Completed 10 February 1960

4 flutes, 3 oboes, cor anglais, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 4 bassoons (1 also contra), 6 horns , 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, euphonium, timpani, tambourine, triangle, castanets, bass drum, 3 side drums, tam-tam, cymbals, suspended cymbal, xylophone, glockenspiel, 2 harps, celesta, organ, strings

in one movement  22:03  [a]

[a] Downes

United Music Publishers

Reading

Brian's fourteenth symphony - an alternative view - Rodney Stephen Newton in HB:  Aspects of Havergal Brian - see bibliography
The symphonies of Havergal Brian - Malcolm MacDonald / volume 2 chapter 15 - see bibliography

Performance

14 January 1969 [first performance] . BBC Maida Vale Studio 1, London . Broadcast 10 May 1970 (BBC Radio 3)
London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sir Edward Downes

See discography. This performance has been pirated and the artists mis-represented on two separate occasions: firstly on a stereo Aries LP (1603) as the 'Wales Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Wilson' and in recent years on YouTube in mono, as the 'Humboldt Redwoods State Park Community Orchestra'.

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