Angel Antiphons
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Work introduction
The work can best be described as a joyous celebration of life and music. The musical material, consisting of two contrasting ideas, propels the spiral-like form whose formal and structural framework reveals ceremonial and ritual-like sections on one end and more fluid and exuberant ones on the other. The slower sections in the piece elaborate on a short melodic fragment taken from Britten's anthem for mixed choir and organ Antiphon, composed in 1956.
What is necessary to perform this work?
Strings (6.5.4.3.2max/1.1.1.1.1min)