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Scoring

2.2.2.2-4.3.3.1-timp.perc(2):SD/susp.cym/hi-hat/bodhran/spoons (or other similar folk-like instrument)-strings

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Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

World Premiere
03/03/2007
Barbican Centre, London
London Symphony Orchestra / Colin Davis CBE
Composer's Notes

The dark, brooding cloud of fate, that had been hovering over St Petersburg, lifted and drifted west to Sweden, where it made an amorous encounter with a young tightrope walker, Elvira Madigan. They eloped, and headed west again, ending up at a ceilidh in Kilkenny or Kilmarnock, or somewhere...


©James MacMillan 2007


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Press Quotes

"Imagine Mozart and Tchaikovsky in kilts, thrown into the middle of a highland fling."
Financial Times 


"...an irreverent deconstruction of the two big works heard earlier — the Tchaikovsky 4th symphony and Mozart’s Elvira Madigan Piano Concerto, K467... Stomp went through all sorts of wacky distortions before being whisked, ceilidh-style, into a punch-drunk jig of delight."
The Times 



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