Legend

?1919†, 122 bars, 6:30

Originally violin, piano. Arranged for vioin and strings by Andrew Sherwood

United Music Publishing

Timings

Levine/Lawson 1981Layton/Mitchell 2001Stone/Kynoch 2011Nunn/Sherwood 2012
Total5:476:136:416:23

Articles

• Introduction – David Hackbridge Johnson

Performances

12 April 1975 [first performance] St Saviour’s Hall, London NW3
Anne Measures, violin; Francis Shaw, piano
19 April 1975 West Linton, Peeblesshire (Scotland)
Leonard Friedman (violin), Lawrence Oliver (piano)
8 June 1975 British Institute of Recorded Sound, London
Ann Measures (violin), Michael Frayan (piano)
29 February 1976 Music Centre, Belmont St, Aberdeen
Fiona Cameron (violin), Stephen Calder (piano)
5 December 1976 Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent
Ann Measures (violin), Ronald Stevenson (piano)
12 February 1977
Banks (violin), Tocher or Cheyne (piano)
4 November 1977 Concert Hall, Barber Institute, Birmingham
Richard Gwilt (violin), Stephen Gibson (piano)
26 May 1978 Manchester University
Edmund Reid (violin), Gretta Barrow (piano)
12 June 1978 Wigmore Hall, London
Edmund Reid (violin), Gretta Barrow (piano)
14–15 December 1981 Craxton Studios, London NW3
Steven Levine, violin; Peter Lawson, piano
• Review of Reid/Barrow recording of Legend – Martin Anderson
1984
Edmund Reid (violin), Gretta Barrow (piano)
• Review of Reid/Barrow recording of Legend – Martin Anderson
?1984
29 January 1984 WKNO, Memphis, USA
Mrs Russell Wiener (violin), Frank Callaway (piano)
26 November 1984 Beethoven Club, Memphis, Tennessee, US
Greg Morris (violin), Frank Callaway (piano)
13 June 1986 Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Mass, US
Janet Packer (violin), George Barth (piano)
1994 Guadalajara, Mexico
Robert Wilson (violin), Leonor Montijo (piano)
1 April 1996
Marat Bisengaliev (violin), John Lenehan (piano)
24 November 1998 British Music Information Centre, London
David Hackbridge Johnson (violin), You Meng Chan (piano)
13 October 1999 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, US
Janet Packer (violin), Orin Grossman (piano)
15 October 1999 Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, US
Janet Packer (violin), Orin Grossman (piano)
5 November 1999 Connecticut College, New London, CT, US
Janet Packer (violin), Allen Brings (piano)
7 November 1999 Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, US
Janet Packer (violin), Kenneth Drake (piano)
8 November 1999 Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, US
Janet Packer (violin), Kenneth Drake (piano)
23 January 2000 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, US
Janet Packer (violin), Orin Grossman (piano)
28 January 2000 Old First Concerts, San Francisco, CA, US
Janet Packer (violin), Orin Grossman (piano)
February 2000 University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, US
Janet Packer (violin), Genevieve Lee (piano)
16 February 2000 Pomona College, Pomona, CA, US
Janet Packer (violin), Genevieve Lee (piano)
18 February 2000 University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, US
Janet Packer (violin), Genevieve Lee (piano)
20 February 2000 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
Janet Packer (violin), Orin Grossman (piano)
23 February 2000 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Janet Packer (violin), Kenneth Drake (piano)
1 March 2000 Hartt School, W. Hartford, CT, US
Janet Packer (violin), Orin Grossman (piano)
17 March 2000 Bates College, Lewiston, ME, US
Janet Packer (violin), Jozef de Beenhouwer (piano)
19 March 2000 Ogunquit Performing Arts, Ogunquit, ME, US
Janet Packer (violin), Jozef de Beenhouwer (piano)
22 March 2000 Tsai Performance Center, Boston, MA, US
Janet Packer (violin), Jozef de Beenhouwer (piano)
27 March 2000 Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, US
Janet Packer (violin), Orin Grossman (piano)
7 April 2000 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, US
Janet Packer (violin), Allen Brings (piano)
9 April 2000 Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, US
Janet Packer (violin), Allen Brings (piano)
17 April 2000 Queens College, Flushing, NY, US
Janet Packer (violin), Allen Brings (piano)
21 April 2000 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, US
Janet Packer (violin), ? (piano)
March 2001
6 June 2001 part of BBC Radio 3’s ‘Composer of the Week’ series
Elizabeth Layton (violin), Scott Mitchell (piano)
2006 Brighton, East Sussex
Brighton Youth Orchestra, conductor Andrew Sherwood
22 January 2011 All Saints Centre, Lewes, East Sussex
Musicians of All Saints, conductor Andrew Sherwood
25–26 August 2011 Potton Hall, Suffolk, U.K.
Jonathan Stone, violin; Sholto Kynoch, piano
22 September 2012 St John sub Castro church, Abinger Place, Lewes, East Sussex
Valtie Nunn (violin), Musicians of All Saints, conductor Andrew Sherwood
25 May 2013 English Music Festival, Dorchester, Oxon
Rupert Marshall-Luck (vln), Matthew Rickard (pno)
18 February 2017 Gloucester Music Society; Gloucester Cathedral Chapter House
Rupert Marshall-Luck (vln), Duncan Honeybourne (pno)

Recordings

Toccata Classics TOCC 0005 released March 2005
14–15 December 1981 Craxton Studios, London NW3
Steven Levine, violin; Peter Lawson, piano
Classical Elegance LSC 124
1984
Edmund Reid (violin), Gretta Barrow (piano)
Stone Records 5060192780154 released May 2012
25–26 August 2011 Potton Hall, Suffolk, U.K.
Jonathan Stone, violin; Sholto Kynoch, piano