22.
ANDREW DOWNES PUBLISHED WORKS
WIND BAND:-
SYMPHONY No.4 - scored for Concert Wind Band Opus 60 (1996) 25' View
Score
Commissioned by Janice Lee Sperling MD for the
Albuquerque Concert Band. The British premiere took place on 9th December 1997
in the Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham, with Guy Woolfenden conducting the Birmingham Conservatoire Wind
Band.
Subsequent performances by the Yorkshire Wind Band at the
BASWE Festival at the Royal Northern College of Music and by the RAF Central
Band.
'Andrew Downes' Symphony No.4 is on a larger scale,
painting a comprehensive picture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and its environs.
Immediately appealing was the vivid opening depiction of the town itself, an
expressive solo on cedarwood flute in the third
movement and the buoyant energy of the closing Rio Grande, but the composition
clearly demands further listening....'
THE BIRMINGHAM POST