Originally Solo cantata
Sketched in early 1937, draft VS completed 8 April 1937
FS completed 18 June 1937 and renamed Symphony for solo voice and orchestra

Nominal timing 19-21´

baritone soloist
4 flutes (1 also piccolo), 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons (1 also contra), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, side drum, cymbals,  glockenspiel, gong, 2 harps, strings

Text : Lord Alfred Douglas

in one movement  20' 08" [a], 19' 48" [b]
 

[a]  Cook/Pope

[b] Maxwell/Kok

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 Articles

Havergal Brian and Leslie Head - Lewis Foreman
includes material on Symphony 5, including 1969 correspondence from HB relating to the premiere
Words for music, perhaps - Chris Kettle
excellent article on the choice of texts for vocal compositions, touching on Tippett's Byzantium as well as Wine of summer

Further reading

The symphonies of Havergal Brian - Malcolm MacDonald / volume 1 chapter 7 - see bibliography

Performances

11 December 1969 [first performance] . Kensington Town Hall, UK
Brian Rayner Cook (baritone), Kensington Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leslie Head

29 September 1976 / live BBC Radio 3 broadcast . invitation concert at Alexandra Palace, London
Brian Rayner Cook (baritone), New Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Stanley Pope

1 April 2001 [recording] / 7 June 2001 [BBC R3 broadcast]. Before an invited audience, Broadcasting House, Glasgow, UK

Re-broadcast 5 March 2008 as part of the BBC's 'British Symphony' series
Donald Maxwell (baritone), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Kok

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