouth New Music Orchestra (October 1999); and by the Haybridge Community Orchestra, Worcestershire (April and
June 2005).
SYMPHONY NO.2 for Chamber Orchestra - See under Symphonies Page 21
FIVE MOVEMENTS FOR PIANO AND STRING ORCHESTRA - See under Solo Instruments with Orchestra Page 13
CONCERTO FOR TWO PIANOS AND STRING ORCHESTRA - See page 13
CONCERTO FOR TWO GUITARS AND STRING ORCHESTRA - See page 13
CONCERTO FOR NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE OR ALTO FLUTE WITH STRING ORCHESTRA See pg 13